Your reply had absolutely zero evidence on how you can be a fiscal conservative as well as a social liberal.
All you did was ramble on and on about "The Decider" which I assume you mean Bush. As for the size of government growing in the past 7 years, there is no doubt. Has it grown out of control? You bet. Do we need more social programs? Nope. No way. No how.
Can you give me one social program that the Government has implemented that has actually worked and come in on budget? That may take you a while.
As for the Repubs "looking more from a national security perspective", that's a Sean/Rush line and I'm surprised you buy into it...do you REALLY believe the Repubs want us to be safe AND the Dems do not?
This is not an opinion, this is a fact. The only thing I got wrong was that it was the 2004 election. There is no way that you missed that the entire campaign by the republicans, which was about how they would make the country safer and the dems would not, while Kerry's campaign was all about how bad this war was and how to get us out.
Anyway, my point in that last post is the main difference between Liberals and conservatives is that conservatives put trust in the individual to solve their own problems while liberals put their trust in government to solve the problems. By placing more trust in the individual, there is less of a need for government.
I am a social conservative as well as a fiscal conservative. I am all for smaller government getting out of our lives so that we can decide what is best for ourselves. I wish the government would cut the tax rates again but this time cut the hell out of spending. That means put this country in the mind set of actually winning in Iraq so that we can get out of there as soon as possible, doing a complete overhaul on social security, stop earmarks all together, put term limits on congressmen, repeal the 17th amendment, deport all the illegal immigrants that are in jail, open up offshore and ANWAR to drilling, reduce the corporate taxes, and stop funding the U.N.
All of those things would be a step in the right direction to making this country fiscally conservative. We could be back to balancing the budget and paying off the astronomical debt we are incurring. Anyway, I am rambling and am going to go to bed. Have a great rest of the weekend.
-faz
"I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." - John Galt
