To: watsonfellow
" . . . a very strong distinction between populist conservatives and more traditionalist conservatives . . . "I will take a wild guess here and assume that the populists are the "pro-booing" party and the traditionalists are the "thank you ma'am, may I have another" party. Speaking as a staunch Tory, which is about as traditionalist as you can get, I consider booing fairly tame. I would much rather she were tarred and feathered and sent out of town on a rail. And that's only because burning at the stake is generally thought to be unconstitutional.
To: Goetz_von_Berlichingen
watsonfellow reminds me a bit of my brother. My brother read some book on philosophy in high school and suddenly he became the Philosopher King, unafraid to expound on the transcendental meaning of all subjects. Unfortunately, I was around to parody his pretentiousness which he had to stifle in my presence for fear of humiliation. However, when I left home he reverted to his silly Philosopher King mode.
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