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MrRodgers -> RE: Those crazy lying propagandists. (5/22/2015 6:58:07 PM)
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ORIGINAL: bounty44
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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers
Trust me, in many things, on many issues, the Tparty...is not conservative.
it helps to know too---there is no one monolithic "tea party."
but that said, im not aware that they aren't about anything that isn't smaller government, lower taxes and fiscal responsibility---hallmarks of conservative thinking.
exactly what "many things" and what "many issues" isnt the tea party conservative?
Well I've seen many at Tparty rallies and heard on the radio, that they believe I presume as you say but also hold up signs and say get govt. off their back but also say don't touch my medicare or soc. sec.
Plus starting Reagan, when asked how he could be a 'fiscal conservative' and finance a defense build-up with a tax cut. Many, trying to speak (for him and as a so-called conservative) said Reagan fell prey to Tip O'Neill begging for the maintenance of certain programs most importantly soc. sec. and save it. When in interviews in reply, O'Neil said congress never had a chance getting 80,000 telegrams a day telling them to give Reagan what he wanted.
Then Bush I extended the deficit spending, promising not to raise taxes. Bush II IF he was a fisc. consv. would not have gone through a surplus with two 'temporary' [sic] tax cuts to finance two wars. So the rhetoric doesn't fit the reality.
So, too the extent any of the repub candidates are campaigning on the same terms and are supported at all by ANY Tpartiers, they will not get true fiscal conservatives, only the rhetoric. Yet I fully expect them to support ANY repub likely other than Bush.
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