Are Conservatives Dead or Resting?

American Thinker ^ | June 08, 2008 | Christopher Chantrill

[cripplecreek]

Seems to me that Thompson never really intended to get elected.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Sadly, it will take years of painful economic distress and ridiculous taxation for the American public to realize they have been lied to and are brain-dead for believing it in the first place.

That is, if they ever do........

[Arkinsaw]

It all depends on the definition of "conservative". I consider myself a conservative, but I am more of a conservatarian. This means I am conservative on law and order - national security, but a social libertarian. The modern conservative movement has been split by some social conservatives who want to establish a theocracy, or big govt social conservatism, and those who believe in Federalism. The American public will not tolerate any one wanting to establish a theocracy.

There are thinking conservatives, and a new breed of dogmatic conservatives.

I am fiscally conservative, and national security conservative, and states rights conservative, and limited government conservative, but libertarian when it comes to individual rights.

[CitizenUSA]

First off, social liberalism (”social libertarian”) ensures the survival of big government. The government grows when people cannot repress their own desire to sin, either through force of character or religious faith. Libertarians ignore the fact that social liberalism helps feed the very government they claim to oppose.

Secondly, the “theocracy” argument sounds like something from the left, not the right. Although there may be some conservatives who favor a theocracy, they are certainly a small minority—that is, unless you are calling any public expression of faith a theocracy.

[cruise_missile]

Nixon was a liberal. It was his administration that brought in the EPA, Affirmative Action and wage and price controls.

[baclava]

Dead - just like Fred.

Just think - we coulda had Mitt - but noooooooo, wasted days and wasted nights waiting for another Ronny.

It’s true, you get the govt you deserve.

[baclava]

Dead - just like Fred.

Just think - we coulda had Mitt - but noooooooo, wasted days and wasted nights waiting for another Ronny.

It’s true, you get the govt you deserve.

[ex-snook]

Conservatives don’t have a dog in this fight.

[Red Dog #1]

Anyone who tells you politics in America wasn't a full contact sport from day one is ignorant or deliberately being miss leading. Period.

[ken21]

conservatives may revitalize about 2017.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Why do you think the other word for them is LIBERALterian?

[Popman]

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

And for the last 20 years, “No fight in this dog”!

[Perdogg]

Wasn’t it Huckabee who said that he wanted to make “God’s law” our law?

[Arkinsaw]

Sadly, it will take years of painful economic distress and ridiculous taxation for the American public to realize they have been lied to and are brain-dead for believing it in the first place.

That is, if they ever do........

The reason the American people admire Reagan so much was not because of his folksy style or his pleasant demeanor as the press likes to say. It was because he promised things, and he carried those promises through, and he did not abandon his philosophy when it came time to actually put it into practice even if it was hard. That is why he is a hero and a success.

I think Gingrich intended to do the same thing, and the American people gave him a chance, and the rest of the Republican Party, unlike Reagan, got scared when the opposition whined. Gingrich had the rug pulled out from under him and ended up collapsing into irrelevance. What little he was able to accomplish, Clinton ended up taking credit for.

The American people gave Republicans the chance after 40 years and we blew it.

[TLI]

Seems to me that Thompson never really intended to get elected.

Fred is a pretty savvy guy. I believe he saw they way he was being ghosted in the media vs. the way Juan MxCain was being butt-smooched and figured out early in the race the media was going to bury him anyway so he stopped while he was ahead.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

And Huckabee is a Moderate Populist shmuck.

[ex-snook]

Conservatives have never been able to raise enough ‘free speech’. The misnamed moniker for money rules.

[Perdogg]

The distinction I make between social liberalism and social libertarian, is “If you break it, you bought it”. I do not believe the Govt should be there to pick up people after they have screwed up their own life. Therefore, my beliefs cannot be characterize as “liberalism”.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Gingrich also had too much spineless RINO opposition in the Senate with Lott, Graham, McCain and Frist.

The House would pass it, the Senate would stop it. (Impeachment) Or they would vote for the largest tax increase in the history of the nation.