From: greg_bradt@msmgate.mrg.uswest.com (Greg Bradt)
Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: The "L" word
Date: 22 Dec 92 19:04:37 GMT
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In article <w2s218@rpi.edu> J.R. Ordon, root@june.cmp.rpi.edu writes:
>In article <1992Dec22.074155.21558@jcnpc.cmhnet.org> mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org
(Mike 
>A. McAngus) writes:
>>Owen Barrus (omb@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM) wrote:
>>: In alt.fan.rushlimbaugh, crowder@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Mark Crowder)
writes:
>>
>>I classify myself as a liberal and hold to the following beliefs:
>>1) Civil liberties are important to the point where every care must be
taken in
>>criminal trials so that innocent people are not wrongly convicted.
>>2) Tax exemptions for all religious income and property should be repealed.
>>3) Only charitable organizations that directly benefit the poor should
remain
>>tax exempt.
>>4) Tax deductions for political contributions should be eliminated.
>>5) The country should go to a yearround school calendar.
>>6) The Electoral College should be done away with.
>>7) Abortion should remain safe and legal.
>>8) Anyone who is invited to speak anywhere should be allowed to be heard,
and 
>>any disruptive elements should be removed from the venue.
>>9) Homosexual activity should not be deemed a crime.
>>10) Gays should be allowed in the military.
>>
>>And the list goes on and on.
>> 
>
>As a conservative, I totally agree with you in numbers 2,3,4,5,6,8,9.
>
>The rest?
>
>Number 1... well yes, but we must do something about the victims rights
also.
>
>Number 7 ... Personally, I'm prolife, but I do not feel that I should force
>             my personal beliefs on others.(unlike some liberals & 
>             Conservatives). Majority rule should prevail.
>
>Number 10 ..Gays ARE in the military, if people doubt this, they're naive.
>            yes, gays cannot admit it, and this should be changed, but with
>            moderation.
>
>Now for my additions...
>
>Number 11.  All people should have equal rights, NOT special rights.
>Number 12.  Job employment should be based on ability and qualifications,
>            NOT quotas. This puts me against Affirmative Action.
>Number 13.  Criminals should be treated as just that. I do not believe
>            in making excuses for their actions, bad childhood, poor
family, 
>            Child abuse, ad nausem. Criminals should not be slapped on the
>            wrist, build more prisons if need be. Eliminate the parole
>            system and have standard sentences for crimes.


Actually, I think you both make splendid conservatives.  However, you would
make terrible Republicans.

Why?  Because the Republicans are no more Conservative, in the traditional
sense, than are the Democrats, especially with the recent Democratic shift
toward moderation.  We are left with a choice between secular liberalism
(Democrats) vs. corporate totalarianism (Republicans).

Traditional Conservativism holds that government should only involve itself
in areas where there is a clear need and a clear solution.  Both parties
have been too busy building empires with the proceeds from special interests
to keep site of that principle.  The result is that we have a govenment that
is involved in =everything= and consequently does more harm than good, on
balance.  And, on top of all that, they waste a great deal of our national
economic resources doing it.

We share an unfortunate bond with the former Soviet Union.  We have both
become addicted to "government."  I hope we can start weaning ourselves
before we face the kind of economic withdrawal symptoms that they are
enduring.  If we don't, then it will be just as ugly here.

Greg Bradt aka ()The Lensman()

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