I was working in DC in the 80s, for a Senator, a Congressman, and for Reagan. During that time, I was for a 17 percent flat tax when Reagan was working for a 23 percent rate. I was against the 1986 Amnesty that he signed, although he was pushed to by Alan Simpson and resisted it. I was for more spending cuts and government shutdowns than he gave us, but understood his desire to go along with Congress to get the defense spending he wanted. I was for a stronger response to the Beirut bombing and to Iran's torture of our operatives. I was for telling Congress and Rep. Barnes to go to hell over the Contras. There were many, many issues I agreed with Reagan about, but I can't think of any where he was more conservative than me. (Nonetheless, he was our greatest President since Lincoln, and a man I would have walked through walls for.) Most libs would consider me a caveman.
So, it's amusing to me that you consider me a "new conservative" because you wish the south had won the civil war. It's not a conservative/liberal issue. 50 years ago, you and Trent Lott would have been Dems. I'd have been the same.
“I’m 20th century Milton Friedman/Jean Kirpatrick. You are 19th Century Jeff Davis”
“There are no free lunches.”
Davis and Friedman knew that...you don’t
Defiant wrote...(I for one welcome our new Obama Overlords.)
Come to your own conclusions if you see this...