-Caveat Lector- ~Amelia~ Oh, I know, I know. The problem is not Liberals vs. Conservatives. At least that's what Liberals say when they want a Conservative to shut up and stop interrupting their Bush Bashing or race-baiting. But as Ann Coulter says on abortion, if the majority of Americans are for it, let's vote! There are far more Conservatives now and I think this does have some effect on the powers that be. At least in regard to the approach they will take to implement their grand scheme. Couple of articles on the topic below. ~Amelia~ More Americans Identify With Conservatives Than Liberals, Pollster Says By Jim Burns CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer September 05, 2001 (CNSNews.com) - According to a Washington-based polling firm, more Americans identify themselves as conservatives rather than liberals. Pollster Kellyanne Conway, president of the Polling Company, believes that conservatism is playing a big role in this year's Virginia gubernatorial election. "There are two very heartening things I see in the polls for conservatives," Conway said during a speech Wednesday in Washington. "We still, in the ideological self description, find that more people including women, lower income households, union households, people who find social issues more important than economic issues, are by convincing margins, way outside the margin of error margins, call themselves conservatives than liberal," she said. "Two to one easily," Conway emphasized, "the self-identified liberal label has not cracked 20 percent (in the polls) in ages." She believes people identifying themselves as conservatives is playing a factor in Virginia's gubernatorial race between Republican Mark Earley and Democrat Mark Warner. "That's why Mark Warner is 'Farmer Mark.' He's 'populist Mark.' You can't show me anything in his campaign literature that says he's liberal and he is. I can show you things in his record and his statements that says he is. I was in Richmond and saw some of his (television) ads, and he is calling himself a conservative," Conway said. She thinks Warner shying away from the 'liberal' label is significant in this year's campaign. "That is very important, because already [people] are identifying themselves with the conservative philosophy, then it is a step in the right direction," Conway said. Warner articulated support for some conservative themes during a Labor Day debate this week with his Republican opponent Mark Earley in Buena Vista, Virginia. Earley listed successes orchestrated by Republicans Gov. James S. Gilmore III and George F. Allen, now in the U.S. Senate, including abolishing parole, reforming welfare, requiring that minors seeking abortions first notify their parents, creating the Standards of Learning and the tests to evaluate student performance, and phasing out the car tax. He said Warner opposed most of those policies and couldn't be trusted to carry through on them. Warner disputed several of those charges. "Let's set the record straight -- I support welfare reform. I support abolition of parole. I support the death penalty. I'm against gay marriage. I support Second Amendment rights, and this kind of garbage that's coming out from the other side is nothing but false and misleading," he said. Polls indicate running on conservative themes is helping Warner who continues to have a double-digit lead over Earley. If conservatives talk more about 'themes' than 'issues and charisma,' Conway thinks more Americans will adopt the conservative philosophy. "I don't know if it's in conservatives' best interests to mimic what most politicians and most people in the major (establishment) media do by talking about 'issues.' I certainly don't think it's important to talk about image or charisma. Who cares? I think it's important to talk about themes," she said. "People in the conservative movement respond to big ideas like defeating the Soviet Union, reforming the tax code, those are big ideas that have consistency," Conway said. "Some of the themes we see in our (polling) data are affordability. If you talk affordability as a theme than you do have people respond to that by saying they believe that tax cuts should go farther and faster." Respondents, she said, believe that health care should be affordable, but prescription drugs shouldn't necessarily be an entitlement under Medicare. "They also believe that housing affordability is unattainable right now but certainly don't believe that there should be housing subsidies for certain people. What they believe is that there should be property tax reduction," Conway said. She concluded that "... as conservatives, fairness has replaced equality completely as a core government value. Fairness is the impulse toward school choice, proper immigration reform, a flat tax or some type of across-the-board tax reduction." Security is another theme that conservatives should build upon Conway says because Americans are concerned about missile defense, crime, retirement security, Social Security and family security. "But you are not going to hear that, though, if the (establishment) media continues to be obsessed with things like pro-abortion and gun control, even though their own (polling) data shows those issues are conspicuous by their absence," she concluded. Jewish World Review Sept. 7, 2001 / 18 Elul, 5761 Bob Tyrrell Duh! All conservatives are racists http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- THERE