What is the difference between a liberal and a conservative?

[youngwoman]

If you are a liberal, what does it mean?
If you are conservative, what does it mean?

[Some Dude]

Conservative USED to mean you were against the government spending money, but Bush sure isn't following that rule.

[Battousai]

I can't tell you a difference, but I can tell you a similarity.

Both are too far to one side and are letting politics be more important than the welfare of the country.

Vote USA, not Liberal, Conservative, Democrat or Republican.

[rdjhoya]

Conservatives believe that government's sole purpose is to serve the people. Liberals believe that people's sole purpose is to serve the government. It is really that simple.

[Pop D]

Liberals care about people, conservatives care about things.

[loving father]

Once upon a time, in a nice little forest, there lived an orphaned bunny
and an orphaned snake.

By a surprising coincidence, both were blind from birth. One day, the
bunny was hopping through the forest, and the snake was slithering
through the forest, when the bunny tripped over the snake and fell down.

This, of course, knocked the snake about quite a bit. "Oh, my," said the
bunny, "I'm terribly sorry. I didn't mean to hurt you.

I've been blind since birth, so, I can't see where I'm going. In fact,
since I'm also an orphan, I don't even know what I am."

"It's quite ok," replied the snake. "Actually, my story is as yours. I
too have been blind since birth, and also never knew my mother. Tell you
what, maybe I could slither all o! ver you, and work out what you are so
at least you'll have that going for you."

"Oh, that would be wonderful" replied the bunny. So the snake slithered
all over the bunny, and said, "Well, you're covered with soft fur, you
have really long ears, your nose twitches, and you have a soft cottony
tail.

I'd say that you must be a bunny rabbit."

"Oh, thank you, thank you," cried the bunny, in obvious excitement.

The bunny suggested to the snake, "Maybe I could feel you all over with
my paw, and help you the same way that you've helped me."

So the bunny felt the snake all over, and remarked, "Well, you're smooth
and slippery, you have a forked tongue, no backbone and no balls. I'd
say you're a liberal democrat."

[SP_Rider]

A conservative is a liberal who was mugged.

Some one said... (Winston Churchill ??)
If you are not a liberal when you are young, you have no heart.
If you are not a conservative after 30 years of age, you have no brain.

[gpel]

I agree with Battousai, the thing this country needs is a man that can be in the middle of both conservative and liberal parties. Unfortunately, due to MONEY, this will never happen.

Liberal means for the people.
Conservative means for the corporations.


Regarding the bogus Winston Churchill misquote:

If you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative at 40, you have no brain. - Winston Churchill
Knowing that this is one of the most famous of misquotes, I decided to do a little research and found, as the Churchill Centre notes, that it would have been quite unreasonable for Churchill to have uttered these words:
There is no record of anyone hearing Churchill say this. Paul Addison of Edinburgh University makes this comment: "Surely Churchill can't have used the words attributed to him. He'd been a Conservative at 15 and a Liberal at 35! and would he have talked so disrespectfully of Clemmie, who is generally thought to have been a lifelong Liberal."

[Kk]

liberal means strong central government.
Conservative means local government control.

[mojjooon]

in reality(real society) NOTHING! they are just two stupid parties that are very strong and rich! liberals and conservatives work together and against the ppl! i mean ppl there are so many other parties(CANADA): NDP, Green party, communist...y not learn about those and vote for something different for a CHANGE?