On 09 Sep 2008, at 14:12, LuKreme wrote: > On 9-Sep-2008, at 12:46, David P. Henderson wrote: >> 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". > > as much of a fucking criminal bastard as he was, Nixon was the last > real Republican President. And even there, the slide was beginning.
I'd say he was the last traditionalist Republican President rather than "real", but I grok your meaning and pretty much agree. > >> The GOP has always sounded much more Jeffersonian > > Which Jefferson? His Presidency was rather more Hamiltonian than the > rest of his life. As a native Virginian, the idealized Jefferson of course :) Even Jefferson realized that you would have to be somewhat Hamiltonian to exercise authority. His main complaint with Hamilton was agrarian v urban. > >> than the Dems but has also been much more agressively Hamiltonian in >> how it handles >> power and authority. > > But, sadly, not in how it handles finance. they spend like the Dem > stereotype and have none of the fiscal responsibility that makes > Hamilton at least reasonable. Absolutely, I'd rather have "tax and spenders" than "tax-cut and spenders" any day of the week. Of course, most of them are willfully ignorant of Hamilton's policies and even more so with regard to Adam Smith. Dave -- "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe." -- Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
