Remember when 'Conservative' meant ....?

Question

Fighting for America
Standing up for your fellow Americans
Believing in American products
Believing that Americans were better workers

Today the term has been bastardized to mean "worships the dollar and will sell out his country, countryman, God, and family for his own gain".

Answer 1

Yeah. I remember when conservatives would have rather chewed their right arms off than run a budget deficit or engage in "nation building." And remember when they believed when, how and who with you had sex with was your own business and not the government's? They just don't build conservatives like they used to.

Answer 2

I remember when Conservative meant fiscally responsible. Those days are gone! Too bad the Republican Party moved away from the ideals of Barry Goldwater conservatism and towards the social conservatism dictated by the religious coalitions.
-- Goldwater vs Religious Right
http://www.liberalslikechrist.org/about/goldwater.html

Answer 3

It's almost as if Liberals and conservatives have been quietly exchanging paradigms over the past fourty years...

Well, at least some ideas. Such as "thinking off of emotion", conspiracy theories, rationalizations...

Answer 4

Heck I even remember when the democrats represented the working man

Answer 5

Now you've gone and done it. The hatchlings are going to think about paying someone to take you to the wood shed.

After they get done chanting to their RonnieGod shrines kneeling on their bankies.

Answer 6

blame Reagan for that told all them lie and people still love him

Answer 7

don't forget looking for gay sex in mens rooms, hiring hookers, and taking kick backs.