Does anyone really expect there to be a Compassionate Conservatism?

[ck4829]

I like it when my fellow DU'ers call out Conservatives when they aren't being so compassionate.

But, I wonder, has anyone really believed that Conservatism could be compassionate?

Compassionate Conservatism? That's an oxymoron to me!

Conservatism, as we know it today, is inhumane, factually incorrect, brutal, intolerant, bigoted, oppressive, immoral, and just plain evil.

These 'values' above are anything but moral values and they are anything but compassion.

Is it Compassionate Conservatism when:

George W. Bush wants a stop to the Florida recount?

George W. Bush goes on vacation, and thus, fails to prevent 9/11?

George W. Bush lies to the American people to go to war?

I could go on and on about compassionate conservatism and moral values: Conservative Televangelists who are friends with Brutal Dictators, Republican Politicians who have the rules changed so they can stay in office, Republican Activists who scream about moral values (but, in reality, they are very immoral), and more, much more.

The Republican Party isn't the party of Conservatism, it isn't the party of Compassion, and it definitely isn't the party of Moral Values.

[illflem]

1. They think it's compassionate

when they don't bomb anyone who doesn't agree with them into dust.

[jody]

2. How can Compassionate-Conservative, Born-Again Christians remain

obscenely wealthy when so many people lack the basic necessities of life? Perhaps they are neither CC nor BAC just GREEDY.

[AwakeAtLast]

3. It is an excuse to close their eyes,

so they don't actually have to see what is happening in our world. It is the equivalent of sitting in a corner, rocking back and forth chanting, "We are the best country in the world. We are always right." They say it enough, it is true. Not!

[damntexdem]

4. Oh, of course! Just like ...

when they offer you a blindfold before you face the firing squad.