Because I don’t have your pathetic narrow intellectually stunted view of what conservatism is. Your absurd view is conservatism means the most embarrassing moronic pro life candidate possible at all costs. My view is the Reagan view. The Levin View. The Rush view. It includes the social issues as a part of a Constitutional view of limited government and individual rights. It also recognizes that in different times, different issues rise to the top.
And it also recognizes that talent, ability, and leadership are vital too. What’s the use in believing the right things if you lack the ability to advance those causes? I’ll answer for you. NONE.
I believe in the sanctity of life - based on Biblical precepts, scientific proof that life is formed at conception, and the secular “right” to life in our founding documents.
But I also believe that fiscal issues have a huge moral component - because the theft of a man’s property is a theft of his freedom and a violation of the sanctity of life OUTSIDE the womb. Thus, I resent and reject people, and I believe you to be one, who insist that the only moral issues are the conservative social issues. That is simply a moronic close minded view that is not supported by logic or the human history.
If men are not free, and that includes free to use their own property, then there will be no one available to fight for those who cannot defend themselves.
“Thus, I resent and reject people, and I believe you to be one, who insist that the only moral issues are the conservative social issues. That is simply a moronic close minded view that is not supported by logic or the human history.”
You have a heirarchy of values, with fiscal concerns taking precedence over social concerns. Thus a fiscal conservative who supports abortion and gay marriage is a-ok to you, while a ‘conservative’ who supports socialism is not.
I see it as all one thing. Social conservativism is superior fiscally - a nation that adopts social conservative values will be a stronger nation overall and thus, will have a stronger balance sheet.
I don’t believe there are any actual fiscal conservatives. I believe that they are classical liberals. Anyone who is a conservative believes that fiscal and social issues are intertwined.