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To: madprof98
A significant number of self-styled conservatives see "personal liberty" as the highest good

Well, duh -- that's the definition of being a conservative (instead of a big-government liberal). That's like saying that a significant number of self-styled Catholics see the Pope as a spiritual leader.

250 posted on 07/23/2006 10:30:37 AM PDT by steve-b ("Creation Science" is to the religous right what "Global Warming" is to the socialist left.)
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To: steve-b
I said: A significant number of self-styled conservatives see "personal liberty" as the highest good

To which you replied: Well, duh -- that's the definition of being a conservative (instead of a big-government liberal).

Only in a losertarian's wet-dream. For the rest of us, definitions depend on popular usage. "Conservative" in that sense means "favoring or desiring to conserve that which is traditional"--like families and common decency, ideas alien to your faction.

334 posted on 07/23/2006 7:27:20 PM PDT by madprof98
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