Conservatives, do you feel our party needs to be reformed?

[floridasandy]

Originally Posted by bchris02

We need a true fiscal-conservative Republican who either is moderate on social issues or de-emphasizes them completely. I am tired of having to choose every election between radical socialists or the Christian taliban. If the Republican party is to survive the next generation the pandering to religious nuts has to stop. Loose mentioning of God is fine but thumping the Bible and claiming they are doing God's work has to stop. The people who actually agree with nuts like Pat Robertson and James Dobson is actually relatively small, especially in metro areas, but for some reasons it seems like these people are running the Republican Party and are running it into the ground. This country is desperate for an alternative to Obama's socialist policies but conservatism in its current state, dominated by evangelicals who are more concerned with who is sleeping with who than creating more jobs, lowering taxes, and reducing the deficit by cutting unnecessary spending, is NOT the answer.

i think a lot of the religious angle is purely liberal propaganda. they picked ron paul at CPAC, which represents the most conservative americans. i think most conservatives are more in line with a fiscally responsible live-and-let-live message. i was particularly pleased that they picked ron paul and are veering away from the neo-con "war movement". war spending diverts as much capital as the social programs do, so they are both taking capital away from job creation, which is what will build this country back up again.

working americans have a vested interest in the economic health of this country, unlike illegal immigrant groups where they divert capital back to their home countries.

i see the people in our country starting to go in a good direction.

[Renaldo5000]

Originally Posted by ryanst530

Do you feel the current conservative party is broken?

It is utterly broken. We need to take the party back from the neo-conservatives as they have destroyed the party from the inside-out and allowed it to be led astray. For us true conservatives, I don't know who is the larger enemy right now; the neo-cons or the progressives/liberals.

1. Start actually practising fiscal conservatism and not just paying lip service to it. Lower federal spending and raise taxes. We need to start running surpluses so that we can pay down our massive debt.

2. End the alliance with the Christian social conservatives. They are a powerful political bloc but they cause harm and bring divisiveness to the party. Spiritual belief systems have no place in the political lexicon of a democratic republic.

3. End our excessive interventionism in world affairs. Not only does it **** people off and waste resources, it is all financed by debt which makes us weaker in the long term. We need to strive to maintain our economic and military supremacy and a more isolationist stance is the way to accomplish this.