[spatso]

"It is the "deferred interest & penalities" on the price of Nixon's "Southern Strategy"...."

So, we end up with nobody talking about taxes, irrational spending, budget deficits or trade imbalances. We talk about a morning after pill, the teaching of comic book theology as science in Kansas and the moral righteousness of a conservative base. I guess I am just having a bad day. As a conservative I know what I believe and what I want. As a person of faith I am inclined to treat that part of my life more quietly, more introspectively and certainly to keep my faith issues outside the blood sport of partisan politics.

[longshadow]

So, we end up with nobody talking about taxes, irrational spending, budget deficits or trade imbalances. We talk about a morning after pill, the teaching of comic book theology as science in Kansas and the moral righteousness of a conservative base. I guess I am just having a bad day. As a conservative I know what I believe and what I want. As a person of faith I am inclined to treat that part of my life more quietly, more introspectively and certainly to keep my faith issues outside the blood sport of partisan politics.

You are a conservative without a busy-body social agenda, or possibly libertarian. It's getting so that there are so few of your kind left that they may try to capture you and put you in a museum, as a curiosity.

Know you are not alone.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Wage and Price controls and the EPA were the upfront costs.

[ToryHeartland]

As a person of faith I am inclined to treat that part of my life more quietly, more introspectively and certainly to keep my faith issues outside the blood sport of partisan politics.

Thank you for this simple but eloquent statement, with which I could not agree more.

There are too many religious bullies around, claiming to speak for 'Christianity' who are narrow-minded hypocrites. They shame my Christian faith, and they damage us all claiming to be 'conservative.'

I do not choose to proclaim my particular religious faith from the rooftops, nor to assault folks with my creed; I hope instead that I strive to live by it.

I find it hard to belive that some, who are so shrill in their religious hysteria, are living by faith in a way that I can understand.