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Letters
Cantor
‘ignores
the voters’
l?v« though Virginians of all Hlpotitical persuasion have been expressing themselves in no uncertain terms by up to 200 to one in phone calls and faxes to their congressional representatives* Rep. Eric Cantor tR-Tth District > ignored their unequivocal pleas and voted for the Wall Street bailout. Among these voters* conservatives in particular just got a lag wake-up call.
It took 50 years to create a coherent conservative political movement in America. In the postwar years Russell Kirk re-articulated conservative philosophy from the Scottish Enlightenment through Edmund Burke. William F. Buckley stood athwart history in the 50s. Barry Goldwater riled the sedate country-club Republicans in the 60s. setting the stage for the triumph of Ronald Reagan in the 80s.
Even during the 90s. with Democratic control of the White House, conservatism survived in the voice of" Newt Gingrich and his cohorts. Like or dislike any of these people, agree or disagree with them — they held deep rooted convictions derived from a combination of a realistic view of man and reasonable expectations of how we could govern ourselves while protecting liberty
It's taken George W. Bush just eight years to throw it all away Eric Cantor's vote for George Bush's bailout to his Wall Street pals shows just how far conservatism has been betrayed, abandoned and replaced with the old time discredited Republicanism of yesteryear When Democrats say the Republican Party is the party of Wall Street, the multinational corporations and the super rich it
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