It is instructive to consider that Sandra Day O'Connor is considered by many in the religious right a traitor to the conservative cause. Allegedly, she had the 'right' perspective when she was first appointed to the court 25 years ago, but has since moved toward the middle.
My sense is that the middle has moved (or been dragged, kicking and screaming), not Ms. Day-O'Connor.
If the Conservative movement in American politics is most accurately represented by those with a far right ideology, is it accurate to call it 'conservative'? I think they should own up to their ideology - and adopt a term that the public understands: fundamentalist.
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The initial impetus for this blog, was a call for 8640 voices to create a 24-hour viritual filibuster in protest of the Republicans' plan to use 'the nuclear option'! We all have at least sixty seconds worth of outrage, simmering inside, I thought. Hundreds of you let that pot come to the boil, at the Joseph Moakley Court House in Boston on April 27th, as part of our actual 24-hour filibuster and rally, and now this blog continues simmering.
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