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Liberal/Conservative Divide Only Grows Uglier
Rick's Pick's newsletter ^ | Nov. 2, 2012 | Rick Ackerman

Posted on 11/02/2012 6:53:53 AM PDT by Sicvee

It would be easy for me to dismiss Obama supporters as mentally defective but for one inconvenient fact: my mother, sharp as a tack at 92, is voting for him. And so is my sister, a San Francisco attorney who is no slouch in the brains department. I’m not sure where my brother, a municipal employee, stands, but neither am I eager to find out. There is no bridging the political gap between us, and so we simply avoid discussing politics. The same goes for old friends, although newer ones are another matter. One of them walked out on our dinner together in a huff when an innocuous remark I’d made about Abe Lincoln evidently bruised his self-righteously liberal, morally perfect heart . Good riddance. It is far better friends than he that I am worried about. Will they draw the line when I let slip my support for the right to bear arms, even concealed? A few of my wife’s closest friends are unmitigated liberals, and it’s unclear how much longer we’ll be able to tiptoe around the political rough edges when we get together socially. (more at the link)

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obama; pensions; romney
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1 posted on 11/02/2012 6:54:02 AM PDT by Sicvee
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To: Sicvee

Ronald Reagan: “Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.”


2 posted on 11/02/2012 6:57:00 AM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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To: Sicvee

And don’t look for that to change anytime soon.

I expect Obama is going to lose, and the Libs are going to fly in to one extended, screaming, foot-stomping, tantrum-laced fit that is going to last a decade or more.

They are setting the stage to waive a bunch of bloody shirts. Look for the UN poll watchers to issue a report saying Obama got SCROOOOOOD by racism.


3 posted on 11/02/2012 6:58:21 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Sicvee

Apparently they vote their “feelings” rather their intellects??


4 posted on 11/02/2012 6:59:12 AM PDT by OldEagle
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To: Sicvee
From the article: It would be easy for me to dismiss Obama supporters as mentally defective but for one inconvenient fact: my mother, sharp as a tack at 92, is voting for him. And so is my sister, a San Francisco attorney who is no slouch in the brains department. I’m not sure where my brother, a municipal employee, stands, but neither am I eager to find out. There is no bridging the political gap between us, and so we simply avoid discussing politics.

I had to stop reading right there. Flawed premise. I don't know whether his 92 yo mother is still sharp as a tack or not. I suppose it's possible. But when we see that he thinks his sister is smart simply because she's a SF Attorney, and SF attorneys are probably 99% socialist...and we see his brother is a government employee - also largely liberal - it is easy to understand this is just a sad family of libs, and he escaped somehow.

I think the mom is set in her ways, which is not a sign of sharpness. I think the sis regurgitated liberal BS back to her liberal law professors - and may not be very smart at all. I just had to stop reading.

5 posted on 11/02/2012 7:00:23 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright ("GONE: The Four Year Wave That Rocked The Bubble" due out Nov 8th)
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To: Sicvee

I agree with Ackerman- it will get ugly regardless of who the next President is.


6 posted on 11/02/2012 7:00:34 AM PDT by oblomov
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Which will simply be ignore by common sense folks.


7 posted on 11/02/2012 7:01:49 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Sicvee

Overall, a powerful and sobering description of our current pathetic state.


8 posted on 11/02/2012 7:03:51 AM PDT by BlueStateRightist
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To: Buckeye McFrog

nah, they’ll keep on blaming Bush.

They have lots of fingers to point at everyone else, but they are blind to their own transgressions.

Yes, they do indeed vote their feelings instead of intellect, or else they would realize they have been duped by O and his comrades, especially the Vampire Queen of the Da#ned, Valerie Jarrett. I can only think these otherwise smart people are somehow in a trance or mystically hypnotized by the liberal left loonies.


