# Is "conservative" beginning to become the new "liberal"?

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [October 25, 2013, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-conservative-beginning-to-become-the-new-liberal/672251 "2013-10-25T22:19:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-conservative-beginning-to-become-the-new-liberal/672251/55 "2013-11-21T17:16:35Z")

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From your other thread:

> [@So, we should get used to saying "President Christie?" Yea or nay?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-we-should-get-used-to-saying-president-christie-yea-or-nay/674448/1):
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> I dislike it mostly because he has signed legislation as the governor of New Jersey that has infringed on people’s rights, and I take that as a huge red flag. You may not agree with the type of therapy he recently banned involving homosexuality, and you might even be glad he banned it, but that doesn’t mean he had any _right_\*\* to ban it, and I think this ban qualifies him as a possible future dictator.

From this thread:

> [@ILikeForeignLanguages](#):
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> I respect the Tea Party because it is pretty strict about sticking to its values and not being swayed to the left by political “peer pressure” like the mainstream Republican party.

You might want to make up your mind about values before starting debates about them.

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