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Are liberals from another planet?
World Net Daily ^ | September 21, 2005 | Burt Prelutsky

Posted on 09/20/2005 10:46:28 PM PDT by BulletBobCo

I really don't like insulting liberals. It's a dirty job, but, as they say, somebody has to do it. The truth is, I have friends and relatives who are of that political persuasion, although, lately, some of them have started calling themselves progressives. Which is interesting because, back in 1948, when Henry Wallace, with the fervent backing of the American Communists, ran for president, he was the Progressive Party candidate.

Still, most of the liberals I know are reasonably decent people. They try to raise their kids the right way, although they often send their tots off to private schools while denying vouchers to parents poorer than themselves. As a rule, though, I'd say they mean well.

But, sometimes, I swear, you could easily get the idea that they're from Mars, and are just down here for a visit. For openers, look at the cast of characters they rally around. I mean, imagine attending a party – let alone belonging to a party – that included the likes of John Kerry, Charles Schumer, Hillary Clinton, Michael Moore, Jimmy Carter, Patrick Leahy, Nancy Pelosi, Al Franken, Robert Byrd, Harry Reid, and Barbara Boxer. Unless you had an unnatural affinity for humorless blowhards and hypocrites, you'd run screaming out of the house even before the soup was served.

One of the troubles with those on the left is that they don't react to crimes, even crimes of terrorism, the way normal people do. For instance, most of those who devote their careers to defending murderers, rapists and pedophiles, are of the leftist bent, as are the dues-paying members of the criminal-coddling American Civil Liberties Union. Furthermore, most of those deranged people who congregate outside prisons, holding candlelight vigils for serial killers about to meet their maker, are likewise liberals.

And the way they carry on over public displays of religion at Christmas and Easter, you'd think they were as terrified of crosses as Count Dracula.

While conservatives declare war on terrorism, liberals declare quagmires, and demand the announcement of deadlines for withdrawal that would merely serve to encourage Islamic fascists to bide their time.

Liberals claim they are for the rights of women, but they don't celebrate the defeat of the Taliban because to do so would reflect well on President Bush and his ambition to be the Johnny Appleseed of democracy. Liberals claim that they are against tyrants, but they wring their hands over our losses in Iraq, although even after these many months of armed conflict, the number is far less than we suffered on 9-11. And although, in words, the libs champion liberty and freedom, they would turn their collective backs on Iraq's fledgling democracy in a nanosecond.

Liberals claim that they support our troops even as they insist the young men and women are fighting an unnecessary and illegal war, being waged strictly for oil, although we haven't claimed a single derrick, and it was those who opposed invasion – the French, the Germans, the Russians, and other assorted grafters connected to the United Nations – who had the profitable oil deals with Saddam Hussein. Even as the leftists claim to support our troops, they take every opportunity to defile thousands of soldiers for the minor misdeeds of a few.

The same liberals who'd have a conniption fit if the government insisted that every felon in America be provided with a New or Old Testament carries on as if every Muslim terrorist incarcerated at Guantanamo is entitled to a pristine copy of the Quran under the terms of the Geneva Convention.

Liberals are convinced that the Three-strikes law is cruel and unusual punishment. They quail at the idea that a career criminal could go to jail for life for swiping a pizza or walking off with a six-pack of beer. The way they carry on, you'd think they were all criminal-defense attorneys or even criminals. For one thing, only a small number of crimes are ever solved. For another, of those few, a sizeable number are plea-bargained down to misdemeanors.

Taking all that into consideration, isn't it logical to assume that before anybody is convicted of two felonies, he has probably committed 10 felonies or 20 or, more likely, 50? And knowing that a third conviction might send him back to the cooler for life, wouldn't you think he'd make every effort to keep his nose clean? And if he lacks even that modicum of common sense, shouldn't we assume that he suffers from terminal stupidity, and shouldn't we lock him up not only for our own safety, but for his?

Sometimes, when I look around at liberals, and listen to the pro-U.N., one-world-under-Kofi-Annan blather they spout, I feel a little like Dorothy in an updated version of "The Wizard of Oz": "Toto, forget Kansas. I don't think we're even in America."

