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To: JohnM who wrote (26797)	8/18/2006 2:24:43 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 543334

Now you say I made a mistake in thinking you agreed with that small bit. I do agree with that small bit, in general. But I think it supports my point, not yours. If Bush is tossing in some libertarian stuff just for extra heft, if Libertarianism is just a little stream in the watershed, and the real underlying principles are economic and moral ones, then Lunt/Lind was incorrect in labeling his bugaboo "libertarianism." He should have called it "Republicanism" or "today's conservatism" or something else. Libertarianism is not the name of what's on the opposite side of the see-saw from welfare state, it's just allowing it's hand to be put there as an enabler now and again. There is a difference between a core principle and an opportunistic enabler and I can't move to the next step without clarity on that. And there's a difference between the right's ideology and this fringe ideology with which I identify.

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