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Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Why I Don't Want to Call Myself a "Conservative"

An interesting e-mail from one of Andrew Sullivan's readers. Sullivan's summation:

God, torture and an untrammeled executive: a good summary of what conservatism has become.

Another reader plays a variation on the theme.

This is why I've been voting straight Democrat for the past six years.

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