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Comment on: A Liberal in Red Country

What is There Left to be Conservative About??? (Pun Not Intended)

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What's Left is the Right

Conservativism isn't a specific set of positions, both liberal and conservative are relative to their times. There will always be a Right and Left and everything in between.

Look at a social issue like contraception: conservatives aren't still trying to make that illegal...we've moved on. After the Great Depression, we regulated and later there came Reagan's deregulation...both were corrections of excesses of certain kinds.

Don't count the GOP out yet. But people have to have a real dialogue about what to change about the platform. All this talk of retrenchment will only further isolate the GOP, which stands to be an even more important source of political competition in the face of a monolithic government...don't throw in the towel people: we need it for our sweat.