"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
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On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:04:03 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:

"DSK" wrote in message
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Maybe, after careful study & deliberation, their decisions are wiser
than
you give them credit for. Many people criticise Justice O'Connor for her
unwillingness to overturn 'Roe vs Wade.'


Justice O'Connor was the progenitor of a number of wise decisions and
she could clearly see beyond pop-politics.

The current terms "liberal" and "conservative" are, in my mind, merely
dogmatic, counterproductive, inaccurate pop-politics terms for groups
for which one either wishes to (1) assign as a reference group or (2)
assign as a group to hate that espouses a belief system of wrong
positions. In popular usage, it makes it easy to separate people out
because there are only two boxes, good guys and bad guys.....
everybody clearly fits in one or the other.

"Counterproductive" is right. Look at my attitudes toward Bush and the war,
and I sound like Abbie Hoffman. Explore my views on guns and law
enforcement, and I sound like a hanging judge. No labels work well.


Sounds to me like she trusts MOST people to make the right decisions for
themselves, with the least amount of government "help". Wait...that sounds
familiar. Isn't that a pillar of conservative thinking?


No, it isn't. It might be an interesting dictionary assignment to look
up "conservative" and see if it means this. Forget the pop-politics
talking points of recent years.

Here's a start:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative

Interesting how a certain crowd has latched onto the "less government"
mantra and claimed ownership.