[SatinDoll]

Read it through carefully. Rick is a social conservative BUT has always been fiscally a liberal.

It is the ‘freebies’ handed out by government, plus a desperately needed monetary reform of our fractional banking sysstem, that is bankrupting the USA.

[ClearCase_guy]

Read it through carefully. Rick is a social conservative BUT has always been fiscally a liberal.

I would argue that the two concepts are irrevocably joined together. Any fiscal Conservative should know that social Conservatism is the path that allows smaller government. And vice versa.

[RobbyS]

Not only that. The business class has added and abetted the welfare system, as part of its deals with the political class, and positively encouraged the immigration of millions of the poor. Rick is telling you what he has heard from the lips of people in Iowa, and if Palin were there, she would be saying the same things. Guys like Romney haven’t a clue about how ordinary people think, or what their needs are. The same think is true about “compassionate conservatives” like Bush and even like more conservative pols like Perry. Business orientated Republicans care mostly about their investments and the need to get new laws and subsidies and tax breaks that advance these interests, and in the case of immigration, a supply of cheap labor. They also fear the power of government and in the back of their minds do entertain the possibility of one beyond their control, but then, they think their wealth insulates them even should the worse come to past.The same thoughts, after all, were in the minds of the aristocrats gathering at Versailles in 1789.