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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: jlallen who wrote (478600)10/20/2003 11:50:54 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
"A blend.......its not a science...."

>>> So it's arbitrary?

>>> I mean, for example, if some politician was as frugal, parsimonious and conservative with the public's money as Scrooge... but also happened to support small government, and the federal authorities staying out of individual's lives in most social areas that are part of our current 'social wars'... such as 'libertarian-identified issues' like right-to-die, personal drug use, abortion and birth control and stem cell issues, personal property rights, etc., you might still judge that person as 'not conservative'?

>>> Or, if the converse were true... a leader was as ruinous and spendthrift a spender as the republic had ever see... but he also supported a big government to enforce social controls over these same issues of individual behaviors... you might judge that leader to be a what?
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