"Obama Is a Republican"

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It's a clever heading to get readers. The point is, Obama is a big government progressive and there are many Republicans that are also big government progressives. While "Conservative" still means something, "Republican" no longer does.
 

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It's a clever heading to get readers. The point is, Obama is a big government progressive and there are many Republicans that are also big government progressives. While "Conservative" still means something, "Republican" no longer does.

Why don't you just say "big government progressive right wing liberal moderate christian evangelical Republicans", that way we can better differentiate between Conservatives and Regular Republicans.

WTH is a Conservative anyway? Its Just another word for Old men and old women.
 

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The article references Nixon but you can go back at least as far as Eisenhower and find big .gov Republicans.
Eisenhower years marked by huge spending programs for infrastructure and public health projects and sky high tax rates.
Nixon was his VP.
 

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I suppose there is even a case to be made that Hoover was a big .gov republican.

When the Wall Street Crash of 1929 struck less than eight months after he took office, Hoover tried to combat the ensuing Great Depression with government enforced efforts, public works projects such as the Hoover Dam, tariffs such as the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, an increase in the top tax bracket from 25% to 63%, and increases in corporate taxes.[3] These initiatives did not produce economic recovery during his term, but served as the groundwork for some policies incorporated in Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.
 

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Why don't you just say "big government progressive right wing liberal moderate christian evangelical Republicans", that way we can better differentiate between Conservatives and Regular Republicans.

WTH is a Conservative anyway? Its Just another word for Old men and old women.

The American conservative movement is not defined by a set of policies but rather by a commitment to conserve America's first principles and its tradition of limited self-government. Conservatism holds that these first principles-proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence and promulgated by the United States Constitution-define us as a country and inspire us as a people. Conservatives believe that the original structure of America's carefully written constitution and its enduring framework of limited government is the best mechanism for securing national independence, providing economic opportunity, establishing religious liberty, and maintaining a flourishing society of republican self-government. Conservatives believe that the change we need, the change that is consistent with the American idea, is not movement away from but toward our principles-which are both the fixed goal and the unchanging ground of our ever-changing experience.

There are, of course, a wide variety of groups and movements within the conservative movement itself. Some are primarily focused on strengthening our national defense, others are concerned primarily with social issues, and still others are driven primarily to advance economic freedom. Although each of these groups is unique, they are all fused together into an identifiable movement-the conservative movement-by a common commitment to conserve America's first principles and political traditions.

For more on the conservative movement, see Matthew Spalding's lecture " A New American Fusionism: Recovering Principles in Our Politics. "
 

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