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Originally Posted by irateplatypus
before the neo-cons took over? i think today's conservative would agree whole heartedly with three of the four positions you listed. anti-war being the odd one out... but i can't recall a strong anti-war sentiment in any conservative movement. perhaps you're mistaking the isolationism of the 20's and 30's for antiwar politics?
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Todays Republicans are not conservatives. Being conservative used to mean you believed in small, limited, and less intrusive government. Of course since 9/11 the opposite of all these conservative ideals has happened. Bush signed a budget (the largets every) that makes Bill Clinton look like a fiscal conservative. The Republicans have the house, the senate, the executive, the judicial, and most of the state governments as well. We should see government shrinking, not exploding at exponential levels. Clearly Republicans are not conservatives anymore, and it's time to face that fact.