# Poll For Conservatives

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-conservatives/485681>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 13, 2009, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-conservatives/485681 "2009-02-13T14:48:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 3

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**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-conservatives/485681/41 "2009-02-15T20:37:45Z")

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> [@Loach](#):
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> I wish I had bookmarked my prediction from a few months ago. I said that regardless of who won the election, the economy was going to recover enough by the next election to make the incumbant look good.

Considering that the typical recession lasts about 18 months, that’s a pretty likely prediction.

> [@VarlosZ](#):
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> Just to pile on, here’s a fiscal liberal who’d like to see the economy completely fall apart, so that we might put an end to this “free market” nonsense. (It doesn’t mean anything, I know, and no doubt there’s a corresponding opinion from the right somewhere on the internet. I just couldn’t help myself.)

Which is why we fiscal conservatives tend to distrust the Left. If the Robber Barrons of the 19th century were such a “failure”, how did they expect the steel mills and railroads and oil refineries to magically spring into existance?

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-conservatives/485681/42 "2009-02-16T00:24:02Z")

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[_Strong_ Moderator Admonition]This is a poll for conservatives, _not_ a debate about whether or not “the Liberals do it too!”  
Stay. On. Topic.[/_Strong_ Moderator Admonition]

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**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-conservatives/485681/43 "2009-02-17T00:41:00Z")

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> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> [_Strong_ Moderator Admonition]

Oh, fine. You always get to be the _strong_ moderator.  
😃

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-conservatives/485681/44 "2009-02-17T00:50:56Z")

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> [@InvisibleWombat](#):
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> Oh, fine. You always get to be the _strong_ moderator.  
> 😃

You _know_ you love it.

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