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To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
"I say emphatically yes to the idea of molding the GOP back to its little-l libertarian roots,..."

The GOP doesn't have any "little-l libertarian roots!" From its founding with Abraham Lincoln, the GOP has ALWAYS been a party of Big Government. (And don't give me any cr@p about Ronald Reagan being a "little-l libertarian." He was a Big Government conservative.)
195 posted on 07/29/2002 3:12:25 PM PDT by Mark Bahner
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To: Mark Bahner
Funny. The new HTML architecture saw your "cr@p" and assumed it to be an Email address, helpfully providing you with an Outlook Email link therefrom.

Probably better to just write "crap". ;-) It's a pretty minor curse word by any measure.

197 posted on 07/29/2002 3:19:56 PM PDT by OrthodoxPresbyterian
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To: Mark Bahner
Reagan represented a "step in the right direction" and a thorough repudiation of the impotent weakness of 1980's alternative, Jimmy Carter.

As I commented earlier in the thread, the socialists have a very effective model in their patient incrementalism. It's taken them a few decades, but inch-by-inch they've achieved just about every vision in the socio-fascist dream.

We pro-liberty/Constitution-respecting voters are wise to adopt a similar stepwise approach, ratcheting the nation back towards the Constitution stepwise as we can and by leaps when circumstances allow. The RLC is the fulcrum which can make this happen--hell, is making this happen--by attracting disaffected non-voters to a Party which at least nominally stands for small government and individual liberty.

We aim to make that a reality. And in this thread we have presented numerous examples of how that is proving out in the real world, with RLC-supported candidates getting nominated and earning election across the nation. There's more where that came from.
200 posted on 07/29/2002 4:49:03 PM PDT by RightOnTheLeftCoast
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