“Liberals running as Democrats
Liberals running as Republicans”
I think it comes down to different people’s definitions of “liberalism” and “conservatism”. I seriously doubt my definitions of those words match up with the majority of Freepers.
Also, some have an issue understanding politics. The politics of a free people is about compromise. No compromise is the two wolves and a sheep at dinner thing.
I was pretty much looking at the field of candidates running as Republicans, and see liberal traits amongst them all.
But the problem is, Republicans have been slowly compromising and assuming these liberal traits, so traits which were once liberal, are now starting to present themselves as conservative traits.
There are too many, even here that are only Republicans because of a particular issue, and then when the other issues come up, they aren’t sure which side of the fence they’re on. So they look to their guy which agrees with them on a sole issue, and then agree with his other, non-conservative views.
This goes for gun issues, abortion, education, farm subsidies, etc. Folks make their opinions on a whim, not ensuring they are aligned with their other principles, creating the hypocrisy that plagues us today.
Compromising is typically in the form of getting your way on one issue, when you don’t get your way on another issue. And when you’re dealing with folks that pass legislation on a “this sounds good at the time” mindset, that’s dangerous, as they don’t really care about removing our individual, inherent rights, as long as it sounds good at the time.
Horse$h!t
The politics of a free people is about principle not party and certainly not compromise with evil as the result is still evil and an end to the freedom of the people.
"No compromise is the two wolves and a sheep at dinner thing."
Huh?
Democracy is the two wolves and a sheep at dinner thing.
Compromise is the two wolves and a sheep at dinner agreeing to just eat the sheeps leg thing.
A no compromise constitutional republic is where the two wolves opress the sheep until they develop velocity poisoning, leaving only a sheep at dinner thing.
A half finished misapplied metaphor is an iritating way to make a point at dinner sort of thing.