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Are You a Social or a Fiscal Conservative? by Chip Murray
By Chip Murray
Are You a Social or a Fiscal Conservative?
Talk about a one-two punch wake-up call to the Republican Establishment yesterday Nan Hayworth…that would be you dear! Ted Cruz & Chick-fil-A, so perfect together! Here, let me see if I can distill the essence of yesterday so that even the hard-of-hearing establishment ears will have no trouble…if that is even possible:
Americans Respond to Courage and Truth, because America IS Courageous & Truthful!
So here we are at the home stretch, and the Republican Establishment still seems determined to tango in subjective truth land rather than embrace the Texas Two-Step of objective reality! When you get right down to it, the fact is that while so many of us are socially and fiscally conservatives at heart, we seem to be more comfortable owning the fiscal side and afraid to publicly admit the social side…
old_oaks
August 2nd, 2012
One thing is for certain, I am not a COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATIVE!
norman einstein
August 2nd, 2012
@old_oaks, damn straight!
Compassionate conservative = loser. You can look it up.
fxdwg
August 2nd, 2012
I am both. The reason that most of us are quietly conservative is that it’s nobody’s stinkin’ business what we are. Liberals know that their positions are untenable at best, so they defend them with volume, nastiness and when faced with undeniable logic, accustaions of racism.
Zonga
August 2nd, 2012
There is going to be a gay marriage plank in the democrat platform.
Black pastors are organizing against jugears because he endorsed gay marriage.
The other day Calypso Louie, famous for his anti-Jew, anti-homo, anti-Caucasian philosophy, was embraced by mayor Tiny Dancer.
Some D-team politicians have already bailed out of the convention.
There’s going to be demonstrations by union thugs at the convention.
Then there’s the DHHS mandate.
You can’t make this stuff up. They’re making themselves unelectable.
JustAl
August 2nd, 2012
Fiscal, as someone who voted for Cruz, I’d point out that it’s not about social issues and religion for everyone.
reddecaesari
August 2nd, 2012
@fxdwg
exactamundo. both also.
serfer62
August 2nd, 2012
Zonga, you left out
swarms, black on white crime, race riots, OWS sanctioned, all vote getters…for Mitts
Bob M.
August 2nd, 2012
YES!
uncivil & right
August 2nd, 2012
Both, though not out of strong religious conviction. That being said,look at how we have fallen since public prayer was attacked and all but vanquished from our lives, since abortion on demand was welcomed as an advance for womens rights. Does anyone think this is a coincidence? Tolerating all manner of evil and degenerate behavior is the road to societal destruction. History repeats and we never learn.
Jack
August 2nd, 2012
The two are inseparable. You can’t rationally be socially liberal and fiscally conservative at the same time. Take gay marriage for instance. There is an inescapable financial consequence in allowing it. Gay couples will necessarily be granted the social security survivor benefit, as well as various kinds of tax credits. The military will have to pay higher salaries and higher basic allowance for housing because of the gay spouses of soldiers. No fault divorce, removal of prayer from public schools, are additional socially liberal policies that have resulted in additional financial burden on government, in the form of welfare, WIC, and high rates of crime.
Stranded in Sonoma
August 2nd, 2012
Social Conservative. Because when your social values are rooted in conservatism, the fiscal values follow by second nature.
JustAl
August 2nd, 2012
Sorry Jack,
But your wrong. As a fiscal conservative, I want social security, welfare and WIC eliminated and the income tax scrapped for a consumption tax. I can be THAT fiscally conservative, and still not give a damn about the queers helping to feed to divorce lawyers or people sitting around getting high. . . as long as my tax dollars don’t go to feed them, it’s NONE of my business and it’s NONE of the government’s.
The added costs you attribute to homos in the military would be so small as to be laughable.
Divorce, prayer etc. haven’t resulted in more financial burden on government, out of control government is what did that. The crime rate didn’t increase when prayer was taken out of schools or divorces made more reasonable. The facts just don’t support your position.
Tim
August 2nd, 2012
Proving causality in a complex system is tenuous, at best. There are many factors in the mix for corrupting our culture and allowing the rise of statism. The boredom experienced by our ignorant, self-absorbed population is probably as good a factor, as any. Cowardice is another. Loss of the sight of God, another.
We have a great many inputs to our society in the last 100 years, and the only discernable output is a general restlessness of spirit and hatefulness in politics. We’ve elevated ignorance and sloth to virtues and deride truth, beauty, honesty, and decency as, somehow, deceitful.
The Demonrats have publicly embraced perversion, parasitism, and prevarication – with no general repugnance! How is this possible?