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Originally Posted by B-rett
Very few people who consider themselves conservatives believe in all of these things. We merely pick and choose what we think are most important. It is in my opinion that some one can be a real conservative and not believe every single thing
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Well if McCain isn't one. Does that mean some are more important than others. Apperantly Social conservatism is the first to go. And McCain is conservative in the foreign policy sense, but Ron Paul, hailed by some conservatives here, does not.
So it would seem that being fiscally conservative is the most important issue and the rest are optional?
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Originally Posted by Voltaire
There were no "real" conservative candidates,
The question you're asking is impossible to answer, as the terms and their parties have become so muddled that no one knows what to call whom anymore.
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Well it seems you know what to call who by your definition of "real" conservative.
Do you guys have a name or something? Like paleolibertarian conservative or somesuch?
Anyway I take it that what it all comes down to is that that conservatives want to see, somehow, an end to progressive taxation and all forms of the government giving people money just because they're poor/unemployed/sick/old etc.
Is not proposing big slices there where McCain falls short of this forums version of "real" conservatives?