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- From: mykes@shell.portal.com (mike myke schwartz)
- Subject: Re: Conservative Values (Re: New group proposal: alt.conservative.forum)
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 13:55:24 GMT
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- Russ Anderson (rja@mahogany126.cray.com) wrote:
- :
- : In article <1gl52rINN4mf@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu>, pearsodc@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU (if God's your father then call home!) writes:
- : > I would like to formally propose a new group, alt.conservative.forum,
- : > a moderated group to discuss conservative values and assorted political
- : > goings-on from a distinctly right-wing standpoint.
- :
- : What are "conservative values"?
- :
- : Take the following issues:
- :
- : Drug prohibition: Conservative (former Drug Czar) Bill Bennett supports the
- : "War on Drugs" while Conservatives such as Milton Friedman, William F.
- : Buckley, and George Schultz oppose it. Which side represents the
- : conservative view?
- :
-
- The difference between Bennett and the othes mentioned are that Bennett
- is a pragmatist who was put in the position of Drug Czar, because the war on
- drugs was mandated by the people. Friedman, Buckley, and Shultz are strong
- believers in the FREE MARKET... in a TRUE free market, legalized drugs would
- result in a significant decrease in drug use - or at least the least harmful
- drugs would get more use than the harmful ones. A pragmatist like Bennett
- knows we don't have a free market, and even the most radical conservative
- policies implemented towards a move to free market would take decades to
- achieve. After all, it took us 60 years to go as far downhill as we have
- since FDR's massive anti-free market policies were enacted...
-
- Bennett's policies are good today, while the others' are good goals to
- achieve over the next half century...
-
- : Abortion: Conservatives such as George Bush & Dan Quayle want abortion
- : made illegal (in most cases) while Conservative Barry Goldwater does
- : not. Which side represents the conservative view?
- :
-
- You make a HUGE mistake in calling Bush a conservative. That aside,
- consider that Bush was in favor of legalized abortion in 1980, but as the
- increase in volume of abortions became an alarming trend, his position changed.
- As for Goldwater, not all of his ideas are mainstream conservative. In 1964,
- he proposed using nuclear weapons in VietNam...
-
- : Isolationism: Conservative George Bush supports an activist US role in
- : the "new world order" while conservative Pat Buchannan does not.
- : Which side represents the conservative view?
- :
-
- Flat out wrong assertion here. Buchannan advocated america first as a policy,
- which is not the same thing as isolationism. The only reason America First
- was deemed important was the slow economy. Also, Buchannan sure got a lot
- of votes and won a lot of states during the primaries... that should indicate
- to you which side represents the conservative view.
-
- A more appropriate question is "Does Reagan support america first or an
- active foreign policy role?" After all, Reagan won almost 100% of the
- conservative vote in two elections, plus a LOT of democrats, too...
- (In case you don't figure it out, no doubt you will, Reagan would favor
- active foreign policy...).
-
-
- : Free-Trade: Conservative George Bush supports free-trade while conservative
- : Pat Buchannan does not. Which side represents the conservative view?
- :
- : Capital gains tax: Conservative Ronald Reagan wanted capital gains taxed
- : at the same rate as other income (1986 tax reform) while Conservatives
- : George Bush and Jack Kemp want capital gains taxed at a lower rate than
- : other income. Which side represents the conservative view?
- :
-
- If you want a real laugh, conservative Patrick Moynahan suggests a capital
- gains tax cut to 15% from 28%. How can you lump Bush and Kemp into the
- same camp? Bush never followed any of Kemp's policies, and even had promised
- to not have Kemp in his next cabinet. The most successful governmental
- economic policies in this century, known as trickle-down, were a Kemp/Reagan
- implementation. Reagan's terms not only produced enormous prosperity and
- growth, but year after year the debt and defecit as a percentage of
- GDP _decreased_ (source: Milton Friedman, interviewd on Wall Street Week).
-
- Allow me to refer to Rush's book, which I got as a Christmas present (note:
- I would not have bought it for myself :)... The difference between
- conservatives and liberals is that liberals believe that there is a finite
- pie which must be allocated among the population, while conservatives believe
- the pie grows all the time. Kemp's (and Moynahan's) capital gains tax cuts
- are meant to spur growth of the pie at a time the pie is growing slower
- than we would have liked. Given the spending controls Reagan (and Bush, btw)
- proposed, Reagan would have liked to have lowered capital gains more than he
- proposed in '86.
-
- : Yugoslovia breakup: Conservative (former Sec of State) George Schultz supports
- : intervention in the former Yugoslovia while conservative George Bush does
- : not. Which side represents the conservative view?
- :
-
- Who says (besides you) that Bush doesn't favor intervention in the former
- Yugoslavia? Bush is simply a lot slower at getting involved because he
- (and consistently so) prefers to use force and commit american lives to such
- noble causes only if he can see a logical, successful, and rapid solution.
- Remember VietNam? VietNam is similar to this situation in that it is a civil
- war, albeit with attrocities being committed that nobody here likes.
-
-
- : --
- : Russ Anderson | Disclaimer: Any statements are my own and do not reflect
- : ------------------ upon my employer or anyone else. (c) 1992
- : EX-Twins' Jack Morris, 10 innings pitched, 0 runs (World Series MVP!)
-
-
- my turn:
-
- Last night on larry king, guest hosted by liberal Bob Beckel (who also filled
- in for Mike Kinsley on Cross Fire), two guests were Patricia Ireland (NOW)
- and a woman from Clinton's campaign staff. The hypocracy was sooo evident.
-
- 1) Clinton's cabinet is representative of America.
- Who on the cabinet represents me, or Pat Buchannan, or (gasp)
- Pat Robertson, or Dan Quayle, or George Bush, or Ross Perot,
- or John Switzer, or the 57% of the population that didn't vote for
- clinoccio?
-
- 2) Both women agreed that they were comfortable with clinton because
- with hillary as his wife, he is obviously comfortable with strong,
- capable women... Comfortable enough to have a 12 year long affair
- with someone else?
-
- 3) Clinton promised a NEW kind of government and change. How does
- appointing several former Carter administration people to his
- cabinet mean NEW or change (other than change back to the old that
- failed)?
-
- Any answer to 2) above that includes statements like "his personal life is
- irrelevant" or "that didn't play well in the election" are avoiding the
- question.
-
-