Confusion at the Party

As an outsider, who seems to be blessed by constant exposure to nothing but conservatives and/or Republicans..let me explain why their party is currently so confused...
Conservatives and Republican aren't the same thing--but they think they are. (very funny)
The easiest way to categorize these folks would be to split them in half: Urban Republicans and Rural Republicans.

Urban Republicans like less government, big money, hard liquor, and tend to be socially tolerant. They have no problem with working wives, day care, "government schools" and college. In their opinion, poor people get what they deserve, as they are just lazy. Urban Republicans are secretly quite suspicious of church, home schooling and vegetables.

Rural Republicans, really like the word "conservative". They care more about social issues than making big money. University educations don't really make sense to them, except that they may do more harm than good as they encourage things like "choosing to be a homosexual"...Rural Republicans actually care about the poor, but want to help them without government spending.

The only thing I see these two sides actually having in common is mutual distrust of government. I believe less government makes more sense in the world of the Rural Republicans, as their churches actually perform many government type services on a smaller scale. Urban Republicans simply want to be rich oligarchs--and they know that Government is just standing in their way of world domination..

I would say that's it in a nutshell. It's quite ridiculous, as the Republican party has no idea how to deal with these pretty much opposing view points. Currently they have candidates that represent both sides (Gingrich is an Urban Rep., Santorum Rural Rep.). Interestingly enough, this only helps awaken their voters to the inconvenient problem of two types of Conservatives trying to squeeze under the same hat--and it just doesn't fit.

When Did the Republican Party Become Socialists?

So listening to the Republican National Convention speeches last night, you could see that the obvious theme was how the McCain/Palin ticket is not "elitist" and understands the common man. Of course that is the big appeal of Palin--she's just a Wal-Mart shopping hockey mom with her blue-collar husband. Doesn't know much about the upper class and prefers to keep it that way. Her most popular move in Alaska has been the promise of oil money "kick-backs" to make sure all Alaskans share in the wealth of high oil prices.
It doesn't take a brain surgeon to see that these populist attitudes reflect the policies of the South American socialist leaders much more than typical Republican banter....Power to the proletarian! is the new Republican slogan...We come from the masses and hate the elite! Down with the big oil monopolies! Down with the status quo!
What gives?? I'm actually no socialist hater, but the Republicans need to get their message straight. For years and years it has been love the big oil, big business and corporate America keeps us all employed...
The Republican "think tanks" FUNDAMENTALLY believe that common people power is toxic--as their philosophy is very simply based upon the notion that wealth is an earned right to those that are chosen from the "better, industrious, smarter, prettier" gene pool. And that these wealthy folks will rent enough golf carts and eat at enough restaurants to keep the rest of us employed through the beauty of trickle down economics...yeah right.
I mean if the Republicans really took the people seriously, they would have gotten rid of the electoral college and allowed the candidate that won the polular vote to win in 2000-wouldn't they?? But no, they know that our forefathers specifically created the electoral college to make sure that the common (re: uneducated) man would not have the final say in who was elected president. They feared this notion that they now so eagerly embrace>>>