>> Is "true conservativism" then more like, umm, Buchanan? <<
yes, buchanan is an example of a traditional conservative, rather than the liberal, rockefeller republican neo-conservatives of today.
>> Protectionism is good for the Populist trash rabble rousers and AFLCIO votes, its lousy economics. <<
yeah, i guess george washington, john adams, james madison, thomas jefferson, alexander hamilton, henry clay, abraham lincoln and all the republican presidents who followed him for the next 70 years were all just "Populist trash rabble rousers", and milton friedman is the messiah that will lead us to the promised land! when you insult "protectionists" such as pat buchanan you are insulting all four presidents on mount rushmore, who were just that.
"Give us a protective tariff, and we will have the greatest country on earth."
--Abraham Lincoln
"Thank God I'm not a free trader. In this country pernicious indulgence in the doctrine of free-trade seems inevitably to produce fatty degeneration of the moral fibre.”
--Theodore Roosevelt, 1895
"The prohibiting duties we lay on all articles of foreign manufacture which prudence requires us to establish at home, with the patriotic determination of every good citizen to use no foreign article which can be made within ourselves, without regard to difference of price, secures us against a relapse into foreign dependency."
--Thomas Jefferson |
