Posted on 11/14/2006 10:16:28 AM PST by nofreeperme
Edited on 11/14/2006 10:38:45 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
A Liberal's Pledge to Disheartened Conservatives
November 14th, 2006
To My Conservative Brothers and Sisters,
I know you are dismayed and disheartened at the results of last week's election. You're worried that the country is heading toward a very bad place you don't want it to go. Your 12-year Republican Revolution has ended with so much yet to do, so many promises left unfulfilled. You are in a funk, and I understand.
Well, cheer up, my friends! Do not despair. I have good news for you. I, and the millions of others who are now in charge with our Democratic Congress, have a pledge we would like to make to you, a list of promises that we offer you because we value you as our fellow Americans. You deserve to know what we plan to do with our newfound power -- and, to be specific, what we will do to you and for you.
Thus, here is our Liberal's Pledge to Disheartened Conservatives:
Dear Conservatives and Republicans,
I, and my fellow signatories, hereby make these promises to you:
1. We will always respect you for your conservative beliefs. We will never, ever, call you "unpatriotic" simply because you disagree with us. In fact, we encourage you to dissent and disagree with us.
2. We will let you marry whomever you want, even when some of us consider your behavior to be "different" or "immoral." Who you marry is none of our business. Love and be in love -- it's a wonderful gift.
3. We will not spend your grandchildren's money on our personal whims or to enrich our friends. It's your checkbook, too, and we will balance it for you.
4. When we soon bring our sons and daughters home from Iraq, we will bring your sons and daughters home, too. They deserve to live. We promise never to send your kids off to war based on either a mistake or a lie.
5. When we make America the last Western democracy to have universal health coverage, and all Americans are able to get help when they fall ill, we promise that you, too, will be able to see a doctor, regardless of your ability to pay. And when stem cell research delivers treatments and cures for diseases that affect you and your loved ones, we'll make sure those advances are available to you and your family, too.
6. Even though you have opposed environmental regulation, when we clean up our air and water, we, the Democratic majority, will let you, too, breathe the cleaner air and drink the purer water.
7. Should a mass murderer ever kill 3,000 people on our soil, we will devote every single resource to tracking him down and bringing him to justice. Immediately. We will protect you.
8. We will never stick our nose in your bedroom or your womb. What you do there as consenting adults is your business. We will continue to count your age from the moment you were born, not the moment you were conceived.
9. We will not take away your hunting guns. If you need an automatic weapon or a handgun to kill a bird or a deer, then you really aren't much of a hunter and you should, perhaps, pick up another sport. We will make our streets and schools as free as we can from these weapons and we will protect your children just as we would protect ours.
10. When we raise the minimum wage, we will pay you -- and your employees -- that new wage, too. When women are finally paid what men make, we will pay conservative women that wage, too.
11. We will respect your religious beliefs, even when you don't put those beliefs into practice. In fact, we will actively seek to promote your most radical religious beliefs ("Blessed are the poor," "Blessed are the peacemakers," "Love your enemies," "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God," and "Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me."). We will let people in other countries know that God doesn't just bless America, he blesses everyone. We will discourage religious intolerance and fanaticism -- starting with the fanaticism here at home, thus setting a good example for the rest of the world.
12. We will not tolerate politicians who are corrupt and who are bought and paid for by the rich. We will go after any elected leader who puts him or herself ahead of the people. And we promise you we will go after the corrupt politicians on our side FIRST. If we fail to do this, we need you to call us on it. Simply because we are in power does not give us the right to turn our heads the other way when our party goes astray. Please perform this important duty as the loyal opposition.
I promise all of the above to you because this is your country, too. You are every bit as American as we are. We are all in this together. We sink or swim as one. Thank you for your years of service to this country and for giving us the opportunity to see if we can make things a bit better for our 300 million fellow Americans -- and for the rest of the world.
Signed,
Michael Moore mmflint@aol.com
Not unless they call us "fascists" too.
What BS, we call them "unpatriotic" because they ARE 'unpatriotic".
The dictionary definition of a patriot is one who loves, supports and defends their country. The liberals and Democrats who fit that definition are few and far between.
already lying in #1.
Considering it's name.....
ZOT!
BS, you make the Soldier or Marine fighting them read the terrorists their Miranda Rights before they could fire back and if you hit or wounded them the Democrats will have our troops up on charges of brutatity.
Mix in a salad, you doubled barrelled, rolly polly, vat of feces grease.
Whhhhat? I told the pig to fare well, didn't I?
Yes, but you didn't politely say "Don't let the door hit you in your big fat butt on the way out you big fat pig.
IBTZ
This from the people who pronounce "Christian" as if it were a slur.
What about those "evangelicals"? Liberals act like they were Robert Byrd talking about mixed race marriages when it comes to "evangelicals".
["When we raise the minimum wage, we will pay you -- and your employees..."
With whose money?]
Better yet, who is going to pay whome? I don't make minimum wage, I pay it. If I have to pay more, I must hire less. You want a minimum wage job, send a letter to Michael "Sloth" Moore. He says he is going to pay you.
The dripping bucket of lard still doesn't understand that THE SECOND AMENDMENT IS NOT ABOUT HUNTING!!!!!
I need a handgun, because I live on a farm, and a sidearm is a lot more handy against predators than trying to remember where I put down the shotgun.
I need a semi-automatic because it's a lot faster to get each shot off. Imagine a bear barreling down on you. You want to put as many holes in him as possible to lower his blood pressure quickly enough that he loses consciousness before he reaches you.
Oh, and the same goes for two-legged predators, Mickey Moron.
As far as I am concerned Michael Moore can go straight to hell.
Hell will be long frozen over before I ask a liberal[ communists] for a break.
This is true. You will call us "Nazis."
In fact, we encourage you to dissent and disagree with us.
Like at DePaul University today--firing a professor who had an argument with muslims about whether Israeli treatment of palestinians was equivalent to the Holocaust.
This from the voyers who got woodies from Mark Foley's emails.
Don't worry, you Libs will screw things up, and people will see what creeps you are.
What? America's enemies aren't necessarily yours or your party's enemy.
I got it now.
Traditional Christian Conservative Republicans are Democrat Enemy #1
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