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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JBTFD who wrote (692763)	7/19/2005 3:00:17 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Yep... I think most of the studies have looked at entirely too short a period of time, and used entirely too simplistic political definitions to 'classify' things. (Using just 'Liberal/Conservative' labels while totally ignoring the equally valid 'Libertarian/Authoritarian' axis... and also ignoring 'Religiousity' which appears to be fairly independent of both scales.) Furthermore, any study dating from the Reagan period is entirely too dated to be of any use today --- back then 'Liberals' were liberals and 'Conservatives' were conservatives. That was BEFORE Clinton began his policy of 'triangulation', supporting welfare reform, restraining spending with PAYGO rules, supporting NAFTA... and before people putatively calling themselves 'Conservative' began voting for HUGE expansions of the size and power of the federal government (Medicare expansion, Homeland Security, 'No Child Left Behind Act', Patriot Act) and voting for discressionary spending increases in annual budgets that average some 50% higher rates of increase then the Clinton eight years averaged....) IMO, some of that so-called 'Conservative' ranking of FOX channel may not truly represent conservatism... but rather a tendency towards the Authoritarian instinct to support Executive power --- a not altogether 'Conservative' position.