[William McKinley]

Holy semantics Batman!

As for if I am a 'FDR/Truman' Republican, I point out that

1) I consider the New Deal to have been mostly a destructive force,

2) I find when reading of the policies and positions of the politicians of the day, the one I agreed with the most was Robert A. Taft (although I disagree with his views in two significant areas), who was about as far from FDR and Truman as you could get,

3) I believe that judicial restraint is one of the most important things in the governance of our country, and that said restraint was injured under FDR than at many other times in our country.

You see, you can try to paint me any way you like, but you will fail because I am a conservative, to the core.

[JohnGalt]

And yet you say you can see no real difference between your views and say, Michael Ledeen, Max Boot, Daniel Pipes, Bill Kristol...?

I can't say I follow you.

I'd file you under Victims of the Mainstream Right, as clearly I was wrong in the box I built for you, but why defend that bunch instead of your friends to the Hard Right who are Taft Republicans as well?