DEFINITION OF A
CONSERVATIVE
As
the campaign season heats up and more and more moderate Gumby candidates draw
conservative opponents in GOP primaries, the question is again and often
raised, “What’s your definition of a conservative?”
The
long version definition is clearly outlined in a little book written by late
Sen. Barry Goldwater titled “Conscience of a Conservative.” But for a short summary, this quote pretty
much sums it up…
For
a more direct definition of what a conservative is, I’ve always found the
following by former Reagan adviser Lyn
Nofziger to be helpful…
Amen.
So if
you vote to raise taxes, grow government, limit individual rights and interfere
unconstitutionally in the free market…you ain’t no conservative.
In
other words, their protestations to the contrary, Gov. Brian Sandoval (R&R-Partners), Senate Minority Leader Moderate Mike Roberson, and Assembly
Minority Leader Pat Hickey may all
be Republicans…but ain’t one of them a true conservative.
May
they all lose in primaries! Speaking of
which…
HICKEY’S OPPONENT
“Richard Fineberg is the Simi
Valley-to-Reno transplant and ‘constitutional conservative’ who will challenge
Assembly Minority Leader Pat Hickey
in the 2014 Republican primary in District 25,” writes Ray Hagar of the Reno
Gazette-Journal in is blog, noting that Fineberg “appears to personify the
issues that are bugging the ‘constitutionals’ in Washoe County.”
Among
the issues bothering constitutional conservatives, writes Hagar, is the Kirner
Tax (AB46), Gov. Brian Sandoval (R&R-Partners)
breaking his word on taxes, and Republicans who talk like a conservative on the
campaign trail and then vote like a Democrat once in office.
Hagar
notes that conservative candidates such as Fineberg “love guns and hate
Obamacare,” are not professional politicians, and sign the Taxpayer Protection
Pledge promising their constituents that they will oppose any and all efforts
to increase taxes.
Fineberg
told Hagar that the Kirner Tax – a recently tabled sales and property tax hike
for Washoe County that Republican Assemblyman Randy Kirner (R-Kirner Tax) engineered and promoted jointly with
Hickey – “was the big factor that spurred my candidacy on.”
“I
was actually very angered by the way that whole thing was handled,” Fineberg
said. “By creating the Kirner-Hickey
amendment to AB 46 and passing it through the Legislature – a vehicle that
shifted responsibility over to the county commissioners - I thought was
abhorrent at many levels.”
“No.
1 and foremost, it was an act of cowardice,” Fineberg said. “It was an act of
betrayal. It was an act of a breach of trust between the legislators and the
people who elected them."
Yep. And Fineberg has similar feelings towards
Sandoval and those tax hike “sunsets.”
“The
governor ran for election on a platform that said, ‘I’m not going to renew
these taxes' and he violated that promise to the people,” Fineberg said. “It’s
like George Herbert Walker Bush saying, ‘Read my lips.’ It was that kind of thing. And on his
(re-election) web site now, he boasts that he was able to pass a budget without
raising taxes. That’s poppycock.”
Hagar
notes that running against the incumbent GOP Minority Leader “won’t be easy,”
but Fineberg is undeterred.
“I
want to be a conservative voice for the 25th Assembly district,” Fineberg, 63,
said. “I don’t think Mr. Hickey is that. I know Pat. I like Pat. I’ve been to
his house. But I just see a voting record and a perspective that clashes with
my own world view about these things.”
Like
Mr. Fineberg, I also know Pat. I like
Pat. But Pat is no conservative. And he’s not a fighter (except when he’s
fighting with conservatives!).
Like
Tom Hagan (“The Godfather”) before
him, Hickey is no “wartime consigliere.”
And a fighting wartime consigliere is what Assembly Republicans have needed
and lacked for many, many years now.
Gentlemen,
start your primary!
RALSTON RETORTS!
As
liberal blogger Jon Ralston
continues to ridicule Republican Assemblyman Jim Wheeler (R-Douglas County), conservatives continue to rally to
Wheeler’s defense. Indeed, as Ralston
was referring to Wheeler last week as part of a GOP “freak show” in response to
Wheeler’s new fundraising video, Tory
Crockett responded…
Ralston
may turn out to be the Wheeler’s best fundraiser before all is said and done!
See
more Ralston Retorts at www.RalstonRetorts.com
TAX PLEDGE SIGNERS
Click here for the
update 2014 list of Taxpayer Protection Pledge signers in Nevada.
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
“An
American liberal is one who can speak of Hiroshima without mentioning Pearl
Harbor.” – Grover Norquist
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013
MUTH'S TRUTHS 12/10/2013
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