[No.6]

"Birchers are extremely hard core Constitutionalists and Anti communist."

They're a few other things too. I don't particularly want to get into a flamewar but I tell ya, if the 'hardcore' position on immigration is against Reagan and with the Birchers, I'll side with Reagan. His anti-communism policy worked, and I trust the optimism of Reagan over the dour pessimism of some others.

[Spirited]

The Birchers are whatever they make themselves out to be.

They couldn't do anything before and they can do less now even though they have a few right ideas. Theirs is a stance of convenience.

[Richard Kimball]

I like some of the positions of the John Birch Society, but they fall into the trap of many of the Constitutionalists/Libertarians. Basically, they're so hard core, they turn people off with their rhetoric. It's a shame, because they make some good points. However, if you question any aspect of what they say, they get more and more agitated, and most of the ones I know tend to spit when they talk, so you have to have a rain coat to carry on a conversation with them for too long.

Interestingly enough, whenever I take a "political opinion" poll, I track out as a Constitutional libertarian, but I can't talk to most of the Libertarians on FR because they remind me too much of Bobby Boucher's mother. "George Bush is the Debil!"

[Lurker]

The difference between Reagans anti-communism stance and his stance on immigration is that one of the two actually worked.

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