-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/11/08 21:12, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Friday 11 April 2008 05:19:08 pm Mark Allums wrote: >> Paul Johnson wrote: >> >>> Health care would be a big one. >> >> >> >> And taxes are much lower here, and the torte system so different, >> >> and people so much more eager to sue. >> > >> > Depends on the country. In France, they pay less taxes, and with >> > those taxes they get college and healthcare at no extra charge. We >> > coulda done that ourselves over the last 8 years if the conservatives >> > didn't think it to be more productive to flush it down the war... >> >> Don't say conservatives. True conservatives were against the war. Say >> "neocons". > > Oh, we're both totally in agreement with that. However, I'm not sure the > difference between conservatives and neoconservatives is one with much > distinction ever since the McCarthy backlash took the wind out of it's sails. > > Following that, the conservatives did what was left of themselves in by > towing the line with the Neoconservatives when they started taking over > starting with Nixon, and especially with Reagan. Lincoln certainly wouldn't > recognize his own party in this day and age.
If you take /Neoconservative/ to mean "disillusioned anti-Communist semi-Socialists", then you're correct, that's when they started taking over the party. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shrubbery!! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIABxgS9HxQb37XmcRAjfDAKCELAlG4faW15OPYZzRsuJ5u6uYJQCgogyW eCsfav2+TF1oojif5e/+TRw= =g7wG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
