[Permanently_Baffled]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gg3', 'T')hat phrase "moral clarity" sounds all too much like "racial purity." Not to suggest that ethnic cleansing is on the agenda, but religious correctness most certainly is, unless we do something about it.

Neo-cons are not conservatives. Conservatives want a more compact and efficient government (I don't like the phrase "smaller government," it is overly-simplistic, and too value-neutral with respect to quality), not a ballooning and bloated one. Conservatives want fiscal discipline and balanced budgets, not supply-side mumbo-jumbo and exploding deficits. Conservatives want government to keep the competitive playing fields level but otherwise keep hands off, not play favorites and practice cronyism. Conservatives want government to protect the liberties of all citizens but otherwise keep hands off, not pander to some by curtailing the liberty of others. Conservatives want a foreign policy based on stability and gradual change, not one based on destabilization and recklessness.