What you're talking about is compassion for honest hard working people who have chosen to become Americans. They're the people WE were when we first got here. You've described the place conservatives must stand. With the innocent and good. Your compassion's well placed.
What liberals do is strange to me... I suspect it's because they never actually know real people in these situations, they tend to stand with the people who hate our country or are criminals OR foreign elites.
Your comment was so well crafted and beautifully expressed I was tempted not to distract from by commenting. Thanks for sharing presidio.
"A Classical liberal is someone who wants a society that maximizes peace, civility, tolerance and well being for everyone. One that opens opportunities for everyone to advance themselves."
"L-word" aside, this is Reagan's brand of Conservatism, and it is mine as well. Kelly asks him if that means he might vote for Hillary Clinton, and he gives a wonderful answer:
"Well, I mean, putting aside all the things that are said about Hillary today, my main difference with her is on the vision of what kind of society will make people's lives better. So this is a vision of society in which people are too evil or stupid to run their own lives, but those in power are perfectly capable of running everybody else's lives because they're so much smarter. It's what Hayek called the 'fatal conceit,' or William Easterly called 'the tyranny of experts,' because that's what it is, it is tyranny...
I don't have a guy. I have these principles and what I'm trying to accomplish. And what we need, to me, is a candidate that will help change the trajectory of the country from all this wasteful, irresponsible spending that's heading us for a financial cliff -not just by the Democrats but by the Republicans. The reason we tend to support Republicans is they're taking us toward the cliff at only 70 miles per hour miles an hour and the Democrats are taking us 100 miles an hour.