Freepers Moaning the loss of "Compassionate Conservatism"

[madinmaryland]

"GOP's compassionless conservatism"

Even without a question from a talking snowman, Wednesday's CNN/YouTube Republican debate made for lively viewing. It also left an unsettling aftertaste. Eight years ago, George W. Bush began his first presidential campaign by proudly identifying himself as a "compassionate conservative." But on Wednesday, many of the Republicans who aspire to succeed Bush seemed to be competing for the title of "meanest candidate."

In pursuit of that goal, the candidates' hearts were especially hardened toward illegal immigrants, including children. Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-El Cajon) boasted that "I built that border fence in San Diego" and promised that, as president, he would fence off the entire border in six months. Mitt Romney professed dismay at the fact that Mike Huckabee, his fellow former GOP governor, had "fought for giving scholarships to illegal aliens." Rudy Giuliani, on the defensive over charges that New York City was a "sanctuary city" during his administration as mayor, conceded he allowed undocumented children to attend public schools -- but insisted he wasn't interested in giving them an education as much as trying to keep them off the streets "at a time in which New York City was going through a massive crime wave."

It wasn't just the troubles of those in the U.S. illegally whose plight failed to move several of the candidates. Hunter, Huckabee, Romney and Sen. John McCain defended the demeaning policy of "don't ask, don't tell" that still governs gays in the military. Hunter added insult to insensitivity by suggesting that gays can't be allowed to serve because most of their comrades would be conservatives with "Judeo-Christian values." (snip)

In 1999, then-Gov. George W. Bush asked: "Is compassion beneath us? Is mercy below us? Should our party be led by someone who boasts of a hard heart?"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1932817/posts

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To: pissant
Unbelievable. President Bush has proposed enough social liberal spending to make a democrat blush.

5 posted on 11/30/2007 7:56:13 AM PST by Perdogg (Elections have consequences.)

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[ThomCat]

1. Don't those fools realize that "Compassionate Conservatism"

was nothing more than a marketting ploy?
:eyes:

[AX10]

2. Definition of: "Compassionate Conservatism"

Compassionate Conservatism: When you get a 1 minute warning before the thugs round you up onto the train.
:puke:

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. All those dead bodies in Iraq add up to some real compassion.

[TwilightGardener]

4. We KILLED them with compassion, dammit! Ingrates...

[TwilightZone]

5. To lose something, don't you have to have it in the first place?

Can't lose what you never had.

[madinmaryland]

8. I think technically they did have it.

You just have to go back to the early 1900's and Teddy Roosevelt!

[YOY]

6. "President Bush has proposed enough social liberal spending to make a democrat blush"

What f***ing planet does this guy live on??? Seriously, I'm not for corporal punishment but this guy needs to be castrated...for the sake of future generations.

[madinmaryland]

11. That one blew my mind, too!

[CJCRANE]

7. Repubs represent "Compassionate Fascism" now n/t

[AuntPatsy]

9. How can one mourn what one never possessed in the first place?

:think:

[Atman]

10. Freepers are stupid fucking idiots.

But hey, even freepers need something to moan about. It's all they've got.

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[iamahaingttta]

12. I remember the first time I heard the phrase...

...Compassionate Conservativism.

I laughed and laughed and laughed and laughed and laughed and laughed...

[madrchsod]

13. "Compassionate Conservatism"

goes to show just how fucking stupid the freepers are. they do not have a clue about what they are talking about or worse just who would be a "compassionate conservative". one person who actually was a compassionate republican was john anderson of illinois today he would be centerist. there`s other examples of men like anderson in the distant past but because the average age of freeper land has to be about 2yrs old they have no clue about how politics used to be in the last century.