Posted on 09/30/2009 3:18:39 PM PDT by dvan
The Difference: If a conservative doesn't like guns, they don't buy one. If a liberal doesn't like guns, then no one should have one.
If a conservative is a vegetarian, they don't eat meat. If a liberal is vegetarian, they want to ban all meat products for everyone.
If a conservative sees a foreign threat, he thinks about how to defeat his enemy. A liberal wonders how to surrender gracefully and still look good.
If a conservative is homosexual, they quietly enjoy their life. If a liberal is homosexual, they loudly demand legislated respect.
If a black man or Hispanic is conservative, they see themselves as independently successful. Their liberal counterparts see themselves as victims in need of government protection.
If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation. A liberal wonders who is going to take care of him.
If a conservative doesn't like a talk show host, he switches channels. Liberals demand that those they don't like be shut down.
If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn't go to church. A liberal wants all churches to be silenced and God removed from public view..
If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it. A liberal demands that his neighbors pay for his.
love it!
What’s the difference between an Honor Student and a gang banger?
Wait, are you implying that the conservative movement can be appealing to and should include atheists and gays? I agree, but I doubt you’ll find many others on FR.
A 2x6?
One faces to the Left; the other faces to the Right?
(Most) conservatives are what used to be called liberals. Politics is crazy.
If a Conservative wants to debate, they present the facts. If a Liberal wants to debate they either re-write history or present emotions - then they run from the debate.
I thought if a conservative was a vegetarian it’s because he hates vegetables and wants to KILL them!
Nice!
A liberal is a marxist.
Truth is wonderful huh?
Must listen:
http://mfile.akamai.com/5020/wma/rushlimb.download.akamai.com/5020/clips/09/09/093009_8_susan.asx
I’m an atheist, am I not welcome here?
Nice! :)
The big difference between liberals and conservatives—liberals are afraid that people will find out what they believe, and conservatives are afraid people won’t.
Liberal: “America, I’ll love you if you change.”
Conservative: “America, I love you.”
Yes. Also: the differnce between progressives and conservatives is this: Progressives need conservatives, conservatives don’t need progressives.
Very liberal Columnist Carl Rowan was a typical liberal and backed banning guns in Washington, D.C. -- but guess what.
.. that did not stop him from having at least one gun and shooting at and hitting at least one teenager who had entered Rowan's private property at night. The teens were swimming in Rowan's pool.
IMO Rowan is not an exception to how liberals feeeeeeeeeeel about guns.
If a liberal doesn't like guns, then no one except them should have one.
If an elevator is closed for maintenance or repairs a conservative takes the stairs, satisfied the elevator was taken out of service before someone was injured.
A liberal will complain to the office, demand compensation for the inconvenience and write letters to the newspapers and politicians demanding a government investigation and new laws requiring two elevators in case one is not available.
Brains vs. no brains.
The letter hidden in plain sight. You have pinpointed what is so odious and vile about them This will go viral.
or more simplistically...one has a brain and the other does not!
Good vs. Eveeel.
Conservatives debate the issues. Liberals spout one of the little wornout mantras in their head PLUS they think they have then debated the issue.
Think vs. “feel”
Also how can liberals who demand to be taken care of be smarter than conservatives who are self reliant?
The answer truly is a no brain-er!!
A Conservative believes that if you don’t like Pornography, you should buy it, but.. uh.. never mind.
I mean’t you SHOULDN’T buy it.. bah.. ruined the effect..
I heard Susan and thought she was embarrassing. She said she lives in LaLa Land and I wondered if she was a liberal actress trying to put one over on Rush and his audience. Let’s leave the emotional blather to the libs.
United we stand, divided we fall.
But what did Carl Rowan believe about other people, the unwashed masses, owning guns? I’m fairly certain he was an unvarnished liberal in that regard.
You just brought up one similarity between Conservatives and Liberals. The Conservative has firm ideas on how his money should be spent. The Liberal also has firm ideas on how the Conservatives' money should be spent, too!
As long as you don’t mind being prayed for.
bttt
I don’t have a problem with gays and atheists being conservatives, but I don’t think they should control the agenda of the party. If they want a party that gives them special consideration because of their ideological/lifestyle choices, they can go elsewhere.
"Rowan was a typical liberal and backed laws banning guns" in the U.S. He of course kept one just in case he needed one though it was illegal even for him, if I remember correctly.
A conservative is individuated, a liberal is not.
dvan, thank you for starting this thread. This is a subject I dwell a lot on. Being a conservative in the bluest of blue states (Massachusetts) I have plenty of observation material to think about.
