True conservatives believe:
• $800 billion to help our own country is too much, but $1 trillion for the Iraq War was money well spent.
• Spending is not stimulus, it’s how liberals waste our tax dollars.
• Tax cuts for the rich are the best way to help middle-class Americans—trickle-down economics works.
• Rush Limbaugh spoke the truth when he said he wanted Obama to fail.
• Universal health care is simply not needed because America has the best health care system in the world.
• Pork-barrel spending is wasteful (unless it helps my state or region).
• Stem cell research violates my right-to-life beliefs but war and killing are patriotic.
• Our serious economic problems are the fault of Presidents Clinton and Carter.
• President Obama is a socialist at heart; after all, he was a community organizer.
• Government is broken and can’t do anything right, so it can’t be part of the solution.
• Unions are a key reason our economy has failed.
• Reagan’s mantra remains true today: “Facts are stupid things.”
This article appears in Feb 19-26, 2009.