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To: Kip518 who wrote (22363)	7/15/2003 6:49:40 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 89467

Great article, Kip "What are the conservatives doing with all the money and power that used to belong to all of us? They are telling us to be absolutely terrified, and to run around in circles like chickens with their heads cut off. But they will save us. They are making us take off our shoes at airports. Can anybody here think of a more hilarious practical joke than that one? Smile, America. You’re on Candid Camera. And they have turned loose a myriad of our high-tech weapons, each one costing more than a hundred high schools, on a Third World country, in order to shock and awe human beings like us, like Adam and Eve, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. The other day I asked former Yankees pitcher Jim Bouton what he thought of our great victory over Iraq, and he said, “Mohammed Ali versus Mr. Rogers.” What are conservatives? They are people who will move heaven and earth, if they have to, who will ruin a company or a country or a planet, to prove to us and to themselves that they are superior to everybody else, except for their pals. They take good care of their pals, keep them out of jail—and so on. (I think he refers to Ken Lay, Richard Perle here)

To: Kip518 who wrote (22363)	7/15/2003 6:51:56 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 89467

From a reply to the Vonnegut piece: A true Conservative, at the very least, has the decency to allow for the possibility that his adversary may have some useful, true, and perhaps parallel ideas on any given issue. A true Conservative is as horrified by the corruption in government and the corporate world as he is about crime on the streets. And that's where Jon, the gang in the White House, and those robber barons who put them there cut themselves off from true Conservatives. For the traditional Conservative does not wish to find that crime has been removed from the streets, it's least harmful arena, and into the halls of government and corporations where it's most deadly and egregious manifestations; where it's most deleterious effects and repercussions will ineluctably, and consequently bring the entire edifice of a just and free Democratic and Republican society to dismal ruin.