>>> "Max B. Sawicky"
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Not to worry, people are milking Palin's rich tapestry of peculiarities for all they are worth.
Nobody has touched on the inconsistency between the fundamentalism & libertarianism. In one case that matters, school vouchers, she stuck to libertarianism, opposing vouchers (which McNutty supports, naturally). A true libertarian would not, I think, push religious beliefs into a school curriculum (i.e., intelligent design, abstinence). Though you could also argue against vouchers as a wedge for the state to regulate religious institutions that are made eligible for vouchers.
^^^^ CB: Another contradiction: how are Rush Limbaugh and other raving anti-feminists going to support voting for her _because_ she is a woman, which seems to be McCain's rationale. What other rationale could McCain have ?
It's actually good that McCain was pushed to the left, but how are the right-wingers going to go with him to the left ?
The choice of Palin indicates more crisis in the Reaganite coalition and the right
Reagan Republicanism may be history
1980s conservatism no longer fits in GOP BY STEVEN THOMMA ● MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS ● August 31, 2008
They'll praise him, invoke his legacy and summon his blessing on their quest to hold the White House.
But as Republicans gather at their national convention in St. Paul, Minn., to nominate Sen. John McCain, they face the prospect that the era of Ronald Reagan is ending after dominating their party and U.S. politics for nearly three decades.
The winning coalition that Reagan built of economic, foreign policy and social conservatives is splintered. The issues he used to define the party have changed. And the national rejection of an unpopular president -- Jimmy Carter -- helped Reagan launch a political revolution but now benefits the other party as Democrats rally against the legacy of George W. Bush.
"It doesn't look good at all," said Frank Luntz, a Republican strategist who helped the party seize control of the House of Representatives in 1994. "They can't recreate the Reagan coalition. Life has changed. America's priorities are different."
Indeed, 2008 could punctuate a turning point in the way that Americans view the role of government -- a shift potentially as significant as those that ushered in the rise of big-government liberalism in 1932 and the turn to modern conservatism and skepticism about government in 1980.
Full at:
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080831/NEWS07/808310450/1009/NEWS07
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