LIBERAL OR CONSERVATIVE

[TrueBlue72 0]

The great English statesman, Winston Churchill once said, "If a man isn't a liberal at eighteen, he has no heart, if he isn't a conservative by thirty, he has no mind". I've always had a lot of admiration for Churchill's wisdom!

[Tigermike 3,711]

For the most part I tend to be somewhat conservative on many issues. I also consider myself liberal on some issues as well. But I mostly post conservative points of view just to aggravate Al & Donut.

But Howard Dean is a Hard-Core Liberal.

http://www.issues2000.org/Howard_Dean.htm

[Tiger Al 0]

I'm a liberal. Mike, I'd be curious as hell as to what issues you consider yourself to be liberal on!!!

[SouthLink02 8]

I am 60/40 Liberal/Conserv

[Tigermike 3,711]

Mike, I'd be curious as hell as to what issues you consider yourself to be liberal on!!!

Sex!

Marijuana!

Rock & Roll!

Education! But unlike the liberals in control, I don't think throwing more money after more money will cure all the problems.

If money were the panacea of all the problems in education, it only seems logical it would have been "fixed" by now. If more money "fixed" all things, Auburn would have done better this past football season merely because CTT was paid more.

I also think school vouchers are truly a liberal idea. But the liberals are fighting tooth & nail to stop that from happening.

I also feel teacher testing is a liberal concept but the liberal led education lobby don't like that either.

Help for those in need! Not the lazy and unwilling.

I'm a liberal.

Of that there was never any doubt. Unfortunately there is also no cure.

[Jenny AU-92 0]

Al, even tho I would sign away my soon-to-be first born before ever stating that I was a li... you know what, I do have some issues in which I favor less of the typical conservative position. Today I talked abt my support for an all out ban on assault weapons, 10+ round magazines and cop killer bullets. I do not agree with abortion on demand without cause, meaning primarily as a birth control method, but I still support a woman's right to choose in certain circumstances - even being pregnant has not changed my opinion on that aspect of the issue. I also agree with the efforts of The Nature Conservancy in buying land to prevent its misuse.

But since I also firmly believe that the rest of the liberal agenda is claptrap, I whole heartedly and proudly consider myself a conservative. GWB ROCKS! :hearteyes:

[AUloggerhead 2,516]

The definitions of liberal & conservative need to be defined. In Friedrick Hayek's book, The Road to Serfdom, he identifies himself as a "classical liberal." The book was published first in Britain in 1944, and was a commentary on how increasing governmental control & socialism would destroy individual freedoms.

In Hayek's own words:

I use throughout the term "liberal" in the original 19th-century sense in which it is still current in Britain.  In current American usage it often means very nearly the opposite of this.  It has been part of the camouflage of leftish movements in this country, helped by the muddleheadedness of many who really belive in liberty, that "liberal" has come to mean the advocacy of almost every kind of government control.  I am still puzzled why those in the US who truly believe in liberty should not only have allowed the left to appropriate this almost indespensible term but should even have assisted by beginning to use it themselves as a term of opprobrium.  This seems to be particularly regrettable because of the consequent tendancy of many true liberals to describe themselves as conservatives. 

I'm in favor of a society with a less-pronounced governmental interference over individual liberties guaranteed under the US Constitution than we are living under today, right now. I'm particularly against the confiscatory nature of so-called "progressive" taxes such as the graduated income tax to pay for socialistic government policies that are more efficiently delivered by non-governmental entities. I'm in favor of individual responsiblity and a leaner, meaner government not always sticking its nose in where it doesn't belong.

Whether that makes me a liberal or a conservative under any definition is irrelevent to me. That's what I believe in and that's what guides me when it's time for me to vote. Clear enough for you?