cool. I learned me some republican responsibility!

Both of them?
ba-da-boom!

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“We could have won if our cantidate was more conservative.”
I’ve heard this old story before. The repubs pull it out everytime they lose.

Oh. Wait.

There is no wilderness. They sold it off.

And they can’t learn. They cut their own education budget.

Palin 2012!

Well there’re lots of ways to be a conservative. You can be an old school Hamiltonian economic developer, or you can be an old school Jeffersonian guns God and gold type. The Republicans can’t afford to lose either in droves.

But otherwise near as I can tell, this has some truth to it. David Brooks in today’s NY Times quotes some conservatives having a post-election get together somewhere as actually being excited about the fact that this election has purged most of their moderates, their ‘wobbly-kneed Republicans.’ Folks, that’s a party in the weeds, big time.

It is entirely true that the size of the Federal Government, in toto, grew under Dutch and shrank under Clinton. Your point about Iran Contra (which is somehow still worse than a blowjob) is a fine one, but the other team still doesn’t do nuance. And they never will, it’s a key part of what makes a Wingnut a Wingnut.

Not entirely true. Reagan did gut OSHA. In the steel industry alone, lost workdays due to injuries went from 77.7 per hundred workers in 1982 to 97.7 per hundred workers in 1985.

Or perhaps “smaller government” meant less oversight on the executive branch, as in the case of Iran Contra. Minor stuff, you know.

Every time one of these angry white gays try to wave that 70% figure in my face I direct them to this map, and ask them to tell us the “black population” in all those counties that went 70-75% Pro Prop 8 — Imperial, Tulare, etc.

http://vote.sos.ca.gov/Returns/props/map190000000008.htm

As one can imagine, the silence is deafening.

Not only that, why is the focus only on Prop 8 and not “the black vote” on Amendment 2 in FL or Arizona, or Arkansas’ antigay adoption law?

What a load of bull.

If they did get back to actual conservatism, they’d probably have been more successful recently. But those who call themselves “conservatives” very rarely actually enact policies of smaller government, personal responsibility, etc.

Long answer: http://www.maatsfeather.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=229

Then they get in and keep government by a secretive cabal and stay big and raise the deficit. They then attack certain segments of society for being immoral. They have Tom Delay and Larry Craig and Dick Cheney and George Bush and Karl Rove. Then they’ll get voted out again by people pissed at their long term incompetence and out of touch mentalities. So they lose.

Rinse, repeat.