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@LWM
[Read the article: The great right-wing fraud to repudiate George W. Bush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Please don't abuse physics for bad metaphors. If you actually read your link, you'll see antimatter does not "destroy" matter, but converts the particle-antiparticle pair into energy. Nothing is created or destroyed, only reconfigured.
Now, we are not seeking to destroy all ideology (a task for mystics and ontological anarchists perhaps), only the malignant one that can justify the torture of thousands based or the nuclear annihilation of populated areas based on nothing more than the hypothesis "they were gonna get us first!"
Surely, such specious arguments can be defeated, at least on an individual level.
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@LWM
[Read the article: The great right-wing fraud to repudiate George W. Bush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Missed this one while I was replying...
You read through what you wrote. I already did.
I have no problem with "relegating it to the dustbin of history" or "relegating it to the fringe". It hasn't stopped pagans or wiccans, either.
OK, I have no idea what you are objecting to, unless it's my use of the word "destroy." If so, uh, sorry, I guess.
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@pcon-T
[Read the article: The great right-wing fraud to repudiate George W. Bush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bush is truly conservative, and has remained impressively steadfastly so, in at least three principle areas:
As a conservative, I object to all three of these. Please justify your claim.
his commitment to a proactive role in the War on Terror instead of a defensive posture like Democrats would more likely embrace,
Please state why this is a "conservative" position. It seems to me to be reactionary and radical in the extreme.
a focus on the across-the-board job-creating power of tax cuts,
Please note that the debt increased ten-fold under Bush. The overall tax burden on Americans has increased. Bush has only deferred the taxes by borrowing money, now we will have to pay those taxes in the future, plus the interest accrued.
Bush has not effectively cut taxes at all. He has raised them. Anyone who contends otherwise is a liar.
and the need to have judges who understand Constitutional separation of powers and merely interpret the law on a case by case basis, instead of following personal agendas and inventing law from the bench.
Bush has appointed the most ideological judges he could at every opportunity. It is expected that his appointees will uphold the anti-Constitutional "Unitary Executive" theory, which cannot be said to be a conservative theory as it has only appeared since Bush took office. Reagan and Bush I certainly never employed such a sophistical subversion of the Constitution to enact their policies.
Bush II has surrounded himself with the sorts of lawyers who are perfectly happy to claim that up is down, black is white, and that the President is justified in torturing childen's genitals if he *thinks* he's doing the right thing. (thanks, John Yoo, for that level of honesty.)
The legal philosophy of this administration is radical in the extreme, not conservative in any way.
He deserves tremendous credit for all this and has received it consistently from his base, culminating in the '02 and '04 election victories.
He's lost them now, thank God.
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@shooter242, not that he reads anything, the lazy sod
[Read the article: The Republican Party is the party of Bush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Gee, does all this mean Glenn is a conservative?
By all indications, he is more conservative than you. He, for instance, believes the Constitution is worth keeping around.
What! Policy differences! I guess that means Mama and Bama aren't true... what ever it is that you are. Politically that is. It's positively scandalous.
Of course they're not. They're politicians. They aren't going to try to completely take over the country, though, like your boy has done, Dr. Evil-style. The only "purity test" in politics is your own fascist one: neocon or not?
And neocons, by definition, have no ideology to protect, to principles to uphold, only blind, irrational axiomatic priorities that place party before country and power before law.
By the way, what marvels of modern life brought to us by "irresponsible capitalist swine" have you eschewed to remain morally pure? Anything, or are you just striking a pose? Heh.
Could you be more stupid? You don't even know what you're arguing against, just throwing out whatever retarded, poorly-thought-out stereotype about teh libruls comes to... er... mind. Bush's crimes have so little to do with capitalism that your link is scarcely refutable: in fact, it's preposterous. Is that the only way your brain can cognize the criminality, by making bizarre connections to economic and political philosophy?
What the hell does capitalism have to do with torture, the Unitary Executive theory, or spying on citizens?
How much tea have you quit drinking to protest it's price in China? Will you give up apples in preference to oranges or chalk for cheese?
@Anonymous: don't you wonder how many of the very same people who argue that Libby should be pardoned lobbied vociferously for Clinton's impeachment?
I'm going to guess: all of them.