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Lets not confuse conservative thinking with reactionary thinking.


Conservatives like the status quo, the way things are.  They tend to move forward, but do so quite slowly.  They are late adopters of new ideas.


Reactionaries are homesick for a time that never was and want desperately to turn the clocks back to an imaginary time that never existed.  Many of the TEA Party politicians claim to be conservatives but they are really reactionaries wanting to go back to either the 1950s or the 1790s.


Jon Huntsman is a conservative. 


Rick Perry is a reactionary.  Rick Perry would like to return to the early 1800s when the country was run by the rich factory owners and the rich plantation owners.


Those are the two choices Republicans are being offered this election cycle.


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