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To: MrRobertPlant2009

“And populist movements are inherently unconservative.”

Unless you are a Southerner. Down here, conservatism is mixed with a good dose of anti-Wall Street, anti-Big Business, and anti-Big Money isms.

This is why George Wallace did so well with blue-collar Democrats. You don’t pick Curtis “Bomb them back to the Stone Age” LeMay for your running mate, and the guy one heartbeat away from the presidency, if you’re a liberal.

parsy, who grew up on SAC bases, and the warm comforting sound of eight huge engines revving up on the flightlines.


45 posted on 03/09/2010 2:11:55 PM PST by parsifal (Abatis: Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbish inside)
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To: parsifal

Wallace’s consersativism was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. Discuss.


52 posted on 03/09/2010 2:39:05 PM PST by MrRobertPlant2009
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