Reply #16: And Bush considered himself a compassionate conservative

[krispos42]

a reformer with results.

McCain consideres himself a Maverick®


Howabout an outside evaluation, hmmmm?


MY outside observation is as follows:

Palin is an intellectual lightweight with a serious lack of intellectual curiosity. This lack of intellectual curiousity is driven by her deep, almost fanatical, acceptence and adherence to fundamentalist evangelical Christianity. In her framework, when reality chashes with the Bible, reality loses.

She has authoritarian personality tendencies, which means that her craving for simplicity and black-and-white answers to difficult real-live situations and in politics. Modern Republicanism gives her that simplicity: America is always good, and those that oppose it (foreign or domestic) are bad. Jesus is good, non-Jesus is bad. Tax cuts are always good. The free market is always good. Social programs interfere with the free market and must be cut whenever possible. The only way to cut social programs is to "starve the beast", which massive defense spending helps to do. Cutting taxes, in addition to being conductive to the free market, also helps to starve the beast of social programs. America is and always has been a Christian country, full of Christians, founded by Christians, and formed from Christian priciples. Science disproves the Bible; since the Bible is God's Word, science therefore is wrong when there is conflict. We are in the Biblical end times with the creation of the Jewish state (according to the Bible) and since the Bible is always correct, Jesus' return is imminent and therefore worrying about long-term problems like Social Security, the ozone layer, global warming, etc., are really not worth worrying about, especially when it involves futzing in the free market. People that study stuff and form non-Bible-based opinions and produce non-Bible-based scientific studies, theories, and other university-level work think that they know more than Our Lord God and are elitists and unknowingly in the employment of Satan.