On Being a Compassionate Conservative

What a world! It's upsetting to witness the current culture of anti-faith and anti-life humanists, voters who think the government owes them a living, glorification of violence by the game makers and movie directors, and sprawling federal bureaucracy causing overregulation and growing debt, to name just a few societal ills. Given these problems it's only natural that the Tea Party movement rose up. For the past few years, I've let their voices do the talking for me. They make a strong case for values we share: I'm Pro-life. Pro-prayer. Pro-Constitution. But after the Newtown, CT, massacre by assault weapon, I must part ways with any other conservative movement that tolerates these agents of mass destruction. You see, I'm Anti-assault weapon. Our Founding Fathers didn't need them, why do we? Remember George Bush Sr.'s phrase, "kindler, gentler nation"? What about his son George W. Bush's effort to lead the free world as a "compassionate conservative" with beloved Laura at his side? Oh how I miss those noble days. Lord, show us the way!