notice, david shemano (the conservative who was brave enough to comment in
this nest of thieves) that the leftie cut you down quickly by not even
deigning to remember your name. that's par social etiquette for lefties,
but please don't be piqued by their insolence. just remember that they've
been rolled so often and so long that their natural instinct is to shoot
first and ask questions later. conservatives, having had the upper hand for
1000 years, can afford to magnanimously turn the other cheek.
centrist
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Schaap [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 10:53 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:5665] Re: RE: RE: Re: GOP vs Dem Behavior (e.g., voting)
Dear conservative lurker (apologies for losing your name),
>Since you asked, I am a conservative who lurks on this list, . . .
Lurk not, brave sir! Tell us why the economy's healthy. Or why it's not.
Or what, in the heady dynamics around and within us, represents the status
quo to which you are committed enough to call yourself a conservative. I'm
not being rhetorical (though I admit years on mailing lists has a way of
making one's every word look it), I wanna know!
I have it in me, too, y'see. Hate it when they move the furniture, reckon
popular music just doesn't cut it these days, and am sure the only thing
that has actually got better in the last thirty years is the consistency of
Continental CuppaSoup ... also wary of Utopians, think Ed Burke had some
good points, and share Oakeshott's fear of narrow rationalism.
But I just don't see where the likes of Sowell, Rand or The Shrub offer
succuour. Noblesse oblige is not even a myth any more, and neoliberalism
seems a most radical programme to me (yeah, it may have been warming us
towards boiling point for decades now, like that frog in the saucepan, but
what dramatic changes the last three deades have wrought, eh?)
Cheers,
Rob.
