[Waco]

Most people are fairly conservative personaly, beyond that they diverge for various reasons, upbring, family tradition etc. The ones calling themselves ‘ ‘liberal’’ usually don’t have common sense enough to know when they’re getting screwed.

[Delacon]

Here's the thing. I came of age politically and was able to cast my first vote and help vote Pres. Reagan into office. I then voted for Bush Sr for both his campaigns and was amazed that Bill Clinton beat him. I wrote it off to “no new taxes” and the American inclination to change parties from time to time. But I felt better as Newt and the republican turks proceeded to whip Billy into submission on policy issues. All along the way I felt that liberals were idiots not just on policy but strategy. We had the ground game and the classical liberalism history backing us up. Then came Bush Jr with “compassionate conservatism” which was packaged big government with a conservative flavor. I started getting worried. I started thinking liberals actually made a conservative president want to at least act like a liberal in his approach to public appeal. This had me worried and I was really surprised he won his second term. I still can't believe the country has become more liberal but I am worried that the conservative movement has lost touch with the majority of people. I don't think we need to come anywhere near to becoming liberal lite, I just think that we have to come up with new answers based on conservative ideals. In the mean time, the ruling party is not only the democrats, its controlled by the liberal democrats and it doesn't help to underestimate them. Modern liberalism is a force to be reccond with. These ain't your Mama's liberals.