[wardaddy]

Cultural paleos like me reacted just the same as any neocon.

Anyone who became conservative because of 9-11 is more than welcome but we will have issues if they bring their social liberalism with them....and many do.

[Kenny Bunk]

POV understood.

Here's the problem, the Republican Leadership etc, developed the theory that they must buy into the systemic social programs (and politically correct thought processes)... just be better at running them than the Democrats (which fortunately ain't that hard). And being oh-so-politically-correct is important if you want the ladies' vote.

This being a two-party system, they'll get the vote of people like me, because they are clearly much the lesser of two evils domestically, and clearly superior internationally.

[denydenydeny]

Anyone who became conservative because of 9-11 is more than welcome but we will have issues if they bring their social liberalism with them....and many do.

It always seems to me that the paleos care only about the issues on which they disagree with other conservatives. And those issue all seem to be about how America deals with the rest of the world: trade, immigration, foreign policy.

On the real "social" issues--abortion, guns, culture--there is general agreement between paleos and neocons. But the paleos always seem more interested in fighting than agreeing.

denydenydeny, member since 10/21/98, by the way.