[Delacon]

This article came out sometime in 03, probably during the heatup of the primaries I think. I forget. I saved it to my favorites because it states so well the problems, and answers before them, the various factions the conservative movement have. Not just then and not just now. It has a sort of timelessness for as long as there is a conservative movement. I am sure that its been posted many times before but its worth repeating right now.

[donna]

Yet, this attempt to write traditional values into national law violated its implicit agreement to use market or at least local government or community means to implement values

I don't know what Huckabee and the rest want - power corrupts them.

The conservatives I know want the federal government to restore what the federal judges have stolen from us.

1) Prayer in school
2) No abortions
3) No porn
4) No homosexuality
5) Everything else that the federal judges have decreed over our vote

[Redbob]

And then Dubya did his damnedest to destroy it.

[crazyshrink]

Agreed, very good post.

My only other thought is that there is a concerted effort by socialists, communists, etal to create an enourmous amount of NGO’s and other groups in order to draw away the consevative coalition issue by issue.
As we look today, we can see how these groups are tying themselves, to a greater and greater degree, to more centrally controlled groups. That is, more larger and more worldwide coalitions. The UN is a perfect example. Although there budget is supposedly less than 4 Billion, the reality is that it is over $20 billion due to ties with liberal and environmental organizations.

Communists, etal., have turned democracy into a way to undermine our republican values by espousing “democratic values” in order to get so many citizens into demanding “rights”. Global warming is but the latest example. Doubters should track the UN environmental groups to Gorbachev organizations and the same with the Council of the Club of Rome and their national organizations. See also: maurice strong.

[wardaddy]

I’m a conservative because I am:

Older

A Father of Five Happily Married to a Fellow Traveler

Know the Harsh Realities of the World and Human Beings

Am a Realist.....this is critical

Am a Christian.....Jews are welcome too...and the occasional reverent agnostic

Believe in Freedom and our founders.....and yes the slave owning ones too

Am a Southerner....for us there is really no choice lest one is a collaborator

* I fear that Conservatism is lost. I doubt that the average FReeper is really conservative....surely not very traditionalist. This bothers me I admit. Folks here are pretty PC in reality over hot topics but strong on taxes and war hawks...both good but the culture war does not carry the day here anymore. It does with the founder apparently but not the rank and file. Again if FR represents our future on culture then we are in serious trouble because the other competing sites are far worse with social moderates

[alicewonders]

Bookmarking for later.