Thom Hartmann: Today's Republicans Aren't Conservative

[Ferd Berfel]

Here's one to share with your republican friends...............
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http://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2015/11/todays-republicans-arent-conservative

Republican presidential hopefuls took to the stage in Milwaukee on Tuesday night to duke it out for the fourth time and to try and win the hearts and minds of Republican voters.

One candidate after another took their turn trying to convince Republican viewers that their policies are more conservative than any of their opponents'.

They disagreed on immigration policy, they disagreed on the role of the US military in world affairs, and they disagreed about how best to gut Obamacare and what agencies to gut in order to balance their budget.

But they could all agree on a few things.

For example, they all attacked Dodd-Frank with claims that it's killing community banks and making it easier for big banks to get bigger.

And they all had their own ideas for how to reform the tax code to even further line the coffers of corporations and the superrich.

But those ideas aren't really "conservative", and the Republican party isn't really a conservative party anymore.

[DFW]

1. I've been saying this for years

Maybe he read on of my posts. I may even have stated it in an email to him, I don't recall, but today's Republicans aren't looking to conserve anything--not the environment, not the rights we supposedly have under the Constitution, not natural resources, not energy, not our oceans, not even their beloved Christianity unless it's some perverted version put out there by Mick Huckabee, Ben Carson or Joel Osteen.

[hifiguy]

2. The Republican party has been an openly fascist party.

as fascism was defined by Giovanni Gentile, since the public takeover by Gingrich.

And it keeps getting more fascist each day.

[Elwood P Dowd]

3. Ike, Lincoln, Goldwater, Ford, and even Nixon would be run out of today's republican party.

I will never forget reading to some repuke a couple of statements by Ike from the 1950s. They were about Social Security and organized labor. I then asked him who made those statements, and he said it sounded like some leftist or communist.

[hifiguy]

5. You ain't just a-woofin, Elwood

Today's "Mainstream" Democrats would - and do - run from virtually everything in the platform the Repubs ran on in 1956:

[MFrohike]

4. Yes, they are

Arguing over the definition of conservative is a fool's game. Attack that word until they're too ashamed to even think of using it. The arguments over the definition just serve to make conservatism look like a noble cause that's been betrayed. It's far better to point out the evils conservatism has wrought as examples of "conservative values."