Submitted for your approval... The GOP is NOT conservative. Hasn't been for a long time.

[salvorhardin]

I realized the other day that liberals are now the true cultural conservatives as we fight to protect over a hundred years of progress made on civil and human rights, and economic justice, while conservatives are the new radicals burning down what was built by their predecessors.

[MarianJack]

1. The republicans are right wing.

There is a difference between conservative, like Eisenhower or Goldwater, and right wing, like the collection of crazies we see now.

As many have said, even saint ronald wouldn't have been acceptable to the bagger faction. They don't love the man, they love the supposed "legend". Yuck!

PEACE!

[JNelson6563]

2. Today's "conservatives" are actually extremists IMO.

[randr]

3. Republicans have been trying for some time to re-brand themselves

They have worn out "conservative" as it has become obvious they are neither fiscally not environmentally conservatives.
The Neo-Con label never stuck for obvious reasons.
The Tea Party movement was neither a party or deserving of the title.
I am now referring to my fellow Republicans as Neo-Confederates. It fits as their current fantasy is to take us back to the 19th Century.
I would like to find a political epitaph that stands for "Sore Losers" but I can not find one.

[Cleita]

4. They are feudalists.

They want to return us to the days where only the barons had privilege, power and wealth. The masses, the ordinary people were their serfs to kept in poverty, used as they wished and dispose of once they were no longer useful.

[Proud Public Servant]

5. The proper description is "reactionary"

Conservatives want to keep things as they are. Liberals and progressive want change that expands rights, freedoms, and social justice, gererally using government as an agent of change. Reactionaries want to take us back to an earlier moment when our current rights and freedoms were more constricted and government less active.

The current GOP is indeed reactionary. Ironically, the above definition of "conservative" pretty much describes those politicians that the "conservatives" at Freep and elsewhere denigrate as RINOs. I'm thinking of Mitt, Bush, McCain, and Dole in particular.

[dynasaw]

6. Fascist Corporatism

The current republicans are corporatists: Corporatism is usually linked with societies and governments that are fascist oligarchies.


"The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power."

— Franklin D. Roosevelt, April 29, 1938s

[indepat]

10. Unabashed unadulterated unambigous undeserving unpatriotic uick-headed fascists, through and

through.

[treestar]

7. Very true, I agree

They in fact want to tear it all down to start at the beginning, when they think things were wonderful. Like back when people who were not white men knew their place.

[Cognitive_Resonance]

8. They do not deserve to claim the label "conservative." There really is no coherent or thoughtful

ideology underlying the modern right wing. It's all about manipulation of a gullible base through appeals to negative emotions--fear, hate, selfishness, and envy--to promote and protect select corporate interests (Big Oil, Banking, Insurance, Tobacco, etc.). There's really nothing "conservative" about it.

[kentuck]

9. I think that is the perfect slogan for the next election...

Especially if Romney is their nominee. "THE GOP IS NOT CONSERVATIVE". Most Republicans know that already and this would help to solidify the notion. It would put Romney on the defensive and keep him there for the duration. It would make Repubs question what they are voting for. Very excellent comment.