[Mr. Jeeves]

What’s the conservative problem with freedom? :-(

I've said it before: too many conservatives have forgotten what they are supposed to be conserving, which is the radical spirit of liberty laid down by the Founding Fathers, and not the social norms of 1950's middle America.

For all his faults, Ron Paul is closer to being a genuine conservative than most of his critics are.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

I've said it before: too many conservatives have forgotten what they are supposed to be conserving, which is the radical spirit of liberty laid down by the Founding Fathers, and not the social norms of 1950's middle America.

Tell that to Patrick Henry,

"Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles."

Simple fact of the matter is, if people won't self-govern, then they will be other-governed.

[Zanton]

Bravo, Mr. Jeeves! :-) But the ultimate problem, in my view, lies with the term “conservatism” itself. Good people need to rally around a term and concept which clearly means freedom, liberty, individual rights, etc. “Conservatism” doesn’t cut it.

[Above My Pay Grade]

So the Founders supported homosexual marriage, abortion on demand and pornography?

[Lucky9teen]

For all his faults, Ron Paul is closer to being a genuine conservative than most of his critics are.

Agreed

[itsahoot]

For all his faults, Ron Paul is closer to being a genuine conservative than most of his critics are.

Your line shows the real divide in the Republican party. We have RINO's, and we have Progressives, and then we have Libertarians, all of which will eventually destroy the very fabric of our society.

[John D]

For all his faults, Ron Paul is closer to being a genuine conservative than most of his critics are.

Conservative??? In what way? By being an anti-American truther who blames America for 9/11? Or by blaming America for every problem in the world? Or by taking every earmark he can get his hands on? He is NO conservative. He may talk like one but in all the time he has been living off of the tax payers dime what has he ever actually accomplished? Answer NOTHING!!!