Hillary the Moderate

If the Democrat presidential nomination debates serve no other purpose, they have made Hillary Clinton look like a rational moderate.

Last night at the AFL-CIO debate Hillary Clinton was accused of being too friendly with corporate America. This is the same person who said that she wanted to take (think Karl Marx) the profits from oil companies to use it for her own purpose.

Her foreign policy seems very rational when compared to her opponents. Obama promised to meet immediately with our enemies and to attack one of our allies. Hillary Clinton condemned this.

The rest of the candidates are so overwhelmed with their hatred of President Bush but Hillary Clinton admitted that we are safer today than we were on 9/11, although she added that we are not safe enough.

Do not be fooled. Conservatives cannot begin to believe that a Hillary Clinton presidency "will not be that bad." We hate this woman. She's a socialist who would do more harm to our country than any president since Lyndon Johnson. If she becomes president we will lose some freedoms that we may never get back.

What's a Conservative?

There are many ideas of what makes a political conservative in the U.S. This could be the topic of endless debate. I thought that as my first blog it is important to give my definition of a conservative. This will give you an understanding of why I take the stances that I do.

A conservative in these particular beliefs: that all men and women are endowed with inalienable rights. These rights go as far as someone else's rights begin. The sole purpose of government is to protect these rights. There is very few legitimate actions government has beyond protecting these rights. It is legitimate for government to provide certain things that are necessary for the survival of a society and cannot be provided by the free market. For example, providing a currency is a legitimate function of government.

There are four major elements that makeup conservatism in the United States: strong defense, free market, small government, and traditional values. These issues provide the coalition of people that raised Ronald Reagan to the presidency.