Is this true about Conservatives?

Question

"Conservatives are indifferent to the founding principles of Liberty and Equality, and who Cloak their Actions in Moral Superiorily while puhing the country further and further from its constitutional foundations." John W Dean a Conservatives work for Nixon.

Do you believe this, why and why not?

Answer 1

FALSE

Answer 2

That is a ridiculous statement.

Strict conservatives believe very strongly in the Constitution.    Conservatism roots are based on Federalism, that is the Federalist papers, which is the foundation of the Constitution.  The litmus test for any conservative judge is that he is a constructionist and will adhere strictly to the Constitution

It is the liberals who don't care about anything in the Constitution and advocate legislating from the bench.

Answer 3

No I don't.  true Conservative believes that people should have true equality. That you should not be dependent on the Government for food, housing and medical care. Far as our "constitutional foundations" are concerned I see far more damage being done by Liberals that think they know what is best and to h**l with the Constitution. You have only to look at what has happened to freedom of religion and the right to bear arms to see that what I say is true.

Answer 4

Perhaps if you had learned what a conservative was, and not let the media and others tell you what one was, you could then explain to others why they are sheep! So try learning the truth, then be a teacher of it.

Answer 5

Conservatism was once respectable. Those who wrap themselves in that label now, do so with out any bonafides. Bush is about as much of a true conservative, as Peewee Herman. (no offense Peewee)

Answer 6

I agree and it's pretty clear to see. Just look at them. What good has a Conservative ever done for anybody but their small circle of supporters?

Answer 7

I am only going to pay attention to the first part of the sentence, stopping at the comma, and ignore the rest of that blather. And I would say that John Dean has it only half right.

Historically, conservatives have been much more supportive of Liberty than Equality. And Liberty to conservatives has always meant laissez-faire economics, not ideas like sexual freedom. Liberals are much more egalitarian while conservatives are more libertarian.

Answer 8

No, - it's not true.

True conservatives are Constitutional constructionalists and believe the socialist bent of congress is un-constitutional.

The more the federal govn't is 'active', - the less liberty and equality we all have.

Answer 9

No, I don't.

It sounds like something he'd say after he left conservatism.  You didn't source the quote... is it from an appearance on Olbermann, or Air America?

Answer 10

EDIT:  80 years ago?  I'm talking about the things that happened fairly recently, such as when I was a child in the 1960s.

The overall effect of Democratic policies have been to make minorities more dependent on the government, and give them a victim mentality.  That is undeniable.

Look at the stars of the Republican party, such as Condaleezza Rice.  If she would just run for President, I have no doubt she'd win in a landslide, but she simply does not want the position.  With the way the press treats the President, who can blame her.

I can see you aren't at all convinced, but Democrats treat blacks like their pets, while Republicans try to get them into a position of strength and self-reliance.  Democrats want to keep them weak so they'll keep voting for the Democratic entitlement programs.

It's funny how many views about politics are exactly the POLAR OPPOSITE of the truth.

Republicans are indifferent to liberty and equality?  Really?  Well, they have a very strange way of expressing it.  Let's look at civil rights, which somehow has gotten twisted as being a democratic party stronghold.  The opposite is true:

It was the Democrats who fought to keep blacks in slavery and passed the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. The Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan to lynch and terrorize blacks. The Democrats fought to prevent the passage of every civil rights law beginning with the civil rights laws of the 1860's, and continuing with the civil rights laws of the 1950's and 1960's

During the civil rights era of the 1960's, Dr. King was fighting the Democrats who stood in the school house doors, turned skin-burning fire hoses on blacks and let loose vicious dogs. It was Republican President Dwight Eisenhower who pushed to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and sent troops to Arkansas to desegregate schools. President Eisenhower also appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision ending school segregation. Much is made of Democrat President Harry Truman's issuing an Executive Order in 1948 to desegregate the military. Not mentioned is the fact that it was President Eisenhower who actually took action to effectively end segregation in the military.

Democrat President John F. Kennedy is lauded as a proponent of civil rights. However, Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act while he was a senator, as did Democrat Senator Al Gore, Sr. And after he became president, John F. Kennedy was opposed to the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King that was organized by A. Phillip Randolph who was a black Republican. President Kennedy, through his brother Attorney General Robert Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI on suspicion of being a Communist in order to undermine Dr. King.

Guess who founded the historically black universities?  If you're paying attention, you already know the answer:  Republicans!

Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois was key to the passage of civil rights legislation in 1957, 1960, 1964 and 1965. Not mentioned in recent media stories about extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act is the fact that Dirksen wrote the language for the bill. Dirksen also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing. President Lyndon Johnson could not have achieved passage of civil rights legislation without the support of Republicans.

Contrary to the false assertions by Democrats, the racist "Dixiecrats" did not all migrate to the Republican Party. "Dixiecrats" declared that they would rather vote for a "yellow dog" than vote for a Republican because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.

It is Democrats who smugly think they have moral and intellectual superiority.  It is for this reason they advocate a nanny government, because they think you and I are incapable of running our own lives.