Is it true she is a hardcore republican?
-
daviolinspider — 12 years ago(April 05, 2014 01:04 AM)
What's your point? I'm both a fiscally and socially conservative Christian and I'm neither anti gay nor uneducated. The libs try to pigeon hole conservatives and paint a picture of us that is in keeping with their agenda of portraying conservatives as "intolerant" hicks. Try having a conversation with a true Conservative or are you afraid to find out tolerant and pro freedom we really are?
-
-
archer1949 — 12 years ago(February 13, 2014 12:55 PM)
Maybe she's one of those Fiscally conservative, Socially libertarian "Eastwood Republicans". A dying breed in the party.
I may not agree with everything those kind of Republicans stand for, but I find them far more palatable and less hypocritical than the theocratic nutjobs that run the party now.
Many Americans of Persian Descent are Republicans due to their hardline stance on the Iranian Islamic Republic. They tend to be very associated with that one issue. Very similar to the people of Cuban descent in South Florida.
"Nope, Hipster nonsense. I'm out." -
drummsteven23 — 11 years ago(May 04, 2014 07:23 PM)
Just because someone is pro-gay does not mean that they are socially liberal. One could be pro-gay but still be conservative on other social issues (e.g. death penalty; gun control; ab2000ortion; flag burning; e.t.c.).
-
nomen_meltdown — 11 years ago(December 08, 2014 11:41 PM)
Contrary to what some (liberals
and
some conservatives) would have us believe, it isn't a monolith. "Conservative" is a descriptor that can apply in a multitude of ways one can be "fiscally conservative" while being socially liberal or "socially conservative" while being more free with their economics. There's also a brand of (kinda old fashioned) "conservative" politics that sees a person's personal, private business as none of anybody else's business and so doesn't try to infringe on GLBT rights like the neo-fascist know-nothin' bigots who've largely laid claim to the title nowadays. But I lean way left and I had good friends in university who described themselves as conservatives and had no animosity or 'agenda' towards gay rights except to assert that everyone should be judged by how they treat others which they considered a 'traditional' moral position.
So it's sort of a subjective term, lots of people who use it mean lots of different things by it. Best to ask someone who describes themselves as a conservative what that actually
means
to them, and form your assessment of them based on the sum of all their parts, rather than assuming that because they've adopted a certain label they must be X, Y and Z and writing them off out of hand.
I'm an island- peopled by bards, scientists, judges, soldiers, artists, scholars & warrior-poets. -
hytecker — 9 years ago(January 14, 2017 08:32 PM)
There are a group of gay conservatives called the Log Cabin Republicans. They're pretty much ostracized on the down low by the majority of republicans. They keep them around so their homophobic agenda doesn't seem so antiquated and bigoted.