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To: Man50D

No he’s right. Conservative is a relative term, relative to the times and situations. Way back when in the far gone days of yesteryear environmentalism (then called conservationism) was a conservative platform, now the libs own it. JFK started the citizen marksmanship program, Clinton ended it. JFK hammered through a huge tax cut. What’s conservative and liberal this year might or might not have any relationship to how the terms were applied 40 years ago, 20 years ago, or sometimes even just a few years ago. Look at the short history of bye-line veto and fast track treaty negotiation, those are two issues that switch with the White House, conservatives are for them when the GOP owns the Oval Office Libs love them when the Dems are at the top.


60 posted on 01/01/2008 8:27:51 PM PST by discostu (a mountain is something you don't want to %^&* with)
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To: discostu
No he’s right. Conservative is a relative term, relative to the times and situations.

Thank you for proving my point in post #55! Going down the slippery slope by using the term "relative" creates this gray area as to what is and isn't Conservative and therefore is simply justifying any viewpoint as Conservative. By that line of thinking one could rationalize Hillary Clinton as Conservative.
62 posted on 01/01/2008 8:35:10 PM PST by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! Duncan Hunter is a Cosponsor.)
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