re: #44 MikeySDCA

I am a conservative of the school of Edmund Burke. I am a registered Republican, having first so registered in order to vote against Ronald Reagan in the 1976 presidential primary. I like to be able to vote against the dangerous ninnies in the Republican primaries.

I wonder where people ever got the idea that Edmund Burke was a conservative? For his time he was a lot closer to Teddy Kennedy than John McCain. He fought a long battle against slavery. He supported America in its battle against its abuse by Britain.

He also opposed America on his principles. A little know fact of history is that one of the Intolerable Acts was the Quebec Act which extended citizen’s rights to the Quebecois. Pissed the Thirteen Colonies off royally. Burke supported the Quebec Act.

Burke was never a conservative.