To: Cautor
They've been playing the "far right" card for a while now. Variants: "fringer," "reactionary," "extreme right," etc. They're trying to re-define "conservatism," in effect, as "fidelity to Bush and his Supreme Will." Insisting on fidelity to traditional conservative values and principles is, like, SO-O-O-O '80's, y'know....
48 posted on
10/19/2005 7:42:41 PM PDT by
Map Kernow
("I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing" ---Thomas Jefferson)
To: Map Kernow
Insisting on fidelity to traditional conservative values and principles is, like, SO-O-O-O '80's, y'know....
Speaking of the 1980s, I believe the late, great President Reagan had something to say about all this fideism:
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
69 posted on
10/19/2005 7:52:41 PM PDT by
Das Outsider
(This could be the last time.)
To: Map Kernow
"They've been playing the "far right" card for a while now. Variants: "fringer," "reactionary," "extreme right," etc. They're trying to re-define "conservatism," in effect, as "fidelity to Bush and his Supreme Will." Insisting on fidelity to traditional conservative values and principles is, like, SO-O-O-O '80's, y'know...."
I love your posts. Can you put that in Valley Speak?
110 posted on
10/19/2005 8:07:58 PM PDT by
Cautor
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