Conservatism. It's about individual freedoms that are guaranteed in the Constitution. It's about going with a system that brings prosperity and opportunity (Capitalism), instead of a system that brings poverty and loss of freedom (Socialism). It's about empowering individuals (with the opportunity to earn an honest living) instead of enabling their weakness (with demeaning government programs like welfare and social security, that don't require any effort on their part). It's about inspiring people to be all that they can be instead of inciting class and race envy. It's about creating competition through deregulation, in industries like health care, so that treatments can become more affordable, rather than stifling growth with a restrictive federal healthcare plan that will ultimately decrease the number of doctors and specialists resulting in treatments becoming scarce or nonexistent. It's about reducing taxes for business owners (most U.S. jobs are created by small businesses), because they generally invest their extra capital back into their business, thus creating more jobs, and more prosperity for all concerned. It's about reducing federal expenditures on social programs and corporate payoffs, so that less dollars can be printed, and inflation can be reduced or eliminated. By reducing frivilous litigation with tort reform: capping the amount that individuals can sue. (This would also bring the cost of healthcare down. The cost of malpractice insurance is driving some physicians and specialists out of business.) Making the loser in a lawsuit have to pay the legal fees for both parties. It's about realizing that the Constitution guarantees equality of opportunity, not equality of outcomes. It's about holding people accountable for their actions: those that don't work shall not eat. It's about saving women and their unborn children from the trauma and death caused by abortion. It's about holding violent criminals accountable for thier actions, instead of providing them with cable television and a college education. It's about guaranteeing a family the right to keep and bear arms, so they can adequately defend themselves, should they need to. It's not a matter of Right or Left. It's a matter of Right or Wrong. It's about giving the power back to the people. It's about freedom. Conservatism.