DeLay : Wrong on Conservatism

“Officials working with DeLay said he is trying to lock in support by sowing the message that an attack on him is an attack on the conservative movement, and that taking him out would be the Democrats’ first step toward regaining control of the House and Senate. These officials said they believe the attacks are part of a strategy by Democrats, aided by watchdog groups funded by liberals, to use the ethics process to try to regain power.” — WaPo

Heh. Yeah, right. DeLay, you don’t even represent the “conservative movement,” or have you forgotten what Conservatives stand for?

Definitions of conservative on the Web:

• resistant to change
• cautious: avoiding excess; “a conservative estimate”
• button-down: unimaginatively conventional; “a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-gray world of business” - Newsweek
• a person who has conservative ideas or opinions
• bourgeois: conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; “a bourgeois mentality”

Traditionally, a conservative is a person who prefers stability or the status-quo versus rapid and extensive changes in all aspects of society. Today, a political conservative in America usually believes in the limited authority of government, greater power to the states instead of the federal government, lower taxes and less government spending.

And frankly, Mr. DeLay, after the Patriot Act, after your attack on civil and human rights, after your broadly expanded government authority and expansion of bureaucracy, after your failure to assume responsibility for your actions and uphold the ethics of good government, your party does not represent conservative values.