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In the case of Moral Conservatism this seems to boil down to: "I just want to regulate your sex lives a little bit, but not quite as much as those crazies over there."
Financial Conservatism I have two gripes with. Everyone, left or right, should be careful about making sure we have a balanced budget, and I don't know why fiscal responsibility is still seen as a Conservative thing. However, conservatives seem convinced that we should never share things as a society. I don't get this.
Just tell me, what did the Republicans do for you before that you liked better than the more progressive elements in the government?
Holy sweet fuck, between Rick Perry, Michelle Bachmann, Ron Paul and the guy quoting Pokemon songs, if the GOP wins in 2012 I think we can officially declare the Great American Experiment a failure. He said like as if who people vote for actually has a real impact on how the world is run
EDIT: Nevermind, found it. Way to go Herman Cain.
And I didn't care about their moral conservatism, I don't want to regulate people's lives. Just keep the porn off daytime television and I'm good.
And it's a mischaracterization of most "liberal's" point to say that they/we think that "the rich people shouldn't be making as much as they do". It's more like "They have a much bigger cushion, so let's take more stuffing out of a few of their chairs and use it to make some beds for these people over here."
More of a Progressive, one of the first presidents to bring up Universal healthcare, created the national park system and busted the trusts plus this story
"While Roosevelt was campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on October 14, 1912, a saloonkeeper named John Schrank shot him, but the bullet lodged in his chest only after penetrating his steel eyeglass case and passing through a thick (50 pages) single-folded copy of the speech he was carrying in his jacket. Roosevelt, as an experienced hunter and anatomist, correctly concluded that since he wasn't coughing blood, the bullet had not completely penetrated the chest wall to his lung, and so declined suggestions he go to the hospital immediately. Instead, he delivered his scheduled speech with blood seeping into his shirt. He spoke for 90 minutes. His opening comments to the gathered crowd were, "Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose." Afterwards, probes and x-ray showed that the bullet had traversed three inches (76 mm) of tissue and lodged in Roosevelt's chest muscle but did not penetrate the pleura, and it would be more dangerous to attempt to remove the bullet than to leave it in place. Roosevelt carried it with him for the rest of his life."
Was a pretty decent and Honest guy, never wanted the job, didn't to anything too crazy other then pardon Nixon which probably was a good idea overall. (Nixon wasn't that bad of a dude when you look at his record as well, some consider Nixon the last liberal president)
Created the national highway system, enlarged Social Security, ended the war in Korea, he also pushed to end racial discrimination. Also as a former General in his last speech as president warned of the rise of the Military Industrial complex.
I'd even throw in the first Bush if I had too but while he was smart about Iraq and foreign policy and he of course raised taxes :-p (probably the last republican president to ever admit to something like that :-p)
So it's not like there wasn't bad republican presidents in the past. I just don't see any of the qualities of the above listed presidents in ANY of the republican candidates. I don't think that republican party even exists anymore.