Well, yes. Sorry. My mistake. But I have an excuse. I've been around since about the middle of the last century and spent too many years before the millennium associating the word 'Republican' with the word 'conservative', not Conservatism Inc., conmen, conspiracy theorists, varied and sundry creeps and full-on crazies. That's a lot of c's for a tired old brain like mine to keep track of. And old habits often die hard.
I sort of agree, even if I'd never vote for one. the problem for me at this point is that the crazies have been representing them for so long (and whatever one might think about Reagan--and I loathed him from the get-go--he brought them in, so fuck him and his "blessed memory) that I don't think anybody has any idea what an actual "conservative party" would even look like.
there are some folks I know who'd point to that position now defined as "libertarian," but those guys are even weirder. and Ayn Rand, one of the greatest hypocrites of the last century, doesn't travel well after tenth grade. in the tenth grade, I very uncharitably referred to her "followers" as "the girls with whom nobody wanted to go out," but that might have just been in Forest Hills High School. that last was a not-so-veiled call-out to any other alums out there.
We need a conservative party, run by Actual Conservatives.
Well, yes. Sorry. My mistake. But I have an excuse. I've been around since about the middle of the last century and spent too many years before the millennium associating the word 'Republican' with the word 'conservative', not Conservatism Inc., conmen, conspiracy theorists, varied and sundry creeps and full-on crazies. That's a lot of c's for a tired old brain like mine to keep track of. And old habits often die hard.
I sort of agree, even if I'd never vote for one. the problem for me at this point is that the crazies have been representing them for so long (and whatever one might think about Reagan--and I loathed him from the get-go--he brought them in, so fuck him and his "blessed memory) that I don't think anybody has any idea what an actual "conservative party" would even look like.
there are some folks I know who'd point to that position now defined as "libertarian," but those guys are even weirder. and Ayn Rand, one of the greatest hypocrites of the last century, doesn't travel well after tenth grade. in the tenth grade, I very uncharitably referred to her "followers" as "the girls with whom nobody wanted to go out," but that might have just been in Forest Hills High School. that last was a not-so-veiled call-out to any other alums out there.
Mostly Randians are "the boys with whom no one wants to go out."
imagine a laughing emoji.
again, I'm talking FHHS, famous for its cheerleaders. but you're completely correct, as usual.