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To: ConservativeDude
I think it would be conceptually correct for us to say that folks who slide into a personality cult are not really conservatives. They may line up right on many/most of the “conservative” policy issue points of the day. But that doesn’t make one a conservative.

Perhaps. I am not so sure. I think ones politics doesn't define whether they will fall into that particular trap. I know many very smart, intellectually solid conservatives (both men and women) who fall blindly in love with someone who is clearly abusive or an otherwise bad apple - yet they will often refuse to see it for a very long time. With cult of personality like behavior, I think we are dealing more with emotion than logic.

53 posted on 10/04/2011 9:54:58 AM PDT by Longbow1969
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