#67966 by RobertBennett on 5/03 at 10:47 am
(44 comments total)
Mr. Bennett,
As one who is progressive and somewhat conservative (no they’re not mutually exclusive)I respectfully submit you don’t know what a “true” conservative is.  If you are looking at the shrub and his neo-cons and calling them conservatives you are making a grave mistake for they are fascists, not “true” conservatives.  Ron Paul of Texas and the late great Tom McCall of Oregon are and were “true” conservatives.
Look in Wikepedia under Tom McCall for at least an idea.  True conservatives are horrified when they are compared with the present administration.  The main idea of “true” conservatism is balance.

I’m always amused by and a little testy about the labels; liberal, conservative, progressive, etc. because until they are defined I have no idea what they mean.

Back to your point about how important Rice’s meeting with the Syrian foreign minister is, I absolutely agree.  Any diplomacy that is sincere is welcome.  If this in fact is a change in this administrations policies regarding the Middle East I welcome it.  Almost anything is better than attacking or going to war.

But my utter disdain and contempt for this administration will remain until impeachment proceedings are brought against this present administration.

This is progress.  Great progress.

It may not be as much as you’d like, but it is progress.

But it’s doubtful the readers here at Truthdig will appreciate it.  You just love having someone to hate.

So, as you always do, you will find some way to smear it.  You don’t like it when your enemies ‘see the light’, because then you don’t get the credit.

I’m a Progressive who believes Progressives are dropping the ball.  Conservatives live in Fear.  They attack anything that even slightly threatens them.

In adopting their tactics, Truthdig and The Washington Post have become just like them.  You attack, attack, attack, and like Conservatives, you make our culture more and more adversarial.

Conservative tactics will not work for a Progressive Movement.

Peace,
Bob
http://thespiritandthestone.squarespace.com/thespirita ndthestone/2007/4/30/it-doesnt-take-courage.html

“OK, now let try “blowjob” policy between us”, Rice said to her counterpart.