Posted on 09/17/2015 4:03:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Just about every Republican running for president this year is campaigning as a conservative despite the fact that many of them do not have a record to back it up.
The second debate underscored the need to verify whether the assertions made on the campaign trail truly match the actual performance of the candidates.
Republican primary voters want a consistent conservative who has delivered on their promises. Voters want someone they can trust.
That candidate is U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz.
After he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2012, he immediately began fighting for the American people on issue after issue — from opposing Obamacare to defending the Second Amendment to stopping the debt.
During his first year in the Senate, the most common feedback I heard from people across Texas was, “Wow. Finally, someone is doing what he said he’d do.”(continued)
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Anybody know what a “conservative” is? Any takers? Few seem to know for sure.
Freepers or Tea Partiers waiting for the “Perfect” conservative had better wake up. No one fits everyone’s description in the same way. The only perfect being was crucified 2000 years ago.
Bump!
Cruz is the best. If he isn’t the Republican nominee, I hope that he will either be chosen by the nominee to be VP, or nominated for the Supreme Court of the US.
Why don’t you tell us what you think a conservative is.
I agree. Although, if he's not the nominee I would want him on the SCOTUS. If Trump ends up the POTUS I worry he would appoint liberals to the SCOTUS. I know Cruz won't.
I honesty don’t know. Seems to be a moving target. I don’t like the term because it seems to imply keeping the status quo. (We don’t need status quo. Status quo needs to be blown up.)
Why don’t you take a stab at it.
Ah, but you asked the question.
Right, so do you have the answer?
I must bow to your elevated knowledge of the subject.
If we don't know what a conservative is, we sure know what a conservative isn't .
For example, a conservative isn't someone who supports nationalized healthcare -- even if he does want to send all the illegal immigrants back.
What are you presuming here? I am asking an honest question because it is not clear to me (or I think a lot of people) what a “conservative” is. I also honesty think it is becoming more and more a term with an entirely subjective definition depending on who you ask.
People scream bloody murder about “conservative” but when asked what it means they seem lost on the subject.
People need to know what they are for and against and why, not just follow the crowd, which at least some of this seems to be about. Seems to me if someone calls himself a conservative he should at least know what that means at least in their own mind or in terms of what they stand for and why.
Maybe there is no “objective” definition, but everyone talks about it like there is an objective definition and we all know what it is.
Why are you unwilling to give your definition?
That is part of the problem I have with "conservative" and it is what the Obama and the Left nails us about with astonishingly paltry response from our side. The other side complains that conservatives are always against things but offer no alternative solutions. From what I've seen, that is often a valid criticism and is what keeps these jackals in power.
People on the Right need to know what they are FOR and why. As far as I'm concerned the Right stands for freedom and political freedom means an absence of coercive, unconstitutional government. Economic freedom means the voluntary cooperation of the free market (THE ALTERNATIVE to Obamacare and socialized medicine). Seems to me that's what conservatism should be FOR.
Read Post# 17. That’s part of how I feel. But you, like many, are hiding.
And yet you still refuse to give your definition. Why?
I don’t like the term “conservative” much more than I do “liberal”. The Left have coopted the term “liberal” and people reflexively use it in referring to these people. I avoid it, preferring leftist, or Democrat, or socialist, or progressive, or any of several other words. I hate ceding “liberal” to the left.
People use the word conservative, in the US, usually to mean a constitutionalist, and usually one who is also rooted in a judeo-christian view of man and God.
I like the word “classic liberal” but for obvious reasons that old term is not well understood now. But I tend to say I’m a classic liberal, rooted in a biblical world view.
The problem with “conservative” is that it doesn’t clarify what it is you are conserving. It is easily conflated with a traditionalist, and someone who simply doesn’t like change. What we often call a RINO is that kind of conservative, the one who gets dragged to whatever the Dems are doing, but fifteen minutes later. If you don’t have clear principles, you will be that kind of conservative, which obviously isn’t how most of us see ourselves and it is obviously not the kind of person we want to see in government.
That was Hayek’s point when he rejected the word “conservative” preferring to think of himself as an old Whig.
And it opens the door to conflating it with conservatives of other cultural frameworks, europeans for example, who are not the same thing.
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