WHY do they call themselves conservatives?

Question

Conservative on
The separation church and state, as specified in the Constitution?
Respect for life, of course they're very religious, well unborn life at least, born life, they can wait until your at least eighteen then sent you off to war, the whole thou shall not kill thing, well whatever, lets move on.
Protecting the constitutional rights, spying on Americans, detaining people without access to justice, and then sending kids to war, on the premise of protecting the same liberties and rights.
The budget, spending the American people money? Bush ever heard of a veto?

My Dear, Namsaev
Why don’t you try practing your religion instead of preaching it, in government building and then maybe you’d might consider the death of innocent Iraqi children, as murder “literally”. Then take that little voice inside your head that tells you killing an unborn fetus is wrong and extend the same courtesy to living people, but I guess you like to negotiate your morality, just the way you like to negotiate civil liberties to whatever suits your purpose. The budget, I think speaks for itself… listening its screaming “Rubber Stamp!” “Rubber Stamp!” The line item veto is a good idea but its no excuse. As for Government programs, well why don’t you look up the new Medicare prescription program and see what a stand up job, you so called conservative are doing in Washington.

Answer 1

I can see how your question relates to your comments. Oh, no, wait. I see. This was just a way for you to vomit your diatribe on how you don't like conservatives. You're not really interest in a dialogue or an exchange ideas. You just want to bash conservatives. Ok... at least you're honest.

Answer 2

Conservative on
-The separation church and state, as specified in the Constitution?

Yep that first amendment thingy liberals have distorted from meaning we won't have only one state religion like the British did and still do, into you can't mention any diety in a government building. I really wish you folks would learn to read. It says freedom OF religion and not freedom FROM religion.

-Respect for life, of course they're very religious, well unborn life at least,

This a two fold thing here. If the boys would keep their penis in their pants and the girls would keep their legs closed there wouldn't be a need for abortion. But you want a do over button. How about a little responsibility for your actions here? You think more about a whale or a dolphin than a human fetus.

- born life, they can wait until your at least eighteen then sent you off to war,

And they are all volunteers and the majority of them vote for Republicans. I'd think you'd want them getting killed so they couldn't vote against your kind. As for those people convicted of Capital crimes by our judicial system. At least they had a chance to life. They blew it.

- the whole thou shall not kill thing, well whatever, lets move on.

No let's not. You want to take thou shalt not kill literally. Everything that goes in your mouth was probably alive at some time. So you had a hand in killing it. That lettuce you ate was alive and growing before you or someone like you ripped it's head off.

IF you used your head besides something to put a cap on you'd realise the kill referred to murder.

-Protecting the constitutional rights, spying on Americans, detaining people without access to justice, and then sending kids to war, on the premise of protecting the same liberties and rights.

You are so right. We shouldn't look for the bad guys before they actually kill someone. That's invading their civil liberties. And we should never send any troops outside CONUS. We should wait till they have already attacked before we do anything to stop them from doing further damage to our society and economy.

The budget, spending the American people money?

Never mind the 6 TRILLION dollars we were already in debt for when he took office. That was spent on liberal programs passed by Congress before the Republicans took control.

- Bush ever heard of a veto?

I'm all in favor of giving the President (democrat or republican) line item veto power. Are you?

Answer 3

Conservatives are people who want everyone to live their way.

Liberals are willing for everyone to choose their own way.

When the government is run by a church, you have things like the Spanish Inquisition. During the middle ages, the church executed over 50 million people (Some estimates are as high as 200 million) just because they believed differently. That wasn't an Islamic church, it was a "Christian" church.

Our forefathers fled that kind of persecution in order to found a free society in America. They were very careful to specify in the constitution that government and church have no business involving themselves with each other. The Right Wing of the Republican Party has no respect for that position. To the extent that they reject the separation of church and state, they fail to be Americans.

Answer 4

Why do people say seperation of church and state is not in the constitution.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...."

It says so right in the first amendment. What more do you people want?

It says no established religion.....meaning secular government. It's 200+ years later and religious nuts are still sore over this.
Get over it or move to a country where religion is incorporated into goverment. There is quite a few of those types of countries in the middle east. Enjoy your new home.

Answer 5

The establishment clause is what you are calling the separation of church & state. A really good spin doctor could bring down an argument that anything you strongly believe in is your religion there for the government can't fund it.

Privicy is an illution just based on they technology of the 70's.

Because of the way we allow the legislature to write laws, we get no accountability from our government. Until we demand each item stands on its own can we really hold our "Leaders" feet to the fire.

Answer 6

You and I should realize We are living in the 21TH century and In my opinion I am amazed and shocked how others thought about politics,medicines and life.( society,culture and economy).Our founding fathers already foreseen our future by introduced us their Constitutions. This great country is well lived over 230 years and I really do not understand Where are the commonsense and principle that we have been taught?( while we were growing up)Well the more our country prospers the less thinkers from some group of our people No wonder things went wrong almost everythings.

Answer 7

The constitution nowhere specifies a separation of church and state. Try reading it. The closest thing you will find is in the Bill of Rights, Article One which in fact says the complete opposite.
Again try reading it. You will learn something, as opposed to sounding stupid. I doubt you will bother.

Answer 8

There are different types of conservatism...I am politically conservative...but socially, only moderately so.
Contrary to your statement....conservatives aren't eager to send anyone off to war...but sometimes it is necessary. Read Thomas Aquinas' doctrine on war.
Spying on Americans....you must be referring to the wiretapping...that is allowed for by the Constitution. And noone has been sent to this war...there is no draft.
And budget, war, etc..everything has to be approved by Congress...not just by Bush.

Answer 9

Respect for life my ***.

Tell that to the victims of clinic bombs, the families of the victims of hate crimes committed on the basis of their sexual orientation being percieved as a sin.

Conservative? They sit in their church's teaching murder and rape as an acceptable thing while wearing "decent" clothing. Thinking they have rights above all others. Believing their religion to be the one true way, and all else should just die in their minds.

Rant.. over?

Answer 10

Read the constitution. It says nothing of a separation between church and state.