I've found myself wondering the same thing! I think he would be "disappointed" in the crop; he seems to have preferred conservatives over liberals, but he wasn't one to suffer the ignorant. (I once read he really disliked Bush Jr - basically because the man was not curious, and quite anti-intellectual.)
If memory serves, he had a lot of nitpicking to do with the neocons; even though he'd basically laid the intellectual foundation for them, I think he was disappointed in what his foundation built. If my reading of his work is right, he wasn't into all that "social" conservatism. While he agreed with much of it, I think he considered it all taken "too far", what with the whole evolution/creationism, strange disparagement of The Constitution (something he was prone to, as well!) and the like.
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I tend to think "Who would Jesus pick?"
That's easy. None of the above. Or others, too.
I've found myself wondering the same thing! I think he would be "disappointed" in the crop; he seems to have preferred conservatives over liberals, but he wasn't one to suffer the ignorant. (I once read he really disliked Bush Jr - basically because the man was not curious, and quite anti-intellectual.)
If memory serves, he had a lot of nitpicking to do with the neocons; even though he'd basically laid the intellectual foundation for them, I think he was disappointed in what his foundation built. If my reading of his work is right, he wasn't into all that "social" conservatism. While he agreed with much of it, I think he considered it all taken "too far", what with the whole evolution/creationism, strange disparagement of The Constitution (something he was prone to, as well!) and the like.
I don't think he'd endorse any of that lot.
Too far? A concept unknown to people who by definition live on the fringe.
It's slightly perturbing that Ron Paul, who was definitely on the fringe, no longer is.
What's really of interest [...] is that the man hasn't actually changed *any* of his views in the intervening period!
I don't even know who's out there anymore. I just look at the people who are still around after they've shot at each other enough.
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