[wardaddy]

I’m a conservative because I am:

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A Father of Five Happily Married to a Fellow Traveler

Know the Harsh Realities of the World and Human Beings

Am a Realist.....this is critical

Am a Christian.....Jews are welcome too...and the occasional reverent agnostic

Believe in Freedom and our founders.....and yes the slave owning ones too

Am a Southerner....for us there is really no choice lest one is a collaborator

* I fear that Conservatism is lost. I doubt that the average FReeper is really conservative....surely not very traditionalist. This bothers me I admit. Folks here are pretty PC in reality over hot topics but strong on taxes and war hawks...both good but the culture war does not carry the day here anymore. It does with the founder apparently but not the rank and file. Again if FR represents our future on culture then we are in serious trouble because the other competing sites are far worse with social moderates

[LibLieSlayer]

“Am a Southerner....for us there is really no choice lest one is a collaborator”

As a fellow Southern compatriot... I think you have put into one sentence exactly the code we live by. If a Southerner is a dim... either they are a “special interest” activist... a transplanted liberal... or a member of some union leadership. Even the majority of teachers here are Conservative. The strongest Conservatives that I know are Yankee libs or moderates that move here and over time become Conservatives... man they are some hard core warriors for the right!

LLS

[LibLieSlayer]

I also wanted to say have faith... there are a tremendous number of us FReepers that hold GOD’S tenants to heart. My perception is that the majority of FReepers are against gay marriage... against abortion and care about right over wrong... and abhor evil. Some will compromise that which should remain steadfast. They can be Conservative... and misguided. I just hope that more of the silent membership will speak up politely and stand up for GOD’S commands.

LLS

[Delacon]

Hey WD. I’d appreciate your take on this article.