Political Hay
What Did Conservatives Get Right?
How to silence your liberal friends, assuming you still have any.
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—-That the 55 mile an hour speed limit totally, clearly, and unimpeachably sucked. (With apologies to Liddy Dole who zealously enforced that as Secretary of Transportation. She was clearly not up to speed on that one.)
If all conservatives ever accomplished was the lattermost, I’d say it was all worth it. Yes, there are so many things we take for granted after Reagan and Gingrich that people need to be reminded of just now.
On both sides of the great divide.
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