RadiomanATL
Senior Member
said he was expressing a liberal viewpoint
Which is false and has been shown to be such.
Really? Expanding the power of the federal government is NOT a liberal viewpoint? I gotta stop right there. LOL. You reaaally want to pursue that one? Do I really have to trot out the philosophies of various party honcho's over the decades to prove you wrong, or are you just going to go ahead and admit that one?
I've also already basically told you that your "strictest definition" of a conservative is, well, hogwash. Under your definition conservatives would be pining away for the days of FDR and the New Deal.
Really? They could go farther back and call fora return to the 1700s. Some strict Constitutionalists do, in fact. or they could call for the status quo ante circa 200BS or 1987. all would be Conservatives in the strictest sense.
You are absolutely correct that it would be conservative in your strictest sense. You know....the one that I was proving as ridiculous...and which you just proved as ridiculous as well. Do you always decide to point out the flaws in your own argument?
It was conservative by all applicable definitions.
Except for... you know... the whole smaller government thing...the one thing that the majority of conservatives agree is one of their founding principles.