I don’t need to read anything, MamaB (although I will check your recommendations out for recreational purposes). I have a Masters in Western Civiliation and know far more about politics, democracy, and the 3,500 year-old traditions and constructions that went into it’s making and shake my head at what they have become.
I truly don’t wish to argue with you, but I simply don’t believe that there are conservatives of the stripe that many portay themselves to be, or for whom many fervently pray for on these threads. I guess what I object to most about some species of ‘conservatism’ is that there is a particularly nasty variety which insists, to everyone’s detriment, that ‘half a loaf is the same as no bread’.
It is this brand of conservatism that ticks me off more than anything else, even though I do realize that many other conservatives are well-meaning folks.
“I have a Masters in Western Civiliation and know far more about politics, democracy, and the 3,500 year-old traditions and constructions that went into it’s making and shake my head at what they have become.”
“Pseudo-Conservative Douche-bags for Giuliani!”
And that's nonsense in and of itself when it comes to the likes of Rudy.
Rudy doesn't offer half a loaf. He offers crumbs. And also breaks the bread pan, flushes the flour and yeast down the toilet, and blows up the oven so there will be no loaf at all next time.