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To: CWOJackson; ValenB4; melancton
Oh good, the old article from the little Frummer boy. Haven't seen this one in oh...about three years is it? And it's no more true then than it is now.

I HAPPEN to have been in the room when "paleoconservatism" first declared itself as a self-conscious political movement. It was in the spring of 1986, at a meeting of the Philadelphia Society, and Professor Stephen Tonsor of the University of Michigan read the birth announcement.

Well isn't that special. Unfortunately for Davie, old conservatism was a self-concious political movement in 1796 when General Washington gave his Farewell Address.

22 posted on 06/10/2006 4:08:54 PM PDT by billbears (Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --Santayana)
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To: billbears
Anyone who would mistake Frum for a conservative has no credibility whatsoever.    
126 posted on 06/12/2006 4:54:58 AM PDT by melancton
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