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Originally Posted by roachboy
i have no problem with folk who are conservative, but i have had a Big problem with the kind of conservatism that was front and center during the last 8 years.
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Correct. I've said many times, here and elsewhere, that it's a shame that the republican party was hijacked by the neoconservatives. If you look pre-Reagan/Nixon, the republicans weren't like that. It'd be nice to see them go back to what they used to be instead of being led by greedy moneygrubbing warmongering bastards. Conservatism isn't bad, but sham conservatism is. They fooled people into thinking they were conservatives by spending like crazy, but lowering taxes so people didn't feel the pinch. That era of sham-conservatism is, hopefully, over.
The one thing that worries me is that we are going to have to pay for the 2 decades of crap, and I think the president who starts those payments is going to be rather unpopular. I also think Obama is going to start those payments because he's gonna be responsible about it.
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Originally Posted by Paq
I was amazed by mccain's speech
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Agreed. I think if McCain had conducted his campaign in the spirit of that speech, he'd have won. Food for thought.