Rush Limbaugh is not a conservative; he's a Republican.

Conservatives defend the environment. Republicans exploit the environment.

Conservatives champion fiscal responsibility. Republicans have abandoned fiscal responsibility.

Conservatives believe in a strong national defense. Republicans have destroyed our national defenses.

Conservatives believe nobody is above the law. Republicans routinely put Republican leaders above the law.

Conservatives keep the government out of the bedroom. Republicans defend the government being in your bedroom.

Conservatives believe in Jesus. Republicans believe in exploiting Jesus.

Conservatives despise nation building. Republicans thrive on nation building.

Conservatives invest wisely. Republicans invest fraudulently.

Conservatives believe in smaller government. Republicans founded the ever-expanding government.

Conservatives defend the Constitution. Republicans shit on the Constitution.

It should be inscribed in granite and placed in front of every State Capital!

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of a republican.

I'm liberal and I've voted for Feinstein since before she was Mayor of SF, I can't stand her right-wing bullshit, but she has a "D" next to her name and she votes for some liberal policy and she's not a complete republican....In name only, Feinstein does vote with extreme republicans positions and has covered for them for so long it's sickening, but clearly and certainly not a conservative.

Feinstein is arguably fiscally responsible.

Feinstein certainly believes in a strong national defense.

Feinstein probably doesn't believe nobody is above the law.

Feinstein wants to keep government out of the bedroom.

Feinstein is a believer but never exploits it.

Feinstein apparently supports nation building.

Feinstein invests wisely.

Feinstein may or may not believe in smaller government.

Feinstein is conflicted on the Constitution.

Hmmm.

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and created the national park system. And TR was (at least in the terms of his day) a rock-ribbed Republican. But he used to damn-to-the-rafters "malefactors of great wealth" too, so I don't think he'd be very welcome anywhere around today's Repigs.

Conservative means careful and cautious. They would want to preserve the environment. Many conservative sportsmen are ardent environmentalists. Republicans want to pave and develop.

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about conserving nature.

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And separation of church and state.

Thinking about Republicans doing those things is a mind bender...

all realize that they have a common interest in protecting the environment & fighting polluters.
this has been a shock to the extreme right, who believe it's God's will that they subjugate and destroy the land...

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So there are no Jewish conservatives? Or Muslim, Hindu, etc.?

that's all, a more bloated less charming PT Barnum.

That's why he has the RNC chairman kissing his butt.

Nice try.

have no spine and that doesn't amke Limbaugh anything more than a barker, that's what he does, that's his function.

They created him; now they have to live with him.

When the chairman of the RNC kisses his ass, there is little doubt who is the top dog.

and that is about as good as it gets. :applause:

Dwight Eisenhower was a conservative president. The Chimp was a Republican.

Rush Limbaugh is not a conservative; he is a fascist.

After living through the decades in which the Republican party turned liberal into a dirty word (to the point that Democrats felt they had to usurp "progressive" from progressives), I am unwilling to give the right wing of the U.S. 2 party system any sort of legitimacy at all.

It is too early to allow anyone who calls themselves conservative to arise from the Coulter-Limbaugh-Savage-Hannity muck that they've supported. Let me crawl around in it for a couple of decades.

...but that may indeed support your OP, as republicans tend to be opportunists.

Conservatism.

If you begin with the assumption that we need a two-tiered society of haves and have-nots (and that *is* a central tenet of Conservatism), then you will end up with a party that works ceaselessly to comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted.

If you begin with the assumption that government is an inherently bad thing, then you will have a party full of crooks lining up to do bad things with the government.

The modern Republican Party is the natural result of Conservatism. Conservatism is a failed political philosophy. It should be tarred with it's failures and left behind. If we allow the blame to fall on a crop of politicians, we're setting ourselves up for a new set of con men to come along and sell the same con.

,...and do not give a shit how they register.

I must say,...your post is so RUSH-ISH,...I suppose that is the point.

and provides a necessary balance. George Bush & Dick Cheney weren't "conservatives," at all: they were radicals that tried to dismantle many of the conservative checks & balances that keep our system working.

he's not a Rethug.

propensities toward totalitarianism and dictatorships. Their philosophy can be best summed up in the words, "The ends justify the means." These words incidentally are in every corporate CEO's playbook.