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To: Manic_Episode
I don't believe someone can be considered a conservative unless they embrace the entire ball of wax. ANY deviation makes them a liberal

OK. Then what the heck is the need for anyone to call himself a "social conservative", a "cultural conservative", a "values voter", a "fiscal conservative", a "Paleoconservative", a "libertarian conservative", or anything else at all other than simply "conservative" (my choice) if, as you say, there's only ONE TRUE conservative with ONE unified set of beliefs?

I'm asking how the "social conservative" would distinguish himself from me, the plain 'ol run-of-the-mill unmodified and unreconstructed "conservative"?

Have at it, I keep asking this simple question and all that comes back is cheap and juvenile innuendo and an immense resistance to answering the darned question.

I guess I'm a "liberal" for asking "social conservatives" what that "social" modifier is supposed to convey to the rest of us. It must be a real brain strainer.

117 posted on 08/08/2007 11:03:48 AM PDT by angkor
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To: angkor
"OK. Then what the heck is the need for anyone to call himself a "social conservative", a "cultural conservative", a "values voter", a "fiscal conservative", a "Paleoconservative", a "libertarian conservative", or anything else at all other than simply "conservative" (my choice) if, as you say, there's only ONE TRUE conservative with ONE unified set of beliefs? I'm asking how the "social conservative" would distinguish himself from me, the plain 'ol run-of-the-mill unmodified and unreconstructed "conservative"? Have at it, I keep asking this simple question and all that comes back is cheap and juvenile innuendo and an immense resistance to answering the darned question. I guess I'm a "liberal" for asking "social conservatives" what that "social" modifier is supposed to convey to the rest of us. It must be a real brain strainer."

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A rose by any other name still smells like crap.

Have a nice day.

119 posted on 08/08/2007 11:31:31 AM PDT by Manic_Episode (Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps...)
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