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I am a conservative and I care more about.....

I am a Conservative and I care more about....

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Ok, if you are a conservative, do you care more about fiscal issues (reducing spending, reducing the size of government) or social issues (Pro-Life, Anti-Same Sex Marriage)?
 
I wouldn't call myself a conservative, but reducing the size of the government (Fewer laws, fewer bans, less government involvement, less government spending) will bring about the social issues I am in agreement with.
 
The fiscal issues are more important to me. Social issues are important, but generally not in the mold of the current republicans nor of that of the liberals. The same general thought, of government being small and as seperated from our life as possible, tends to be one of the main guiding principles for my social issues views.
 
I fail to see why this is an either/or question
some people can multi-task
 
Pssst: SD, would Jesus have voted for Bush's FISA bill?
 
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I'm not necessarily either but I voted in both polls because I like to click things
 
DarkWizard12 said:
Why would Jesus vote for FISA? He's already omnipresent.
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Oh sorry. I thought you meant Bush's socialist drug bill.

And Jesus doesn't need that bill not because he's omnipresent, but because he already knows what will happen. The bill is irrelevant when you're omniscient and know the plan of all existence before existence was created.
 
refer to SD's sig.

Lawlz, I had to call him out on that. I know, its weak, but I had to.
 
The size of government is a clear & present threat.

An overly centralized authority has the power to impose a moral ethic or a neutral ethic (which is still a moral ethic) upon people far away who for religious reasons or adherence to tradition or whatever, might see things differently or find some things objectionable.


I wish more conservatives understood that instilling morality in government isn't the battle. The real fight is preventing a centralized authority from having the *ability to impose a moral ethic universally.
 
Fiscal issues are more important to me.
 
Jerry said:
Fiscal issues are more important to me.
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I find that very, very, very hard to believe as anytime you don't have an argument in a thread, you simple result to calling liberals baby killers.

Its obvious that you care more about social issues than fiscal conservatism.

For that matter, its obvious that most conservatives do whether they own up to it or not being the last fiscally conservative Republican that managed to get elected with Dwight Eisenhower.
 
Fiscal by far. We've had about 6 years of Republicans spending like liberal Democrats and we've racked up huge debt.

Being reliant on foreign money is just as bad as being reliant on foreign oil.
 

You must be thinking of someone else. I usually dissolve my opponent’s argument before calling them a baby killer :mrgreen:

What I choose to debate here only reflects what I find entertaining to debate. Economics are very important, but boring. However, watching 1069, CoffieSaint, OKgranny and the likes get all worked up just because some random poster said something they don’t agree with…..that’s fun :lol:
 

BABY NOT-KILLER!!!!





(Sorry. I'm going back under my bridge now)
 

So, given the choice of a pro-choice fiscal conservative, or a pro-life candidate that is not a fiscal conservative, which would you choose?
 
SouthernDemocrat said:
So, given the choice of a pro-choice fiscal conservative, or a pro-life candidate that is not a fiscal conservative, which would you choose?
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When it comes to stepping into the booth and actually casting a vote, I go with the fiscal conservative.

You won't know that, though, by looking at what I choose to debate here. Here it's about entertainment; there it's about what's good for the country.
 
I can't trust McCain with fiscal policies, much as I want to believe he is different from George Bush. As for social policies, I am game for anything Sarah Palin supports, but I could be biased there. :2razz:
 
are you able to pull winning lottery numbers out of thin air too?
 
rivrrat said:
I wouldn't call myself a conservative, but reducing the size of the government (Fewer laws, fewer bans, less government involvement, less government spending) will bring about the social issues I am in agreement with.
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From what I can tell you are a real conservative. IMO there is a huge difference between being a conservative and being a Republican.
 
The Republicans are communists who support increase spending and a strong military that no one has to pay for out of the wallet.

The democrats are even loonier leftist-communists who support increase spending, a weak military, and making everyone pay for it through high taxes.

There are your choices for this election.
 
SouthernDemocrat said:
Ok, if you are a conservative, do you care more about fiscal issues (reducing spending, reducing the size of government) or social issues (Pro-Life, Anti-Same Sex Marriage)?
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Did Jesus become a senator?
 
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