Bush: Socially Conservative, Fiscally Liberal

[drdigi420]

Against personal freedom, against fiscal responsibility

Bush wants bigger government and more spending. He is a fiscal liberal.

Bush wants government to control your personal life: a social conservative.

He is the worst of both worlds.

[Alpharetta]

1. internationally he's the opposite of conservative: RECKLESS

[King of New Orleans]

2. exactly, he's fiscally reckless

big difference

Or better yet, he's fiscally incompetent

[Alpharetta]

6. and militarily he's reckless too. worst commander in chief ever

what a stupid occupation. Did he learn nothing from Vietnam? Oops, we know the answer to that.

[Renew Deal]

3. Fiscally conservative is a joke.

They have run the biggest deficits this country has ever seen.

[Gold Metal Flake]

4. Humbly, I submit, fuck you for mischaracterising liberal fiscal policies.

Sell that shit somewhere else. Bush's fiscal policy is fraud. Simple as that.

{edit: Sorry so harsh. But don't insult Bush by insulting us!}

[drdigi420]

7. well, since you failed to grasp the meaning of my post

I won't bother explaining it to you.

You might get insulted at that too.

Geez.

Oh, and Cheney You Too, for being so dense

[Gold Metal Flake]

8. LOL!

If you didn't want criticism, you should have said so.

I understand what you are trying to do. You want to attack the radical right with the language of the radical right. But, by using the slurs and lies that the radical right uses to attack the left you are perpetuating those attacks on the left. The idea (or lie) that fiscal liberalism is bad and therefore something to condemn is a radical right concept and can in no way aid the left. Using that concept to attack the radical right does not help us.

Fiscal liberalism is good. Fiscal liberalism saved capitalism, more than once. Fiscal liberalism created the middle class in this country. Fiscal liberalism helped get our children out of the mines and the factories and into schools. Fiscal liberalism helped to create comfortable and secure retirements for millions of our citizens. The movement away from fiscal liberalism is taking all of those things away.

Bushco is not fiscally liberal. Bushco is fiscally irresponsible.

[John_H]

11. Who says we liberals are dour and humorless!!

[krkaufman]

10. Yes, thank you.

"Fiscal liberal" does not equal "out-spend your income by taking a loan against your children's taxes in order to funnel cash to your big-money donors."

The original poster is

[Alpharetta]

5. Against personal freedoms means he's a social engineer

Engineering families. Government in our private lives. What kind of conservative is that? Not really a conservative if he won't conserve our rights.

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. Disastrous is what he is.

[John_H]

12. Good one. Aim that right at their base.