I am fully serious when I say that Bush's "passionate conservatism", his belief in the fact that "government's gotta move when someone hurts", his faux economic policies, and his outrageous increase in government spending, is decidedly not conservative, if you take the meaning to be a belief in the principles of natural rights and the enlightenment. It will probably cost the conservatives the election in '08 as well. There really was no truly conservative candidate for the Republican nomination (though Ron Paul came closer than most).

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"The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century--every case of a poor nation that worked its way up to a more or less decent, or at least dramatically better, standard of living--has taken place via globalization; that is, by producing for the world market rather than trying for self-sufficiency."

-- Paul Krugman