Fact is, "conservatives" are NOT "conservatives" - at least not in the "true" sense of the word.
Of course Bush is an outgrowth of today's new right "conservatism" which isn't "conservative" as Grandpappy knew it. Conservatism died with its main proponent, Barry Goldwater. Just because some of today's conservatives have seen the light on a few issues and have decided that Bush isn't a big enough theocratic radical for them, doesn't make Bush a non-member of this new conservative club. It means he just isn't radical enough for them. They have changed.
So, sorry "conservatives" but you go to the elections with who you are today, not with who you were 30 years ago.
Please continue and add your thoughts. You all see it coming, this is how they are going to try to deceive our nation AGAIN.
Bush was fine with `conservatives" until people started noticing he and his CONSERVATIVE gang were taking a wrecking ball to this once great nation. Conservatives loved him when he put in place his radical - let's not pay our bills - tax cuts for their wealthy friends. They loved him when he was the fake patriot with the Bullhorn preparing to lie us into this insane and needless Iraq debacle. No, the chaos around the world and the power grab of his imperial presidency is all a conservative creation. They have empowered it.
The new right has to lay the groundwork on which they intend to blow smoke in the coming elections. They are preparing the nation to be deceived by them AGAIN. This time with the fraud, "if we only had a `true' conservative, all this would be OK." Well, it isn't OK and won't be as long as conservatism is not understood by the nation. True, much of the recent loss of popularity which Bush is seeing is the result of conservatives turning on him. They turned on his old man and they were bound to turn on W. Just like a cult, they can't be truthful and admit conservatism - as it is practiced toady - IS the problem. In truth, all conservatives are saying now is that Bush isn't a big enough extremist freak for today's "true" cult-like conservative. They want something worse in charge.
They are conditioned to think Reagan was a "true" conservative. Haha Even David Stockman the architect of Reaganonmics saw the folly of Reagan's plans. Stockman saw that the government had to spend to protect the people and the future of the country. No, they didn't have to spend like a "drunken sailor," but they had to provide the things that people knew government could best provide. The problem with today's conservative is that they want to drag the nation down by bankrupting it in one of two ways. One, by cutting spending on the things the nation truly sees a need for - things which take care of us today and prepare us for the future. Or by the path they took to deceive their way into office in 1994. That would be the half of the program they could best demagogue, taxes. They have us once again, by enacting this insane policy of not paying our bills, blown a whole in the deficit. A policy only a fool believes will not eventually lead the nation to ruin. But "conservatives" are conditioned to believe this is a good thing, Grover tells them so.
"The Myth of Federal 'Overspending'" - By David Stockman - THE PHOENIX GAZETTE - March 10, 1993
...the full-throated, anti-tax cries emanating from the Republican Party (GOP) amount to no more than deceptive gibberish. Indeed, if Rep. Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., and his playmates had the parental supervision they deserve, they would be sent to the nearest corner wherein to lodge their Pinocchio-sized noses until this adult task of raising taxes is finished. ...
The root problem goes back to the July, 1981, frenzy of excessive and imprudent tax-cutting that shattered the nation's fiscal stability. A noisy faction of Republicans have willfully denied this giant mistake of fiscal governance, and their own culpability in it, ever since. Instead, they have incessantly poisoned the political debate with a mindless stream of anti-tax venom, while pretending that economic growth and spending cuts alone could cure the deficit.
It ought to be obvious enough by now that we can't grow our way out. To be sure, aversion to higher taxes is usually a necessary, healthy impulse in a political democracy. But when the alternative becomes as self-evidently threadbare and groundless as has the "growth" argument, we are no longer dealing with legitimate skepticism, but with what amounts to a demagogic fetish. Unfortunately, as a matter of hard-core political realism, the ritualized spending cut mantra of the GOP anti-taxers is equally vapid. ...
On the vast expanse of the domestic budget, then, "overspending" is an absolute myth. Our post-1981 mega-deficits are not attributable to it, and the GOP has neither a coherent program nor the political courage to attack anything but the most microscopic spending marginalia.
It is unfortunate that, having summoned the courage to face the tax issue squarely, President Clinton has clouded the debate with an excess of bashing-the-wealthy and an utterly unnecessary grab-bag of new tax-and-spend giveaways.
But that in no way lets the Republicans off the hook. They led the Congress into a giant fiscal mistake 12 years ago, and they now have the responsibility to work with a President who is at least brave enough to attempt to correct it.
By saying Bush is not a conservative, we can thank conservatives for confirming what liberals have known all along, conservatives have NO discernment when it comes to the real world. When it comes to picking their leaders and seeing the future their actions shall bring, like any cult, they have no critical thinking skills. They flail away doing what the people who think for them advise - they do as Rush, Savage and Grover have ordered up next for them.
No, today's "conservative" isn't conservative as it was 30 years ago. Conservatism died with the creator, Barry Goldwater. Barry wasn't a homophobic - theocratic - demagogue as today's conservative leadership most certainly is. Today we have conservatism, but it has just been redefined, changed.
Conservative pioneer became an outcast - Az. Republic May 1998
Goldwater had won support of abortion opponents in his 1980 U.S. Senate re-election campaign, but in his final term, he voted consistently to uphold the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion. Later in life, he was honored by Planned Parenthood.
