Oh, Please.
You are constantly digging back into the grave to point out the two or three non-conservative acts of Ronald Reagan to justify the growing liberal track record of George Bush.
Doesn't it get tiring; constantly leaping to President Bush's defense? That seems to define your entire FreeRepublic career.
I personaly try not to look for something that someone else has done that is wrong to justify myself, or my group, doing the same.
As for the "11th" commandment, I'm in the clear. I'm not a Republican, I'm a conservative. George W. Bush is not.
(Oh, and if you really want to "show me", and put me in my place with any response you may make, use one of your condescending, little "Uh"s at the beginning of the post...those really get to me.)
[[I'm not a Republican, I'm a conservative. George W. Bush is not.]]
I've always found this type of comment to be the realm of ideologues, whether from the fringe left or fringe right. Such elitist rhetoric claiming their opinion of what is conservative or what is liberal is the only one, and anyone who does not meet their self-inflated opinion is not. Quite possibly you might want to be more specific in your attribution, my guess would be you are a paleo-conservative.
It is amusing there is not much difference between the far left and the far right, giving evidence to the theory that the ideological spectrum is not a straight line, but is shaped like a horseshoe, with both the far left and far right being closer to each other than to the middle. Both extremes attack Bush, both extremes are against the Iraq war (the left appeasers, the right isolationists - both are do nothing, head in the sand approaches), both hold elitist views of their ideological purity and use that claim to demean any who do not adhere/goosestep to their definition.
Everyone has a right to their political views, but claims of ideological superiority or purity are attempts at vacuous self-aggrandizement. To quote General Honore, any on the left or right who claim such superiority are 'stuck on stupid'.