What is conservatism? Fiscally, it’s easier to explain and understand. Socially, it’s more difficult to comprehend what with religion and all. When it comes to foreign policy and national security, conservatism doesn’t really have a set of standards because every conflict requires unique solutions.

Without a doubt, Ron Paul is more fiscally and socially conservative than any other current GOP candidate. His looney foreign policy stances do not make him less of a conservative(maybe they make him less of a Republican). A vote for Paul sends a message of change to a party that continues to slide to the left. The GOP has forgotten about how conservatism supports giving more rights to the state level government, but Ron Paul has not forgot this basic ideal of liberty. Stop supporting these big government republicans that are sending our labor force jobs overseas.
Our state governments would work harder to keep these jobs here.

AMEN, Fred !

Verlin Martin Says:
January 23rd, 2008 at 7:28 pm
OT: Fred, did you see who Hunter endorsed for Republican nominee … Huckabee (heh)

Maybe Hunter isn’t as smart as we were giving him credit for being…

I’ve been pondering this for some time.

And I think I may actually have an answer. . .

BZ

Bubba Bush cut taxes..and he has presided over a vibrant economy..at least until the past few months..but he damn sure is not a conservative. At least not a fiscal conservative although their is a pretty good argument from the religious right wing that his stance on abortion and stem cell research make him conservative.

So what is a conservative? Someone who believes that the least possible government is the best possible government is the best possible government? One who believes that the constitution as written has served us well and is not a “living document” subject to change at the will of an activist judge? Maybe someone who understands that taxation for the purpose of income redistribution will eventually be the downfall of the country? If so than label me a conservative. But don’t put me in the same category as those who do not believe that homosexuals have any civil rights because the ‘bible’ says they are sinners. (Maybe they should read the 14th Amendment to the Constitution) Abortion? Although I can find nothing in the constitution that says that a woman has a right to abortion I still say it ain’t my call..but it also is not the call of a judge.

I kinda figure the religious right wing has destroyed the GOP and have made a mockery out of the term ‘conservative’. This faction of the party seems to me about the same thing as the militant faction of Islam..and comments by Huckabee about wanting to change the constitution to meets his ideas of God’s agenda just reaffirm my belief.

I am ready and willing to support a candidate that has a solution to just three problems facing this country and all three are intertwined to the point that all will have to be solved before any one of them can be solved”a spiraling national debt, national security, and illegal immigration. The rest of the problems that the current crops of politicians are harping about such as the economy, abortion, gay rights, national medical care and even the tax code are minor when compared to the three I listed.

But of course there are solutions to these three problems but the solutions are those that the public don’t want to hear because it means that the solutions are gonna cost them money..either in the form of more taxes or a cut off of so called benefits.

My solution? I ain’t running for the White House but I am stock piling ammo. The day is gonna come when I am gonna need it just to protect the larder. See, when the producers get tired of being looted they are gonna quit producing. And when they do the looters will start on you and I!

But I reckon I have to agree with Rush..I just can’t support any of them either. And when I go to the polls next fall and once again vote for the “lessor of two evils” I might just puke in the polling booth..it is gonna make me sick.

Forget any attempt at “changing the Republican Party back to conservative”. We haven’t a prayer of accomplishing that. They used us to gain power, then they “abused” us and continue to abuse us, and I, for one, and damned tired of it!

I’m through compromising with my vote and voting for a “moderate” billing himself as a “Compassionate Conservative”. I am finished giving them the benefit of the doubt and hoping I can force them to change and actually BECOME conservative.

This primary I will vote for “none of the above” and in November I will either write- in “None of the Above”, or simply leave the presidential portion of my ballot untouched.

If Conservatives have any desire to remain active in the politics of this country, in any meaningful way, we will create our own Conservative Party, a party by and for conservatives… or… we can shuffle on off to the sidelines.

Look folks, having a conservative president is one thing… but… far more important, than that, is our dream of a conservative Supreme Court. That dream is now gone! Unless we have a brokered convention, and a real conservative is nominated, it’s over. It may be over even if that should happen! It would take a campaign that moves heaven and earth to run between the convention and Election Day and win. I don’t realistically see that happening.

So, I am waiting for a Conservative Party to start up. If you hear of any action toward that end, I’d like to know about it.

Know this, I am not going to cast my vote for any of the republicans running now. The GOP got itself in this mess and it is going to get creamed in November. I do not intend to dishonor myself by casting a vote for someone who does not represent my political belief just to save the country from Bill Clinton’s third term.

Best regards!

Longstreet

In the generation since the Depression and the New Deal, the whole dynamic of politics has changed. The American people have become welfare dependant slugs. Most folks out there in the country who call themselves conservatives really aren’t. They say they want to government to run on the cheap, but they also want their health care paid for, or a tax break for their business, or their kids education paid for. They want their taxes cut, but they still want their retirement or social security check to arrive on time, so the Republicans who get elected can’t stop spending money.

What we have now is a two party system dividing the nation between two dependant factions. The parties tell their constituents that they are more deserving of the handout, and that the other parties constituents are less deserving. They try to guide the money towards their own folks and lower their taxes while the other party does the same when it gets into power. They both claim the want to protect your rights, but really we get to choose between two parties who want to restrict rights. The difference is over what rights they want to protect and what they want to restrict.

It’s all depressing as hell, and bound to end in something ugly. Alexis de Tocqueville once said that as soon as the citizens in this republic realized that they could vote themselves money from the public troth, we would be at the beginning of the end. The water in the commode is spiraling down, and there’s not thing we can do to stop it. Kiss your personal freedom goodbye. Both sides only want to enforce the rights that they consider appropriate. Pick the side that will fuck with you and your life the least and vote for them. That’s all were left to do. Everything else is just theatrics.
I think that Conservatives who call for a “real conservative” are just cryin’ in the wind. You need to understand how things really work. There haven’t been any real conservatives who were electable on the national scene in a long time… since Goldwater. What we get are folks who talk the talk, use all the buzz words and phrases, but when they get into office they do what they feel they need to do to stay in power. That means they meddle with your life and spend lots of money. You can’t stay in power in our system if you don’t spend money.

In the generation since the Depression and the New Deal, the whole dynamic of politics has changed. The American people have become welfare dependant slugs. Most folks out there in the country who call themselves conservatives really aren’t. They say they want to government to run on the cheap, but they also want their health care paid for, or a tax break for their business, or their kids education paid for. They want their taxes cut, but they still want their retirement or social security check to arrive on time, so the Republicans who get elected can’t stop spending money.

What we have now is a two party system dividing the nation between two dependant factions. The parties tell their constituents that they are more deserving of the handout, and that the other parties constituents are less deserving. They try to guide the money towards their own folks and lower their taxes while the other party does the same when it gets into power. They both claim the want to protect your rights, but really we get to choose between two parties who want to restrict rights. The difference is over what rights they want to protect and what they want to restrict.

It’s all depressing as hell, and bound to end in something ugly. Alexis de Tocqueville once said that as soon as the citizens in this republic realized that they could vote themselves money from the public troth, we would be at the beginning of the end. The water in the commode is spiraling down, and there’s not thing we can do to stop it. Kiss your personal freedom goodbye. Both sides only want to enforce the rights that they consider appropriate. Pick the side that will fuck with you and your life the least and vote for them. That’s all were left to do. Everything else is just theatrics.