Re: OT - So Michael...

"Michael Johnson" <cds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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c) Play cowboys and indians

.... or he is trying to bring democracy to the Middle East and get rid of
a mass murdering dictator claiming he had WMDs.

Uh... No offense, but the invasion came first. Then, while we were there, it
was HEY, let's establish democracy! Yeah, that's the ticket. Revisionist
history.

Establishing a democracy had nothing to do with the original invasion and
came up as a reason for the invasion long after we were already in there.
About the time that the whole WMD thing was proven wrong, as I recall.

But all that aside, I'm still confused about the whole conservative thing.
I'm a lifelong Republican, but I seem to become more liberal as the party
becomes more conservative. There are a couple of things about the
conservatives that I just don't understand.

Smaller federal government, lower taxes, fiscal responsibility, less
government intrusion in our personal lives. I thought that's what it was
about.

But then we come to the "social issues," for which conservatives seem to BEG
for federal involvement. How does that mesh with conservative political
beliefs?

Do I have to continue to believe that the American family is a mom and dad,
2.3 kids, and a cat and/or dog? No matter what the numbers tell me?

And do I have to profess Jesus is my personal savior to be a Republican, or
can I continue in my agnostic ways?

Who was it that said I haven't left the party, the party's left me?

dwight


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