Three kinds. One is the rest of us who don't like our minds made up for us by the likes of Mr. Babbin.
Well, your other sources of information are the liberal media which thought Nixon was a conservative (when in fact he was the most liberal Republican president we had, ever) and Bush's smoke and mirrors public relations people that somehow managed to sell an expansion of Medicare and the expenditure of half-a-trillion dollars in Iraq to nation-build as conservative.
Eight Wasted Years...Margaret Thatcher used to talk about the ratchet effect. When the Left gets power, she said, they drive everything Left; when the Right gets power, they slow the Leftward drive, perhaps even halt it for a spell; but nothing ever gets moved to the Right. U.S. politics in the 21st century so far bears out this dismal analysis. What does the Right have to show for eight years of a Republican presidency? I supported George W. Bush in 2000 because I thought he had a conservative bone in his body somewhere. I supported him in 2004 because I thought him the lesser of two evils. At this point, I wouldnt let the fool park his car in my driveway. Bruce Bartlett was right, every damn word...Bill Gertz interview on Hannity and Colmes Gertz: Well he casts himself as a compassionate conservative and I argue that he's neither. That his administration is neither. He's done tremendous damage to the conservative movement... |
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