Republicans in the mold of the late Gov. Nelson Rockefeller — socially liberal and fiscally conservative.
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A lot of them fellars running around today can't even get the fiscally conservative part right or close to it.
A lot of them fellars running around today can't even get the fiscally conservative part right or close to it.
Right. President George W. Bush for one.
Rockefeller wasn't fiscally conservative either. Rockefeller Republicans believe in tilting the table to big business and running the country as a series of cartels.
I read this story off the AP wire this morning, and when I got to this part, I simply stopped reading. Now I'm used to liberal media spin, but this claim is so beyond outrageous and an outright lie as to say a pile of $hit is Godiva chocolate. Rocky's spending habits as NY Governor were so legendary that he made some of the most freewheeling liberal Democrats look like tightwads. Anyone who could claim a politician who shamelessly spent a cool billion taxpayer dollars at the height of a recession (that in late '60s/early '70s dollars, mind you) on the ghastly monstrosity known as the Empire State Plaza project in Albany and be termed a "fiscal Conservative" ought to be hit in the head with a shovel until the white meat shows.