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Probably even a tad more technically correct even beyond your correction would be to say the the grassroots Republicans are getting suckered--like most of the folks here at FR that think the Republican politicans are doing such a great job...after all, they make up the majority of Republicans.

I certainly agree with you about the two-headed one party system currently in the country....just don't know what it is going to take to get others to wake up to that reality.

I, too, make a distinction between being a conservative and being a Republican. I grew up in a Democrat household; always voted Republican; ran for office as a Republican; started doing a lot of research in Bush 1 administration era because "nothing ever changed, except for a few fluffings of the pillows on the sofa, so to speak".

I saw this at state level as well as federal level.

And, of course, the more you learn, the more you want to learn..and at this point in time I am a constitutionalist because the word conservative has been so perverted that it means anything to the right of Teddy "The Swimmer" Kennedy!

This thread was a study in human nature....what we both know was expressed on this thread.

Regards...

It's the theory of relativity! When we've got far Leftists (in politics, academia, and the media) setting the agenda and establishing the vernacular to be used in political discourse, and then Republicans postition themselves just barely to the right of them, while calling it conservatism -- it's all relative! You're right! Your term "Constitutionalist" is a better descriptor than conservatism. Many people who label themselves conservatives apparently have no idea how far to the Left they are on the wider political spectrum.