Rainbow Crow wrote:The Republican party's modern weakness has basically been putting fiscal conservatism ahead of social conservatism instead of vice-versa.
Since at least Ronald deficit whore, I don't negotiate with terrorists honest, Reagan, the Republicans have never put fiscal Conservatism ahead of anything. In recent years their overriding domestic priority has been tax cuts for the rich: Inheritance, capital gains and Corporation. The only Republican who might have some claim to fiscal Conservatism is George Bush senior, who rightly described Reagans's policies as voodoo economics. His ensuing sell out being rather reminiscent of Nixon jumping into bed with commie loving Eisenhower.
Call me Mr picky but off book wars, star wars, Iowan farm subsidies, bridges to Nowhere, no child left behind, Medicare prescription drug expansion, and death panel screaming, government get your hands of my Medicare teabaggers do not a fiscal Conservative make.