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Note to our American friends:
"Red Tories" = CINO's / RINO's (same confused/opportunistic wimps - different location!)

1 posted on 05/13/2005 8:34:46 AM PDT by GMMAC
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To: fanfan; Pikamax; Former Proud Canadian; Great Dane; Alberta's Child; headsonpikes; coteblanche; ...
Librano$ PING!

2 posted on 05/13/2005 8:37:38 AM PDT by GMMAC (paraphrasing Parrish: "damned Liberals, I hate those bastards!")
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To: GMMAC
conservatives such as Francis, and Red Tories like Joe Clark, often make the mistake of thinking (as she proposes in her column) you can be economically conservative and socially liberal.

You can't. If you allow the state unlimited, progressive control of society, you allow it an unlimited role in the economy. If something as fundamental as the family is not safe from political intrusion, why would our pay cheques and commodity markets be any different?

3 posted on 05/13/2005 8:39:46 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative (Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Andrew Heyward's got to go!)
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To: GMMAC

I have reached the same conclusion albeit not as eloquent! But there is an undeniable truth in the arguement that you cannot be an economic conservative and a social liberal at the same time. They are in the end mutually exclusive and as such cannot be reconciled since the rationale for social liberalism is predicated on state imposed, social engineering that would not have grown organically in our culture/society. I would further the case that many socially liberal agendas run counter to the prevailing social traditions/norms and are in effect adversarial to the prevailing social order and a huge economic cost to the rest of society. This exercise in sophistry by the political elites ie Liberals and/or CINO's in our country is nothing more than the marxist two step being played out, of having those who have pay for those who don't. Controlling the means of production and denying private ownership of those means is the end goal. Socialism is an incedious beast and the only way to do so is to deny the state the power to impose it's coercive power over us. Canada I'm afraid may be too far down "the road to serfdom" to bring it back. The end result is the break up of this once proud nation. Too bad!


4 posted on 05/13/2005 9:01:01 AM PDT by bubman
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