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Sorry, Tech, the subject line is only tangential to the body of my post. Can you hear the intro to Dragnet in that?

Not that I'm all that impressed by your...what was that? Somewhere between "snarkiness" and "rant". Sort of a smarmy low-wattage roast masquerading as witty reparte.

You don't seem to realize that you've slurred several fine Zoners, and I don't mean the Liberal contingent. Are good people like Phil, RNE, and Scott beneath the notice of someone who rubs shoulders, in his imagination, with Bush/Cheney and, in his sick, twisted, imagination, boffs the Coultergeist? [shudder]

I'm not just Flaming ya, Tech, but groping toward a point. Those Republicans you idolize have hijacked the symbol-set of Conservatism, along with fundamentalist Christianity and populism, to use as tools to manufacture electoral coalitions that maintain them in power to serve their traditional masters, the wealthy elite. They're not Conservatives, they're slime-covered toadies. There's a difference.

"There are no fiscal, cultural or political conservatives anywhere in sight." Sure there are, here at the Zone and elsewhere. It's just that you've been suckered into confusing Conservatism with Republicanism, and I'll grant you that Republicans have been in short supply lately. Remarkable how, as we count down the days (4 months 31 days 14 hours 38 minutes 8 seconds, according to one of 86,000 online Bush countdown clocks) to the end of the long nightmare of Republican rule, how so few people want to call themselves "Republican". "Conservative" is back in style with a vengeance.

And I actually like that. Surely you've read my conversations with some of the real Conservatives here about "Classic Conservatism" and possible common ground. Conservatives I can deal with because they have values like integrity and honesty. They're diametrically the opposite of Republicans who, judging by a pile of evidence accumulated over the last few years that towers into the sky like a vast, reeking, overflowing municipal garbage dump, care about nothing beyond accumulating power and wealth, in either order.

Got it?

Sure I'm dancing a jig, just not the jig you imagined.

But then, you imagine sex with Ann Coulter. 'Nuff said about your imagination. Ewwwww....