Good grief, guys. This thread is swarming with Bushbots, McCainiacs, and Party Firsters.
You know, if spreading democracy in Iraq at gunpoint using our armed forces is so wonderful, then why not apply the same methods here? What's good for the goose is good for the gander; yet, those same Freepers who adamantly favor using our armed forces to conduct exercises in social engineering abroad are also adamantly against allowing our Government to run amok at home. [Well, most of them are, at least, the ones who have been indoctrinated. The ones who haven't are in favor of more Big Government bailouts and amnesties. And that interventionist way of thinking is decidedly not "conservative"; it is more...fascist, or what we call "liberal," than anything else.]
As a conservative, I am opposed to anything that expands the scope and the powers of Federal Government beyond the boundaries expressly and explicitly defined within the Constitution, the original "contract with America."
In the meantime, the confusion over what constitutes conservatism is a consequence of conservatives, primarily within the Republican Party, stupidly allowing themselves to be dragged leftward, inch by inch, over the years and the decades.
In the meantime, the confusion over what constitutes conservatism is a consequence of conservatives, primarily within the Republican Party, stupidly allowing themselves to be dragged leftward, inch by inch, over the years and the decades.
Of course, you preferred putting the Dems in charge and letting Marxism happen overnight.
You would be called a "Constitutional Conservative", which is what I've grown into over the years, and it is where I will stay...
We need to lose the "R" and "D" and get back to the basics which is what will save both Conservatives and our Republic... The Constitution!
In noticed that last night on a couple of threads. They've been pretty quiet the last 6 months, but have decided to crawl out from under whatever rock they were hiding.
Where were they when I wanted one of them to explain how the Bush TARP was NOT socialism.
I see they're still blaming GOP losses on conservatives, rather than on the GOP acting like Democrats.