Differnce bewteen Conservatives and Liberals

[StuDawggie]

The true "politcal" definition with out any politcal slant of a liberal and a conservative, is based in how the seerate parties spent government funds.

Liberals beleived that taxes should be spent on public funded programs, and were "liberal" with their spendings.
Conservatives beleived that taxes should be saved, and only spent on necessary items when needed.

With that said, both parties are so wishy washy, and afraid to offend anyone that what m 98 stated earlier, both groups are so middle of the road that there really is no clear line between the two .

[lather]

Conservatives used to promote fiscal responsibility as well as personal responsibility.. a "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps" way of thinking.

Liberals used to be pro union, the working man, and promote tolerance.

IMHO the ideal Conservative was Ronald Reagan, The ideal Liberal--JFK


Recently it seems both Conservatives and Liberals alike are too extreme and way too over-zealous.

Unfortunately, the ideal Conservative, John McCain, and the ideal Liberal, Sen. Chris Dodd are not in the race.
(McCain is not Neo-Conservative far right enough and Dodd is not PETA far left enough to get any support from the vocal extremists).


Neither Bush or Kerry can hold a candle to these two guys..



True moderates are becoming an endangered species..

[aaron_mag]

Conservatives used to promote fiscal responsibility as well as personal responsibility.. a "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps" way of thinking.

Liberals used to be pro union, the working man, and promote tolerance.

IMHO the ideal Conservative was Ronald Reagan, The ideal Liberal--JFK


Recently it seems both Conservatives and Liberals alike are too extreme and way too over-zealous.

Unfortunately, the ideal Conservative, John McCain, and the ideal Liberal, Sen. Chris Dodd are not in the race.
(McCain is not Neo-Conservative far right enough and Dodd is not PETA far left enough to get any support from the vocal extremists).


Neither Bush or Kerry can hold a candle to these two guys..



True moderates are becoming an endangered species..

Intelligent post!!! I'd tend to agree with it.

Something interesting...the last true fiscal conservative was probably Carter. He sliced government spending down to the point of insanity. He didn't even have the White House air conditioned. It was to the point where his own party was complaining about him ruining pork barrel politics. But, while in theory it was good, it was really bad. He wasn't willing to play the game with his own party and became ineffective...