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To: Dan B. who wrote (236709)	3/12/2002 11:54:25 PM
From: craig crawford	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

>> All you've done is SUGGEST otherwise. << ok hotshot, at least i have provided names, dates, quotes. you haven't provided squat. why don't you give us the long laundry list of traditional conservatives who believed in free trade. >> In truth, not only is free trade wholly consistent with long held conservative thought, << i want facts. names, dates, quotes, references? >> Whenever protectionism has been proposed(by whomever), there have always been conservatives railing against it << yes, the neo-conservatives of today. i don't consider them true conservatives in the traditional sense, i consider them sellouts. an example of a true conservative today is an alan keyes or a pat buchanan. let's see here. republicans like to brag about how they are the party of lincoln. lincoln was clearly in favor of protective tariffs. so i guess if republicans are considered the conservatives of today (fat chance), and they are from the party of lincoln, then how do you reconcile this? >> Conservative writings have stood for free trade for a long, long time...far more than any other writings. Now, that's just the truth. << like i said, put up or shut up. p.s. this country has moved so far left that simply rational thinking is considered far right wing.