re: #462 William Lewis

I always thought that was a rather interesting moment of honesty on his part. I found it especially funny since I was the Anglophile (drink tea, watch soccer, anglo-catholic style Anglican, etc).

Yeah I found that interesting too. I think it was his honest way of saying he wouldn’t know what to do if something had threatened the only life he’d known had he lived in the revolutionary era. I didn’t fault for him that honestly because I found it honest. And hey just because you’re an Anglophile doesn’t mean you can’t be a passioante small letter, r, republican. You could have been Charles James Fox. The one thing I don’t get is why Edmund Burke gets labeled as a conservative. I get that he wasn’t a radical but his views for the 18th century seem fairly liberal in that he supported our independence, wanted the penal laws repealed in Ireland, etc.
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