Reply #6: I agree with your girlfriend.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

Plus, people are entitled to their opinions, however misguided they may be. It sounds like you are friends with them, so there's no good reason to spoil a friendship over politics.

Fiscal conservatives are somewhat necessary to have around. While I'm a fairly wildly fiscal liberal, balance is needed so as not to send our national debt through the roof. Guys like that bring us back to earth a little. So long as they're not spouting ignorant things like, "The Department of Education should be disbanded!" or "Welfare should be eliminated!", it's not horrible to be a fiscal conservative. I do agree that a good number of them are fiscally conservative because they know exactly who it will hit - minorities, women, children, etc. I don't think they're the majority, however. I find social conservatives to be far, far worse.