THOUGHTS THAT MAKE YOU THINK

Conservatives of today vs. conservatives of yesterday: 

“A nuclear-free world has been a 60-year dream of the Left, just like socialized health-care.” - Rudy Giuliani, NRO, 2010.

“A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. And no matter how great the obstacles may seem, we must never stop our efforts to reduce the weapons of war. We must never stop at all until we see the day when nuclear arms have been banished from the face of this Earth.” - Ronald Reagan, 1984, in China.

And then this thought from Jonathan Chait at The New Republic.

Generally speaking, social policy has grown less restrictive throughout American history. People are are currently 70 years old are far more liberal on, say, the question of women’s suffrage than were people fifty years their senior. But women’s suffrage is settled fact, and no longer exerts any electoral impact. Several decades from now, we may well be looking at an even more liberal or left-wing social issue landscape. Today’s young voters are much less freaked out about an African-American president than are today’s old voters. But what about fifty years from now when the Democrats have nominated a transgendered Presidential candidate?

(With thanks to The Daily Dish for pointing the way.)