LIke the Federalist, then the names flopped, so when did they become the Conservative party of today?
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Lying Comes Naturally to Republicans\nWhenever Republican politicians find themselves in trouble, their automatic knee-jerk reaction is to blame Democrats. If there is nothing to blame Democrats for, they merely make something up - they lie. This is exactly what the Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman, following the lead of his boss George W. Bush, has done and is doing. He is placing the blame of the mean and punitive House immigration bill on the Democrats, when he knows that it is an outrageous lie. \nthey also know that come this November they will be out of a job...
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DixieCrat wasn't just a term meaning southern conservative Democrat, it was a real party (it's official name was the "State's Rights party")formed as a 3rd party in 1948, with Strom Thurmond as it's presidential candidate.(here was their official platform in 1948, including segregation- http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/dixiecrat1.html)\n\nit pretty much fell apart after the 1948 election.\nBasically, a dixiecrat is a person that stands by the old line democrat platform of segregationist policies (the Democrats used to be the conservative party, and the Republican party was the progressive party- this started to change between the election cycles of 1932 and 1940 with FDR)- the dixiecrats were formed in response to Truman's integration of the armed services and the overall democrat civil rights plank.\n\nBasically in answer to your question,  no there really aren't any people around anymore that believe in the Democratic party but are against it's policies.  Even "yellow dog" Democrats are no longer the type of people that support the party without supporting it's causes.  \n\nThe death knell for the dixiecrats was when Thurmond switched over to the Republican party...the rest fell in line behind him like dominos.
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There is a Libertarian and Constitutionalist party but they get little support.\n\nAmericans just don't care for  the constitution anymore to support such parties. They'd rather vote in crooks from the democrat or republican parties instead.
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The Democrat party has come back with Conservative Democrats as I am. Corruption of the GOP has ruined their chances for quite some time with the immoral values and scandals that will have to be sorted out to bring back any trust in them. That is why the bi-partisanship vote came out November 7th, and Congress is now majority Democrat. Ultimate power corrupts, and those you have named are the victimizers of the corruption.
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There are many different kinds of conservatives. The Economist had an interesting article about the evolution of American Conservatism (which is very different than its counterparts in other parts of the world) a couple of months ago. Traditionally, conservatives want smaller government, less government interference in our private lives, and the government to be accountable for its spending (it should be noted that the first usages of the word liberalism had similar meanings).\n\nMost of the conservatives who are in power today are not of the traditional variety, they are social conservatives, or as some like to call them, neo-cons. They want their social agenda as the law. This is in direct contrast to more traditional conservatives (who now mostly identify themselves as libertarians) who want the government not to regulate or interfere in people's private lives.\n\nIt should also be noted that while conservatives say they want less in the way of entitlement programs, and are fiscally "conservative," the Clinton administration was the one who reformed welfare and balanced the budget, while the Bush administration had the largest increase in entitlement programs in over a decade, and doesn't seem to know what a balanced budget means. Liberalism does not necessarily equal large entitlement schemes, just like conservatism does not necessarily mean someone is fiscally responsible. Labels are usually misleading.
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I'm not even sure that's being "conservative" anymore... I think it's just Batsh*t crazy...\n\ndovebar...  do you really think democrats in congress and the senate are "fascist liberals"... don't you think that's a bit extreme... besides the fact that it doesn't even make sense...
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Quite the contrary... The dems that were trotted out to run against the most liberal of the republicans were far closer to the center, more "conservative" tha the RINO's they ran against. The far left of the dems would not have been able to pull of the upsets that these moderates accomplished. I doubt you'll see major changes in taxes, Iraq, etc. right away. They know that that a lot of people did not vote for them for what they stood for, but just against what they perceived the republicans had become.. corrupt, immoral, big government, tax breaks for the rich & big business and war mongerers. The dems know if they screw it up, the republicans will be back!
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Ha! Don't look now but after counting your gains during the election, you overlooked the trend of the Democrats to turn to Conservatism! Lieberman, Casey, Webb, and several other Dem gains came from a new movement to move toward the center! While the Dems obviously won, so did Conservatism!\n\nLieberman earned MY respect!
