[Vision2020] Mark Felt and Andreas Schou comments

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I don't think that the Republicans wont Rober Byrd. You are correct that Nixon did forge this coalition. I think it is of interest though that William F. Buckley was probably the first Conservative to repudiate, Ayn Rand, the Birchers and Nixon.
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From: Andreas Schou ophite at gmail.com
Date: Mon,  6 Jun 2005 12:44:22 -0700
To: Phil Nisbet pcnisbet1 at hotmail.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Mark Felt and Andreas Schou comments

> > I am not sure that this was the case.  Conservative values were actually
> > spread across party lines in those years and it was not uncommon to see
> > conservative Democrats and liberal Republicans on the national stage.  The
> > GOP has always had its own Progressive wing and it also has its own
> > Libertarian wing.
> 
> The "conservative" Democrats of the 1960s and 1970s were Dixiecrats:
> economically populist and socially conservative. I'm glad to the vast
> majoirty of them out of my party. The Republicans can have Strom
> Thurmond and Trent Lott. I just wish we could hand over Robert Byrd,
> too.
> 
> The "liberal" Republicans would most likely be recognized today as
> moderate mercantilists somewhere on the continuum between liberal and
> libertarian. When the political fulcrum shifted, Rockafeller
> Republicans rolled back their liberalism and stayed Libertarians.
> While I'm disappointed that libertarians stayed on the Republican
> side, I'm hoping they'll eventually see the wisdom of the idea that
> allying with religious conservatives is just as ethically obnoxious as
> allying with liberals. Apparently, though, the Democrats disagree, and
> keep concentrating on the Sisphyean task of winning back the
> Dixiecrats.
> 
> How the Democrats plan to maintain a coalition consisting of (1)
> racists and (2) racial minorities is an exercise best left to the
> reader.
> 
> To bring it back to the subject of Nixon -- he did more obnoxious
> things than just trampling the Constitution. Nixon's Southern Strategy
> really created the modern conservative character: it fused Southern
> social conservativsm with Northeastern mercantlism to create a
> majority composed of plutocrats, religious lunatics, John Birchers,
> and racists*; one we still have to deal with today.
> 
> -- ACS
> 
> (1) Any Republicans listening can replace the above with pro-business
> voters, religious conservatives, anti-communists, and Dixiecrats
> rather than arguing with me. I already understand that I'm biased.
> 
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