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Originally Posted by willravel
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.
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True enough, I consider myself to be a "Neo-Federalist" holding true to Reagan's EO on Federalism. I have said a couple of times before that if the Democrats nominate Mark Warner in '08, I would seriously consider voting for him. I live in Virginia and he's done a great job of toeing the line of being a moderate and pleasing Republicans and conservatives at the same time, and I really like the guy, I think he's got a strong character that would work well in the Oval Office. I am a little upset with Bush because of the deficit, not so much the Iraq War, because I thought it was necessary, but that's another thread. So in a sense, the author's definition of conservative is a bit misguided, but the voters that did vote for Bush did hold the issues outlined in a high enough regard to effect their vote a month and a half ago.