No. It’s a copout.
I’ll be interested to see any examples as well.
We in Houston have a candidate running for mayor who claims to be the “conservative answer” in her ads. The ad is, of course, with regards to her opponent’s spending habits.
She’s a lesbian, so I’m PRETTY sure she’s not a social conservative. =P
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IMHO, that describes many establishment GOPer's (Steele, Newt, McCain, Graham, Voinivich, Collins, Snowe, Romney, etc., with even some apologists here) [see Scozzafava-NY 2009], who think they can jettison social conservatives and still win elections.
To be socially liberal is to use the power of the state to encourage destructive behaviors like drug abuse and sexual promiscuity. The social liberal protects people from the natural consequences of their immorality. This often involves subsidies, which are expensive. The expenses increase dramatically over time as more people respond to the incentives that the social liberal set up by indulging in more destructive behavior.
The socially liberal state can never be cheap. Any politician who joins the left in demolishing conventional morality and promises tight budgets at the same time is a liar.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
Socially Liberal? Fiscally Conservative? Mutually Exclusive?
Just sayin’...
Social liberalism will inevitably result in fiscal liberalism... why? How do you think they fund all of those feel-good, socially liberal programs?
Definitions are important. A social liberal thinks that wealth should be “spread around” through government programs like welfare, et al. How can that view be reconciled with a fiscal conservative who recognizes personal property beyond the purview of the state? It can’t.
As we see today, the state has been allowed to murder Terri Shiavo, and now, as you will soon see, they will kill whom ever costs them too much money to keep alive. A Democrat can't connect murder of babies to murder of your mother in their limited mental capacity. Only Christians with discernment seem to be able to do that, understanding the evil in men's hearts.
An example of this Republican state of mind would be Rudy Guliani or Bloomberg. They are fine on taxes, but libertarian on moral issues. The lesson from all this is, Chritian conservatives must remain in control of the Party or the Repubs will return to obscurity. There are many in the Party that can't stand us, but they will put up with us to get their tax cut.
These phrases are mutually antithetical. You can't be both at the same time.
A prime example of one who stays on top and gets away with this kind of blather is Bill O'Reilly who is socially liberal, fiscally conservative, socially conservative, fiscally liberal, conservatively conservative and liberally liberal all the while he's looking out for YOU!
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What does that mean? Most of them claim that. Repubicans spend like democrats. But we got many socially conservative republicans(some here) that like big government too, as long as a republican is in power and their taxes dont go up. Short sighted. I call this the Bush/McCain fans/
No, there is not.
Social liberalism is liberalism, period. Social liberalism costs big time; if not today, then down the road.... but it costs.
Christian liberalism in the aspect of giving is always voluntary; no compulsion from either the state or from any organized religious hierarchy. Second Corinthians calls it “liberality,” which is too obviously defined from the context as voluntary giving from the heart. This is of course, a Christian grace encouraged by the Scriptures and prompted by the Holy Spirit.
Government, pretending to be God and Robin Hood all at the same time, strips ability from the citizens to be liberal in the (voluntary) giving to the needy, and it also strips away our resources to properly plan to take care of our own elderly. Government, therefore actually encourages selfishness, greed, graft, and irresponsibility.
1)I don’t care what an individual does in the privacy of their own home whether watching porn or playing bongos naked.
2) You want an abortion...fine...you pay for it...and don’t ask for my social approval.
3) If you privately engage in risky sexual behavior and are disease ridden, don’t ask me to pay for your health care.
4) Fry your brains with pot, don’t ask me to fund your rehab.
5) Do the crime, do the time
6) Success is determined on ones own merits, not the color of ones skin.
7) Don’t like guns???...then don’t buy one and don’t tell me I cannot have one.
8) Don’t like Rush Limbaugh??? then don’t listen....
9) Don’t tell me about the twig in my eye when there is a log in yours.
10) Those without fault...feel free to cast stones!!!
They'd be the ones who are against the war but support the troops.
Or the ones who didn't inhale.
We know a couple, who have proudly bragged about being Fiscal Conservatives and Socially Liberal.
They have been hit hard by the financial meltdown and owe everyone they could get a loan from with zero payments in over a year. They haven’t paid a mortgage payment in about two years.
Now the husband appears to have a Sugar Mommy over 800 miles away, where he is supposedly starting a new business. He goes there for a couple of weeks at a time and doesn’t call or contact his wife during his travel. He is never where, he is supposed to be. The public agencies in the far away city, which he supposedly is setting up training programs for, don’t know who he is, or anything about his so called company.
The wife complains that that he doesn’t give her any money, she doesn’t have money for groceries, and it costs $70 to fill up her 2 year old Mercedes. When we suggest that she sell her expensive Rolex and similiar items, which she still has, her eyes get glassy and she ignores us and others with similiar suggestions. Supposedly, no one wants to buy her Mercedes.
In retrospect, she was a peacenik hippie re made in to a high society liberal and supposedly financial conservative.
He is a real chameleon and is probably a liberal libertarian with out the camo.
Yes....It’s called a RINO-yoyo.
That question could be cut in half and still be valid.