What does it mean to be a Conservative

[shecky]

It means abandoning the Republican party.

 

[Dr Adequate]

Who advocates handouts to the lazy?

The magic invisible Slag Fairy.

 

[AWPrime]

The last five years have shown us that conservatives have nothing against government programs or social engineering.

I would consider them to be conservatives.

 

[slingblade]

Who advocates handouts to the lazy?

Gee, I don't know. Who does do that?

Oh, are you talking about every single person who has ever had to go on welfare, as if every single person ever involved with that system was nothing more than a no-good lazy slug just wanting to sponge off your hard-earned dime and pump out drug-addicted babies to increase their checks?

Or are you perhaps talking about corporate welfare, the dollar amount of which far exceeds that spent on social welfare (billions vs. millions), but which you don't seem to mind?

So corporate welfare for the rich is okay, but public welfare for the poor is eeeeevil?

 

[AWPrime]

I would consider them to be conservatives.

Oops, meant to say: Wouldn't

 

[Meadmaker]

The last five years have shown us that conservatives have nothing against government programs or social engineering.

Or that the Republican party is not always conservative.

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

I.E. True conservatives.

No, I am a true conservative. Pat Robertson and his followers are fundy perverts. See the difference?

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Who advocates handouts to the lazy?

Jesse Jackson, off the top of my head. Many members of the Democratic Party. Even a lot of Republicans.

 

[Tony]

No, I am a true conservative.

In your head, not in reality.

Pat Robertson and his followers are fundy perverts.

They're still true conservatives, family values voters, godly americans and the "moral majority".

See the difference?

I see a false dichotomy.

 

[Tony]

Or that the Republican party is not always conservative.

Or that it never was.

 

[jimtron]

Jesse Jackson, off the top of my head. Many members of the Democratic Party. Even a lot of Republicans.

Evidence that Jesse Jackson and many members of the Dem Party advocate handouts to the lazy?

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

In your head, not in reality.

No, just because fundy perverts have hijacked the term in the last twenty years, does not make them conservatives.

They're still true conservatives, family values voters, godly americans and the "moral majority".

See above.

I see a false dichotomy.

In your head, not in reality.

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Evidence that Jesse Jackson and many members of the Dem Party advocate handouts to the lazy?

Read the paper.

 

[Tony]

No, just because fundy perverts have hijacked the term in the last twenty years, does not make them conservatives.

Right, and only true scotsmen wear boxers under their kilts.

In your head, not in reality.

LOL

Spoken like a true fundy.

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Right, and only true scotsmen wear boxers under their kilts.

That seems to be the argument you are making.

 

[Tony]

That seems to be the argument you are making.

"Seems" being the operative word. This, like your claim that you're a "true conservative" while Pat Robertson isn't, is another one of your hallucinations.

 

[brodski]

"Seems" being the operative word. This, like your claim that you're a "true conservative" while Pat Robertson isn't, is another one of your hallucinations.

Well to be fair, there is an internationally recognized word for the type of conservative that Scrut is, and that Pat Robinson isn't, the trouble is, that word is "liberal".

 

[Tony]

I wouldn't consider them to be conservatives.

Why not?

 

[Tony]

Well to be fair, there is an internationally recognized word for the type of conservative that Scrut is, and that Pat Robinson isn't, the trouble is, that word is "liberal".

I know. I'm just seeing how long it takes for him to catch on.

 

[Grammatron]

I think what this thread demonstrate -- with the help of Tony -- is that people on the far left think "conservatives" are the worst what they perseive to be wrong with their country, while people on the far right seem to think "liberals" are. Which makes these terms pointless.