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NOBODY is THE answer, folks...

ric27 said:
I'll get straight to the point. A truly conservative candidate?...I think, you'll only see *it* on paper.
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That's why some of us don't necessarily see voting as the proper means to change things at the national level.
 
Tigger said:
Dr. Paul is not a True Conservative in my mind. He gets part of the way their with much of his Economicideology, but he fails on the Social Conservatism side so far as I'm concerned; as witnessed to by his and his son's little airport incident the other day.
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Oh, yes, the "social" conservatism in which conservatives want to use the power of government impose their values by force of law. Somehow, that seems to me to be the polar opposite of real conservatism.

No, Paul is not a social conservative by any means.
 
Dittohead not! said:
Oh, yes, the "social" conservatism in which conservatives want to use the power of government impose their values by force of law. Somehow, that seems to me to be the polar opposite of real conservatism.
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Only because SOCIETY will no longer enforce those mandates of proper morality and values on its own. In the past the Government wasn't needed to keep society in line, but now it pretty much is required to do so.

Dittohead not! said:
No, Paul is not a social conservative by any means.
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Which means he's not a Conservative at all, so far as I'm concerned. I'll take a Social Conservative with questionable Economic/Fiscal credentials over a Fiscal Conservative with questionable Social credentials every day of the week.
 
Tigger said:
Only because SOCIETY will no longer enforce those mandates of proper morality and values on its own. In the past the Government wasn't needed to keep society in line, but now it pretty much is required to do so.
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So, it is necessary to expand the government to take care of things that society will no longer do, and so take the ability to make choices (right or wrong) and live with the results of those choices away from the individual or the family and place it in the hands of government.

That is conservatism?
 
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