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To: koan who wrote (43583)	11/6/2008 5:05:40 PM
From: nigel bates	Respond to of 149317

>>So I also have no understanding why Sullivan is a Republican?<< I'd call him a conservative rather than a republican, but that's splitting hairs. I guess to understand it you'd have to have grown up - as I did - in Britain in the 60s and 70, when we had left of centre governments which described themselves as socialist rather than liberal. I remember doing school homework by candlelight ('industrial action' - power cuts)... six month waiting lists for a telephone connection (government owned monopoly utilities)... continual strikes... secondary picketing... the miners union effectively bring down the government. I retain a visceral dislike of socialism, and although in the US I would probably vote Democrat most of the time, and I look back on Margaret Thatcher as an absolutely necessary but unpleasant medicine rather than a personal heroine, I can understand what formed Sullivan's political outlook. I think he's more than smart enough to have a pretty good feel for US political history. He's just approaching it from a different angle.