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"Being termed a liberal is terrifying; it's terrifying."

Very interesting case study. I can't think of a single conservative who is TERRIFIED of being labeled a conservative. Liberals are afraid of who they really are, because it's a scary thing.

ALMOST as scary as Antonia.


1 posted on 03/05/2005 9:41:04 AM PST by srm913
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2 posted on 03/05/2005 9:44:26 AM PST by srm913
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So how do liberals win the word game?

"The answer is populism," Smith proposes. "You have to get people thinking about the right things."

Shows just how brain dead this guy is

3 posted on 03/05/2005 9:46:25 AM PST by woofie
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If "Liberal" is the other L word, what was the first one?
4 posted on 03/05/2005 9:48:58 AM PST by wolfpat (Dum vivimus, vivamus)
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"You have to get people thinking about the right things."




Oh, we are!!

Patriotism
Integrity
Morality
Faith
Family
Sovereignty
Individualism
Security
Prosperity
Opportunity


Feel free to add.......


5 posted on 03/05/2005 9:52:01 AM PST by reformedliberal
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We need the full frontal to get a better perspective on what we're dealing with here.

 

6 posted on 03/05/2005 9:52:12 AM PST by Fintan (A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. - Groucho Marx)
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"That is classic propaganda, says psychologist Neil Wollman, a senior fellow with the Peace Studies Institute at Indiana's Manchester College."

You may be a liberal if....

7 posted on 03/05/2005 9:54:32 AM PST by fat city (Julius Rosenberg's soviet code name was "Liberal")
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In the U.S., "progressive" is slipping in to replace the L-word.

"Progressive" scares me more than "liberal".

8 posted on 03/05/2005 9:56:39 AM PST by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch (THANK YOU LORD -- John Kerry is still just a senator.)
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Words are not the problem.

The meaning behind the word is the problem.

This is why they can switch from socialist, to Liberal, to Moderate, to centrist to progressive and still face the same issues of distrust and dislike. They are who they are no matter what word they confiscate to label themselves as.

Liberal isn't a bad word in it's traditionalist sense. It was when they used it as a cover for advanced socialism and in some case communism that it developed the loaded poison it holds.

When REAL Liberals take back the traditional meaning behind the word, it'll once again be acceptable to the American public.


10 posted on 03/05/2005 9:58:35 AM PST by Soul Seeker
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Here's a sample from right-wing banshee Ann Coulter's latest bestseller,

right-wing banshee Ann Coulter ??????

Looks like our girl Ann struck a few nerves....

15 posted on 03/05/2005 10:02:30 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 ("I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for," - Howard Dean 01/29/2005)
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Right now, liberals are snapping up a slim volume by George Lakoff, a cognitive linguist at the University of California at Berkeley. Titled Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate, it attempts to counter "the right wing's stranglehold on political dialogue."

With leftist control of the media, the schools, and the universities, she thinks WE have a stranglehold on political dialogue?

I wish. She has no connection with reality.

16 posted on 03/05/2005 10:02:40 AM PST by Carry_Okie (There are people in power who are truly evil.)
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"Eighty per cent of the talking heads on television are from the conservative think tanks. Eighty percent."

I suppose thats true when you consider the Brookings Institute to be a conservative think tank.

18 posted on 03/05/2005 10:05:28 AM PST by chudogg (www.chudogg.blogspot.com)
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It must really SUCK being a liberal nowadays.


20 posted on 03/05/2005 10:07:57 AM PST by WSGilcrest (Tinky likes it!)
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Articles like these are hilarious. Poor liberals. Their ideas are so compelling, so popular... if only they didn't always get beaten up by lying conservatives who "push" the "idea" of a liberal slant in the media. I mean, gosh, with such a compelling agenda as the liberal one, if they only found a way to counter those devastating attacks on media outlets they'd run the table.

The author's Canadian, so she gets some slack for cluelessness-- poor girl, she can't help it.

What cracks me up is this poor-me routine liberals pull. I've never heard such nasty invective from a political party than I did from Democrats this last time around-- Bush started a war to benefit his friends from Texas, to profit Haliburton, to scare people into voting for him. That's what was said by elected Democrats, never mind Moore. Now, though, liberals pretend they did nothing but offer high-minded "complexities" and were met with insults from an angry mob of children.

24 posted on 03/05/2005 10:20:45 AM PST by Timm
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Thanks to the right, its media mouthpieces, and a lack of cohesion on the left, knowledge of liberalism's benefits has slipped down the memory hole.

Just as any of the benefits of conservativism have been swept under the rug by the liberal-dominated press. The great struggle of the past three generations, the victory over Communism by US Conservatives, was swept under the rug by the media (not to mention the back-stabbing collaboration by liberals).

Cry me a river, liberal.

30 posted on 03/05/2005 10:29:00 AM PST by HolgerDansk ("Oh Bother", said Pooh, as he chambered another round.)
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So how do liberals win the word game?

Leadership and character are not word games.Thankfully libs are unwilling to admit that they lack both.
I will continue to cheer them on as they march down the road to the darkness of obscurity.

31 posted on 03/05/2005 10:32:34 AM PST by carlr
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That is classic propaganda, says psychologist Neil Wollman, a senior fellow with the Peace Studies Institute at Indiana's Manchester College.

Never mind that liberals fought for social security, civil rights,...

This woman is filled with her own propaganda. The liberal democrat party rejected civil rights. It was the evil conservative Republicans that passed the civil rights act and abolished slavery. Conservatives understand basic economic principles the show private accounts for SS give a better return than the current pyramid scheme. But when do facts matter to liberals?

37 posted on 03/05/2005 10:50:26 AM PST by doc30 (Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
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during the U.S. presidential campaign, we saw supporters of Vermont governor Howard Dean dismissed as a "tax-hiking, government-expanding, latte-drinking, sushi-eating, Volvo-driving, New York Times-reading, body-piercing, Hollywood-loving, left-wing freak show."

I would be willing to bet that Mr. Dean doesn't have any body piercings. All the rest of it is true, of course. And, for the record, I don't fear being called a liberal. I despise it. Those are practically fighting words.

40 posted on 03/05/2005 11:14:31 AM PST by Hardastarboard
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and the reality is being a conservative has been considered a dirty word for decades, especially in Canada but you are right as a conservative in Canada I did not hide then nor will I hide now

the pendulum has swung so far in favour of the liberals that it is only naturally that the pendulum finally is swinging the other direction

and it will finally end up back in the middle I suppose


43 posted on 03/05/2005 11:35:00 AM PST by llama hunter
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Being termed a liberal is terrifying

Being a liberal is even more terrifying.

45 posted on 03/05/2005 12:23:34 PM PST by kennedy ("Why would I listen to losers?")
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"Watching the liberals in Washington is like watching a bad horror movie. Just when you think the monster is vanquished ... gone for good ... it jumps from the shadows for yet another attack," writes billionaire Steve Forbes, who goes on to say that liberals lie, attack and distort.

Forbes left out "whine." Liberals lie, attack, distort and whine.

46 posted on 03/05/2005 12:27:34 PM PST by kennedy ("Why would I listen to losers?")
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