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For those of you who don’t already know me, let me say a bit about myself. I’m a conservative. In the parlance of the Potomac, I’m a fiscal conservative, and, mostly, a social conservative as well. I don’t believe in higher taxes, cap and trade, the present capacity of solar panels, a “living, breathing,” and therefore malleable, Constitution, or Al-Qaeda’s ability to get a lawyer. I have to admit a strong academic dislike for the Democratic arm of Congress. As a billboard in my home state of New Jersey aptly points out, Nancy Pelosi “is a tool.”
I have issues with Democrats in our fair town of Ithaca. I have serious problems with the “party of tolerance”’s apparent intolerance of views (including mine) that diverge from theirs. I, personally, and other members of the Ithaca College Republicans have been the targets of glares, impolite stares, and open hostility, and many of our club materials, most notably our posters, have been torn down by so-called agents of “diversity.”
Let me tell you something: real diversity consists of differences of the mind and of the heart.
That other kind, the kind that makes photographs more colorful, isn’t worth a hot damn if true diversity is absent.
On that note, the Fairness Doctrine is one of the most dangerous bills floating around on the floor of the Senate today and every American who voted for these perfidious, cowardly Democrats should be ashamed of being represented by legislators who support it.
I believe in American exceptionalism, or rather, the idea that America, for its faults, has done more to help the rest of the world than the rest of the world has helped us. (Ask yourself- how many Malays or French or Japanese came to our aid after Katrina? Or the Iowa floods? Or the Malibu firestorms? Interesting, isn’t it?). I believe that our system of government is the best of the imperfect human capacity for creation and governance.
I believe in my right to own a gun, and your right to own a gun, too.
I am extremely against the continuation of affirmative action. Where its application was necessary in decades past, its propulsion and continued application cheapens real, meritous achievement.
I believe in the free market. And in thus saying, I believe that opening up our land to drilling will drive down the prices being traded up by speculators who gamble on oil supplies years in advance.
That being said, I wish I had the money to be first in line to get the Chevy Volt, GM’s first plug-in hybrid. I’m all for developing every single energy resource we have, including hydroelectric power, biodiesel, wind, solar, and nuclear.
I also believe going nuke is our single best option for the new electric economy- why not put America’s best minds toward improving the already proven method of energy production by increasing its safety and neutralizing its waste products?
All of that said, I would like to shed light into one chink in my conservative armor: I am wholeheartedly for gay marriage, because I believe humans are predisposed to monogamous pairing, and because humans are inherently social animals, a social recognition and validation of a monogamous pair of humans, regardless of gender, is a basic human need.
Aside, I would call myself a social conservative. So that’s me. What about you?
Welcome back, Netroots!
Don’t know about you, but I’m coming fresh from a big, eventful summer of politicking and looking forward to the election circ- er, season, ahead! We’ve got so much to discuss, like an impending Cold War II between the NATO castrati and the big, cold bear! We’ve got crazy columnists at the New York Times! We’ve got Barry Obama! We’ve got the media (something McCain doesn’t have)! We’ve got polls! And of course, more hilariously relevant Youtube videos than you can shake a really big stick at.
Above all, we’ve got snark, wit, and commentary from your friendly campus conservative — me!
Officially, welcome to the Spectrum. Now that you’re here, put your seat belt on. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.
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