[RockinRight]

He's too much a big-government "conservative" anyway.

What happened to conservatism? Conservatism used to be of the Reagan, and later, Gingrich, mold. Fiscal AND social conservative, fairly libertarian approach to government regulation, and pro defense.

Seems these days the conservative movement has become social conservative, but a pantywaist socialist otherwise, and as some would say, "that dog don't hunt."

[jackieaxe]

What happened to conservatism? Conservatism used to be of the Reagan, and later, Gingrich, mold. Fiscal AND social conservative, fairly libertarian approach to government regulation, and pro defense.

I just came over from being a registered libertarian to a registered republican, partially from urgings in the FR forums and partially to be in the mainstream, however, it appears to me a conservative republican is someone with a pro-life agenda, which I don't have a problem with, but it doesn't matter if the "conservative" is for big government spending and regulation programs as long as Jerry Farwell likes them. While I was paying $3.79/gallon for gas, Sam Brownback along with Dick Durban and Barak Obama are fighting to maintain a 51 cent a gallon tariff on imported ethanol. I seen Huckabee this weekend on the news and he's for government subsizided music.

I am so sick of big government liberals calling themselves "conservatives" because they are pro-life and anit-gay.