How can you be a conservative?

Question

And promote a president who has us in the biggest deficit in our nation's history. Furthermore, who will pay this money back.

First to answer Hunter: Before we had a permanant income tax whenever a President or King fought a war they would levy taxes to pay for it. I propose that we levy an appropriate tax to pay for this "War on Terror"

Schmickrod you didn't answer the question. To correctly answer it you should have said "I agree with the national deficit situation because fighting a war is expensive especially now where it is more technical than physical." Plus I don't know how liberal got caught up in there.

I'd like to thank Panacea for a thorough and well-written response to my question. While I support neither major political party, it is my hope that whoever wins the next election we can get someone economically conservative in office.

Furthermore, Thank you Turboweegie for reinstilling my beliefs. I had worried that all Right-wing constiuents promoted this kind of runaway spending.

Answer 1

This is one of the big issues that conservatives DO have with President Bush and the GOP Congress. Their lavish and unconstitutional spending. "No Child Left Behind" and the Mediscam prescription giveaway and the undisciplined earmarking are all issue that conservatives have with the GOP and Bush.

Same with the Senate bill for clemency and amnest for illegals.
Same with Congress' failure to make the tax cuts permanent.
Same with Contress' failure to implement Bush's sensible Social Security reforms.
Etc.

Those are not the actions of conservatives.

Answer 2

You are absolutely right. Bush has caused a big problem both in consequences for our country and in the support of the republican party, by not promoting the wise and enlightened conservative agenda. That's stupid. However, it's a choice between stupid and evil. Every candidate the democrats field is someone who promotes an EVIL agenda and actively works to the detriment of the country. The more time passes, the more overt and out in the open they are with this. The words, ******* crazy come to mind when describing almost all democrats. There is no way in hell, the majority in this country is going to let them have any power whatsoever to actualize any of that. Faced with a choice between stupid and evil, people choose stupid.

But, you are absolutely correct. The republicans are very vulnerable to the right political strategy. That strategy would be for the democratic party to purge itself completely of liberals and other marxists and to champion conservative values. They would win by a landslide doing that. That is very unlikely to happen (even though many of the wackiest of the far left have talked quite a bit about leaving the democrats and creating their own party.....one of the best ideas I've heard in a long time). They even have a name for it....the shadow party (their term, not mine). An interesting conversation might be to ask Hillary Clinton about the Shadow Party...what it is and what it plans.

Anyway, the republicans are in the middle of purging themselves of people like Bush and I think what you will see is a lean, mean republican machine in the upcoming elections in November and especially for the next presidential election. All of these people will be hard core conservatives. Likely, the initial issue will be anti-immigration, since that is the most effective means of getting elected currently (note what happened in California recently to see what will happen on a large scale a few months from now).

Answer 3

Because fighting a war is expensive especially now where it is more technical than physical and because liberals would rather spend all the governments money on social programs that don't work or are exploited by loafers.

Answer 4

That's because the majority of people who call themselves conservatives have no clue what the term means.

Answer 5

Yes conservatives do have problems with this president.

What do you propose?

Answer 6

The conservative's don't worry about that. Leave it to our kids and grandkids.