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Here - Conservative Values: "A Time For Choosing"
Don't just skim through it - READ it..then watch...
See anything interesting between the video, what is said here and what is going on in this country?

There is a great problem today with the general public understanding Conservative values. They don't seem to understand the true definition of Conservatism. And, today's Republican Party is certainly not helping the matter any, for one is hard-pressed to find a Reagan Conservative these days--at least amongst politicians.

Up until 1964, former President Reagan, one of the greatest Presidents we have ever seen in this nation, was a Democrat. This is not as surprising as it may seem to many people today. Ronald Reagan had been in radio and in Hollywood before he discovered his true calling of politics (he became the governor of California from 1967 through 1975). We who have values today know that the mental disease known as liberalism has long since infested Hollywood and the mass media. Reagan in his younger years was obviously influenced by this trend amongst those within his profession. But, he was a man of strong intelligence, and eventually he started to check the facts. And the facts about how his nation was being run disturbed him so deeply that he couldn't remain on the side of the Democrats, and he became a Republican, although he still insisted throughout his political life that Americans' issues were beyond those of "left" and "right". His Liberal Democrat opponents never got tired of mocking this idea of his, and they aren't tired of mocking it now even more than four years after his death.

CONSERVATIVE VALUES VS LIBERAL AND OTHER VALUES

Frankly, let's be real. Conservative values are better because they work. Conservative values are about resisting any urges to make too-rapid changes, essentially. Conservative values might be better described as "classical" or "neoclassical" values. And this could be summed up by a couplet from the great Neoclassical poem "Essay on Man" by Alexander Pope: "Be not the first by which the new is tried, Nor the last to set the old aside."
Ronald Reagan - A Time for Choosing

An address given to the Republican National Convention on October 27,1964.

Liberals seem to believe that money grows on trees. Of course, it's like Cullen Hightower would say: There's always somebody who makes too much money and is taxed too little. And the thing of it is, it's always somebody else. So that money tree somehow always seems to be growing in a Conservative's yard...and, of course, that Conservative somehow stole it and now uses it for unjust ends, such as putting food on his family's table and maybe buying himself a new sedan car (if the Liberal had the money tree, he would buy a new BMW and then ask other people to help him make the payments).

Reagan Conservatives are those who don't compromise their values. The Republican party needs that these days...yet it seems difficult to find them. Republicans also need someone who can actually orate--someone who is not like a McCain. The Democrats seem to find plenty of skilled salesmen for their cause...but the Republicans are the ones who need them.

But, let me try to do that for you here, at least to an extent. What are Conservative values?

* Conservative values are backed up by historical precedent, logically derived principles, and prudence (practicality). Conservatives love facts. Liberals, Socialists, Communists, and Islamic fundamentalist terrorists hate facts, because to them facts are pernicious things that get in the way of a good ideology--and their irresponsible actions.
* Speaking of facts, anyone who checks into them will fairly quickly learn that it's Conservatives who make up the intellectual party in politics. Progressivism co-opted--that is, stole--that concept in order to grab power.
* Conservatives understand that outside of running the military and other related protective services, the government, either federal or state, simply cannot achieve what private, capitalist free market based industry achieves. Government is not reason, government is not the embodiment of any higher moral authority. Government at its very best is a necessary evil. At its worst, it is completely evil. But it is never, ever rational or moral. It is a force. And that is why it must be kept strictly limited and in check.
* Conservatives understand that any "liberal" values must be expressed privately. They cannot be ensconced as federal laws or economic ideals. They don't work in that way. If everyone is free, how can you force a large amount of people to accept freedom? You can't. It's really very simple.
* Conservatives understand that you don't get something for nothing. When the government increases spending and entitlement programs and "bailouts", it is just stealing money from private citizens--and using that money in ways that are inefficient at best and downright harmful at worst.

Conservatives don't typically tell the sexiest stories about economics and politics. They just tell the true ones.