To: Jim Robinson
It would certainly re-define conservatism.
4 posted on
04/26/2007 1:32:25 AM PDT by
durasell
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To: durasell
"It would certainly re-define conservatism."
Conservatism is already defined as a reasonably broad notion, including "social conservatives", "economic conservatives", "libertarian" and so on. If anything, the attempt to restrict "conservatism" to its "social" branch only would be a re-definition. And since any social movement in a democratic system needs to be sufficiently attractive to the mass of electorate outside of itself, one could argue that the "base" - any base [ours, sharptonite, or moveon variety] - is good only at foaming at the mouth and scaring everyone else away. Joe Lieberman in his most recent election provided an excellent example of where the "base" rightfully belongs.
10 posted on
04/26/2007 2:34:01 AM PDT by
GSlob
To: durasell
Do not confuse Republicanism with Conservatism. Apparently Republicanism doesn't care about Conservatism - only about having whoever is in office claim to be a Republican.
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