Redefining Conservatives

Sierra Times ^ | John Bender

[Sir Gawain]

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[SUSSA]

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[from occupied ga]

All too true :-( But you will never convice the idiots who worship him daily on the day in the life of GWB thread. It's a sad day when on a supposedly conservative forum you have a large fraction of the posters ignoring what he does and blindly accepting that he is a "conservative"

[Fiddlstix]

[MissAmericanPie]

It's good to identify the useless.

[Arkie2]

Bush, the other Democrat in the 2004 election. If you don't want a left wing socialist Democrat you can vote for the moderate Dem, GW. There won't be a Republican running however.

[thoughtomator]

One can only guess where we now define the radical left.

Same place we have been defining them for 60+ years... in the Nazi and Marxist sewage where they spring from.

[Ff--150]

The greedy, selfish, underachievers will never be satisfied. They will demand more and more be taken from the producers to pay for their wants. The socialist utopia Bush is creating will be no more economically viable than any socialist society has been

Thanks to some semen on a blue dress, the socialist left had to abandon the demoncratic party and move on to greener pastures to the right by driving out the actual conservatives into never-never land...

[dark_lord]

All too true :-( But you will never convice the idiots who worship him daily on the day in the life of GWB thread. It's a sad day when on a supposedly conservative forum you have a large fraction of the posters ignoring what he does and blindly accepting that he is a "conservative"

It is probably true that on average, conservatives are smarter than liberals and the general population. But it is not true that everyone who call themselves conservative are in fact either conservative or smarter. There are a bunch of ill educated ignoramuses who call themselves conservative, have heard of the Free Republic and that it is a conservative site, and have decided to post here. That said, the level of intelligent discourse is WAY higher here than on the evil mirror DU site. (Half the posters there are probably computer viruses using a profanity generator, a Marxist logic structure, and stock Leftist phrases.)

[Gary Boldwater]

This article is very sad, but true. It may come that the Republican Party will morph into the old Democrat party and a new party, The Conservative Party may emerge. This may take place over a few decades.
The legacy that Barry Goldwater initiated and Ronald Reagan promulgated has been ended by George Bush.
You can still fight big government by living as simply as possible and paying as little taxes as possible. In time you could live a good life at the low end margin, producing as little as possible and consuming handouts.

[Commie Basher]

As libertarians always say: War is the health of the state.

Foolish "conservatives" imagine that they can have their wars, and small govt. NOT!

The "war on terror" is like the "war on drugs" and "war on poverty." Just another opportunity to increase domestic State powers and spending.

Instead of a bogus "war on terror" we should treat individual terrorists as criminals, and return to a policy of small govt and foreign non-intervention (the two go together).

[Search4Truth]

Perhaps you have forgotten, that perhaps by simply an act of God, Al Gore is not President.

You want to blame someone, blame the Liberals. If W does not give them some of what they want, we could have another Clinton in the Whitehouse.

[TLBSHOW]

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[TLBSHOW]

George Bush = socialist

[Fred Mertz]

Self-marking bump. Will return later.

[SUSSA]

One thing is sure, he's not a conservative.

[msdrby]

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[HatSteel]

They are social conservatives and not fiscal conservatives.

Their issues are abortion, family, vouchers (education), guns, and religion.

Keep them happy on those, and you'll be face to face with the fact that they all came from NewDeal families.

MY sense is that Bush firmly believes that the pro-America, pro-family, pro-social program, pro-self-defense position of the old Democratic Party is where most Americans really are. I will NOT be surprised to see Bush turn in a pro-Union direction.

Then he will have successfully rebuilt the old FDR coalition under the name of Republican. And that ALL because the Democrats are stuck in anti-life, anti-family, anti-America world socialism.

What it will mean is decades of victories for the Republicans, increasing social programs and deficits, BUT changes in abortion, family, and separation of church and state.

Actually, it's ingenious. But it isn't either traditional or libertarian conservatism.