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'Fiscal' Conservatism Needs 'Social' Conservatism

arvamus Wrote: Jan 22, 2013 12:15 PM
If your so-called fiscally conservative social liberals existed, they should have voted for Romney as Obama is completely lacking in the fiscal conservative department (a brainless spendthrift) while Romney had some bona fides as a social liberal that made him unacceptable to purist conservatives. Clearly like moderate Muslims, social libs are a fantasy meant to comfort. Libs who voted for Obama (all of them) share his economic illiteracy and believe all the goodies they want funded can be done from a magic money tree (those richer than them) without impacting on their own wallets. That's how stupid liberals are.
Stuart95 Wrote: Jan 22, 2013 12:49 PM
Partly true, but remember that half of voters did not vote in the recent election - that's the source of allies.

Google "poll fiscal conservative social liberal" if you wish to see the actual evidence of existence of social liberals who are also fiscal conservatives.
For some years now, we have been told about a major division within American conservatism: fiscal conservatives vs. social conservatives.

This division is hurting conservatism and hurting America -- because the survival of American values depends on both fiscal and social conservatism. Furthermore, the division is logically and morally untenable. A conservative conserves all American values, not just economic ones.

By "social conservatism," I am referring to the second and third components of what I call the American Trinity -- liberty, "In God We Trust" and "E Pluribus Unum."

It is worth noting that a similar bifurcation does not exist on the left. One...

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