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To: shempy

Paul Craig Roberts is an economist and very fiscally conservative. He has been a good conservative until Bush was elected.I think he is basically an isolationist and therefore very much against the Iraq war and Bush. I have noticed his increasing virulent attacks against Bush.


38 posted on 06/01/2006 6:01:46 PM PDT by Rhiannon
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To: Rhiannon; shempy
Paul Craig Roberts is an economist and very fiscally conservative. He has been a good conservative until Bush was elected.I think he is basically an isolationist and therefore very much against the Iraq war and Bush. I have noticed his increasing virulent attacks against Bush.

Exactly...an old-time conservative and big hero of the Reagan Revolution alarmed by the rise of neoconservatism. While there's truth in many of his statements, he has gone the way of many paleoconservatives into nutland. :-(

Here's an article that explains his positions and seeming change. It begins...

A number of readers have asked me when did I undergo my epiphany, abandon right-wing Reaganism and become an apostle of truth and justice.

I appreciate the friendly sentiment, but there is a great deal of misconception in the question.

[...]

123 posted on 09/04/2006 7:42:47 AM PDT by Gondring (If "Conservatives" now want to "conserve" our Constitution away, then I must be a Preservative!)
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