Explosion of government spending and continuation of the nanny state is conservatism? I don't think anyone can say that with a straight face. The fight is between Republicans who still think the party is somehow strategizing and conservatives who realize that they have been left behind.
Ping for later smackdown, have to go to school and work.
> Explosion of government spending and continuation of the nanny state is conservatism?
Anyone who knows my posts knows I agree with you about how far afield the Republican party has gone. But I think what the submitter is saying that when we do disagree about these things, we should leave the insults back in the playground.
My grandmother-- a true turn-of-the-century spitfire-- and I used to have knock-down drag out arguments over just about everything political under the sun. (This was during my brief-but-stupid obligatory teenage liberal period.) You can bet there was no name-calling or insults although it did get mighty passionate. Invariably during these sessions she'd stop, grab my hand, and say with shining eyes, "I **LOVE** a good argument!" Boy, do I miss her.
Argue with passion, but argue with respect. We're family.
Perfectly stated. This is exactly it. I could never have said it with so few words. Thanks.
And name-calling will cause conservatives to lose that fight. We need to use our tried-and-true tactics of logic, reason, truth and fact.