Jim Henley sums things up very succinctly
Posted by Chip on November 04, 2004 at 06:27 AMMore than ever we'll have, on one hand, a "conservative" party with a weak commitment to a circumscribed notion of economic liberty and an active hostility to civil liberties, and on the other a "liberal party" with a weak commitment to a circumscribed notion of civil liberties and an active hostility toward market freedom. It is, as you say, very very bad.
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