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"But simply because the left despises you doesn't mean you're particularly right-wing. If LBJ were alive, you could ask him about this."

How true! My impression of LBJ was that he was some sort of right-winger -- fascist even. (Not surprising, considering that most of what Canadians know about U.S. politics came from network TV news, the NY Times and their ilk, and the CBC.) Years later, I discovered his domestic policy record -- his Great Society programs would have put him on the far left; even in Canada. Signing the Civil Rights Act would have gotten him sainted in ordinary times (by both political wings).

When I tell people that the left eats its own; I use LBJ as an example. Most people simply refuse to believe it.

I hope the U.S. right wing isn't feeling cannibalistic these days.

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I think they are. Grandpa Dave's line about Donner Party Republicans was right on. George WIll is a virulent example. There hasn't been a GOP President yet that was "pure" enough for Saint George of The Right Wing Grail; not Reagan, not Bush I and certainly not W.