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Old September 19th 04, 03:12 PM
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Tom Fleischman wrote:

I have no problem with true conservatism. It's not an ideology that I
embrace, but I think that many of the core values of conservatism have
merit. The problem is that Bush&Co are *NOT* conservatives. They are
not even *Republicans* if you define Republican by the traditional
values that Republicanism has always stood for.


Actually, I partially agree with this. I have not been happy with a
number of Bush initiatives (or or lack-of) in the past 3.5 years (like
NOT veto-ing the feel-goood "campaign reform" bill, or spending a bazillion
more $$$$ on "education" bills [as if the federal government can actually
DO anything about education kids], more medicare spending, and total
LACK of pushing for any big government spending cuts). The fact is that
W IS doing what is needed on the terror front and is certainly much
more of a real person that Kerry is (or will ever hope to be).

The Reblican party today is sort of where the Democrat party was 35 years
ago (John Kennedy would be considered a conservative in todays world).
However... the Democrat Party is, for all practical purposes, Socialist
today. It will continue to move to the left so that one day soon it will
pop out on the right as communist.