In one sentence - describe a Conservative and in another, describe a Liberal?

Answer 1

Conservatives hold the values of life, liberty and the PURSUIT of happiness.

Liberals holds the value of ....make me happy$$$$$, at the expense of the life of the unborn and the liberty of the rest you and me!

Answer 2

Conservative: Dislikes change, and looks out for personal interests, but sometimes has the more responsible, or well thought out approach to an issue
Liberal: Often tries to impose radical change that is often too radical, and does not consider the consequences, and is also usually open to new ideas to help their country
I've seen people with both points of view act superior or closed-minded, though admittedly, way more liberals act superior from what I have seen. However, I live in California, so it's hard to say.
I'm not sure which category I fall into, especially since my mother is an extremely liberal republican, and my father is an extremely conservative democrat, and sometimes I agree with my mom, sometimes I agree with my dad.

Answer 3

In one sentence (as asked):

A conservative can be described as one who believes in preserving the constitutional state as well as abiding all leglistation, both current and future, by the constition, almost making themselves a constitutionalists of literal preservation.

A liberal can be described as one who believes in reforming a state around conditional constituional fundamentals, making them almost a reformist to adjust to the fundamentals (rather literature) of the constitution in relevance to changing (not preserving) times.

Answer 4

Each of the major political parties focuses on different aspects of the Constitution as most important. In the Preamble to the Constitution, there are five goals (values) of the US government: "establish Justice, to ensure domestic Tranquility, to provide for the common Defense, to promote the general Welfare, and secure the blessings of Liberty"

Conservatives think the most important are "to ensure domestic Tranquility" (meaning to promote conformity with 'traditional' ways) and to "provide for the Common Defense". Most conservatives are Republicans, who (nowadays) want group rights (conformity with 'traditional' values) and a large government to ensure domestic tranquility (by enforcing those conservative majority beliefs). Moderate republicans (originally called fiscal conservatives) want a small government, just large enough to provide for the common Defense.

Liberals think it's more important to "promote the general Welfare, and ensure the blessings of Liberty". Most liberals are Democrats, who want individual rights and a large government to promote the general welfare. Moderate democrats don't want a lot of wasteful spending, and want to achieve their goals without causing too many problems. Democrats do have a Conservative wing, which focuses on better ethical leadership and greater protection for both groups and individuals. The main difference is that conservative democrats still don't believe in enforcing their views on the minority, even if their own personal choices would be the same as what conservative republicans would make.

The concept of promoting Justice is important to both camps, but their idea of justice differs. Most camps of the liberal parties believe ensuring Justice requires favoring defendants, preferring the guilty to go free rather than sending the innocent to prison. Republicans and conservatives believe the promoting Justice requires being harsh to those accused, even if that occasionally inflicts sentences on the innocent.

Interestingly, the spectrum is not linear, and has more than one dimension. There are other political parties who focus on different combinations of those values. For example, Libertarians want a small government (no wasteful spending) and very little Welfare (few if any entitlements), but strong on Defense. Libertarians also want lots of protection for individual civil rights, to secure the blessings of Liberty. They feel that Tranquility will take care of itself, and doesn’t need government enforcement of morality. As such, they are moderate about most issues, except for being adamant that the majority should not impose its beliefs on the minority, as part of their way to promote Justice.

So, it basically comes down to which sets of Constitutional values each group thinks are most important.

Answer 5

Conservatives have conservative views, liberals have liberal views.

Answer 6

The conservatives have hurt America enough already. The Liberals are ready to take over and get us out of debt again. Get us out of War again. Get us out of being under Business's thumb. Get us out of the nervious breakdown we are having thanks to Iraq.
Vote!

Answer 7

Conservative: Idiot with conservative views.

Liberal: Idiot with liberal views.

That easy, both sides are full of idiots. You and me are GREAT examples.

Answer 8

Neocons are racist, money grubbing, war mongering, religous fanatics.

Democrats are open minded, help giving, fixers of the mess's that the repubs get this country into.

Answer 9

I can describe both with one word: hypocrite.

Answer 10

conservative: walk the line, stay the course, stay out of my money, big gov't, war because the boss says so.

liberal: color outside the lines, open to new ideas, for ALL the people. small gov't, this war doesn't make sense.