It's time to come out of the closet...

I am a Conservative; I guess many of you would label me a Neo/Con. Speaking as a member of this "team" I need to fix someone's thinking on what they are so sure they know. We Neo/Con's do not believe in empire building. Reaper/Tom Carter simply has his facts bent again.

What we would like to see is conservative majorities in both houses of Congress and a conservative in the Whitehouse. However, as true conservatives we really don't care what your party affiliation is.

Settle down in the third dimension of hell... I'll explain.

As I listen to Carter and others speak there appears to always be a team effort to lead them astray, to pull them over to the conspiracy theory side of life. This is sad but is often what happens to the weak minded as they are carried with the theory of the day.
It is however true that a true conservative can be in either party. It is also true that very few exist in either party today.

I guess to some extent the problems in Washington are the fault of many like me. In the wake of the Bad Press Presidency of Bill Clinton, starting with the Bimbo Eruptions, File Gate, Travel Office Gate, White Water, Vince Foster's death, Mena Arkansas right up the final blow of Monica-Gate, people like me were open to swallow the idea that another Reagan had been discovered. We thought that man might be George W. Bush.

We had hoped for another man who could stand and deliver a speech full of promise, not promises, a persona that would envelope the Conservative Ideology of true personal sacrifice and hard work being the main ingredients in creating a solid foundation for a future of economic stability for ones self and family. We believed and still do that in Conservatism there exists a moral code that if followed, if allowed to be a guideline for the way you conduct yourself and your business, that both our communities and ourselves would be raised up to a new level.

While the dream still burns, we are having to take a long look what we grabbed hold of to accomplish this. We made some horrible mistakes when we bought into Compassionate Conservatism. We naively thought that GWB had simply taken our ideals and repackaged them into something that sounded gentle, pleasant and inviting. What we should have done was stop the train right there and then and demanded more information. What Compassionate Conservatism has accomplished in the areas of Social Programming and Big Government Spending is incredibly damaging to the conservative movement, undoubtedly we have been pushed back a decade or two by this notion that only by outspending the liberal Democrats in congress can we make the country like us.

This was never the goal of True Conservatism. Conservatism is by its very nature, compassionate. A belief that now and then we all need a lift up, not a hand out. That those who have the desire to achieve should never be told they can not, regardless of who they are, where they have come from or what color their skin is. The Left has created this illusion that they are the party for the minority and that only by voting for the Left can the minorities ever get a fair shake in life. Each decade of their power wielding has produced nothing more than a new set of obstacles for the minorities in this country to overcome, and once again it is the left who promises to do just that so long as they get re-elected.

When in reality we conservatives know that you create your own opportunity in this county and want nothing more than to show the minorities the way to achieve using their own God given talents and abilities.

But we bought the lie. We bought the idea that repackaged into compassionate conservatism the people could be brought along into this idea and we would all benefit from it. But the joke was on us. Now we sit here thinking about ways to rebuild a movement, polish the tarnish off an idea that has been twisted and manipulated into this Compassionate Conservatism which is little more than Liberal Spending Policies, followed by questionable leadership abilities, and topped off with the stated desire for non-partisanship all in an attempt to fix the mess they created by leaving the truth of conservatism behind.

So as many of you out there throw around the word NEO-CON, remember who it is that you mean. The majority of true conservatives, while applauding some actions like the tax cuts which have produced more revenue into the public coffers than at any time in recent history, we too have our issues with the spending this President has done,  the lack of real progress in Iraq (which might actually be turning around now, God willing) and the ideas of global warming and our need to be involved with the fringe groups who are reaping a kings ransom from it's propaganda, and we realize that it was us who elected him and re-elected him. And while at the time our national safety was our number one concern, we now wonder if we gave too much for what we got in return... Only time will tell.

But know this, the Conservative movement is not dead, being battered and bruised it might take a year of two, but we are far from dead. Likewise know this, hell bent on political power and the destruction of the constitution and the two party system is also not what we are about, although considering what has been masquerading around as conservative in the last 7 years, even I can understand why you might fear that.

But what would I know; I'm just and Average Conservative American.