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Conservatives Believe That From The Standpoint Of The Federal Government, Life Begins At Conception And Ends At Birth.

Ronald Reagan Got A Lot Of Democrats. I Wish He Hadn`t. I Got To Congress With Reagan Coming To The Whitehouse. The Reagan Program, A Very Radical One, A Very Drastic One Passed Because He Had A Lot Of Democrats. He Worked At It Personally And Also Because Reagan Retained A Popularity.

Trying To Avert Foreclosures, Once You Can't Just Force The Banks To Do It As A Condition Of Getting Aid, Means That You Have To Put Some Public Money Into It Or You Have To Do Other Things That Are Politically Unpopular. From The Macroeconomic Standpoint There Is Overwhelming Need To Help People Reduce What They Owe So That We Don't Get The Foreclosures And We Don't Get People Kicked Out Of Their Homes. On The Other Hand, There Is Great Resistance Politically To Helping People, Not All Of Whom Would Be Worth Recipients Of The Help.

I Was Still Closeted, But From The Day I Decided To Run For Office, Knowing That I Was Gay, I Decided That I Would, Of Course, Still Be Closeted But That I Would Work Very Hard For Gay Rights. It Would Be Totally Dishonorable, Being Gay, Not To Do That. So I Had That As Kind Of A Secondary Agenda.

The Issue Is Not That Morals Be Applied To Public Policy, It's That Conservatives Bring Public Policy To Spheres Of Our Lives Where It Should Not Enter.