Why if you crtiticize Bush-Cheney or the War-there are those who label you as liberal?

Question

I am a fiscal conservative-conservative on social issues-I just feel we were lied about in regards to Iraq-Bush and Cheney are incompetant-and MY PARTY the Repubs are corrupt-I would love a real Republican party.

Answer 1

Ok,now you understand how ex-dems feel about what happened to the dem party since Carter.

Answer 2

Why do you continue to ask negative & baiting questions you've already decided the answers to?? Probably the same answer applies in both cases.

Why if I DON'T criticize Bush-Cheney or the war , are people inclined to label me as a conservative or neo-con? I happen to be a VERY liberal Democrat if you insist on defining me w a meaningless label instead of considering any of my thoughts as relevant my friend.

And how ironic based upon your declaration.....I would love a REAL Democratic party !! The one I fell in love with 40 years ago. The one that had some guts to believe this country was about asking NOT what my country can do for me, but what I can do for my country. Now the party I have spents HUNDREDS of hours working for at the polls & going door to door stands for very little but providing handouts & offering criticism without any solutions.

BTW....clicking the thumbs down icon doesn't make what I say any less truthful than you SHOULD know it is.

Answer 3

I'm seeing a lot of this lately. Movement conservatives are getting ready to write the history of this era as liberalism once again failing the people. Typically, the conservatives were screwed, as they always are. They must regroup and fight for conservatism, real conservatism, once again. Viva la revolucion!

There is no such thing as a bad conservative. "Conservative" is a magic word that applies to those who are in other conservatives' good graces. Until they aren't. At which point they are liberals.

Get used to the hearing about how the Republicans failed because they weren't true conservatives. Conservatism can never fail. It can only be failed by weak-minded souls who refuse to properly follow its tenets. It's a lot like communism that way.

Answer 4

I have a guy on my hockey team who is like that, constantly casting me as some left wing stalwart. I'm not. I'm a Catholic Democrat, and that's my motivation. I think that people like to see things in simple ways in which they have a simple explanation that doesn't rock their boat too much. It is easier than reading up on alternative views and allows them to feel comfortable with not breaking ranks. My brother is a Republican who has ALWAYS been opposed to the Iraq invasion. He's gotten the same thing. Sorry, just a lot of uninformed people out there.

Answer 5

Apparently the Neoconservatives believe all Conservatives must be for the war. Many, however, know not only that we have no business in Iraq, but that nothing good can come from running from Iraq in it's current condition (not a Conservative, but I believe this).

Answer 6

If you nget an answer could you let Chuck Hagel know. He votes with Bush 99.99% of the time (more than any other GOP Senator last year) and the RW blogs and radio heads bash him because he speaks out against the war.

Answer 7

Because of the combined propaganda of the Neocons and Fundamentalist Christians who have hijacked the GOP.

They have said for years and years that anyone who disagrees with them is a liberal and that liberals are evil people whose agenda is to destroy America.

Honorable men like Goldwater and Reagan are in short supply in the GOP of today.

Answer 8

I am an Independent. I do not like Republicans or Democrats.

Answer 9

Beats me. I'm in the same boat buddy...

Answer 10

i dont think it is the fact you are against the war but how you show it and react to it