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Originally Posted by tisonlyi
Wow.
Those 'X' were not enough pure in their hearts and deeds to be excused their failings... The only pure X are the X who agree with me 100%, nothing else counts.
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The underlying point - at least to me - is that the Bush years are far from a definitive conviction of conservativism as a whole. In and of itself, that's not an elitist stance. You can't really point to the Bush years and say, "see? this is what happens when small government ideology gets its way" or "see? this is what happens when you greatly curtail government interference in the free market".
And that's not even including a discussion of how many failings were due to poor implementation rather than flawed objectives.