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It will be interesting to hear from two new voices.  But what exactly does 'pro-religious liberty' mean?

Fidelis is a Catholic-based advocacy organization established to help elect pro-life, pro-family and pro-religious liberty candidates

Where are they on the death penatly and war?

Affirmative Action type of stuff.....but it'd be good to have a qualified RedState Female around here.  I mean, NRO has K-Lo (though she can be annoying from time to time....well, most of the time), so why cant RD has a female editor.

my two cents....Other than that, welcome to Red State to the new editors.

  My own short experience on this wonderful site makes me confident that our new editors have been equipped with virtual fencing masks, high potency (field grade) b.s. detectors and a manual emphasizing that rat-a-tat-tat, keep the Latin based words to a minimum, in your face  rebuttals style that keeps the more pedantic amongst us (I blush) in check.  

I'm looking forward to reading from Cella, as I find the Catholic perspective on life issues, and many other conservative topics invaluable.

Welcome to Blanton. It should be interesting to hear analysis from someone that has been on both sides. Since this IS RedState.org, I assume he is firmly on the Republican side at this time.

Welcome from Josue Sierra of Latino Issues.

I think RedState is digging itself into an ideological hole.  Instead of finding more diverse voices within the party, it seems to be moving further and further to the right.  When I see the stories and comments about who is an "acceptable" candidate, I get a lttle worried that what is acceptable on RedState may be too socially conservative for the nation as a whole.

Leon H has done an admirable job representing the Catholic perspective on social issues.  Is there anyone left who can represent the socially liberal wing of the party?

1. This is a Republican and a conservative site. The voices we choose represent those interests.
   
2. Leon H is not Catholic and has never written on the Catholic view of anything on this site.

So what does the conservative term mean here on RS?

Is a Conservative one who is only concerned with the Social Conservative point of view, or does it include small government, fiscal conservative, strong national defense also defined as being Conservative?

There are many who are not as hard core about the social issues as would seem to be the norm here on RS, maybe even Libertarian in some regards.

We DO have John Cole and Adam C here.

but the beliefs of editors here cover a wide range of social and fiscal viewpoints. I've never seen a set of standards for conservatives so I suppose the standard is self-identification.

Some editors are very fiscally conservative, some not. Some are very socially conservative, some not. Some are both. Some are neither.

If anything, I think we all tend towards fiscal conservatism and smaller government though there is no unanimity on what that means.

using server space. Some of these guys can generate text like a centipide with an ink well.

exclusive province today. I left the left due to their intellecutal bancruptcy in 2001, BEFORE 911, mainly due to the DEM PARTY (not so much Clinton) rejection of the success of supply side tax rate cuts; welfare reform and social issues.

My emphases, now, in order, are:

Strong defense

Willingness to use it w/o UN

tax cuts

originalist judges/state's rights/social issues

         Church/state

         abortion

         protection of traditional marriage

I am probably closer to a neo-con in that I am not opposed to the Bush approach of acticve government so long as the values trasmitted are traditional and incentives are conservative.

Though I would also support and do support EVENTUAL scaling back of the size of government so long as the public will go along. I would not risk loss of power to ther libs/dems over govt spending/deficits.

I see deficits, per se as mostly irrelevant at current levels as a % of GDP.

The dem party is unwilling to defend the country; essentially is not proud of our country, especially its advance of freedom domestically and abroad; favors PC (I call racist) multiculturalism and moral relativism.

If one issue explains why I left the dem party its that dems became the racists. I was a dem most of my life due to hating racism and saw a creeping racism poverty pimp condescension towards blacks. Then after leaving the party and studying conservative though think I was wrong for years about the dem policies.

But I find that no real debate is going on the dem party.

If it was, Lieberman would have been on the ticket.

I'm still wondering what exactly 'Pro-Religious liberty' means?  Especially since it seems to be a major concern for one of the new editors? It's kind of a vague term though, could be anything from protection against religious discrimination to mandatory Paganism lessons in schools :-).

I am very late responding to this, but I do want to point out that I never said Leon H was Catholic.  I would have no way of knowing, and frankly, it is none of my business.  That being said, his writings here are impassioned and seem to strongly advocate the positions usually taken by the Catholic church.  

You can obviously choose whatever voices you want, but as I am sure you know, not all Republicans are conservative and not all conservatives are Republican.