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What is a "Real" Conservative?
01/01/08
| Reaganesque
Posted on 01/01/2008 7:33:05 PM PST by Reaganesque
In this campaign and here on FR there has been a great debate going on over who is a "real" Republican and who is not. Indeed, this debate has become very intense but one critical thing has been missing in all of this hot rhetoric. Is there a general, accepted definition as to what constitutes are "real" Conservative? If so, what is it and who gets to decide this?
So fellow Freepers, what do you think? What characteristics, beliefs, practices, actions or qualification must a candidate have in order to be considered a "real" Conservative?
Or is the definition simply "well, your candidate isn't!"?
TOPICS: Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: conservatism; conservative; gop; real; republicans; romney; thompson
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To: Man50D
Individual polls can be wrong, but hundreds of polls over the course of 13 months draw a clear and obvious picture. There’s a handful of candidates that are just plain doomed.
It’s not my fault you obviously didn’t bother to read what I wrote, and if pointing out the truth insults you that’s up to you to change the truth.
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posted on
01/02/2008 7:02:50 AM PST
by
discostu
(a mountain is something you don't want to %^&* with)
To: Reaganesque
This is a "Real" Conservative.
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posted on
01/02/2008 8:09:49 AM PST
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~~~Jihad Fever -- Catch It !~~~ (Backup tag: "Live Fred or Die"))
To: fieldmarshaldj
OK. And, as I have asked you several times before, why is he a "real" Conservative?
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posted on
01/02/2008 8:41:28 AM PST
by
Reaganesque
(Charter Member of the Romney FR Resistance)
To: Reaganesque
Hint: It ain't this guy...
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posted on
01/02/2008 8:44:00 AM PST
by
Antoninus
(If you want the national GOP to look more like the Massachusetts GOP, vote for Flip Romney)
To: Antoninus
Hint: The point of the thread is to explain what a “real” Conservative is.
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posted on
01/02/2008 8:55:27 AM PST
by
Reaganesque
(Charter Member of the Romney FR Resistance)
To: Reaganesque
Hint: The point of the thread is to explain what a real Conservative is.
Based on who you're supporting, I think we know what the real point of this thread is.
Focus group somewhere else.
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posted on
01/02/2008 9:03:13 AM PST
by
Antoninus
(If you want the national GOP to look more like the Massachusetts GOP, vote for Flip Romney)
To: Reaganesque
Not McCain
107
posted on
01/02/2008 9:04:49 AM PST
by
bmwcyle
(BOMB, BOMB, BOMB,.......BOMB, BOMB IRAN)
To: Reaganesque
Because his rhetoric actually matches the record and conduct. None of this “pay no attention to what I said or did yesterday, it’s what I mean at this moment” opportunistic nonsense and hypocrisy.
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posted on
01/02/2008 9:06:42 AM PST
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~~~Jihad Fever -- Catch It !~~~ (Backup tag: "Live Fred or Die"))
To: Antoninus
No, the real point of this thread is to get the people who present themselves as the sole authority on deciding who is acceptable and who is not to reveal to the rest of us what their definitions are. My theory is that you don’t have one apart from “not your guy.” Prove me wrong.
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posted on
01/02/2008 10:09:58 AM PST
by
Reaganesque
(Charter Member of the Romney FR Resistance)
To: tantiboh
If Duncan Hunter runs for governor of California and wins, he would have a great shot at becoming POTUS. After four years in that spotlight, he would have huge name-recognition, would be able to generate cash, and could make a serious run. Right now, he’s going nowhere. Can we start a movement to get him to run?
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posted on
01/02/2008 3:39:53 PM PST
by
Bluestateredman
(Self-sufficiency is the American Way)
To: Bluestateredman
Having him as Mitt’s VP choice would give him that exposure as well and would shore up the “Conservatives who have doubts about Romney” vote.
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posted on
01/02/2008 4:48:05 PM PST
by
Reaganesque
(Charter Member of the Romney FR Resistance)
To: Man50D
I respectfully disagree. A conservative who is skeptical abou Human caused global warming would change his position if he was presented with an accurate, persuasive reasoned argument. This differs us from liberals who have a dogma and change would amount to heresy
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posted on
01/02/2008 5:06:08 PM PST
by
ffusco
(Maecilius Fuscus,Governor of Longovicium , Manchester, England. 238-244 AD)
To: ffusco
A conservative who is skeptical abou Human caused global warming would change his position if he was presented with an accurate, persuasive reasoned argument
Only someone who professes to be a Conservative to mask at least some socialist tendencies would consider the possibility global warming can be supported with a well reasoned and persuasive argument.
A Conservative realizes this false premise has nothing to do with the environment but has everything to do with socialists using the environment as a means to enact more legislation and regulation to control the masses and thereby accomplish it's goal of replacing our Democratic Republic with Socialism.
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posted on
01/02/2008 7:34:29 PM PST
by
Man50D
(Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! Duncan Hunter is a Cosponsor.)
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