It just keeps coming up. It came up again in a Hot Air thread. A commenter said:
I can’t think of a person who identifies as a social Conservative who isn’t automatically a fiscal Conservative
I can think of one. The former leader of that gang, Mike Huckabee.
Compare and contrast his record with that of Gary “Mr. Veto” Johnson who is very socially liberal and VERY fiscally conservative. What I like to refer to as the libertarian persuasion. He has the added valued that when given the opportunity he walked the walk.
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7 responses to “Name Just One”
That’s just the US. Don’t hesitate to take examples from the rest of the world – Marine le Pen in France and the former Social Credit Party in Canada.
Sigh! I used to be a social liberal & a fiscal conservative, until I realized the Social Liberals do it all with other people’s money. So, Socially Liberal & Fiscally Conservative becomes an Oxymoron.
Sigh! again, Susan Lee
GW Bush wasn’t exactly fiscally conservative, either.
It is a mystery how so many people can believe as the HotAir commenter. It simply is not so.
I believe your girl Susan has social libs confused with progs.
Reading the HotAir comments will erode your astrocytes. They are misguided progressive conservatives like Huck. Flag Burning! Abortion! Circumcision! HPV vaccination!
He can’t think of any social conservatives period? (If so, maybe he’s right.)
He forgot to type “compared to Obama”?
He thinks that socialists from the good tribe – i.e., his – are going to get the money to enforce his preferred values by some sort of Underpants Gnomes theory? (Elect Huck, ???, Free Money!)
He thinks that he’s in the good tribe so he’s not really a socialist?
Susan,
Are you the Susan Lee from Rockford?
BTW a LOT of social conservatives were progressives back in the day. You can look it up. esp. the history of Drug Prohibition. Or the public school movement.
That kind of thinking (moral socialism mixed with a little economic socialism) is still a big force among “conservatives”. Huckabee.