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To: JohnM who wrote (21093)6/15/2006 1:45:12 PM
From: Dale Baker  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 541414
 
To say that conservatives run government badly, which proves the failure of conservatism is a partisan assumption, IMHO. Conservatives weren't very interested in running government until the current crowd came in and started to enjoy pulling all the levers of power. Social and economic change in accordance with their views, along with a robust foreign policy, were more their priorities.

If the writer had talked about the contradiction between espousing less government and creating more and more of it, you have a fair critique of the Bush era.

But I don't think that Bush's tenure has told us much about how genuine conservatives like George Will would like to see government work. JMHO.



To: JohnM who wrote (21093)6/15/2006 2:14:39 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 541414
 
>>After all, even conservatives mostly acknowledge that Bush's tenure has been a disaster, and the only way to avoid the conclusion that conservatism itself is at fault is to throw Bush overboard instead.<<

I don't buy this guy's argument. Bush is not, IMO, a "real" conservative in too many ways that it's not valid to generalize to conservatism from Bush's failures.


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