friends -- conservative lurkers --

[rogerashton]

we may have met before, so I hope I can address you as "friends" --

Here

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/editorial/9558109.htm

Is a column in the Philly Inquirer arguing that G. W. Bush* is NOT a conservative, and that today's Republican Party is not conservative.

If you disagree, please let me know where you think he got it wrong.

If you agree, please consider it as you decide how to vote, and pass it on.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. C'mon, post 4 best paragraphs and summarize the rest. Hate registrations.

[iconoclastic cat]

2. It didn't ask me for a registration...anyway, here is an excerpt:

From the Philadelphia Inquirer:

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Conservative: It's a label that doesn't stick

Douglas Pike


George W. Bush is a hard-line conservative disguised as a moderate. That has been a running criticism at the Republican Convention, but it is wrong.

Yes, this President Bush is different from his father, a traditional, alliance-building Republican at home and abroad. Yet it is simplistic to call George W. Bush a conservative. He is a big spender, tax-cutter and debt-maker. He's a preemptive warrior, "cultural conservative," and fact-twister.

Think back to the Republicans who won control of Congress 10 years ago, who acted like real conservatives, at least for a while: They actually cut spending. A decade later, the party's principle of "limited government" survives only in throwaway lines, not in the record of G.W. Bush & Co.

The brand-new, Republican platform touts Bush's budget-busting initiatives on education, drug benefits for seniors, Iraq, etc. His critics at the Cato Institute have rightly dubbed him the "Mother of All Big Spenders." Bush has added $2 trillion to the national debt in four years.
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[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Thanks!