Re cheering for the clothes, have the issues or the politicians changed?
Tangent: as a teenager in the 1970s, my favorite senator (sad for a teenager to have had a preference ordering of the US Senate, but on this site I figure I may not be the only one) was William Proxmire, who gave out the Golden Fleece Awards. Imagine: a Democrat who …
Re cheering for the clothes, have the issues or the politicians changed?
Tangent: as a teenager in the 1970s, my favorite senator (sad for a teenager to have had a preference ordering of the US Senate, but on this site I figure I may not be the only one) was William Proxmire, who gave out the Golden Fleece Awards. Imagine: a Democrat who went out of his way to challenge wasteful spending. Is that excluded from the domain of conservatism due to Proxmire's party affiliation?
Republicans are certainly not what they were before the 1994 election, when Gingrich rose like the Beast out of the sea, hefting his Contract with America, each of its bullet points a blasphemy.
Re cheering for the clothes, have the issues or the politicians changed?
Tangent: as a teenager in the 1970s, my favorite senator (sad for a teenager to have had a preference ordering of the US Senate, but on this site I figure I may not be the only one) was William Proxmire, who gave out the Golden Fleece Awards. Imagine: a Democrat who went out of his way to challenge wasteful spending. Is that excluded from the domain of conservatism due to Proxmire's party affiliation?
Republicans are certainly not what they were before the 1994 election, when Gingrich rose like the Beast out of the sea, hefting his Contract with America, each of its bullet points a blasphemy.