I'm sorry if that happened . . . altho if you mean the post you put in #270 here, I really have no comment about you feeling I'm not a conservative.
I really don't feel a need to defend myself on that topic. Politically, I'm one of the most conservative folks you'll meet. But conservative as in my tagline -- as in 'Conservative with your money' or 'conservative use of govt power'.
Socially, I'm live and let live. Again, I believe in a very conservative use of federal power over the lives and choices of human beings. Gays, abortion, race, vice, etc -- I don't think the fed gov should be verrrry conservative in it's use of force to make folks do what it wants.
I like the 'component design' of the constituion. let the states have any laws they want, and let people vote with their feet and move, if they don't like the social laws of their state.
Here it is, shortened.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1784420/posts
post #63...
ya'll socials are 'Solibs'. Because you want greater control of govt in certain circumstances. More intrusive govt, not less.
***Were the abolitionists in desire of greater control of guvmint for a moral issue? Not really. It was an expansion of the definition of who had rights in our society, not an intrusion of guvmint. I don't particularly care what you call us or them -- socons, pocons, solibs is good enough shorthand for me.
Pro-choice means you don't want govt to intrude on that decision.
***Pro-choice is a copout. Would pro-choicers allow private individuals to make a decision as to whether or not to own slaves? NO! Because as a society we came to believe that slaves were people too, and they had the right to life/LIBERTY/pursuit of happiness. As a society we are coming to the realization that it is a BABY that gets killed in this "choice", and that the preborn person should have the right to LIFE/liberty/pursuit of happiness. Prochoicers are behind the times when it comes to biological knowledge (ask any biologist when life begins) and the straightforward acknowledgement of an individual's right to life.
Oops, also this contention, since you bring up the "live & let live" philosophy here, and someone actually needs to have a life in order to let the person live it.
The Reagan 'big tent' Republican thingy. The 'Reagan Democrats'. Socially, I'm 'live and let live'. I do not want govt controlling people's social lives.
***I'm about the same. But that "live and let live" thing don't fly if the baby dies.