http://www.firesociety.com FireSociety - Jim Ainsworth Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:17:29 GMT admin@firesociety.com FireSociety 60 http://www.firesociety.com/images/home/mainlogo.gif http://www.firesociety.com http://www.firesociety.com/article/23252/Papa-Was-A-Conservative/?src=103 One of my grandsons and two of my granddaughters came to spend the night with us recently.   My ten-year-old-grandson was barely out of the car before he told me that his teacher had been telling his fifth grade class that Obama would be good for the country and that he was for Obama.   I laughed and told him to get back in the car and go home with his father, prompting his thirteen-year-old sister to ask, “Papa Jim, are you a Democrat or a Republican?”   A simple, direct question—the kind kids ask—the kind all of us should ask more often.   My mind began to traverse the complications of that question and the vast store of knowledge awaiting her young mind, but I resisted the temptation to wander there.   I answered simply and directly, telling her that I was a Republican, but more importantly, I was a conservative rather than a liberal.   That was a sentence more than she needed, but she thought a minute before asking, “What’s the difference?” I told her that the essence of conservatism involved the acceptance of personal responsibility.   Conservatives like to be responsible for our families and ourselves ... Election 2008 Jim Ainsworth http://www.firesociety.com/comments/23309/Discussion---Papa-Was-A-Conservative/?src=103