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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Honestly Rube, unless you can show that the people in this thread advocating for charges or fighting the lawsuit are "fiscal conservatives", that is just a self-serving, Tinordi-esque non-argument.
Also, if one legitimately believes that Khadr should have been charged with treason, and/or one legitimately believes that the government could have won the lawsuit (and I disagree on both counts), being a fiscal conservative is not relevant to the debate. As far as politicians go, left or right, any politician is going to try and take advantage of any opportunity for gain. Accusing them of hypocrisy is like accusing ice of being cold.
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I'm pretty sure if you asked transplant99 and some of the other vocal posters in this thread where they would place themselves on the economic spectrum, I'm pretty sure they would call themselves fiscal conservative. And I've seen a few of those posters say they believe the government should have fought harder solely for the principle despite the low odds of winning.
To your second point, I think you're partially right, but the Conservatives going on the spree they've gone on is a bit much. I find it pretty telling that despite all of their rhetoric, they have failed to produce any kind of legal argument or legal expert to back up their stance on the subject, and based on how the various court challenges tended to go for the Harper governments, it really does look like not much has changed.
My point is that many of these people are fiscally conservative when it's convenient for them to be.