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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (240413)	3/1/2008 2:29:22 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793969

I liked John K's comment about that: The "dispirited" part is an obvious gaffe, but it seems that it's entirely possible to be a "conservative liberal," depending on what you mean by those terms. The word "liberal" has of course come to mean something entirely different than it meant classically. "Conservatism," imho, is best understood as not so much exemplifying a concrete set of policy beliefs, but simply as a habit of mind that says "when it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change" (a formula that Albert Jay Nock, a self-described "philosophical anarchist" and "radical," apparently approved of and subscribed to). As such, it seems it could co-exist in the mind of both the classical liberal and the vulgar liberal/socialist.