# Where can I find a conservative leaning message board? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 31, 2012, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-find-a-conservative-leaning-message-board/639396 "2012-10-31T03:18:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-find-a-conservative-leaning-message-board/639396/61 "2012-11-02T18:46:13Z")
Dunno if anyone’s said it yet but there’s no good conservative message boards! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2012, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-find-a-conservative-leaning-message-board/639396/62 "2012-11-03T03:49:11Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > This board is, IMO, somewhat to the right of centre, of the real world. It depends on how you define “real world”. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2012, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-find-a-conservative-leaning-message-board/639396/63 "2012-11-11T06:12:49Z")
[www.ricochet.com](http://www.ricochet.com). You have to pay to post and to access some content, but you can see much of the site for free. The cost is $3.67 a month (price of a Starbucks latte according to their FAQ) or $29.95 for a full year. It’s actually something between a standard opinion site with comments and a bulletin board. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2012, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-find-a-conservative-leaning-message-board/639396/64 "2012-11-11T06:23:10Z")
If conservative=family values to you, Sitnam, try [www.whiteracistbigot.com](http://www.whiteracistbigot.com) 😃 Nah, just browse [conservapedia.com](http://conservapedia.com) for a fix. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2012, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-find-a-conservative-leaning-message-board/639396/65 "2012-11-11T15:15:59Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > No, both sides are not “just as bad”. Both sides are not equally in denial of reality, equally fanatical, equally amoral, equally uncaring for the welfare of the country, or equally extreme. It’s the Right that comes out the worse in all of those comparisons, by far. In your opinion, of course. I happen to disagree. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-find-a-conservative-leaning-message-board/639396/66 "2012-11-13T15:54:55Z")
_The Volokh Conspiracy_ leans right/libertarian, and has a lot of thoughtful discussion. However, it’s a blog, so you can only comment on other people’s blog posts, and it’s largely restricted to discussion of legal issues. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-find-a-conservative-leaning-message-board/639396/67 "2012-11-13T18:19:50Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > Agree. And let me just say that one of the hallmarks of modern liberalism is how much of what they believe is flat out objectively, factually wrong. They aren’t just wrong about the goals they have for society, which are often more a matter of opinion or morality. They believe things that flat out contradict known facts or are logically impossible, and deny those facts when presented with them. More and more, for liberals everything from economics to science to history to military policy is to them faith based; something that is “true” _because they declare it to be_ so regardless of the facts. “We make our own reality”. So, where was your factual, historical or economic basis for claiming libraries were a waste of [tax dollars](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10600238&postcount=1) (damn those unionised librarians!)? ---
**Author:** ![lavenderviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cdc98d/32.png) [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-find-a-conservative-leaning-message-board/639396/68 "2012-11-13T20:31:39Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > But there’s much more groupthink on the right than on the left these days. You really can’t be a pro-choice conservative anymore Bad example. There are a number of prominent Republicans who take a pro-choice stance (for example, off the top of my head, Giuliani and Condi Rice come to mind). Can you think of **any** nationally prominent Democrat politicians who are openly pro-life? Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Ted Kennedy, etc. did previously express pro-life views at the state level but of course changed their views once they were on the national level. [Democrats for Life tried to get some language in the 2012 Dem platform to be inclusive of pro-life Dems, but was shot down](http://www.lifenews.com/2012/08/16/dnc-rejects-bid-to-include-pro-life-democrats-in-abortion-plank/). So, no, I don’t think the right is the side that is engaging in “groupthink” on abortion. There is far more tolerance for pro-choice views among Rs than pro-life views among Ds. ---
**Author:** ![lavenderviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cdc98d/32.png) [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-find-a-conservative-leaning-message-board/639396/69 "2012-11-13T20:45:09Z")
Anyway, I agree with those who posted that your best best for messageboard format conservative sites would be [http://www.freerepublic.com](http://www.freerepublic.com)[http://www.reddit.com/r/conservative](http://www.reddit.com/r/conservative) and [http://trueblueliberty.com/](http://trueblueliberty.com/) However a lot of conservative blogs have pretty active comment sections. You could try the comment areas over at [http://www.theamericanconservative.com/](http://www.theamericanconservative.com/) (more paleo-conservative so not always in line with current Republican thinking) [http://www.hotair.com](http://www.hotair.com) and [http://www.breitbart.com](http://www.breitbart.com) for that sort of thing. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-find-a-conservative-leaning-message-board/639396/70 "2012-11-13T21:04:13Z")
Why don’t the secessionists, especially the ones from Texas, just move to Mexico and then declare whatever Mexican state they settled in to be an independent republic? A somewhat similar plan worked once before. Of course, this time around the Mexican army is a little better trained and equipped. And the drug cartels, which are arguably at least as well armed, might have a thing or two to say about the matter. It’d all be worth it though, just for the decapitated secessionist photos that would start flooding the internet about 15 minutes after they declared their new republic. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-find-a-conservative-leaning-message-board/639396/71 "2012-11-13T23:18:17Z")
I think you’re in the wrong thread. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-find-a-conservative-leaning-message-board/639396/72 "2012-11-13T23:19:42Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Why don’t the secessionists, especially the ones from Texas, just move to Mexico and then declare whatever Mexican state they settled in to be an independent republic? A somewhat similar plan worked once before. Of course, this time around the Mexican army is a little better trained and equipped. And the drug cartels, which are arguably at least as well armed, might have a thing or two to say about the matter. It’d all be worth it though, just for the decapitated secessionist photos that would start flooding the internet about 15 minutes after they declared their new republic. Yes, I absolutely am. Clearly, that having more than one window open to the same website thing is a bad idea in my case. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-find-a-conservative-leaning-message-board/639396/73 "2012-11-13T23:24:46Z")
You should have played it off and pretended you were talking about people seceding from the SDMB. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-find-a-conservative-leaning-message-board/639396/74 "2012-11-14T04:59:19Z")
AboveTopSecret may fit the bill. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-find-a-conservative-leaning-message-board/639396/75 "2012-11-21T21:06:28Z")
> [@lavenderviolet](#): > > Can you think of **any** nationally prominent Democrat politicians who are openly pro-life? Harry Reid. > [@](#): > > So, no, I don’t think the right is the side that is engaging in “groupthink” on abortion. There is far more tolerance for pro-choice views among Rs than pro-life views among Ds. If you’re using whether or not people get their desired text into the convention platform as a benchmark, then you’ll be able to demonstrate concessions to the pro-choice movement in the Republican platform. ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-find-a-conservative-leaning-message-board/639396/76 "2012-11-21T21:32:31Z")
> [@lavenderviolet](#): > > Bad example. There are a number of prominent Republicans who take a pro-choice stance (for example, off the top of my head, Giuliani and Condi Rice come to mind). > Can you think of **any** nationally prominent Democrat politicians who are openly pro-life? Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Ted Kennedy, etc. did previously express pro-life views at the state level but of course changed their views once they were on the national level. [Democrats for Life tried to get some language in the 2012 Dem platform to be inclusive of pro-life Dems, but was shot down](http://www.lifenews.com/2012/08/16/dnc-rejects-bid-to-include-pro-life-democrats-in-abortion-plank/). So, no, I don’t think the right is the side that is engaging in “groupthink” on abortion. There is far more tolerance for pro-choice views among Rs than pro-life views among Ds. Bart Stupak comes to mind. He’s the Democrat who held up Obamacare until they inserted an amendment (the so-called Stupak amendment) that prevented the change of existing laws that prevent the use of federal money for abortion. ---
**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2013, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-find-a-conservative-leaning-message-board/639396/77 "2013-02-21T19:15:14Z")
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