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Maxwell
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« on: September 03, 2014, 08:47:52 PM »
Let's settle this once and for all. Was a person who got regularly high 80s from the American Conservative Union conservative or not?

I say yes.
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« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2014, 01:26:23 AM »
Of course he was.
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« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2014, 02:39:01 AM »
What's the argument that he wasn't?
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« Reply #3 on: September 04, 2014, 02:52:49 AM »

Yeah. Its kind of a weird question.
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« Reply #4 on: September 04, 2014, 04:05:47 AM »
He was a moderate conservative Republican, but I don't think he's a moderate at all.
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« Reply #5 on: September 04, 2014, 06:11:55 AM »
Many Americans who describe themselves as conservative nowadays are not conservative at all, but reactionary. That is to say that Chris Christie and Jeb Bush are more conservative than Ted Cruz and Sarah Palin, imo.
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« Reply #6 on: September 04, 2014, 08:43:35 AM »
Yes.


Over here.
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« Reply #7 on: September 04, 2014, 08:47:16 AM »
Yes, he was a conservative who also happened to be a decent human being. Something which has become quite rare nowadays.
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« Reply #8 on: September 04, 2014, 08:57:43 AM »
Yes, I would consider Dole to be a conservative, and would have supported him in '96 had I been old enough at the time, and lived in the US.
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« Reply #9 on: September 04, 2014, 09:33:29 AM »
Yes obviously. He's the one who started the tactic of trying to use "liberal" as a pejorative.
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« Reply #10 on: September 04, 2014, 09:48:39 AM »
Thanks.


Seems he's arguing that Dole was a moderate conservative....which would be accurate...but still a conservative.
Quote from: Mordecai on September 04, 2014, 09:33:29 AM
Yes obviously. He's the one who started the tactic of trying to use "liberal" as a pejorative.
I'm pretty sure that it started well before Dole, but I'd be interested in reading about why you think that.
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« Reply #11 on: September 04, 2014, 02:03:42 PM »
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« Reply #12 on: September 04, 2014, 02:23:14 PM »
Yes, he is. 
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« Reply #13 on: September 04, 2014, 02:59:34 PM »

The main argument has always been that he constantly refers to himself in the third person.
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« Reply #14 on: September 04, 2014, 03:09:29 PM »
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