Comments on: More Americans Identify as Conservative than Republican

By: Obamacare’s passage and 2010 « Don Surber

Obamacare’s passage and 2010 « Don Surber — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:29:30 +0000

[...] Call yourselves “conservative,” not Republican. Daniel Blatt (citing the Gallup Poll): “More Americans Identify as Conservative than [...]

By: DaveP.

DaveP. — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:10:43 +0000

Ah yes, those stupid Christians. How DARE they think tha they should have a voice in American affairs? After all, it’s not like they founded or settled this nation, is it?

Oh wait…

By: ted B.

ted B. — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:55:33 +0000

For too-long the political label “conservative” as been hijacked by the Social-Right…there’s little “conservative” about their political and social agenda, more like a Christianist nanny-state. And just as intrusive as the Left’s victimization-driven nanny-state…

And in both models there’s no role for “small government” nor any kind of fiscal responsibility…just using the government’s “money” in the abstract; when it’s really the People’s money not the State’s. It’s never the government’s money, it’s our money…and taken at gunpoint. (Disagree? Try NOT paying your taxes!)

By: Leah

Leah — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:52:40 +0000

What should be in politics and what is are two different things.
I have many disagreements with the Republicans, but I can never ever see myself voting for the Dems. In 9 months they have done unbelievable damage to this country.
Good people tend not to go into politics.

I vote for what is available, not for what I really want.

By: heliotrope

heliotrope — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:26:33 +0000

Social issues should be left out of politics all together and should be left to individuals and their own beliefs.

Like hate crimes, killing fetuses, gay marriage, the fairness doctrine, forced taxation for health care and education, regulating drugs and guns and tobacco and prostitution, and myriad other ways that government pries into our private lives.

Or, maybe, just maybe, we are only talking about a party embracing a sizable voting block of “religious nutters” like Jews or Catholics or Black Baptists or Aggressive Atheists or Scientologists or Angry Agnostics or evangelicals.

Obama should appoint a Czar for Straight Thinking and clear up all this wrong-headed thinking that the unwashed masses keep getting into.

By: Libertygal

Libertygal — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:03:03 +0000

Great post Amy. Newt Gingrich said as much on Greta V last night on Fox. Republicans should not be purging any group that don’t agree on the social issues. It is basically shooting themselves in the foot.

The candidate for the Republicans who was nominated by her Party is the one who can win in her District. By splitting the votes with this Conservative candidate Hoffman, they will be giving Pelosi another lackey in her camp.

Social issues should be left out of politics all together and should be left to individuals and their own beliefs. You would see the moderates and independents flock to the Republicans if they would learn that.

By the way, I nominate Newt G for 2012, he is a brilliant man.

By: Amy Alkon

Amy Alkon — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:08:03 +0000

The Republican party alienates fiscal conservatives like me with their pandering to the religious nutters. Also, they talk small government, but they aren’t really the party of anything of the sort. They just aren’t as socialist as the Democrats. I used to call George Bush the biggest big Democrat since FDR. And whatever happened to “no nation building”? I’m not one of these anti-war nitwits (sometimes you need war to preserve the peace), but attacking Saddam Hussein because Bin Laden’s evildoers hit the WTC is like jailing me because somebody (not me) robbed a bank, and somebody should pay. (I was all for flattening Afghanistan and the terrorist camps with terrible force, by the way. Again, not some anti-war nitwit.)