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Originally posted by tabs
What da ya mean... Hunter was a Conservative....just look at his position on Gun Control...."THey will have to pry it out of my cold dead hand."
BTW: Hunter made it his time to go....
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Uh oh, Hunter is already suffering from "Orwell Syndrome" - what happens to great social commentators who had their own code of ethics when they die... namely, they get claimed by both sides as a patron saint.
As far as I can tell, Hunter's only "conservative" values involved gun control. He was decidedly anti-Bush, anti-Bush Sr., anti-Reagan, and VERY anti-Nixon. He didn't adore Clinton (I remember him deriding bubba as being nothing more than a white-trash hillbilly), but he supported him on the basis of "lesser of two evils". He was unabashedly pro-Kerry, having protested alongside him in the 1970s.
Some confusion might come from the fact that he was incredibly critical of the Democratic Party on a lot of issues... and rightly so. Of course, looking back to the 1930s, Orwell - the self-proclaimed Socialist - expressed his dismay that many Socialists were nothing more than "sandal-wearing fruit juice-drinkers"... in other words, proto-hippies. Hunter hated hippies. Just because most Republicans also hate hippies, does not mean Hunter was a Republican... actually, it was said that he only voted Republican once in his life, and it was a local election in which one of his friends was running.
No, Hunter was a left-of-center counterculturalist with his own set of values. To label him "Republican" or "Democrat" would be to take away from him much of his identity as a authorial voice.