is a stupendous revelation to be mined from the punditry surrounding North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms' recent announcement not to seek re-election. Those Americans who have wondered about the sources of liberal moral superiority will find an explanation in the liberals' boos and hisses as Helms announced that at 79 he is not seeking re-election. In truth there is no obvious reason for the liberals to hold themselves up as morally superior. For one thing, they often snicker at morality, at least at traditional morality. They treat the Ten Commandants as a multiple choice test. In judging such liberal heroes as the Clintons and the Rev. Jesse Jackson, they boast that getting seven out of 10 right is pretty good: "We're all human." "Everyone does it." "Let he who hath not (fill in the blank) throw the first stone." Furthermore, the liberal brethren are quick to scold the conservatives for injecting morality into politics. Such enlightened people as the People for the American Way Inc. grow indignant when traditionalists claim their "family values" superior to those of, say, two homosexuals living together, or a commune of loving "hippies" raising their cats and dogs and children in Marxist bliss out in a sylvan valley in Dog Patch. When conservatives take to the moral high ground by wrapping themselves in the flag or uttering public pieties, the liberal indignantly claims to be equally patriotic and high-minded. Yet connoisseurs of politics are well aware of the moral arrogance of liberals. When that liberal epitome George McGovern ran for the presidency, did he not claim to speak for the "constituency of conscience"? Have not subsequent liberal candidates boasted of their "decency"? And do not most claim that their opponents on the right suffer from such moral deficiencies as selfishness, intolerance and "hate"? Remember how quickly those of us who laughed and laughed at the Clinton pratfalls were termed "Clinton-haters," never "Clinton-teasers." Liberalism since its rise a century ago has made most political disagreements into matters of morality. Even questions of public policy are seen by liberals as moral questions. During the Cold War, the so-called conservatives who claimed to seek "peace through strength" were adjudged morally inferior to those (the liberals) who sought "negotiation" and disarmament. Today, those who oppose affirmative action or abortion are morally inferior to those who favor them. Which brings us back to the explanation of liberal moral superiority to be found in the liberals' hoots at Helms' retirement. For 28 years, he has been a major voice for American conservatism. In the Senate, he was particularly vocal on behalf of national defense and a forceful foreign policy. Though a Southerner, he was never involved in the segregation struggles, having come to the Senate after the integration of the South became a settled matter of national law. There is no racist statement authored by him on the public record, unlike the public record of some other Southern Democrats from his era or for that matter the record of the Rev. Jackson -- remember his reference to New York city as Hymie town? In sum, Helms is not a racist. Yet as the retiring statesman, now old and unwell, made his congee from public life, such moral paragons as John Podesta, the alibi artist, called him a racist. Podesta, President Clinton's last chief of staff torturing the truth through Monicagate, impeachment and Pardongate, told a CNN audience that Helms "built his whole career on hate and division." And under The Washington Post headline, "Jesse Helms, White Racist," columnist David Broder wrote of Helms' "willingness ... to inflame racial resentment against African-Americans." According to Broder, Helms' "Mein Kampf" is his opposition to affirmative action and to a national holiday for Martin Luther King Jr. Liberals, you see, consider all conservatives racists. It is our opposition to policies that liberals insist are necessary for racial harmony that makes us racists. And it is liberals' advocacy of these policies that makes them morally superior. Conservatives and other observers of public life wonder at times at why liberals are so angry. Some conservatives think it is because the liberals are slipping in their domination of the political culture. They have steadily lost political power wherever it is dependent on the vote, and they might fear that their domination of such undemocratic institutions as the universities and the media is endangered. Their political losses do, of course, make liberals mad. Yet what makes them madder still is that they are good and their opponents are not. From the presidency of Richard Nixon on, they have been calling conservatives racists. This conviction has grown in them all these years. (Remember that otherwise inscrutable NAACP ad in Campaign 2000 linking George W. Bush to the highway dragging death of a black man in Texas?) It is on the occasion of a great conservative's retirement that they shout it out: "Conservatives, White Racists." The chief source of the liberals' moral superiority is their presumption that conservatives are racists and liberals are good people. JWR contributor Bob Tyrell is editor in chief of The American Spectator. Comment by clicking here. /� 2001, Creators Syndicate <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! 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