The NC LS Winter Conference last Saturday entitled “The Myth of the Conservative Republican Party” drew an enthusiastic audience of members and guests to the Allred Banquet Room in Burlington, North Carolina. A succession of speakers took aim at the topic with League of the South National Board member Michael C. Tuggle’s talk, “Mad About Sarah,” leading the way.
Tuggle asked the question “does anyone believe that Sara Palin is a “fighter for small government and a States’ Rights advocate like Ronald Reagan? Reagan was none of these things” Tuggle said. He further questioned her viability as a presidential candidate with “changing the name tag of the puppet in charge wont change a thing,” and that once in power, “they become the opposite of what they claim to be as a candidate.” On the topic of neo-con control of the Republican party, he asserted that the neo-cons have changed the meaning of conservatism from representing small and limited government, to a belief that big government is necessary to advance conservative goals.”
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