If you observe history, you notice that when conservatives enter office, there is not an attitude of “We are going to completely stop doing things the way our predecessor did them, and we are going to do them our way from now on.” It is usually a very measured approach, letting things go the way they did for a period of time before making changes, and those changes are usually incremental, not radical.
This is because conservatives understand that you do not need to re-invent the wheel. The problem with reinventing wheels, policies or anything else is that you often make the same mistakes the first inventor did, unless you take extra care to see why those mistakes occurred.
Liberals do not have the humility to understand this. It is why liberals are all socialists to a greater or lesser degree and believe in big, centralized government.
I use the analogy of a jumbo jet flying through the sky on auto-pilot, with no flight crew present, and a passenger opens the cockpit door and enters.
Conservatives would enter the cockpit, look around and take stock of the situation. They might look at the fuel gauge, look at the attitude and get a general feel of the situation. They probably wouldn’t touch anything right away, realizing that there are circumstances where doing something for the sake of doing something can be far more harmful. They might decide to put the headphones on, see if they can communicate with anyone, see if they can hear anything, and so on. They would probably try to find someone who could talk them down, and failing that, might try to figure out if there was anyone onboard with piloting experience.
Liberals would enter the cockpit, look around and scream out “Nobody is flying the plane!” They would jump in the pilot seat, grab the control stick and shout “We have to get this plane on the ground or we’re all going to die!” They might dive the plane towards the earth, looking frantically for an airport, making the assumption that of course, you could fly a plane from the sky “just by looking around, there is the airport over there, let’s get to it!” without realizing that is one of the most difficult things even for veteran pilots who might have the advantage of at least being familiar with the area and comfortable with trying to pick up landmarks from the air. They would dive the plane, then suddenly realize they don’t know how to turn the plane, how to apply rudder or lower the flaps and landing gear (probably wouldn’t even realize those were needed) and would simultaneously realize they had no idea how to stabilize the plane in level flight or re-engage the autopilot. The passengers, feeling the gyrations of the aircraft and knowing something was wrong, would begin to panic, and before you know it, there would be a huge flaming hole in the ground.
It is the same thing with a military campaign, an economic crisis, an environmental issue, solving an education or social problem, or just about anything else you can think of.
Liberals see the levers, dials and controls of something powerful and complicated, and instead of figuring out how they work or even if they work, they make the assumption that no matter what, they can control this better than anyone or anything that controlled it before. They don’t even think that sometimes putting your hands on the levers of something powerful is much, much more damaging than keeping your bloody damned hands OFF of them.
If it is a military campaign, they get in their armchairs and begin looking at the maps, targets and forces involved, pick up the phones and begin issuing orders and edicts to generals. You end up with the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, Desert One and Mogadishu.
On environmental issues you end up with some kind of foreign species of fish that you brought in from South America to control some other kind of issue, and it ends up destroying the native ecosystem, or on a global scale, you destroy the ability to obtain energy for an energy dependent world because you need to save the existence of the Alaskan Spotted Lugwort. They determined through their “science” that DDT made the egg shells of predatory birds thin causing their populations to decrease, and viewing it as a canary in a coal mine, outlawed DDT, thereby condemning tens of millions of people (or over the years, perhaps even hundreds of millions) to misery and death from insect borne diseases such as malaria. Even worse, you end up with liberals trying to deliberately destroy industry and economies, an attempt to plunge the entire western world into a depression, and they base their desire to do this on “Global Warming”. To sum up this particular angle and encapsulate the liberal mindset on all these issues, but most importantly environmental ones, remember this quote from a feminist wall mural I see in Cambridge, MA: “INDICATION OF HARM, NOT PROOF OF HARM IS OUR CALL TO ACTION”. Look well upon that quote...it sums up liberalism in one compact line.
If it is a economic or social issue, they begin to make policy and throw money at it without even considering for a single damned second if what they are doing is really going to produce the expected result. If it doesn’t help or makes things worse, they simply throw more money and legislation at the issue, without bothering to dismantle the agencies or defund what they did before that failed miserably. In this, you end up with Rent Control (a liberal invention which destroys the availability of affordable housing), Social Security (a liberal invention, a Ponzi scheme on a grand scale that gave people the false security they didn’t have to save for themselves) the Great Society, Welfare, School Busing, declining ability of students and failing schools, disintegration of the family and soon, socialism and Third World Squalor.
And folks, this new President, is steeped up to his oversized jug-handled ears in the arrogance and ignorance of Liberalism. He is a racist, socialist and marxist. He believes it to the core, and he is now the most powerful man in the world.
We have a problem.
what is the Difference Between B(right) and Dim(ocrat)?
what is the Difference Between a Conservative and a Liberal?
***About 30 IQ points.
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