re: #257 Backwoods_Sleuth

Thing is, I’m a Republican because where I live all of the county offices here in my little corner of eastern Kentucky are decided in the Republican primary in May. November is pretty much a rubber stamp. Was pretty much the same the almost 20 years I lived in Illinois.
I’m a Republican mostly to keep the lunatics from winning in the primary but I’m also somewhat of a fiscal conservative while, at the same time, being a huge social liberal.
There’s lots of waste out there, but it’s not what most Tea Party people want to believe, and I don’t think I have to point any of that out to most here.
Overall, I’m probably progressive because I believe in what helps the least of us strengthens us all as a whole.
I also like roads without huge potholes, bridges that might not fall when I drive over them, well trained police and emergency services, National Guard that doesn’t have to be deployed over and over and over to fight wars on foreign lands…I like ACA because I would love to be able to go to eat out at a restaurant again (which I haven’t done in over 15 years since the last time when the wait staff was coughing so hard I though we’d have to call an ambulance…I left my meal uneaten).
Thing is, government is there for a real reason. It’s called “the greater good”.
Right now, I believe the GOP has completely forgotten that.

With political beliefs like that, that makes you conservative. Which is the opposite of Republican these days.