Uniting the Conservative Movement

WorldNetDaily ^ | 04/21/2006 | Melanie Morgan

[TigersEye]

1) Economic conservatives who believe in free markets and reduced/limited government intervention and regulation.

This is the one out of four types of "conservative" I don't relate to. I think it's because the author thinks those "Economic" conservatives represent what used to be known as fiscal conservatives. If that were the case I could relate to that too.

What they really are are Daryl, Daryl and Daryl Conservatives. "Anything for a buck!"

Open borders? "Great, it improves the bottom line of my Fortune 500 co."

MFN for brutal regimes like China? "You betcha! Lottsa money there. Screw Tibet, they're mostly dead now and Taiwan can sink or swim!"

Legalize 10 million aliens who jumped our borders? "Sure, sonny. They'll all bring three more family members who can't read or speak English and we'll all have a gardner and a maid for a song. Keep the wheels rolling."

If that's a conservative then, my bad, I'm a Constitutionalist. A country for sale is no country at all it's a supermarket.

[Badray]

The list of Ricky's deviations from conservatism keeps growing. For some reason, you either ignore or dismiss the plain evidence -- his voting record -- when it's put right in front of you.

I thought that he was conservative too. Then I started examining his record and keeping an eye on him. Now I know better and am not afraid to say it.

You certainly don't have much faith in conservative values, do you? If the GOP was conservative, it would be the dominant party.

Now get off your hypocritical high horse. Why does your mind automatically go to sexual connotations when I characterize you - properly - as an ass?

[Badray]

We survived 8 years of Bill, why do you think that the Dems could now destroy it in two?

Has the nation been that weakened by 6 years of Jorge that it is that close to collapse?

If so, why would you then defend the status quo?

[Badray]

Thanks. I'm with you in your assessment of those 4 categories. I think that I am in pretty good company.

[Valin]

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Need I say more?

[trickyricky]

If the GOP ceases to be the party that advances conservative beliefs
then what should I care about it's success?

IF???

We are watching the transformation of this country into a totally secular, globalist,
socialist democracy.

I wish Gore or Kerry were president with a democrat Congress.
Then I could understand it.

[x]

Easier to rally people to oppose horrid liberalism than to organize coalitions for a positive and pro-active push for conservatism when the Left isn't oppressing everyone with their control of government power.

Good point and good post.

Also, our politics are a lot more regionalized now. The Sharon Statement was largely written by college students in what are now the blue states. There are still kids like that around there, but a call for conservative movement activism today is likely to be interpreted by many as a rallying of evangelicals from the South and the Plains states against the big cities. So one wins half the country and loses the other half.

Thirty or forty years ago, there were two strong ideological groups on the left and the right, and the rest of the country was just Republican or Democrat by habit and tradition. Today, the country's a lot more ideological and divided between strongly opposed camps, so there's less room to win converts and make headway.