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Truman and he was a democrat.  That was a long time ago, before Vietnam.  It's interesting how times have changed things.  Most conservatives today would be considered left wing fanatics by Turmans standards.  Liberals today would seem to be from a different planet all together.
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What it really is today who really knows. back when the earth was cooling (after the start of the last century)Republicans and Democrats were both fiscal conservative groups. The big difference was where the money was best controlled.\n\nDemocrats wanted Washinton DC to collect the money and then send it back to the states, counties, and cities.  \n\nRepublicans wanted the money to stop flowing upward at the lowest level possible and be spent there.\n\nToday is seems the more liberal you are the more you vote Democrat. If you are more conservative you vote Republican. And because there are more people who are basicly conservative than liberal could explain the rise in Republican Representatives and Senators since 1994.\n\nEven during the last midterm election Republicans gained ground which seldom happens.\n\nNow days who really knows what either party really stands for? It would be easier to define someone if there were more parties. like Liberal Republicans, Liberal Democrats, Conservative Republicans and Conservative Democrats,
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The Republican Party aka the GOP (Grand Overclass Party) are minons of the rich and powerful.\n\nThe rich don't like to give their money or influence to anyone unless of course its makes them more money. They also like to use other people's money (our tax dollars) to benifit themselves not the poor or powerless. \n\nSo the term compassionat conservative is just more bull shit those Republican assholes are trying to use to hide their selfish nature. \n\nBush and the GOP...conservatives my ass! Conserve means to protect and not waste. These sons of bitches are doing anything and everything BUT that! \n\nConservative is the biggest bull shit lable I have ever seen in my life. These minons of the rich and powerful also coined the term liberal and that's horse shit too.
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I'm with you. I've been a conservative Republican for about 20 years and I have now officially terminated my support and membership with the RNC. The Republican party has done nothing for me in the past 5 years. And the Democratic Party certainly has done nothing for me EVER!\n\nI'm voting Independent in 2008.\n\nIf you are a conservative I encourage you to look into the Constitution Party. http://www.constitutionparty.com/
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The Tory Party and the Whig Party are two political parties. I believe the Tories tried to meet the needs of the upper class, while the Whigs tried to meet the needs of the lower class. In the American colonies, the Tories were Loyalists and the Whigs were Patriots.
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For other uses, see Tory (disambiguation).\nThe term Tory (from Irish Gaelic tóraighe, an outlaw or guerrilla fighter, during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms — literally meaning "pursued man") applied to the Tory Party, the ancestor of the modern UK Conservative Party. To this day it is often used as a shortened form for Conservatives. Its usage also applied to the pre-1965 Scottish Unionist Party which operated independently of, although in association with, the Conservative Party in England and Wales.\n\nA similar usage for 'Tory' exists in Canada to describe its Conservative Party. It was also used during the American Revolutionary War to refer to British Loyalists in the colonies. During the American Civil War, supporters of the Confederacy extended the term to Southern Unionists.\n\nThis term is used as a shorthand for Conservative Party. Others still do not regard the terms as synonymous and some, such as the late Enoch Powell, proudly regarded themselves as "Tories", precisely because of its supposed reactionary or die hard connotations. This is particularly true of Monarchists, who refer to its use as one in favour of personal execution of royal powers.
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The critics of Lloyd George's reforms, such as introducing a welfare state, when he was PM, were primary the opposition party, the Conservatives. \n\nGood sites to check out:\nspartacus.schoolnet.co.uk\nwikipedia\nbbc.co.uk\nliberalhistory.org.uk
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I'm now a republican, I stopped being a democrat after what they have become. This political correctness and everything, It is disgusting.\n\nI live in Massachuestts btw.
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No.  There is no party that is truly conservative anymore.  We can't even protect our borders. We can't even win in Iraq.  Why?  Politics.  I am from the political standpoint of Winston Churchill.  He crushed his enemies with brute force.  He was considered on the fringe of the right in his time but if he was Prime Minister from the start rather than Neville Chamberlain, Hitler would have been stopped rather than appeased.  I urge anyone who considers themselves to be a republican to read Churchill's biography.  Find out how a true conservative thought.  He did nothing short of save this world.