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To: billorites

There should be a puke alert on this for two reasons

1. The elephant in his room, that he won't describe in any detail is that liberals are directly responsible for homicide without the guilt, and on demand. They some how read the right to murder into the constitution, and for women only.

2. The biggest of the achievements he attributes to liberals, civil rights for minorities - specifically blacks - was delivered by conservatives. More than a third of their elected officials in congress were against the idea.

Liberalism used to be what people today called conservatism. Reagan was a Democrat, and had to go. John Kennedy today would no doubt be to the right of Zell Miller today, which puts him far to the right of Specter and John McCain.

Liberalism is a dirty word today because they traded the pursuit and retention of the priveleges that go with power for the principles necessary to retain power as a function of respect. It's hard to get behind an idea that defends pornography and infanticide, but cringes at the words "Merry Christmas".

Progressive isn't going to stick either. O'Reilly is that arrogant though. If progressive means murder on tap, high taxes, abrogation of individual liberties like the use of the Declaration of Independence in the classroom, the Boy Scouts of America, owning a gun, defending the US, and fair voting (where an ID is required before being handed a ballot), then it won't take Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, and Mark Steyn fifteen minutes over their morning cruller to parody the term as it applies to quasi-socialists and bolsheviks.

The old marketing tricks don't work anymore. There is no more implicit trust in institutions such that a marketing makeover will allow them to resume pursuit of an anti-America agenda.


9 posted on 12/09/2004 5:38:58 AM PST by RinaseaofDs (The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.)
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To: RinaseaofDs

"The old marketing tricks don't work anymore."

This remains to be seen. One can only hope. Access to the new Internet-driven alternative media will mitigate the impact of the leftist propaganda machine, but let's remember that 48% of the people of this country STILL voted for JEffinK. The stupidity of man knows no bounds!


11 posted on 12/09/2004 6:00:04 AM PST by bowzer313
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