And this time around, when the little mutt pulled the curtain aside, my guess is that the "great and powerful Oz," feverishly working the levers and the smoke machine, would turn out to be a red-nosed grifter who looked an awful lot like Ted Kennedy and sounded an awful lot like Howard Dean.


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1 posted on 09/20/2005 10:46:30 PM PDT by BulletBobCo
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To: BulletBobCo

Same planet, different worlds...


2 posted on 09/20/2005 10:47:59 PM PDT by Keith in Iowa (Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?)
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To: BulletBobCo

Speaking of liberals.....

I just found this linked off a thread here...

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3 posted on 09/20/2005 10:50:24 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Lord, we need a Logan miracle for Simcha7 and Cowboy. Please.)
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4 posted on 09/20/2005 10:53:40 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative (France is an example of retrograde chordate evolution.)
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To: BulletBobCo

YES THEY ARE


5 posted on 09/20/2005 10:53:54 PM PDT by msnimje (Cogito Ergo Sum Republican)
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To: Paleo Conservative

Ah yeah...the BIG BLUE BALL!


6 posted on 09/20/2005 10:56:09 PM PDT by BulletBobCo
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To: BulletBobCo

Isn't James from YourAnus?
7 posted on 09/20/2005 11:00:31 PM PDT by Andy from Beaverton (I only vote Republican to stop the Democrats)
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To: BulletBobCo
They inhabit the Planet Zongo. In fact, they act like aliens on earth. Common sense seems to be a mystery to them.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
8 posted on 09/20/2005 11:03:06 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: BulletBobCo

Oh, they're from here, but see my new tagline.


9 posted on 09/20/2005 11:06:49 PM PDT by decal (Mother Nature and Real Life are conservatives; the Progs have never figured this out.)
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To: BulletBobCo

Whatever they are I'm getting sick of their crap !


10 posted on 09/20/2005 11:10:30 PM PDT by america-rules
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To: BulletBobCo
Check out the following essay from Jonathan David Carson, Ph.D.
11 posted on 09/20/2005 11:31:28 PM PDT by Jeff F
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To: BulletBobCo

Planet Noaccountability.


12 posted on 09/20/2005 11:45:13 PM PDT by oyez
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13 posted on 09/20/2005 11:47:03 PM PDT by BulletBobCo
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To: BulletBobCo
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"Yeah, I'm a Democrar. How'd you know?"
14 posted on 09/21/2005 12:07:19 AM PDT by Old Seadog (Birthdays start out being fun. But too many of them will kill you..)
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To: BulletBobCo

Do not let anyone tell you that people without a brain cannot survive. Liberals have disproved this!


15 posted on 09/21/2005 12:11:47 AM PDT by blondee123
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To: BulletBobCo
Meh, the ones that I know are mostly regular folks. While I know that the foaming crazies are out there, I think that there's a lot more common ground between liberals and conservatives than we're led to believe. For example: I go shooting regularly with a dyed-in-the-wool Green Party loyalist who assures me that gun rights are his #1 political priority. Other lefty friends think that Kofi Annan should be fired and ridden out of NYC on a rail for what's happened under his watch.

It's a strange world.

16 posted on 09/21/2005 12:16:09 AM PDT by Zeroisanumber
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"Are liberals from another planet?"

There are number of planets they could be shipped to.

17 posted on 09/21/2005 12:52:05 AM PDT by M. Espinola (Freedom is never free)
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To: BulletBobCo

Actually it is we conservatives who are not really of this earth. Liberals serve the master of this fallen world.


19 posted on 09/21/2005 12:59:27 AM PDT by mercy (THY Kingdom come. THY will be done. On earth .... as it is in heaven.)
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To: Zeroisanumber
You are not far off. Most of the rabid anti-Bush/Republican types I know sound like conservatives on many issues. The fact is many Dems are not liberals but single-issue voters. The Donkey Party has their vote because it knows how to push their buttons: unions, abortion rights, affirmative discrimination, etc.

I'm firmly convinced that most Dems do not realize that their beloved party is run by leftist wackos. They're still under the illusion that The Pie Party "cares" about them. Yes they do care. They care about continuing to get the votes of the sheep.

20 posted on 09/21/2005 1:21:48 AM PDT by driftless ( For life-long happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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