On 09 Sep 2008, at 10:13, LuKreme wrote:
> THE GOP is still living in the 1930's when they were stringent
> opposers of the New Deal and Roosevelt's efforts to get the country
> out of the Depression by throwing money at it.
Absolutely, and it's even worse since Reagan because the GOP has been
largely taken over by social conservatives who think that they agree
with Goldwater which is why they call themselves "Conservative". I
gave up on the GOP when I realized back in the 80's in high school
that its platform was largely rhetorical and unimplemented. And that
the GOP was at least as likely to increase the size of government and
its budget, if not more so, as the Dems; they just do so in different
areas, Defense, Energy and Corporate largesse.
The GOP has always sounded much more Jeffersonian than the Dems but
has also been much more agressively Hamiltonian in how it handles
power and authority.
Dave
--
"Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty."
-- Mark Twain
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