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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: benwood who wrote (97025)	7/26/2002 9:48:04 AM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

I consider myself conservative and want very badly to vote for a conservative, but I have never seen a conservative candidate that I could stand to vote for--at least not one whom I was entiteled to vote for. For example, I don't care what Newt Gingrich's "principles" are. I'd vote for another member of the Kennedy family before I would vote for Gingrich, and I have a pretty low opinion of Ted Kennedy. What keeps happening is that public figures betray their own principles. Apparently some people continue to think of Greenspan as economically conservative (or just as an economic God); I think of him as more radically irresponsible than the most left-wing New Dealer or New Frontiersman. I wouldn't give Shrub credit for betraying his own principles. He doesn't have any to betray. At least the economic mess (and I don't see how the country can get out of it except through inflation that cuts the purchasing power of dollar by 2/3) is not as bad as when countries get committed to pointless wars. The worst feeling I have ever had in my life was being at the mercy of political forces who wanted me to go off and kill people whom I didn't have anything against. With this economic stupidity, there are ways of saving oneself. No one MADE anyone buy tech stocks.