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Posted by cockeyed on October 13, 2005, at 19:55:24
Golly, I wish I wuz a republican. Damn but it must feel real good seeing the country turn to sh...oops, don't wanna get uncivil. Mrs. Meirs will see us right, tho. She doesn't know a thing so that must be sort a good for her to be nominated for the supreme court. Cockeyed.
Posted by AuntieMel on October 14, 2005, at 11:40:26
In reply to If i only had a brain, posted by cockeyed on October 13, 2005, at 19:55:24
It seems that there are some cracks forming in the party.
The uneasy (from what I've heard) alliance between the old time (fiscal, etc) conservatives and the new religeous conservatives is showing cracks.
I might could happily vote with the old time conservatives.
Posted by caraher on October 15, 2005, at 0:13:16
In reply to Re: I like the developements lately » cockeyed, posted by AuntieMel on October 14, 2005, at 11:40:26
It's amusing that after almost five years of blatant cronyism "the base" has only just now noticed because W is asking them to buy a pig in a poke. Georgie may have finally jumped the shark with Harriet Miers. Too bad the great awakening is occurring one year too late to get him soundly fired in his "accountability moment."
Posted by Declan on October 15, 2005, at 3:02:30
In reply to Re: I like the developements lately, posted by caraher on October 15, 2005, at 0:13:16
I haven't understood why the Harriet Miers thing is so important.
But the cracks are being talked about. The Australian here, a Murdoch paper, had a column by an appointee to the Reagan administration who now heads something called Committee for a Realistic Foreign Policy. He seemed a straight (whatever that means) US style conservative.
He started by saying that Bill Clinton was a flawed man of enormous potential who failed to achieve his promise. And ended by saying that when this administration was elected the adults left town. In between he made character an issue by implication, which was nice to see.
It's funny about conservatives. There's Burkean British benign sorts. (The US may be a little different). And a lot of church people (mainstream ones, not fundamentalist), although maybe they're radical. [And all those Trots who became neocons]. People who believe in community or society, conservative things surely.
Maybe I'm saying that conservatism is opposed to individualism. But maybe not in the US. But the current administration is not conservative, is it? Do people disagree about that? All the real conservatives, the complaining civil sevants, diplomats etc pealed off some time ago, and more of them keep coming off.
I dunno, but I wonder how much of this is about policy and how much about character and folly.
Declan
Posted by Dr. Bob on October 17, 2005, at 5:31:30
In reply to If i only had a brain, posted by cockeyed on October 13, 2005, at 19:55:24
> I wish I wuz a republican. Damn but it must feel real good seeing the country turn to sh...oops, don't wanna get uncivil.
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Bob
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