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To: TimF who wrote (67832)	5/22/2008 7:47:55 PM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 543273

>>The conservative movement isn't and wasn't mostly about bashing amoral, unpatriotic, condescending, elites. (Which doesn't mean that conservatives don't do that, or don't bash people they see that way to a greater extent than liberals do, but "the driving force of the conservative movement"? What nonsense.<< Tim - Maybe "driving force" is the wrong way to say it. But what I think is true is that the specifics of the dialectic that created the phrase "Silent Majority" resonated not only with the conservative base, but also with a large number of independent voters. Casting the liberals as immoral tax and spenders, draft dodgers, and unpatriotic cowards, conservatives were able to keep winning elections. There's no question that the entire article is highly critical of conservatives. But you do have to note that a lot of the criticism within it is coming from conservatives. - Allen