True conservatives believe:
Eight-hundred billion dollars 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.