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To: Lane3 who wrote (12697)	2/19/2006 12:59:30 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541971

And it's a bit hard to argue that "fair trade" is anti-free trade. Doesn't strain me a bit. If it has strings, it's not free. It might not be protectionism but neither is it free trade. That's, of course, my point. This is yet another issue that doesn't fit the left/right cut very well. Again, take the steel issues. The industry as well as the union were in favor of Bush's deed. Thus, it's an issue in which customary left/right groups line up in unpredictable ways. Nor is there much doubt that conservatives have supported various forms of protectionism. Just because some misplace their principles sometimes doesn't make the principle void. Call it practitioner error. When a Christian sins, Christian dogma doesn't change. Of course, not. Sin is part of Christian dogma. In fact, an intricate part. As is forgiveness. But opposition to free trade is not a part of conservative dogma. I agree with that. But life has this strange capability of corrupting dogma, save for true believers. On the prescription drug stuff, I agree it's not conservative (right) but it's not liberal (left) either. I never said any of this was liberal. I just said it wasn't conservative. Moving to the left doesn't necessarily mean crossing the center line. Same as before. This is yet another issue that is neither liberal or conservative in its practice. As these pile up, one can continue to force them into old paradigms or watch out for a paradigm shift, a la Kuhn. Oh, yes, the external hard disk worked and worked and worked, sweated and sweated and sweated, and finally did it's deed. I'm up and running on the tower study computer. I had some private e-mails with wireless wonk during this process in which he said that these last steps might well take a LOOOOONG time. He was right on target.