My goodness where were these dinosaurs during the Amash NSA vote? Quietly hiding I suppose.
Listen, your theory? I don’t even know how someone could come up with that.
RINOs are really what one might call Neo-Conservatives. NeoCons, to use extreme over-simplification as you illustrate you are capable of....NeoCons, are basically Big Govt. Democrats who like war and occasionally throw a bone towards Christians (passively). At what point did Bush/Cheney attempt to slash government? When does John McCain not support a massive police state? Why do they think it’s ok to have a massive spying infrastructure sniffing up all of our collective rear-ends? And an ever-expanding TSA etc.
I understand for many of you, Social Conservatism trumps all, and it doesn’t bother me as long as you don’t go all Police State on me. RINOs you see are there to quietly and in a sneaky way allow big government to flourish while at the same time occasionally going on Fox News and acting incensed about it. Keeps the sheeple in line. You’ll see them buckle at the funding ObamaCare vote.
So in my case,
1. Paul/Cruz/Lee type I would vote for
2. Any republican supporting the massive spy infrastructure no matter what position they hold on anything else, is done with me. Never again will I be tricked into a Bush/McCain/Romney.
Actually, Romney was very libertarian on the homosexual agenda.
sorry, i’m just getting back to this thread. as you say, for me what you term “social” conservatism is just conservatism. it is the conservatism of most of the founders (really arguably all of them including franklin, jefferson and odd balls like paine).
for me, a belief in God as soverign (ala the founders) defines the extreme “right-wing” or conservatism. everyone else, from my point of view as a believer—including your “neo-cons” or “libertarians” are just varing degrees to the left of true conservatism.
in otherwords, my political theory uses the dimension of belief in God (rightmost) to non-belief in God (athiesm) leftmost.
just to give a concrete example: so when someone talks about government as God (big government) and no government at all (like an extreme libertarian) to me they are just two sides of the same coin; they are both rejections of God. they are grabbing power from God.
no worries about us establishing a police state though—true Christians are usually in such a small and hated minority that they are the ones who get fed to the lions first.