Anyone who became conservative because of 9-11 is more than welcome but we will have issues if they bring their social liberalism with them....and many do. It always seems to me that the paleos care only about the issues on which they disagree with other conservatives. And those issue all seem to be about how America deals with the rest of the world: trade, immigration, foreign policy.
On the real "social" issues--abortion, guns, culture--there is general agreement between paleos and neocons. But the paleos always seem more interested in fighting than agreeing.
denydenydeny, member since 10/21/98, by the way.
This forum has become markedly more socially/culturally liberal just in the wake of 9-11 as we have had an explosion of new members with newfound reactive conservatism. During the war of the past two months, they came in droves and I noticed they flocked to culture threads espousing what i consider to be fairly liberal perspectives.
I did not as I recall question your credentials of membership here.
I have qualms about unrestrained immigration which will inevitably cause me to be labeled a bigot here by social neocons....to use the labeling. They believe that we can and must turn this influx into good Pubbies even though with the exception of the wonderful Cubans that has not been historically the case going by voting stats from the post WWII era.