I am conservative, but I do not really understand why some of you INSIST on saying Conservative, not Republican. I have read the ENTIRE Republican Platform as well as the Democrat Platform.
I only see that there are those that are Right and those that are Wrong - Left. Coincidence? I think not.
So, my Question really is: Why are we so picky about it ... conservative, not republican? I just don't get it.
2007-12-09 23:54:49 · 20 answers · asked by Jade 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I am a conservative, but I only agree with a little of what the republicans believe. I am far more conservative that the average republican.
I believe in much less government.
I believe that we should be much more closely governed by the constitution.
I believe in much less taxation.
I believe in many fewer laws.
I believe that if left alone, people will prosper.
I believe in National Sovreignity.
I believe in States rights.
I believe in being a good neighbor, but not in minding my neighbor's business, and telling him how to live his life.
I believe that I have just as much talent as the government when it comes to determining how to spend my money.
I believe that if you were to label me as anything, other than a conservative, it would be a Jeffersonian democrat.
I think that there is very little difference between the Republicans and the Democrats, certainly, not enough to call myself one or the other.
That being said, I will probably vote mostly republican in the election, because, for the most part, they are a little better than the democrats.
2007-12-10 00:22:28 · answer #1 · answered by maryjellerson 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because there is a huge difference between Conservative and Republican. Conservative is my lifestyle, it just so happens that the Republican Party is seen a conservative be the majority of people. However, the republican Party has moved more toward the center over the last 20 years or so, that Ronald Reagan would not recognize his own party. The Republicans have started to embrace some of the ideologies of the left. Like abortion,taxing the rich,class warfare, and illegal immigration.
2007-12-10 00:01:28 · answer #2 · answered by Monte T 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well most conservatives are republicans, whereas most republicans are not necessarily conservative. Bush spends like a democrat. Rudy should be a democrat as far as he is away from the republican platform. That would go for Mitt too. A true conservative Republican, wants less taxes, fiscal accountability and low spending, strong national defense but with bang for the buck, and of course all those social issue, ie.. abortion, etc. So conservative is a republican with an attitude...
2007-12-10 00:02:14 · answer #3 · answered by libsticker 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
There are many moderate, even liberal "Republicans" out there who tend too sway too far left and who sacrafice many of the core values of the right in order to gain a larger constituency.
If you have read the platform of the left AND have heard how the Democrat candidates present these, you should then see that these people have absolutely no solid core beliefs for which they stand. Their positions are almost always abstractly explained with no real direction or moral basis for fear that a potential voter might disagree with them.
Some Republicans recently have begun to follow this model, however those who consider themselves to be the most conservative do so as a way to distinguish themselves as having the traditional core beliefs of the Repulican Party along with the logical reasoning, explanations, moral standing, etc behind those beliefs.
2007-12-10 00:10:22 · answer #4 · answered by Voice of Liberty 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'm a Conservative Republican.
2007-12-10 00:07:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
this all started recently with Bush. Since so few of his own party members, the republicans, want to be as far from him as possible they call themselves conservatives. Your statement of right and then the left being wrong is a bit harsh. I myself am a republican, a moderate Republican, and i have agreed on many ideas on both sides and in no way is one party the right one and the other wrong. I still consider myself a republican and always proudly will. ME for an example, i am a liberal republican, which means i don't have conservative views like a st-aunt republican. There can be very conservative democrats as an example.
2007-12-10 00:00:06 · answer #6 · answered by pimpninja1985 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Because it is the Republican party - which is made up of more than just conservatives just as the Democratic party is made up of more than just liberals. There are conservative Democrats and liberal Republicans so just saying that you are a Republican or Democrat really doesn't describe exactly where you stand.
2007-12-10 00:00:10 · answer #7 · answered by remowlms 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Each party attempts to embrace a number of political beliefs in order to garner a majority of the vote. G. Bush and the neocons have attempted to fuse liberal spending with religious right social policy. They are by no means conservative yet they are republican. To be a republican, you only have to vote republican or support republican candidates. To be a conservative, you have to endorse conservative principles. Something that most republicans do not do.
2007-12-10 00:10:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thats a long answer but the short of it, to the best I can is that a good many in the Republican party are not conservatives anymore.
A party's only significance really is what they stand for and since that has become blurred the ideology becomes the standard.
2007-12-10 00:01:29 · answer #9 · answered by sociald 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because until about twenty years ago we were in both parties. Conservative is a point of view Republican is a party.
2007-12-10 00:19:55 · answer #10 · answered by Locutus1of1 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