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To: Snowshoe who wrote (85288)	12/29/2011 11:44:49 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 220163

But they have never lived down the conservative claim that their lack of fixed ideology implies absence of principle or a finger-in-the-wind approach that merely splits the difference between the two parties. Interesting.... I would imagine that thinking and bravery are not requirements for a dogmatic approach..Our politics Canucky politics though has also become polarized. Conservatives (right of the old imploded Progressive Conservatives .moderate Republicans ? LOL not according to the last snippet... :o) Although it may be fitting to equate moderation with a bygone culture of compromise, no one should take at face value the judgment of Rush Limbaugh: “By definition, moderates can’t be brave -- they don’t have opinions! … Brave moderates? ‘Great Moderates in American History’? Show me that book.” I guess that goes with my first comment :o) Particularly during the critical decade of the 1960s, moderates defended civil rights and civil liberties, often in the face of Democratic and Republican opposition. Pretty interesting that ....I wonder if that thought would even enter the mind of a thirty something ... Moderates supplied not only the ideas but also many of the individuals who later became prominent leaders of the conservative movement, including Bruce Chapman, Newt Gingrich, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Mitch McConnell. Moderates ?