conservative? really?
04/13/2009
there’s something that’s been irritating me about the republican party ever since the election. since the defeat of arizona senator john mccain last november, and the subsequent swearing in of barack obama as this nation’s 44th president. all of a sudden the republicans became something that they hadn’t been in the better part of a decade…fiscally conservative.
for the past 8 years republicans in washington have done nothing but spend, spend, spend. american taxpayers have been used like a big money tree. now a democrat is in office and the spending is irresponsible? i’ve been trying to wrap my brain around that. tarp spending, wars, spending for faith based initiatives, no child left behind…under george bush we spent more money than i can count.
the difference must come down to what the left wants to spend money on. traditionally this has been social programs and education while cutting spending for the military. its a difference of philosophy, and not one that i’m willing to debate here at this time. my point here is really that if you’re paying any attention at all to what’s been going on in dc, the republicans are coming of a giant hypocrites.
so let’s set the record straight. republicans, you, along with your democrat brethren have spent us into such a giant pile of debt that mathematics is running out of zeroes. the only difference has been where you’ve decided to spend it. there is no denying that fact. you as a party are not fiscally conservative. the fact that members of your party speaking on behalf of the whole party are saying otherwise makes your entire message a lie. people like me have paid attention. a spade is a spade, or in this case a big spender is a big spender.
maybe we should teabag all of washington dc, not just the democrats.
04/13/2009 at 8:53 am
I would suspect that most “Conservatives” would agree with you. Conservative doesn’t equal republican that’s too broad of a brush. Smaller government spending is a tenant of the conservative platform. So I think our last president was a Republican not a conservative. Most who went along with him should be held accountable to.
Many conservatives would tell you that the reason republicans lost so badly the last election was not holding to the smaller government principal.
04/13/2009 at 8:57 am
Oh I agree, but republicans are painting themselves as conservative. something they haven’t been since arguably the reagan administration. so while i know that conservative does not equal republican, the republicans would like anyone that isn’t paying attention to believe they are. its an out and out lie.
04/13/2009 at 9:14 am
That’s the point, Conservatives complained the entire Bush administration about what we believed to be out of control spending. I fully believe that the reason the Republicans lost the presidential election and have been hammered in other elections is because they have NOT been Conservatives, have NOT articulated what Conservatives believe, and have not explained why they are right. Instead they took a populist approach. John McCain is the poster boy for populism and calls himself Conservative because he’s against earmarks.
I suspect that the recent destruction of Republican power in Washington, State, and local elections have served as a wake-up call to Republicans. If they continue on the populism road and try to be “conservative populists” instead of true Conservatives, they’ll be decimated again.