Personally I think we've been away long enough and I'm not alone. Civil War in the G.O.P? I don't think so.
Let me offer a counter-theory, admittedly lacking in such color but making up for it with evidence and consideration of what conservatives actually believe.
Jonah Goldberg
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Compared to today's so-called conservates I will admit that Reagan is looking better every year. Reagan paid lip-service to the religious right and then ignored their proposals. He negotiated a tax increase with the Democratic Congress and and end to the Cold War with Gorbachev.That makes him a principled Conservative with a pragmatic streak.
I will agree also that Bush was not a true conservative. He was a big-goverment defender of corporate interests.
I have long wished there WERE more honest and principled conservatives as they have something to contribute. But today's so-called "conservatives" are a motley collection of whores for corporate interests, religious nut, birthers and other assorted crazies.
Now you can go ahead and accuse me of saying the exact opposite of what I've actually said, call me stupid, and then maybe delete my comments.
The problem was that for the past eight years the left lied about their opposition to the majority of Bush's policies. We now know for example that they are not anti-war, never have been, they were just anti-Bush, so we had to waste valuable energy defending the very same foreign policy that Obama has now adopted and liberals have now embraced. Now that the left are the warmongers it has set us free to get back to the basics of fiscal conservativism and limited federal government.
Fiscal conservatism and limited federal goverment exist more in theory than in practice. Even Reagan didn't really limit the growth of the federal government, or balance the budget. Actually Reagan took a lot of crap and a lot of criticism from the conservatives of his day, although now he has become a mythical figure in their pantheon.
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