Is the era now dead for the US political ideology of Conservatism ? ( B. Goldwater 1964 - G.W. Bush 2006)?

Question

Neo-Con hijackings may have ended the populist coservativism initiated by Barry Goldwater in 1964, Rejuvinated by Ronnie Raygun, and understood by the first Bush (#41). By steering the US Gov't into a Baghdad brickwall will Bush go down as the one who killed the popular myths of conservativism or did he just 'out' their true nature.

'Dead' is too final a word. How about 'Shocked and Awed' instead by the strenghts of the disorganized but feared dreaded Left Liberal 2nd class citizens who showed up?

Answer 1

Quite the contrary... The dems that were trotted out to run against the most liberal of the republicans were far closer to the center, more "conservative" tha the RINO's they ran against. The far left of the dems would not have been able to pull of the upsets that these moderates accomplished. I doubt you'll see major changes in taxes, Iraq, etc. right away. They know that that a lot of people did not vote for them for what they stood for, but just against what they perceived the republicans had become.. corrupt, immoral, big government, tax breaks for the rich & big business and war mongerers. The dems know if they screw it up, the republicans will be back!

Answer 2

Bush has been far from conservative and if you look at the campaign leading up to 2000 you will see many true conservatives where far from happy with him as the party choice. If you examine Bill Clinton's policy decisions you will find he was much more conservative than Bush has been. Also if you examine many of the candidates elected for the Dems you will find many of them ran campaigns considered very conservative in the past and several of them had strong ties to the republicans in the past. Most of these candidates ran only as Dems. because of the war. If anything this election has caused the Dems to shift to the right and may have caused remaining Republicans to realize they can only win if they talk and act like conservatives and not give into the allures of power. As a side note you may remeber the same thing happened to Bush 41 ocnservatives where never fully behind him and many shifted support to Perot because he talked much more like a conservative. This led to the Republicans formulating a very conservative agenda two years later and smashing the Dems.

Answer 3

not at all, many of the democrats were much more conservitive than the Liberals. and most do agree with a conservative nature.

If the democrats don't adopt a conservative nature they will never hold the majority. The vote this time was a war and Bush, not a conservative issue, you saw this in that all but Ariz passed the family right or no gay marriage bills,

So the democrats had better start going middle of the road or they will soon be back out of power again.

Answer 4

If you are correct then I guess I 'd better get fitted for a burka soon. Since Iran, Al Qaida and Venezuela's Chavez all take credit for the Democrat majorities in Congress,
we'll see how it comes out in another two years. I think you can only have so many marijuana initiatives on state ballots to get potheads to vote in each election, but I could be wrong.

Answer 5

America will always be more culutrally conversative than most countries. Goldwater would roll over in his grave at what bush done because Goldwater belive in small Goverment, and low taxes. Bush belived in Big goverment, low taxes just to generate more money to fund his cronies. Goldwater and Bush are on opposite poles, Goldwater would never allow the Patriot Act, or Millitary Tribunals without oversight like Bush. We would be very upset of spending out of hand and the giveaways to companies period. Bush conversatism can become no different than crony capitialism without checks and balances in place. The republican will rewaken but it needs to clean house, and the democrats were voted in because people like freedom more than secert deals behind closed doors.

Answer 6

we can't be conscious of for particular how somebody else sleeps, so no possible properly answer your question. even regardless of the undeniable fact that, it turn into no longer an oil undertaking. It only got here approximately after 911 and terrorists attempting to destroy American's lives. i think of Bush had to do some thing. If he had no longer taken drastic steps, he could have been referred to as a wimp (and better names) for no longer status up for united statesa. and letting the enemy do regardless of. do no longer forget approximately....Democrats have been additionally for sending troops to Iraq. Bush did Iraq voters a choose with the help of doing away with that murdering, immoral dictator Saddam Hussein who turn into killing his very own people. No u . s . a . merits a pacesetter like that. We defended our very own u . s . a . and on an identical time have been given rid of one greater evil devil. you may desire to awaken as to what got here approximately right here.

Answer 7

U are so wrong. This is only the beginning of the Bush democracy.We need another 8 years of Bush 2008 & 2012 .. Jeb can deliver good economic and fiscal management to Washington. Jeb will lead us in to IRAN ---our destiny.... Long Live the American Dream of World Domination. Its the Oil Way After Jeb,,, we can elect..hell we can just appoint in 2016 & 2020 the Bush twins- Jenna and Barbara as President and Vice ..then the girls can switch off Vice and Pres for 2024 and 2028...

Answer 8

It is down on the mat know and we must knock it out, regardless of the rules. It's like football: don't play prevent defense or safe, run-out-the-clock offense when you've got a nice lead. Humiliate these Republican scum and make sure they never get up again.

Answer 9

One thing is for sure, neocon's are destroying the Republican party and Bush isn't a conservative, he is a Fascist!!

Who wants another Bush after this one! Jeb? You mean the guy who was caught cheating on his Mexican wife, the guy who stole the 2000 election and the same one who was involved in the Savings& Loan scandal that cost regular taxpayers 2.1 TRILLION, He was buying 2,5 Million dollar office buildings, he paid 500,000 and we paid 2 Million! Sure, why don't you give him a run!!

Answer 10

Don't kid yourself, the democrats are right wing too, not as extreme, but the trend will continue until the people demand better.

You should know that Che ;)