Its a good idea to get away from labels - as long as we are unapologetically pro-constitution and anti-socialist.
I think you have it. We are pro Constitution and anti socialist; we are pro common sense and we are pro anti fringe; and we are liberty and anti tyranny and anarchy.
The Constitution is a document of common sense pro liberty ideas. It's content should not be labeled as wing-like.
Inside Politics
By Greg Pierce
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
February 9, 1999
Semantical disconnect
Rep. J.C. Watts, Oklahoma Republican and chairman of the GOP House Conference, says he never uses the word “conservative” before black audiences because they tend to view the term as racist.
Mr. Watts, in an interview with USA Today political columnist Richard Benedetto, said part of the GOP “disconnect” with blacks is the party’s careless use of words such as “conservative,” which many Republicans wear as a badge of honor.
Although Mr. Watts is known as a conservative, “I don’t ever use the word,” he said. “It conjures up thoughts to many folks of [Alabama Gov.] George Wallace standing in the doorway of the University of Alabama to block Negroes from entering or [Birmingham Commissioner of Public Safety Eugene] ‘Bull’ Connor turning police dogs and fire hoses loose on black folks who wanted to sit at a lunch counter to have a hamburger and a cup of coffee.”