* In 1981, Goldwater assailed the founder of the Moral Majority, the Rev. Jerry Falwell. Responding to Falwell's statement that all good Christians should be concerned about the Supreme Court nomination of Arizonan Sandra Day O'Connor, he said, ''I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.''
* In 1987, Goldwater, who had described then Gov. Evan Mecham as ''hardheaded,'' called on the Republican maverick to resign.
* In 1989, Goldwater said the Republican Party had been taken over by a ''bunch of kooks,'' a reference to forces supporting TV evangelist Pat Robertson and Mecham.
* In 1992, he endorsed Democrat Karan English for Congress over Republican Doug Wead.
* In June 1993, Goldwater declared that the military should lift its ban on gays in the military. He also railed against discrimination against gays and lesbians in the workplace.
Before any conservative trolls go into the trained thinking that Goldwater changed, his friends said he didn't change a bit...more from the AZ. Republic.
"I don't like being called the New Right; I'm an old, old son-of-a-bitch. I'm a conservative," Goldwater said.
Here, Barry said this in 1981 - he saw from whom the new right, today's conservatism was taking its direction - from the theocrats, the extremist - more and more. Yes, Bush was their answer to Barry's warnings. Bush was inevitable for a group with no REAL moral compass and a theocratic vein which blinds them.
"However, on religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf should be used sparingly. The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom. They are trying to force government leaders into following their position 100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups on a particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of money or votes or both.
"I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in "A," "B," "C," and "D." Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me? And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of 'conservatism.'"- Barry Goldwater - Congressional Record, September 16, 1981
No, today's new right isn't conservative, it is theocratic, homophobic - and Godwin's law be damned - a fascist movement. It is un-American, and though the rank and file are blind to it, it is destroying the nation and leading the world to hell. The reason of course, again, is that conservatism's followers have no discernment. Look at who the new right bedded down with to help them deceive their way to power.
No link - Transcribed from: U.S News and World Report March 27, 1989 - Rev. Moon's Rising Political Influence - His empire is spending big money trying to win favor with conservatives.
... the [Unification] church has established a network of affiliated organizations and connections in almost every conservative organization in Washington, including the Heritage Foundation, the largest of the conservative think tanks and an important source of government personnel during the Reagan administration. Although Heritage officials deny it, the foundation has dramatically changed its policy toward the Unification Church. In the early 80's the foundation, wary of the church's aims, prohibited staff or fellows from being associated with Unification Church organizations or taking money from the church or church-financed institutions.
As the Washington Times has become the voice of capital conservatives, the Heritage Foundation has become far more tolerant of church ties. ...
"Most people are afraid to address the issue because they don't want to publicize the extent of the church's involvement," says Amy Moritz of the Conservative National Center for Public Policy Research.
Because almost all conservative organizations in Washington have some ties to the church, conservatives also fear repercussions if they expose the church's role.
Moon is a theocratic, homophobic fascist and that is what conservatism is today, funny how that worked out. There were a few conservatives who tried to warn the emerging right about the Moon alliance, but they were shouted down by ...well, people like today's "true" conservative, Grover Norquist.
Dark Side of Rev. Moon - Buying of the Right.
At times, Moon's penetration of conservative ranks has raised red flags among Republicans. In 1983, the GOP's moderate Ripon Society charged that the New Right had entered "an alliance of expediency" with Moon's church. Ripon's chairman, Rep. Jim Leach, R-Iowa, released a study which alleged that the College Republican National Committee "solicited and received" money from Moon's Unification Church in 1981. The study also accused Reed Irvine's Accuracy in Media of benefiting from low-cost or volunteer workers supplied by Moon.
Leach said the Unification Church has "infiltrated the New Right and the party it [the New Right] wants to control, the Republican Party, and infiltrated the media as well." Leach's news conference was broken up when then-college GOP leader Grover Norquist accused Leach of lying. [Norquist is now head of Americans for Tax Reform and advises the current Bush administration.]
For its part, The Washington Times dismissed Leach's charges as "flummeries" and mocked the Ripon Society as a "discredited and insignificant left-wing offshoot of the Republican Party." [WP, Jan. 6, 1983]
Continuing with Parry's article we see what the lack of discernment on the part of today's "conservatism" has brought to our once great nation. Conservatism's messiah is getting what he wanted from his tools.
By the mid-1980s, Moon's Unification Church had carved out a niche as an acceptable part of the American right. In one speech to his followers, Moon boasted that "without knowing it, even President Reagan is being guided by Father (Moon)." Yet, Moon also made clear that his longer-range goal was the destruction of the U.S. Constitution and America's democratic form of government. "History will make the position of Reverend Moon clear, and his enemies, the American population and government will bow down to him," Moon said, speaking of himself in the third person. "That is Father's tactic, the natural subjugation of the American government and population."
No, Bush is exactly what you get from conservatives, for they have no critical thinking skills and are completely bereft of any discernment capabilities. They are controlled and they will fall in line behind the next and bigger freak, who they are told to follow.
Conservatism is a radical extremist movement. Though he may not be radical enough for their cult-like group, Bush is one of them.