[JHBowden]

Conservatism isn’t idealistic, and selling it as such will never work. However much we spend and regulate, the Dems claim we can always “do more.”

To get the youth vote, I would emphasize that conservatism allows you to customize your life almost any way you see fit. True diversity is in the marketplace. Progressives in contrast want to subordinate everyone to universal comprehensive plans— they want us all to be the same. I’d even place abortion and gay marriage in this context — we stand for local democracy, not the federal government or judges dictating these issues.

We should have been saying this all along to everyone. But too many conservatives these days are simply Christian progressives who want the federal government to do Great Deeds for Jesus. Our behavior during the Terri Schiavo affair, for instance, made us look like a horde of unprincipled wackos to most of the country.

[LowCountryJoe]

As to Christian so-called Progressives [nothing progressive about progressives], did you read this crap today? He might be right but who needs this kind of paternalistic BS coming from the clergy?

[FTL]

But too many conservatives these days are simply Christian progressives who want the federal government to do Great Deeds for Jesus.

Bingo. Aside from helping the widows and orphans and a few truly in need, it's not the governments job to be the surrogate mommy.

The problem is, it always starts at a bare bones level, and the next thing you know there is tax money being spent on "Transgender Studies", Midnight Basketball, snails, frogs and all kinds of Leftist special interests not to mention corporate welfare and massive bailouts for a bunch of undeserving scum suckers in the auto industry and banking industry.