MaggieMae
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- Apr 3, 2009
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What's this ? Another liberal defending FakeJake?? ...wow, what a surprise!!!
You and I can disagree on politics Maggie, but I don't pretend to be something I am not, nor do you. We both have the courage of our convictions. FakeJake, by contrast, is a coward that pretends he is a conservative when he isn't. We have conservatives here on this forum, plenty of them. Around 15 conservatives voted in a poll about our duplicitous friend FakeJake, not one of them thinks FakeJake is a conservative. Not one!! I think it would be nice if he stopped lying to us.
PS- what is radical about wanting the government to balance the budger? What is radical about holding politicians accountable? What is so radical about not wanting to bankrupt the nation with more ill conceived entitlement programs?
Your definition of a conservative are members of this board? Well that explains it.
A true conservative is a compromiser; a middle of the road person who realizes that s/he doesn't have the solution to every part of every problem. A true conservative has a set of ideals that is in truth socially liberal. They believe in fairness which must translate into equal opportunity. They believe that a central government must regulate those systems that keep the engine of this country moving so that it reaches all corners and no one segment of society goes without that which is required to survive and connect to the rest.
The conservatives who post on this board (and those all over the nation who are now suddenly aware that to keep this nation ahead of all the rest costs a lot of money, and that has caused deficit spending). But they want to just cut everything off at the knees and do a restore, like it's just as easy as rolling back your home computer to some magic date that meets with your approval). THAT is radical thinking, because THAT doesn't just happen. It takes a lot of study, analysis, and...compromise where basic ideology is concerned. See "true conservative," above.
Liberal Democrats are trying to ram a corrupt, ill-conceived healthcare bill down our throats without even ONE Republican vote and we're the ones who need to compromise? Liberals are paying off entire states, thousands of Union workers, and government employees and we're supposed to compromise? You really ought to get a job as a comedian......
Just for once, try to fight your way out of the health care box. I wasn't referring to the bill, nor any of the tactics used to get it where it is today. If you'd been reading everything I've said about it for the past 6 months, you would know that I am anything but in total favor of the damned thing. The concept yes, the way it is now, no.
Contrary to your black and white versions of political ideologies, the political genre for most thinking Americans is, in fact, a little conservatism and a little liberalism.