On Oct 2, 2009, at 11:25 AM, Eric Beck wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:05 AM, SA <s11131978 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> Yes and no. A lot of serious conservatives are uncomfortable with
>>> mass,
>>> unaccountable wiretapping and snooping at library records. And most
>>> conservatives, serious and hacky, were scandalized by Bush's
>>> spending
>>> habits. I can't count how many press releases I get from right-
>>> wing PR shops
>>> explaining the Republicans' troubles as a departure from true
>>> conservatism.
>>
>> Yeah, you get those press releases now. What were they saying in
>> 2003?
>
> This is a great question. The way I see it, conservatives don't really
> stick to their philosophy; that is, the "small government" and civil
> liberties that they talk about all the time are fine as abstract
> principles, but they aren't really essential to their politics.
The American Conservative, 2005: <http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2005/01/22/newsflash-bush-not-a-conservative/
>
Bruce Fein, 2005: <http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/20/conservative-scholars-argue-bush’s-wiretapping-is-an-impeachable-offense/
>
Cato, 2002: <http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3557>
George Will, 2003: <http://www.seattlepi.com/opinion/132429_will27.html>
National Review, 2003: <http://www.nationalreview.com/28jul03/editors072803a.asp>.