[Rembrandt_fan]

I could care less about winning friends with a crowd that thinks Ron Paul and the BNP are paragons of conservatism. They have it coming, and they’ll keep getting it from me and people like me. The Democrats have largely been suborned by rabid extremists. It won’t happen to Republicans without a fight.

About conservatism. Remember Buckley’s definition of conservatives as those who ‘stand athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who do...”?

Whatever conservatism is, it isn’t standing athwart history, yelling ‘Go back!’, particularly to a time and place eerily reminiscent of Nazi Germany.

[jpsb]

"Whatever conservatism is, it isn’t "

Well if we are going to define everything it isn't this will be a very long thread indeed. Persoanlly I think American Conservativism is loyality to the orginal intent of the Constitution.