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I am NOT talking about any individual donor. Neither was the author of this article.

We were discussing the geographic bigotry on display by this Williams author on this article. His very basis of the article requires one to assume that conservatism, big C and little c, and libertarianism, big L and little l, are nothing more than rear action guards to the last geogrpahic areas that cling to the belief in the Republic, big R.

I’m saying there are more people, in areas that have historically voted for liberal Democrats, that are in fact small l and small c conservatives, and trying to besmirch them because of their area code is myopic and utterly asinine. Especially since most of those Zip Codes are for areas with above median incomes and education levels etc.

I do not live in, nor have I ever lived in a solidly conservative area. The Republican party has been building a new base where I’ve lived my entire adult life. It’s more important to embrace these new donors and the philosophies they are attracted to, especially considering they were once the core of the Republican platform, and build something new.

In Quebec, the Bloc has collapsed. In Toronto the NDP is collapsing before our eyes. There is a huge opportunity to do similar in the US, but the Republican party has to expand it’s base to do so. The current platform of the Rep party is looking more and more like a rear guard. Paul is not the savior, he is just a glimpse at what can be, just as maybe Goldwater was to a previous generation?