What is a conservative

[coco77]

they claim they are conservative and I would like to know conservative about what? The main people who claim this commit adultery,drink,use drugs,lie,cheat,murder,steal,fornicate, are pedophiles,abusers etc.. They always try to interchange conservative and republicon and then they say they are conservative about the debt but they are willing to break the country for war and corporations.

We also have these so called religious leaders who know bush is a liar and they will hit every talk show and newspaper known to man spouting how good Bush is when they know he is going against all they claim to believe in these are enablers who wonder why attendance is down in their congregations have they ever wondered why. These same people who claim they are followers of bush let themselves be used by this asshole everytime a controversy or disaster in the country occurs they stand there smiling and looking stupid while bush pats their back.

When a particular issue comes up with a certain group of people Asian,hispanics and blacks he runs and gets someone from some type of religious group and begins posing for the camera and then they stand their looking like an ass, thinking that this will make the people follow the puppet. The people know a hypocrite when they see one. they want to tell us that the country is conservative well, I don't see it...

[thoughtanarchist]

1. They want to conserve, preserve and protect...

corruption in government.

[coco77]

4. Don't forget...

the main thing they protect is that their commander and thief...

[rndmprsn]

2. as FDR said...

"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward."

[McCamy Taylor]

5. You beat me to it.

[Uncle Joe]

3. Someone: who longs for nostalgia,

usually looking at the past through rose colored glasses.

[BlooInBloo]

6. Anything that helps nonwhites, nonmen, or nonchristians has to go.

EDIT: Forgot nonstraights.

[mudesi]

7. An uneducated, gullible, or greedy, power hungry person (nm)

[B Calm]

8. Conservative is someone who wants to see millions of kids uninsured

to save a buck on taxes. A conservative hates working people and despises unions. The conservative knows when working people get fed up and join together in unity their wages and benefits go up. A conservative loves cheap labor, despite all their screaming about illegals taking our jobs. Conservatives won't do a damn thing about fining the cheap labor employers that hire them. Remember the republicans are the ones who always tell us that the Latinos are up here because workers in America are lazy and don't want to work. Conservatives don't believe in safe work places. Take the coal mine cave in for an example. Conservatives believe in underfunding our roads and bridges..

[coco77]

9. These also are the same people who claim...

that they love life, but do everything to destroy it. THey don't want abortion but after the person is born they don't give a damn no health care or anything else.

[texastoast]

10. I think you have conservative and neocon confused

The conservatives of 40 years ago would be hammering the neocons nowadays. While some social ideas are generally shared by conservatives and neocons, neocons are far more aggressively and opportunistically greedy, to the point of putting the nation in debt (and murdering our children in a trumped up war) as long as their own pockets are lined, something that a real conservative would never do.

[coco77]

11. They are one in the same...

the who were those people keeping his poll numbers up, they are changing their tunes because it has somehow touched their pocketbooks or their family in some way. If this occupation was going the way Bushco had been telling them they would continue to back him no matter what.

[texastoast]

17. No, they are not

Conservatives tend to strict constitutional constructionism and fiscal responsibility, neither of which grace the current "neocon" agenda. Go research someone like Barry Goldwater.

[whistle]

12. Conservative means less change or no change from the traditional

....and generally accepted norm. Resistant to change.

<snip>
Q. What is a Conservative?
From Grace Fleming,

A. *In the United States, political conservatives believe two basic things are important for keeping America strong: morality and responsibility. Therefore, conservatives often support government policies that promote moral behavior - like abstinence education - and that encourage responsible behavior - like lowering taxes on people who work hard and are financially successful.

Conservatives believe Americans should help each other, but that society should not look to the government to solve all of its problems. Conservatives see the government as big and wasteful, and government programs too often reward immoral or irresponsible behavior. Conservatives believe that the government should keep a tight budget, and government programs - if they exist at all - should help people get strong and independent so that they do not need further government assistance.

<MORE>

http://homeworktips.about.com/od/politicalscience/f/conservative.htm

[Raskolnik]

13. Real conservatism can be very valuable.

I'm quite conservative when it comes to the Constitution--I think we should be very, very hesitant to abridge the rights that the Constitution protects.

These jokers in the White House are anything but conservative

[BlooInBloo]

14. That's not what conservatism wrt the Constitution means.

[Raskolnik]

16. Why not? Isn't that *real* conservatism?

When Rush Limbaugh creates the boogeyman of "liberalism" that contains every caricature of vice and bad government, its a result (and cause) of intellectual laziness.

When progressives make "conservatism" as a vessel for all wrong-headed political philosophy, it creates the same sort of intellectual dead end.

I know real conservatives, and although I may disagree with them on many social policy issues, a real conservative would be a damn sight better than the dicks in the current administration.

[RC]

15. Conservative = Reality Challenged

They used to be confined for treatment.

[porphyrian]

18. Conservative is a euphemism for "likes to enforce conformity."

I can do without.

[Cheap_Trick]

19. what a conservative is

cowardly
perverted
hypocritical
unintelligent
simple-minded
deranged
criminal
mentally unbalanced
childish
brutish
asinine
irrelevant
obtuse
illiterate
abusive
greedy
treasonous
unamerican
malignant
unpatriotic
anti-life
fascist
scumbag

feel free to add more

[Fla_Democrat]

20. -_-

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/rhetorical%20question