What is Conservatism to you?

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I have started on Dr. Alitt's excellent primer on the Conservative Tradition, through The Teaching Company (available @ http://www.teach12.com/ttcx/coursedesclong2.aspx?cid=4812 for those who are interested, it costs money though, but not too much, especially when compared to university level classes), and it got me thinking about what I feel Conservatism as a political philosophy really is. Obviously given from the word that is used: Conservative, which denotes careful planning and rational development, but is that all it is? I am curious in what y'all think it means. Maybe this will spark a conversation that does not break down into name calling, but we shall see.

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Re: Much Better

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Scarlett Johansson, one of about six or seven under-30 women in Hollywood who are actually classically beautiful *and* can act. She was Woody Allen's muse for a while which gives her a little bit of cred, and she was in "Lost in Translation" which got an Oscar or two. Lately she's playing a ninja-type superhero chick in the Iron Man/Avengers movies.

Re: Much Better

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Ah, thank you, I have seen the Iron Man movies.