We must steal "conservative" as the pukes have stolen "compassionate"

[livin_indirt]

Everyone digs value, the very most for the very least one has to spend. Don't you agree? Dem candidates will do well with a true "compassionate" mantra with the addition of a "conservative" (financially) agenda. No one likes a nickle-ass non-tipping unreasonable bastard holding up the payroll but everyone likes the one that can deliver, economically and responsibly, the goods/services that we expect and demand.

[Fovea]

1. No, I don't really agree

While value is always a popular subject, values may be the more telling issue for the campaign.

Certainly the Bush administration has been working hard for *someone's* benefit, but unless you make over 350K a year, it was not you.

Assuming Bush has the millionaire vote locked, why add conservative?
The most compelling platforms out there right now are liberal platforms. That is no accident. Perscription Drugs, Medicare, Social Security... these are not conservative ideas, and they have been hangin on by a thread.

Jobs, Single Payer Health for America, and chucking 'free trade' for fair trade will be the real winners in 2004, which is when the election will be held. And unless I am completely wrong, 2004 is going to be a doozy of a year. Conservative candidates cannot support those programs believably any more.

Further, I suspect the will to power in the Middle East will have entirely evaporated from the American psyche by next summer. Hobbes out, Rousseau in.



And don't get me started on Union bashing, Redistricting, Vote Scandals, Enron, Halliburton, NY post 911 air quality, the 'denuded forests act', PATRIOT, Kyoto, Int. Criminal Tribunal, the UN...

The only way Dubya will be President in 2005 is behind the barrel of a gun.

[wuushew]

2. Wasted effort

why not promote our words of "liberal" and "progressive"

[livin_indirt]

4. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. Don't work

Tell me why? I'm as confused as you.

[ComerPerro]

3. I think it would be better

To just prove how Bush is neither Compassionate or Conservative (at least about spending. He is as authoritarian as they come).

[Terwilliger]

5. you ARE a conservative

its been nice knowin ya :hi:

[livin_indirt]

6. Naw T., I shore ain't no conservative, not in the sense you imply. But

I understand the power of labels, slogans and popular type thingies. Do you? I suspect not.

[ulysses]

7. that's like

going to the burglar's house and stealing his portrait, while leaving the gun he stole from you in the first place.

:silly:

[livin_indirt]

8. OK, you have a distaste for the word. How about me burglarizing your

joint and bitchin' 'cause they only found your stereo in my place? Is that a fair comparison of values or circumstances?