How to spot a baby conservative (Ultra mega barf alert!)

The Toronto Star ^ | Mar. 19, 2006 | KURT KLEINER

[RightWingAtheist]

Lemme guess: that kid is going to grow up to become another one of those beggars in Minneapolis's Block E.

[RightWingAtheist]

I always have to laugh at the way liberals claim that they recognize complexity" when they have such a simplistic stance and knee-jerk reaction to everything.

[WhiteGuy]

"and whining conservative kids grow up thinking that individual initiative is key."

Actually, the whining conservative kids grew up to embrace enormous medicare drug entitlements, pay to play "earmarks", and "vincente fox is my lover" bumper-stickers.

[Sofa King]

"Remember the whiny, insecure kid in nursery school, the one who always thought everyone was out to get him, and was always running to the teacher with complaints?"

Sounds like Al Franken.

[knuthom]

Not a representative sample. First of all it was Berkeley. Second, it was nursury school. Many conservative kids were home with their stay-at-home moms.

[Lou L]

You prove a good point, that poll numbers can be twisted to obtain any desired results. But even in your hypothetical poll, the data would be collected over a fairly short period of time. There's no way you could ever retrieve data (not realistically) about those same prisoners' penchant for "whininess" as a child.

[Wheee The People]

I bet the liberal nursery school kids threw a nuclear tantrum every-time another kid wouldn't share their toys with them.

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

"The popular self-confident kids, who had everything handed to them, became liberals."

Are you saying that people who think the world revolves around them, use and step on others to take what they want, then assuage their consciences by tossing some cash (never to the point of sacrifice, though) to the latest and hippest do-good cause so their friends tell them how magnanimous they are is what the "confident, resilient, self-reliant kids" grew up to be?

Do you realize you've described most of Hollywood? And, I'd venture to guess, most of the friends of the author of this piece.

[Yaelle]

Switzerland, in the early '90s. They had under 1% unemployment then. Fantasy Land. It just felt so WRONG to me!

[SW6906]

Anyone have a link to that poll that showed Republican were happier than Democrats?!!? I need to send it to a liberal who sent me this "article".

[Abathar]

I know the one you are talking about, but I don't have a link to it. The DUmmies had this on their home page, I am willing to bet that is where the "Liberal" got it from.

[NTW64]

Berkeley says it all...

[Abathar]

Yep, I bet if they took this little "test" here in Indiana the exact opposite would be true.

[.cnI redruM]

If I were stuck in the depraved Land of Queerdor where the shadows lie (AKA The People's Barfocracy of Berkley), I'd probably whine too. Abused children have a right to complain.

[Abathar]

Hell, they should follow this up on suicide numbers as well...

[.cnI redruM]

No, most Conservatives follow the G. Gordon Liddy doctrine on that one. "I'd kill myself, but there's so many others I'd like to watch go first."

[EmilyGeiger]

LOL! Funny post. :)

[Abathar]

LOL! Isn't that the truth....

[TexasCajun]

...95 kids from the Berkeley area

Being brainwashed by every Berkelidite these kids come in contact with, I'm sure they actually believe they are 'main stream' & conservative and that conservatism is actually the liberal position.

Helter-Skelter!

[Abathar]

" Berkelidite "

New word for the day! :-)