Posted by
Sanity 102 on Thursday, August 30, 2007 3:39:04 AM
I am NOT a conservative but there are a number of things I share with them:
I support the troops AND their mission.
I am Pro-life and a Christian.
I am for lower taxes and smaller government.
I am pro-second ammendment rights and less regulation.
There was a time I flirted with the idea of joining the Republican party but there were a number of things that I just couldn't swallow.
What things?
Well, I never did understand how a man could be crucified for making a birthday toast--not for what he actually said but what they THINK he meant. I really disliked the Mier's borking and the whole page ads to force the President to do HIS job the way THEY thought he should...The Left closes ranks...the Right goes on t.v. to make sure everyone sees their dirty laundry. I thought the fuss over a foreign company buying the running of a port from ANOTHER foreign company plain paranoid and stupid...sorry, I have zip tolerance for stupidity...
And talk about being idiotic...we get handed the first bill that would make a serious attempt to indentify everyone in America and it gets tanked because it gave Mexicans (after 12 years of probation and heavy fines) a path to citizenship. The northern border is so porus that White Canadians cross on a weekly basis (and visa-versa) and are as Liberal as they come--but conservatives don't care about THOSE illegals.
Sorry--spin it anyway you want--it reeked of racism...and it hand delivered the largest racial voting block to the party that sees no reason to finish the war on terror.
And now some Republican Senator got caught making a "gay" signal of solicitation and the media on the Right has brought out their knives and baseball bats.
At first I just shook my head...hate to break it to you but to most Americans, anyone being gay and/or being stupid in a public bathroom isn't enough to get a raised eyebrow...it won't make anyone's email, please forward this on...
Then some caller told Michael Medved something that put it all together for me.
He said that we (conservatives) have to be BETTER than the Liberals...which is why that Senator HAS to resign. If the Right allows people like that, then we are morally, no better than the Democrats.
And I thought...WAIT A MINUTE.
I KNOW Liberals...many of my colleagues are Liberal. Some of my family members and some personal friends lean toward the Left. I would say most clergy consider themselves Liberal. They are hard working, decent people who believe in family values, loyalty and respect for each other and the law. Many of them are pro-life and religiously active. Some give time and money to youth and elderly programs. Many work full time jobs and between their own children's activities, manage to plant trees, rescue animals, and serve in soup lines.
WHEN DID THE CONSERVATIVE BECOME MORALLY SUPERIOR TO LIBERALS?
I may agree with most of the conservative ideology...but I do not think I particularly like them.
I believe that the rest of America...the Independents and Democrats--don't much like conservatives either.