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To: quidnunc
If you found the article to be totally without merit why on earth are you wasting your precious time posting replies to it?

Because the imprecise, made up word, that you seem to think enhances our living language, seems always to stir a frenetic bout of name calling among people who in each case have at least some Conservative principles, but do not agree on a particular agenda, or share the same priorities.

To post something, which does not really enlighten, but very definitely stirs resentments among those whom one would like to see working together, where they do have common beliefs, is counter-productive.

While I, personally, am a straight Conservative, with no modifier required or desired, I am not just finding fault with those more moderate Conservatives, who prefer a modifier, or seek a special niche. I would also fault some of my fellow Conservatives, who go over-board in their denunciations of more moderate, recent recruits to that more moderate stance from an originally "liberal" or leftist position. Obviously, none of us can expect to win many battles carrying around a purge list, of those we find less than perfect.

There are not many areas where we can learn from our common foe. But this is surely one. Over and over again, in the mess they made of the 20th Century, different factions on the Left combined at the right moment to achieve a common objective. Oftentimes those so combining hated one another before the combination; oftentimes, they hated one another, again, after the victory. But they understood when it was tactically wise to combine forces.

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site

267 posted on 05/05/2003 2:04:02 PM PDT by Ohioan
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To: Ohioan
Ohioan wrote: (If you found the article to be totally without merit why on earth are you wasting your precious time posting replies to it?) Because the imprecise, made up word, that you seem to think enhances our living language, seems always to stir a frenetic bout of name calling among people who in each case have at least some Conservative principles, but do not agree on a particular agenda, or share the same priorities. To post something, which does not really enlighten, but very definitely stirs resentments among those whom one would like to see working together, where they do have common beliefs, is counter-productive. While I, personally, am a straight Conservative, with no modifier required or desired, I am not just finding fault with those more moderate Conservatives, who prefer a modifier, or seek a special niche. I would also fault some of my fellow Conservatives, who go over-board in their denunciations of more moderate, recent recruits to that more moderate stance from an originally "liberal" or leftist position. Obviously, none of us can expect to win many battles carrying around a purge list, of those we find less than perfect. There are not many areas where we can learn from our common foe. But this is surely one. Over and over again, in the mess they made of the 20th Century, different factions on the Left combined at the right moment to achieve a common objective. Oftentimes those so combining hated one another before the combination; oftentimes, they hated one another, again, after the victory. But they understood when it was tactically wise to combine forces.

Bosh!

Neo-consefvatives have been under attack recently not only by the loony paleo-con wingnuts but by the mainstream left as well.

There is much confusion about who and what are included under the neo-con umbrella.

This article helps clear up that confusion.

By the way, the purpose of language is to communicate.

New words are being added constantly and obsolete words are for all intents and purposes discarded according to the needs of society.

Today's English is vastly different from the English of Edward the Confessor, Chaucer, Shakespeare and Cotton Mather.

English is becoming the lingua franca because it is so flexible and the last thing we need is the equivalent of the Academe Francais to ossify it.

268 posted on 05/05/2003 2:36:16 PM PDT by quidnunc (Omnis Gaul delenda est)
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