When will conservatives realize there is no conservative plank in the Republican party?
Reichstolz
2012/06/24 21:05:24
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As I listen to the political ramblings of those on the left characterizing republican ideas as conservative, I am left to wonder, when did the progressives become the experts on what is conservative or not.
Just a few examples
The dreaded Paul Ryan budget.
When you look at the CBO scoring it is nothing but Obama light. It accumulates 10 Trillion in new debt over 10 years. Obama's "plan", since he has yet to produce a viable budget, accumulates 14 Trillion in new debt over the 10 year period. -What is conservative about that?
Health Care
The guy running for the republican ticket threw the free market approach out the window in the state he was governing. Obama is using this bill as nothing more than a means to control every aspect of your life, and republicans say "there are parts of the bill we will keep."- What is conservative about that?
Social Security
Obama sees it as the end all be all for controlling the elderly who are dependent on government. The republican party wants to nibble at its edges, even though they admit it is antithetical to an American free market approach.- What is conservative about that?
For you progressives out there who feel the Tea Party Republicans or the establishment Republicans represent conservatism, you need to understand you don't define conservatism.
Here are the planks of every conservative movement in our nation.
Government is most effective when it does the least.
Government creates nothing of value, parts of it are a necessary evil that one needs to keep a civil society.
Government has no constitutional authority to confiscate from one for the sole purpose of giving to another.
Government cannot be charitable or compassionate, simply because for it to help one it must hurt another.
The concepts that founded our nation only work for a religiously based moral society. The farther you allow society to deviate from that founding the harder it is for free people to remain free.
If you progressives would understand the history and founding of our nation, you might be dangerous. Since you are mentally incapable of grasping any conservative concept, I would politely ask you to stop classifying a republican approach as a conservative approach, because the two couldn't be more at odds, as the republican party is currently constituted.
Just a few examples
The dreaded Paul Ryan budget.
When you look at the CBO scoring it is nothing but Obama light. It accumulates 10 Trillion in new debt over 10 years. Obama's "plan", since he has yet to produce a viable budget, accumulates 14 Trillion in new debt over the 10 year period. -What is conservative about that?
Health Care
The guy running for the republican ticket threw the free market approach out the window in the state he was governing. Obama is using this bill as nothing more than a means to control every aspect of your life, and republicans say "there are parts of the bill we will keep."- What is conservative about that?
Social Security
Obama sees it as the end all be all for controlling the elderly who are dependent on government. The republican party wants to nibble at its edges, even though they admit it is antithetical to an American free market approach.- What is conservative about that?
For you progressives out there who feel the Tea Party Republicans or the establishment Republicans represent conservatism, you need to understand you don't define conservatism.
Here are the planks of every conservative movement in our nation.
Government is most effective when it does the least.
Government creates nothing of value, parts of it are a necessary evil that one needs to keep a civil society.
Government has no constitutional authority to confiscate from one for the sole purpose of giving to another.
Government cannot be charitable or compassionate, simply because for it to help one it must hurt another.
The concepts that founded our nation only work for a religiously based moral society. The farther you allow society to deviate from that founding the harder it is for free people to remain free.
If you progressives would understand the history and founding of our nation, you might be dangerous. Since you are mentally incapable of grasping any conservative concept, I would politely ask you to stop classifying a republican approach as a conservative approach, because the two couldn't be more at odds, as the republican party is currently constituted.
This is just an example
That's why Ron Paul will always lose in the grand scheme of Politics.