How would you feel if a real conservative were elected President?

Question

First off, I mean a conservative in the literal sense of saving money, not a social conservative.

I know there's a lot of liberals on here, but I think what Washington needs most now is someone who's not afraid to stop unnecessary spending. We need a President who doesn't care about what his party thinks. Furthermore, he needs to veto things left and right (literally and figureatively) to cut the pork-barrel spending that goes on daily. If we want to keep all the great social service programs the government offers, we need accountability. Problem is, noone in Washington is accountable.....

Well, I'm suprised from the number of positive responses from what I thought was rather liberal site. Btw, LordZ, I'm not talking about vetoing everything, just crap. And there's quite a bit of it.

Answer 1

Actually you are very smart to have figured out that Bush is a conservative's nightmare. He has run up the deficit to record highs. He has taken away many of our personal freedoms and has made the government larger than any Dem. would have imagined doing. States Rights are practically non-existant now, thanks to Bush and company.

Answer 2

I am a proud Democrat, and I consider myself a moderate, if there was a real conservative elected who actually had conservative values and didn't just talk about them a whole lot and do something different and was actually competent, I would back him 100%. The current band of morons we have doesn't cut it. The ideals of genuine conservatism are really not that bad at all although I don't agree with all of them, many conservative principles are right along the thinking of most Americans both Democrat and Republican. As long as they try to come to some sort of middle way with liberals and don't act like extremists, I think most Americans would be on the side of such a President. But this president is not conservative, competent, or willing to work with differences, and this is why most Americans hate the hell out of him.

Answer 3

Fiscal policy is very far down the list of important issues. Taxes are low, spending is high but well in line with the natural inflation inherit in an investor economy like ours. More to the point, though, is what that money is being spent on. I do not like how Bush has exploded welfare spending. Worse, he keeps sending money to Hamas and now Hezbollah. He promised strict controls on aid money to only those places in the world with governments that behaved themselves. He also promised we would pull out of the UN (and stop funding them) if they didn't stop funding terror. None of this has happened. Although we can afford that money, I have serious reservations about what that money is used for. Quite frankly, it is far better spent in military proliferation for the wars we are obviously going to have to fight as various yahoos decide to attack us.

At this point, I think the most likely person to be our next president is Tom Tancredo, the representative from Colorado. Why? Because he is the guy spearheading real immigration reform in this country. This issue has strong bipartisan support among voters (but not parties lol). I think he will win by a landslide. As a bonus, he is a staunch conservative and will put the republican party back on the right track. He hates liberals and has what it takes to say no to them.....which I think is VERY important for the upcoming decade.

Answer 4

I'd be pretty happy. Trouble is that it's simply not possible. In order to win a national election, politicians become beholden to too many special interests. And, the system in Washington is geared towards keeping the pork flowing. The problem isn't lack of accountability. Accountability is actually part of the problem. Why do you think pork exists, to demonstrate just how politicians are accountable to their constiuents. . .

Extremists towards either side of the aisle won't win anyway, only moderates until the climate of this country changes significantly.

Answer 5

i completely agree with your comments after your question. I'm 22 years old and I have found the most people i know, if you really question them on their positions on specific issues are socially liberal but economically conservative. Its interesting because most of these people will label themselves a democrat or republican but in reality there more in between then they realize. Does anyone really want part of their hard-earned paycheck go to someone who doesn't work? And does anyone out there really actually care if gays get married? what we need is a president who does not belong to a party. in our current system the party gave the president his power so he will be loyalty will be with the party not the people. we NEED to elect a president outside the current two party's, if for no other reason then to shake things up. politics has become to predictable. (what was it, like 100 million dollars to build a bridge connecting two towns with a combined population of 1000? LINE ITEM VETO)

Answer 6

If the libs win a few seats in congress it will be because the Republicans forgot their conservative roots and not because the liberal democratic party had a better plan.

The Republicans have failed in three key areas:

1) They have completely blown the immigration issue by allowing millions of illegal insurgents to remain in the US.
2) They spent record sums of money and increased the federal deficit in a time when the economy is capable of producing a surplus.
3) They have failed to act decisively to destroy the insurgency in Iraq and to end the occupation. Its simply taken too long.

These look like the results you would expect from a liberal democratic president and congress not a conservative one.

The Republicans will have nobody to blame but themselves.

Answer 7

you mean someone who pays the bills and has a little left over to save?

Like Bill Clinton did?

we don't need a real conservative

Liberals get a bad rap for tax and spend, but isn't that the most rational approach, raise the money for what you want to do and spend what you get.

the stock market has done better under liberals
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal/people/hal/NYTimes/2003-11-20.html

liberals have had the best economies over the last 100 years
http://www.eriposte.com/economy/other/demovsrep.htm

The problem is this administration

Answer 8

I could deal with it.........
better than the new brand of Neo Cons who hijacked the old set of beliefs.


Here is my overall problem.
that the Reagan economic system....the one G. Bush 1 called Voodooo economics doesnt work.

The Cato instititue a conservative group shows that tax cuts in order to strave the beast only leads to more expensive government and larger government.

this has been the reality since 94 with Rep controll and then intensified under Bush 2.

Answer 9

Well Tin Man,

The wizzard would tell you that what you are asking for is not practical. You have to keep the government running so you can't veto everything or nothing gets done.

Every president asks for and gets denied a line item veto, so kiss that your idea good bye. It just won't work.

Answer 10

Interesting that you suggest a fiscal conservative, and people start wanting Reagan again. Can any say borrow and spend?

Watch Jeff Flake. He is going to be the one to fight off the pork. It will take the Republicans loosing Congress for him to to get his point across.

Answer 11

a libertarian president would be awesome, cut the social crap, cut the PORC spending, cut the bureucracy and everyone could pay less in taxes and therefore have more money for the things that the government is horribly inefficient at doing, like looking after your health and investing for retirment.