What Is A Conservative?

By Anonymous

A Conservative is an individual that desire to preserve or maintain his or her set of values. Whether or not being a Conservative is good or bad depends entirely upon which values you are seeking to preserve.

In the 1770's a colonist that supported the oppressive government of King George would have been classified as a Conservative. In the 1860's individuals that opposed the abolition of slavery would have been labeled conservatives.

Before the American War for Independence, it was believed that Kings and Queens ruled by divine right. This principle led to tyranny and human bondage. To accept the status quo would have been the position of a conservative. After the ratification of the Constitution, a new set of principles were established in America and now an individual that embraced the principles outlined in the Declaration of Independence became a conservative. Declaring that one is a conservative without stating the principles that you wish to maintain doesn't tell anyone what you believe.

Those opposed to the principles articulated in our founding documents want to divide and confuse the people in order to control them. We need to stop identifying ourselves with political labels such as liberals and conservatives and start definng who we are by proclaiming the principles in which we believe.

I am not a liberal or a conservative. I am not a republican or a democrat. I don't lean to the right or to the left. I simply believe that we were endowed by our Creator with the right to life, liberty and property. I believe that governments derive their power from the consent of the governed and were created to secure our unalienable rights.

Today we have been taught that to rebel against tyranny and injustice is radical, but in the 1770's it was considered Patriotic. We are no longer taught that morality is doing what is right, and that blind obedience is doing what you are told.

I Am Your Worse Nightmare. I Am A BAD American.

I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some mid level governmental functionary, be it Democratic or Republican!

I believe that owning a gun doesn’t make you a killer, I believe it makes you a smart American.

I believe that being a minority does not make you noble or victimized, and does not entitle you to anything.

I believe that if you are selling me a Big Mac in the USA, do it in English.

I believe everyone has a right to pray to his or her God when and where they want to.

My heroes are John Wayne, Babe Ruth, Roy Rogers, and whoever canceled Jerry Springer.

I don’t hate the rich. I don’t pity the poor.

I know wrestling is fake and I don’t waste my time watching or arguing about it.

I’ve never owned a slave, or was a slave, and I WILL NOT pay reparations for something that I didn’t do.

I haven’t burned any witches or been persecuted by the Turks and neither have you! So, shut up already.

This is AMERICA, I believe if you don’t like the way things are here, go back to where you came from and change your own country!

I want to know which church it is exactly, where the Reverend Jesse Jackson preaches, where he gets his money, and why he is always part of the problem and not the solution. Can I get an AMEN on that one?

I think the cops have every right to shoot your sorry ass if you’re running from them, because if you’re not guilty, WHY are you running?

I also think the cops have the right to pull you over if you’re breaking the law, regardless of what color you are, that’s the job we’re paying them to do.

And, no, I don’t mind having my face shown on my drivers license. I think it’s good, it lets you know it’s really me.

I’m proud that the word ‘God’ is written on my money.

I believe that if you are too stupid to know how a ballot works, I don’t want you deciding who should be running the most powerful nation in the world for the next four years.

I dislike those people standing in the intersections trying to sell me stuff or trying to guilt me into making ‘donations’ to their cause.

I believe that it doesn’t take a village to raise a child, it takes two parents. Two STRAIGHT parents, not the *2 mommies* or *2 daddies* that the homo loving libbers are SO fond of.

I believe ‘illegal’ is illegal no matter what the law makers think.

I believe the American flag should be the only one allowed to fly over American soil! If you want to fly the flag of YOUR nation at the top of a flag pole, by all means, do so, IN YOUR OWN NATION! And if the American flag is NOT your flag, then this is NOT your nation.

If this makes me a BAD American or causes you to classify me as a racist, then yes, I’m a BAD American and a racist.

If you’re a BAD American, if you share the same feelings and beliefs that I do, please, copy and post this on your web site for everyone to see.

We want our country back!

GOD BLESS AMERICA!

You're NOT Alone!

I received this from my friend James M. Sharp

Do you shake your head in amazement every time you hear news reports that indicate that President Obama's approval ratings are somewhere near fifty percent? Do you find yourself asking, "Exactly WHO are these fifty percent?" If so, you're not alone.

If you curse each time you fill the tank on your car as you pay somewhere around $3.50 per gallon remembering that, when Obama was inaugurated, you were paying less than two dollars, you're not alone.

If you find yourself disgusted nearly every single visit to the grocery store as you see a steady increase in price or decrease in package size (or both) of most of the products that you buy every day, you're not alone.

If you've seen the value of your home continue to fall - even though the housing crisis supposedly took place several years ago, you're not alone. If you've been responsibly making your house payment while some people are receiving government-mandated loan modifications, you're not alone.

If you're sick and tired of seeing the US Justice Department shooting down state legislatures' attempts to protect their citizens from illegal aliens, you're not alone. If you find yourself wondering how Eric Holder can still have a job in the wake of the "Fast & Furious" scandal, you're not alone.

If you are outraged at the thought of South Carolina fighting a federal government that attempted to prevent Boeing Corporation from opening an aircraft plant in that state, you're not alone.

Do you find yourself in utter amazement at governmental spending programs use your hard-earned dollars for such insane items as treadmills for shrimp? Do you find it reprehensible that the executives of Solyndra got away with pilfering a half billion dollars of your money with no one being held accountable? And where did that $800 billion stimulus go. Did you stop to wonder why the unemployment rate has averaged over nine percent since Obama was inaugurated in spite of all of that money being spent? Well, my friend, you're not alone.

Have you grown discouraged by the fact that you go to work - or, if you're retired, went to work - day in and day out only to watch your elected officials give YOUR money to people that, for whatever reason, will not do for themselves? Have you paused to count the number of governmental programs that are in place to "help the less-fortunate"? Have you wondered why, in spite of all of those programs, there are still poor people? If so, you're not alone.

Take heart in the fact that you're not alone. The election of 2012 is going to go down in history as a turning point in American history.

Will you go to the polls in November to vote out of office the commander-in-chief that has presided over the most prolonged period of high unemployment since the Great Depression? The president that has managed, with a complicit Congress, in just three years, to amass a debt that eclipses the total combined debt of all of the presidents from Washington through George H.W. Bush?

If so, you're DEFINITELY not alone!