Conservatives have deep distrust of government power, so I not only understand their privacy concerns, I share them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I am a deeply committed conservative who wants to keep maximal privacy for every U.S. citizen.
I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government. They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
I'm willing to zap conservatives when they do things that are not libertarian.
Privacy is tremendously important. I believe the American people, and all people, should be skeptical of government power, should ask hard questions: What is the authority? What is the oversight? That's the way it ought to be.
I haven't done things publicly to hurt conservatives.
And conservatives know that if you reject these principles of limited government and urge others to reject them you can be my ally, you can be my friend but you cannot call yourself a conservative.
I want my government to do something about my privacy - I don't want to just do it on my own.
With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests.
How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties.