Posted by
Duck Archer on Monday, September 15, 2008 4:05:10 PM
Republicans, under Newt Gingrich's conservative principles, shored up the American economy. Republicans, under G.W.Bush's 'compassionate conservative' principles, have damaged the American economy. Compassionate Conservatism is little more than Liberal Lite, and nearly as damaging to economics, self-esteem, and morals.
Compassionate Conservatism's successes:
- dramatic (40%) growth in federal non-defense spending, nearly all the increase in DC spending since 2002
- dramatic increased reach of the federal government into medicines: he who pays the bills calls the shots
- dramatic increase in power for NEA, meaning more centralized DC control over kids' education, not less; so we get lie-filled curriculum spanning
- - from environment (Inconvenient Truth movie in the classrooms)
- - to morality (with a struggle to get abstinence even included in Sex Education)
- dramatic abandonment of science in favor of emotion, leading to
- - population-increasing Polar Bears being added to the threatened species lists,
- - abandonment of Americans in favor of supporting environmentalist lies about Global Warming, despite the science showing Earth's stayed constant since 1979, warmed in 1998 (El Nino year), and cooled since then.
- - ever more companies making bad business decisions to placate politicians, and the environmentalists they've lent ear towards, now that the President has surrendered the businessman's last political cover
- dramatic political losses in 2006, among Liberal Lite Republicans, because they abandoned the people who elected them ... after garnering only tepid acceptance in the first place, with all that "compassionate conservatism" that hardly intersected conservative principles.
At least 'compassionate conservatism' gave us solid conservative stands on national defense, right to life, and interpretive mindsets in new Supreme Court justices.
The Obama-Biden ticket won't fix these dramatic problems. Again, they're Liberal, and we've had years of Liberal Lite. So let's indeed hope & trust that McCain-Palin indeed isn't another term of Bush -- and let's hold that ticket acountable for promises of change!