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Willravel · 12-20-2004, 04:00 PM

Maybe I wasen't clear enought before. Conservatives are against Bush. Beliefnet assumes that the "conservative" is the person who is the protestant pro war person who voted for Bush. That idea is absurd. I think it might be time for people to reexamine what party or label they belong to. If you voted for Bush, you are not conservative. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with that. Obviously a lot of people support Bush in what he does. You are more than welcome to do so. But you are no longer a conservative. When this article say things like "With conservatives controlling the House, Senate, White House, and Supreme Court ", I think "What?!". Republican does not equate to conservative. I'm sure there are conservative republicans, I know some, but the terms are NOT interchangable.

I am a conservative libertarian, for example. There are conservative green party members and conservative democrats (I'd guess a great number of democrats are conservative now). Please see above for what a conservative really is.

Aside from that error, the article means well and does point out the reasoning on subjects on both sides. I can certianally appreicate the effort to try to repair the gap.

Edit: I'm going to go ahead and start another thread on the "conservative" confusion.

12-20-2004, 04:00 PM	#20 (permalink)
Willravel ... a sort of licensed troubleshooter.	Maybe I wasen't clear enought before. Conservatives are against Bush. Beliefnet assumes that the "conservative" is the person who is the protestant pro war person who voted for Bush. That idea is absurd. I think it might be time for people to reexamine what party or label they belong to. If you voted for Bush, you are not conservative. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with that. Obviously a lot of people support Bush in what he does. You are more than welcome to do so. But you are no longer a conservative. When this article say things like "With conservatives controlling the House, Senate, White House, and Supreme Court ", I think "What?!". Republican does not equate to conservative. I'm sure there are conservative republicans, I know some, but the terms are NOT interchangable. I am a conservative libertarian, for example. There are conservative green party members and conservative democrats (I'd guess a great number of democrats are conservative now). Please see above for what a conservative really is. Aside from that error, the article means well and does point out the reasoning on subjects on both sides. I can certianally appreicate the effort to try to repair the gap. Edit: I'm going to go ahead and start another thread on the "conservative" confusion. Last edited by Willravel; 12-21-2004 at 01:59 PM..