"A government big enough to supply you with everything you need is a government big enough to take away everything that you have.... The course of history shows that as the government grows, liberty decreases." Thomas Jefferson
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2007-07-25 19:28:00 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
When Barry Goldwater died, so did Republican conservatism.
2007-07-25 19:32:09 · answer #1 · answered by Liberals love America! 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Small Government Conservatives are still there. It's just fashionable to call them "Whiny Liberals" these days.
There's a big difference between the reasons why Libs and Pseudocons want bigger Governments. Libs want Government powerful enough to do good things FOR people. That's often wrong heaed, but at least they mean well and occasionally do some good. Psuedocons want bigger Government to make it easier to do bad things to people. That's always wrong.
"Whatsoever for Any Cause seeketh to take or give,
Power above and beyond the Laws, Suffer it not to live."
--R. Kipling "As Easy as ABC."
2007-07-25 19:40:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Mikelew is absolutely right!! I think if Barry Goldwater was alive today, he would walk away from the Republican party in disgust and be a Libertarian. Giuliani is scary!
2007-07-25 20:16:08 · answer #3 · answered by sagacious_ness 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Conservatives are too busy shifting wealth (plus income) from the poor and middle class to the rich to even be concerned about that. Americans don't even seem to notice what has happened..
2007-07-25 20:43:36 · answer #4 · answered by Lynda 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
ummmm, it died about the same time the founding fathers did.
Quite sadly and unfortunately.
The freedom of America lives on in the hearts of the true patriots. I say it is time that we start wearing our hearts on our sleeves. I am just not real sure that it isn't already too late.
2007-07-25 19:37:13 · answer #5 · answered by shewolf3808 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
When the Republican party leadership was taken over by neo-conservative faction within the party, instead of having the party led by the earlier fiscal conservative faction.
Two different factions within the party.
2007-07-25 19:33:20 · answer #6 · answered by coragryph 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
What ever happened to anti-federalists like Thomas Jefferson? If liberals consider themselves anti-federalists then they should do the same, and stop wanting bigger and bigger government to baby sit them.
2007-07-25 19:32:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Bush is in no way a Conservative, he is a Republican.
The two words do not stand for the same things
2007-07-25 19:33:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
BIG BUSINESS/ THE INTERNET AND THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE JUST GOT BETTER
2007-07-26 11:00:26 · answer #9 · answered by rocccj 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
politics aren't about ideology, they're about helping you get your contributors hands on those gov't $1,000,000,000,000s
2007-07-25 19:33:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