[jazusamo]

"Mean spirited", the left's catch phrase for evil conservatives.

Exactly, and even if a law is constitutional they seem to work in the mean spirited part if they don't like it.

At least the Dem Party of old had conservative Dems, now they're liberals or worse.

[Graybeard58]

If there's a dem who claims to be conservative anymore, I don't know who it is. Joe Lieberman comes close on the single issue of national defense but that's the only issue where he even comes close.

I liked Zell Miller a lot because of his right out front patriotism but am not that familiar with his stance on other issues.

[blam]

"At least the Dem Party of old had conservative Dems, now they're liberals or worse.

Scoop Jackson was one of the last conservative, pro-American Democrats.

"As a Cold War anti-Communist Democrat, Jackson's political philosophies and positions have been cited as an influence on a number of key figures associated with neoconservatism, including Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle.[1] The Henry Jackson Society is named in his honor. "