re: #460 GeneJockey

We ain’t talking about you, since modern Conservatives would not consider you one of their own. Conservatism - which was never so much a principled position as simply a reaction against change - has now become just a reaction against a PERCEIVED enemy, “Liberalism”.

Right and this is why I usually indicate I’m talking about modern conservatism when I talk about the train wreck of reactionarism that we have grown to bear witness to. I’d even say President Obama is more of a conservative than anything that’s come out of the Tea Party. The Tea Party to me are reactionaries whose vision of America is driven by a past that never was.