How do conservative democrats feel about their party completely abandoning them?
Looks like the lib have told you to either conform or get the linguini noodles out.
2007-06-12 12:02:39 · 13 answers · asked by egg_sammash 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Ahem.....I was hoping for someone that could answer the question not a bunch of Bush bash soup mix.
Geez is that all you guys got?
2007-06-12 12:11:26 · update #1
No, noils2. I worry more about a party that has bamboozled a race of people into government dependancy so that they (the democratic party) could obtain votes.
Their lives are more important to me and YES they deserve much much better than what you and your liberal friends think they can obtain on their own.
2007-06-12 17:37:54 · update #2
Very few these days. For the most part, they have become Republicans.
2007-06-12 12:08:50 · answer #1 · answered by iwasnotanazipolka 7 · 5⤊ 3⤋
What I think is the problem with the parties today is that both have a severe internal contradiction. Both parties claim they want regulate a person life in some way while claiming not to do so in another realm.
In reality, you used to be able to tell which party was conservative or liberal based on their fiscal policy. Until Bush, Republicans supported lower taxes and free trade but with balanced budgets (remember the Contract with America) and supported destroying elements of the "nanny state" like the Department of Education. Bush has thrown the last two things out the window by running large deficits and balloning domestic spending.
The Democrats are just as confused on fiscal issues. Some of them support tax cuts and balanced budgets, while others support massively expanding the nanny state and raising taxes on anyone they deem rich (that is anyone who makes $75,000 a year - not rich when you actually calculate it out). Furthermore, they are more divided on issues like free trade.
Now we judge the parties on social issues. This is imperfect to say the least seeing what can be seen as interventionist actions can be either conservative or liberal. Both parties support staying out of some matter (Republicans - guns and church, while Democrats - marriage, abortion) while they support intrevention in other instances.
What needs to happen is for a truly fiscally center-right party that stays out of people's lives to form in opposition to a fiscally center-left socially interventionist party.
2007-06-12 19:24:15 · answer #2 · answered by The Stylish One 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I think that the biggest litmus test example for what conservative Democrats think of what has happened to their party, is Joe Lieberman, during an interview the other night, this former VP candidate essentially said (he wouldn't give a direct quote, but strongly eluded) that he would most likely support the Republican nominee for President. This shows the dramatic turn that the Dems have taken under Howard Dean. When even former leadership are evacuating, because of such a drastic shift, it should send them a warning sign. Fortunately they seem to be ignoring it.
2007-06-12 19:18:07 · answer #3 · answered by Jon B 3 · 4⤊ 2⤋
I was a Democrat.My ideas and beliefs didn't change,the Democratic party did.I watched the whole party under Clinton move to the radical left.Now the Repubs are doing the same thing to me.The Repubs are now also moving to the radical left.
Bunch of goofy motherf*ckers.
2007-06-12 19:24:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
There are over 40 conservative Democrats in the "Blue Dog" congressional caucus. It has more members than the Black Caucus and the Hispanic Caucus. They are being treated quite well.
I'd worry more about why the Republicans don't have a single black in congress.
2007-06-12 19:17:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
They feel good that the Democartic Party is the conservative party now when compared to the ULTRA-liberal failure of George Waterloo Bush and company.
Communist domestic spying and torture, drunken liberal spending, drunken liberal nation building, personal liberal lifestyle passed down to children..... yes Bush is an ultra-lib. FAR more liberal than Clinton, Bush is not even a social conservative.
2007-06-12 19:06:41 · answer #6 · answered by Timothy M 5 · 3⤊ 4⤋
I think reports of "abandonment" are greatly exagerated...
Pelosi has run into some road bumps on some of her more liberal policies... and that has a lot to do with some more conservative dems in the house...
but, odds are what you consider "conservative" isn't really what "conservative dems" are all about...
2007-06-12 19:10:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Perhaps, the political parties, in the United States, are undergoing a metamorphosis. It is wrong to compare them to how they existed twenty-five or fifty years ago.
2007-06-12 19:10:49 · answer #8 · answered by Jackson Leslie 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I'm a Conservative Democrat and my party hasn't done anything wrong. The Republicans are just trying to run more of their smoke screens.
2007-06-12 19:14:33 · answer #9 · answered by Earl 3 · 3⤊ 4⤋
I think you nailed it. The extreme form of both parties are selling themselves as the only version that exists when moderates are the norm, not the exception.
2007-06-12 19:09:00 · answer #10 · answered by Philo42 3 · 4⤊ 2⤋
With the way Reps spend money - they are the new Conservative Dems.
2007-06-12 19:06:19 · answer #11 · answered by shelly 4 · 7⤊ 2⤋