On that list you are looking for, perhaps we might wish to divide, first, the cultural and the economic from one another.>/i>
Yes, the list was not cultural. I remember the protectionism, the budget deficit, bigger government, nation building (that wasn't the terminology used), several incidents of anti-federalism, prescription drugs, can't recall what else. I agree that Bush has moved the cultural aspect to the right, though thankfully not as much as his core wants.
The steel protectionism was neither left nor right. Simply, crass political protection. The prescription drug bill does not meet left/right distinctions because it's clearly a bill to repay the drug industry for campaign financing support.
Conservatives are free traders and anti-welfare-state. You, of course, are free to frame those actions as you will but they're sure not conservative.
Re the laptop, I have to chuckle. My computer is a laptop. I lie in bed with it perched on my stomach. Really comfortable. But I suppose not when you're not used to it.
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