Posted on 01/25/2007 8:32:31 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Back at ya, dear one(s)
You don't know me too well.
Rant? No, well and truly stated! You have a gift with words.
Morality cannot be legislated. Nor should it be.
But thanks for finally outting yourself!
Conservative is FISCAL conservitism ... not SOCIAL conservatism. It never was until the social conservatives started blackmailing the GOP.
Being a fiscal conservative and not also a social conservative is being a moderate.
Security!
Rudy is a leader. I even read his book on leadership. I hope he will come out and tell us where he stands on these issues, Should he get the nomination, I will back him all the way. Sure better than a possible Hillary.
---"Morality cannot be legislated. Nor should it be."---
Ah. How about violence against women?
Count me as a Traditionalist Conservative! You summed it up perfectly. I for one have had it with getting I am not a true conservative rammed down my throat. We have been in the trenches a lot longer and gone through much more then the Culture warriors have ever gone through in political campaigns. I don't want to return to the days when we didn't have enough votes to filibuster in the Senate and that is the direction the Culture Warriors were taking us.
Time to put a halt to that and it is exactly what was done in Congress in the leadership elections. We have got to reach out or we are in trouble in 2008. The CW's have proven they cannot be relied on to vote.
You don't know me too well, either, but that didn't stop your initial attack, did it? Not an argument against the position I took. Not a reasoned support of yours. Just declared I wasn't a conservative [by your defintion] and declared me anathema.
Social conservatism did not exist until relatively recently ... when the RR promised votes for the GOP to carry their water.
Rudy is not evil enough for you folks not to support him. Sheesh!
They're neither conservatives or culture warriors. Jerry Falwell may be a nut, and he is, but he's not out there preaching that pro-choice is ok. The ones who fear the Jerry Falwell branch of the party are secular progressives, because everything they stand for, don't stand up to everything that it written in the Bible.
I don't fear Jerry Falwell. I think he's just a nut.
Tell me, PhiKapMom
Did the GOP suffer those fillibuster-proof minorities before or after the SoCons got involved?
Flushed you out didn't I?
No, that's being a Libertarian.
APf
But so many on here don't seem to understand how deeply offensive abortion is to so many of us.
Really? That's going to play hob with a whole bunch of criminal statutes, and a raft full of divorce laws.
Over and over on this thread and others they continually promise to stay home or even vote for Hillary.
smile - that pandering hurt us in 2006, imo. Hopefully we can mature, as a party, beyond such small-mindedness. Or if not that, at least a move few paces forward(s)
You have just stated you would support Hillary so anything you have to say from this point on has the credibility of a gnat. You social conservatives have finally gone too far and a lot of us conservatives have had it with being told what to think and what to do and if we don't agree we are not 'true' conservatives. Whoever came up with that term doesn't have a clue about how elections work and how irritating those words are to people who actually get out from behind the keyboard and go help elect Conservatives.
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