If you win the war, do you get to write the history? Get ready for a history of conservatism (and way beyond) in the comments to Post blogger Edward Troy’s post–and his incendiary responses. “The problem some of you conservatives have is related to historical relativism,” Troy blogs with both barrels. “Some of the founding fathers would be considered extremely conservative with their exact opinions today, but in the time that they lived, they were…the vanguard of human social hierarchal evolution…. Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner and yet in his time he was a liberal.”