<p>I guess I'm a somewhat conservative democrat. Mainly because I'm way too liberal to be a republican.</p>
<p>I don't see how anyone that thinks someone can be unintellegent just because they are a member of an group of opposition can be intellegent themselves...oh yeah...i forgot....they're not :)...not politically intellegent atleast..."a viewpoint is only valid if you can argue both sides of it." How very true.</p>
<p>Without intellectual support for an opposition, Hegelian synthesis would never occur and society would never progress.</p>
<p>Not that I'm a Hegelian or anything. But he raises some good points.</p>
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The fact is that liberals tend to think with their hearts and believe that we have a responsibility to help others as much as possible.
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Jaug,
Many conservatives believe in this responsibility also, but tend to think the responsibility to help others rests with the community and the individual, not the government.</p>
<p>I can't understand why anyone would be socially conservative. I can see the democrat and libertarian division, but I can't see why Republicans wouldn't go libertarian. This is why I always vote democrat when I have to choose between the two major parties.</p>
<p>Left-wing socialist/liberal. Pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, anti-war. :)</p>
<p>How can you be economically conservative AND socially liberal? That is ridiculous. If you support social programs, (as you should!), such as welfare and health care, you have to be able to FUND THEM. They cost money, and its the people who are "economically conservative" that leave us with programs like Bush's wreck of an educational reform (NCLB). Personally, I hate George Bush, and I hate everything about his radical ideology. I think he is the worst president this country has ever had. I also don't understand how people who support Bush can call themselves republicans. Bush spends more money than any other president, and has created a government that is huge in comparison to Clinton's. So where is this conservative economics everyone is talking about? If you couldn't tell, I am extremely liberal.</p>
<p>Obviously Bush isn't perfect (well he was almost perfect during his first term), he's still one of the best presidents ever.</p>
<p>He's doing better in his second term than his first term :)</p>
<p>i am a conservative republican because i believe the government should be fiscally responsible, have a small/limited role in the lives of its citizens, and have a military that is quite capable of protecting its citizens.</p>
<p>if it were up to me, the government would not have a welfare program.</p>
<p>Ultra-liberal, but only in thought and philosophy. I don't guarantee the sucess of any particular political party, since politicians of all flavors tend to wallow in their own petty squabbles. Today I vote democrat, tomorrow I may vote for a different party, but it's the issues that I give any damn about.</p>
<p>Anti-war, anti-guns, pro-environmental-protection, pro-stem-cell research, pro-civil-liberties, anti-free-market-monopolistic-unethical-corporate-corruption, etc.</p>
<p>Bush was almost perfect during his first term??? Were you alive during his first term?????</p>
<p>During his first term, he was better for several reasons. He went to war with Afghanistan, took out Saddam Hussein, passed the Patriot Act, the No Child Left Behind Act, etc. He even promised a constitutional amendment to ban same sex marriage. Now he gave up on that and many other conservative measures.</p>
<p>Alukaszewicz,
He was never serious about the gay marriage ban amendment. He knew from the beginning that it would never get two-thirds. It was all a political ploy to mobilize the religious right and the rednecks. BTW, he got Ted Kennedy to write the "No Child Left Behind Act" - popularly called the "No Child Gets Ahead Act" by all my teachers.</p>
<p>Very true. </p>
<p>Bush's NCLBesque educational policies in Texas have backfired there; they will also backfire nationwide. In fact, they already are. </p>
<p><em>sigh</em></p>
<p>Well, I can't see how any well-educated person could be a Republican. It just doesn't make sense.</p>
<p>Republicans weren't always so radical, the pendulum has swung right again starting with Reagan who saw the opportunity to hijack religion and monopolize morality for the Rep party, they champion "moral" issues when in actuality all wars and all politics are economic in nature especially those of the conservative right. It's funny that dem Jimmy Carter was actually the first politician to call himself a "born again" Christian and here is an interesting quote from a republican president to give you an idea of how things have changed:
"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes that you can do these things. Among them are a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid." -Eisenhower 1954
haha he saw it coming George dubya was already 9 years old!</p>
<p>I think a lot of people get way too much from the government. There are those who need it. And there are those who know how to work the system. There are several government housing projects near me. They make PLENTY of money. Enough to outfit an Escalade nicely. I don't want to be paying for their next LCD screen with my tax money.</p>
<p>I do think people who are genuinely in need should get help though. Instead of just helping the truely needy, we're giving free rides to the whole bottom tenth percentile of income. </p>
<p>I like the libertarian creed of: If you want to jump off a bridge, that's fine with me. Just make sure you don't fall through the roof of my yacht on the way down.</p>
<p>im liberal....very liberal, and most conservatives and republicans frustrate me, ... but it is the neoconservatives that **** me off....</p>
<p>Patriot Act was s h i t....the concept of it was good, but many aspects go against both the Constitution and the Brown precedent(segregation through paperwork though...not in a public facility)....in all of Congress...only 4 ppl have read the entire Patriot Act....then the few bureacrats that wrote it...President Bush hasn't even read it....the only reason it was passed was because Bush had a little "image support" in the months immediately following 9-11 in order to calm down the public and scare the fundamentalist groups.</p>