What are the highlights of what pulled you left?
1) still having to use HTML code in @^#$$@# 2012 on a messageboard!!
2) healthcare reform
3) iraq
4) income equality issues
5) civil rights
6) republicans getting way too close to wanting to institute virtual theocracy
1) still having to use HTML code in @^#$$@# 2012 on a messageboard!!
2) healthcare reform
3) iraq
4) income equality issues
5) civil rights
6) republicans getting way too close to wanting to institute virtual theocracy
I'm also interested, KSen, especially because you're apparently either a Calvinist or a former Calvinist.
For IronJack and shhrubbery!, KSen seems legit. He's been around since the beginning of Free Republic. I do run into ex-conservatives fairly often. I spend a significant amount of time dealing with a couple of such people. Let's not forget that people do sometimes change the wrong way... Hillary was once a Republican, after all, and a Goldwater supporter. That means she was once to the right of Mitt Romney and his father who were Goldwater opponents!
What I don't run into is a lot of self-described political liberals who are theologically conservative, although I do run into a fair number of libertarians in my circles.
I read ksen’s answer, here:
24 posted on Wed Nov 07 2012 16:37:57 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time) by ksen:
“1) still having to use HTML code in @^#$$@# 2012 on a messageboard!!
2) healthcare reform
3) iraq
4) income equality issues
5) civil rights
6) republicans getting way too close to wanting to institute virtual theocracy”
I assume #1 is a joke... but Free Republic seems to do just fine in its stats even with a simple system of input and display. It is consistently ranked as one of the top conservative websites in readership.
I'd be interested in exploring #5 and #6 — i.e., why you believe modern conservatives still have a civil rights problem and why you believe, given the nomination of McCain in 2008 and Romney in 2012, that Republicans are dominated by social conservatives. I frankly wish social conservatives were much stronger in the Republican Party.