Which scares the bejesus out of the voting public. And, a big deficit on the conservative side, a big loss for real conservatism is that some of our "great conservative" supreme court justices were far more authoritarian than they were conservative.
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Agreed, those social conservatives get us into more trouble because they are the opposite end of social liberals.
They want to use big government to enforce their moral world view.
That was never the intent of our founding fathers.
Conservatives should want the return of the constitutional limits of the federal government (protect us from our enemies foreign and domestic, court system) and return all other powers to the states.