You and Mr. Bovard seem to have a very good handle on things!
Well, thank you! But I'm not quite in his league, even if I did figure out early and often that
a) the significant difference between a liberal and a mafioso is that, when you ask for your
money back, the mafioso will at least have the decency not to ask you what right you have
to want your money back, even as he's measuring your piano-wire garrot; and, b) actual
or alleged conservatives have too often been as George F. Will figured out in 1978, when
he observed, "Today's conservative has reached into his heart of hearts, prayed hard, and
decided it was high time that the government cut his
neighbour's benefits.
Not to mention---and I'm pretty sure Mr. Bovard made the same reference, though in
different language, in one of his books---that for at least two decades, perhaps longer,
today's (actual or alleged) conservative has too often fallen into, "
You can't do that
to the American people---only
we can do that to the American people![/i]