9 posted on 11/02/2012 7:04:15 AM PDT by sassy steel magnolia (USAF life and Navy wife...God Bless the USA!)
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To: Sicvee
The divide between liberal and conservative widens due to the hyper-liberalism of Barack Obama and his PR team; the MSM. The left refuses to compromise because they believe they are on the verge of re-making America into a socialist state while conservatives realize that if they do nothing and remain a 'silent majority', we'll be a version of the dysfunctional EU within less than a decade, so we resist with all our might. That, quite naturally, creates tension that is intractable and inevitable in such a fight for, as the author states: 'the nation's soul'. We have to win. If that ends up dividing family and friends, so be it. Principles matter.
10 posted on 11/02/2012 7:04:15 AM PDT by Jim Scott (Obama must be defeated)
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Too bad you cannot do the Clockwork Orange on them... pin their eyes open and let them watch “Conservatism Is Calling” on Youtube until they finally get it.

Oh don’t get me for forcing propaganda like the MSM! I know you cannot -—>really<-— do that!

Just sayin’...

:-)


11 posted on 11/02/2012 7:04:15 AM PDT by muffaletaman (IMNSHO - I MIGHT be wrong, but I doubt it.)
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To: OldEagle

One of the tactics of the communists has always been an appeal to intellectual arrogance.
Basically, the “argument” is “smart people agree with us”.

Marx used this continually. His ideas were “scientific”. Those who opposed him were “anti-science” or “unscientific”.

Sound familiar?


12 posted on 11/02/2012 7:04:24 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Sicvee

Too bad you cannot do the Clockwork Orange on them... pin their eyes open and let them watch “Conservatism Is Calling” on Youtube until they finally get it.

Oh don’t get me for forcing propaganda like the MSM! I know you cannot -—>really<-— do that!

Just sayin’...

:-)


13 posted on 11/02/2012 7:04:24 AM PDT by muffaletaman (IMNSHO - I MIGHT be wrong, but I doubt it.)
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To: Sicvee

Too bad you cannot do the Clockwork Orange on them... pin their eyes open and let them watch “Conservatism Is Calling” on Youtube until they finally get it.

Oh don’t get me for forcing propaganda like the MSM! I know you cannot -—>really<-— do that!

Just sayin’...

:-)


14 posted on 11/02/2012 7:04:30 AM PDT by muffaletaman (IMNSHO - I MIGHT be wrong, but I doubt it.)
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To: Sicvee

Can’t imagine what a leftwingtard would have favorable to say about Abe Lincoln. He freed the slaves ~ they create slaves.


15 posted on 11/02/2012 7:05:06 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Sicvee

It’s true. I find myself more and more unable to associate with liberals........at all. It is sad that things have gotten to this point, in a way, but it’s also healthy in another.

I believe that most libs simply don’t pay attention. They’ve been brainwashed, primarily by the media, into believing whatever those morons on the boob-tube feed them. I find that incredibly stupid and weak-minded.

The growing number of VOCAL Conservatives is evidence that more Americans ARE waking up to the realities of our country’s situation and are fed up. I expect, with FNC and talk radio and the Internet helping to spread the truth, that Conservative ranks will grow significantly. It’s time for some clear divisions to be faced, accepted, and dealt with. This country needs some soul searching, and despite the tensions, this will lead to innumerable exchanges (often heated) among our citizens. That’s not always a bad thing.


16 posted on 11/02/2012 7:05:24 AM PDT by RightOnline (I am Andrew Breitbart!)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

and we see his brother is a government employee

And dependent on taxpayer forced largesse...


17 posted on 11/02/2012 7:08:07 AM PDT by Adder (Sha Nah Nah Nah Hey Hey Hey Goodbye!)
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To: Sicvee

There is no compromise with Marxists.


18 posted on 11/02/2012 7:08:19 AM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: muffaletaman

Wow be careful when trying to post using your new tablet.

Sorry for the triple-post.


19 posted on 11/02/2012 7:08:19 AM PDT by muffaletaman (IMNSHO - I MIGHT be wrong, but I doubt it.)
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To: Sicvee

The divide between idologies is very healthy. Argue it out and then take a vote. No more unanimous consents and “comprehensive” bills that satisfy everybody and feed the beast. We’re spending a trillion and a half more each year than we’re taking in!


20 posted on 11/02/2012 7:09:59 AM PDT by cotton1706
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