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Subj: Messy! What the hell are you up to? Get online or something! Yarr!Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 at 03:00:14 pm EST (Viewed 426 times)
| Reply Subj: Well, the Whigs platform sound much more like Democrats than Republicans.
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 at 11:43:48 am EST (Viewed 6 times) |
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> I very much doubt the anti-abortion foes in the rightwing want universal healthcare, especially healthcare that pays for birth-control. And they definitely don't care for separation of Church and State or "the gays" as they would say. That Whig platform sounds more like it's in the mould of a liberal third party.
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> I suspect the next step for Republicans (or GOP voters) will be to reject "compassionate conservatism" or as we might call it the Christian-bent neoconservatism that defined the Bush era. I think they'll move back towards a libertarian-bent fiscal conservative isolationist movement. I think a cross between a contemporary Goldwater and someone with business savvy for these economic trying times like NYC Mayor Bloomberg. If their 2012 contender doesn't have a strong economic message they're sunk.... again.
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