As a conservative, I can't argue with that logic.

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Extending this logic, Mitt Romney will be held that responsible for anything extreme conservative talking heads say in this campaign.

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But for all his passionate logic Mr Powell was unable in the 1960s to persuade the barons of the Conservative Party to abandon the Keynesian policies of the post-war years.

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