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[kandrathe]

This would be a joke, right? Nixon? Bush? Dubya? Seriously?

Did they grow the government? Did they expand the military? Did they grow the deficit? These are symptoms of progressivism. I think you maybe opposed Bush's conservatism, but didn't recognize his progressivism. Our politicians are often a mix of both. It's just their constituency and special interests that change. Regan and Bush didn't raise my taxes, but they did run up the deficit (i.e. taxes deferred). Actually, the least progressive terms were Bush I, and Clinton when they scaled back the government after the end of the cold war. Clinton, mostly because they failed to get much of anything progressive passed.

When you hear Republican politicians tout "strong national defense", "investing in small business", "investing in domestic energy", "kinder, gentler nation", blah, blah, blah. These are progressive concepts where they take money from people who have earned it, and give it to people who have not. I don't want to support run away corporate welfare either. My definition of a progressive Republican is Jim Ramstead.

Check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Ma...eet_Partnership