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"Core Principles"

By The Daily Dish
Oct 28 2008, 7:49 AM ET

What is wrong with this sentence:

It would be silly and self-defeating for Republicans to repudiate conservatism's core principles of a strong national defense, limited government, constitutionalism and protection for unborn children.

You'll notice that three of the four are general approaches to government - and the middle two were directly attacked by the administration Wehner worked in. But the last is an actual specific policy. This is perhaps a sign of what the Christianist right will demand: that a legal ban on all abortion be a defining principle of conservatism.



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