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Originally Posted by icantstandit
And my point is that those same people - Buckley, Horowitz, Kristol- were proclaiming Bush a "true conservative" and the "heir to the Reagan legacy" just 3-4 short years ago.
It wasn't until they saw him failing that they started to say this.
AND YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT... if Bush were winning and popular, these same conservative thinkers would be claiming Bush as their own, saying things like "Bush proves that conservative ideology is the ideal course for this country."
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Buckley is definately being a flippy flopper. (And there are others like Sapphire.)
But I think in general a lot of conservative thinkers were pretty stable about their opinions.