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How to Tell a Democrat from a Republican
Can U Fly ^ | 1999 | By Leon Felkins

Posted on 04/19/2002 2:34:38 PM PDT by vannrox

How to Tell a Democrat from a Republican

(Or "Liberal from a Conservative" or "Leftist from a Right Winger" - without loss of generality)

By Leon Felkins

Written 2/25/1999
Revised 3/15/1999

Copyright 1999, All Rights Reserved

Conservative, n. - A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.

-- Ambrose Bierce

Many of you have expressed great confusion, in these troubled times, in trying to tell a Republican from a Democrat. Sure, we know what they say they are; most of them have well displayed nameplates. But could you tell one from the other in a blind test? That is, without prior knowledge and access to his/her tshirt, automobile, or dog, could you determine which was which simply by his/her actions? Probably not. The purpose of this essay is to assist you in making such an identification.

In the following paragraphs, I will list the major issues of our times and clearly identify the differences between the Republican and Democrat approaches to these issues.




TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: conservative; democrat; dnc; liberal; republican; rnc

1 posted on 04/19/2002 2:34:38 PM PDT by vannrox
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To: vannrox
Perception is everything, I guess.
2 posted on 04/19/2002 2:38:43 PM PDT by cantfindagoodscreenname
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To: vannrox
Republicans believe that every person inherently knows right from wrong, whether they were raised by a harlot on the mean streets of East St. Louis...

East St Louis was a mean city some years ago, but now it's mostly just a poor city.

3 posted on 04/19/2002 2:41:59 PM PDT by patriotUSA
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To: vannrox
Beautiful !!!!!
4 posted on 04/19/2002 2:42:39 PM PDT by jimt
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To: cantfindagoodscreenname
both are statists: they do not disagree that the state has the authority to abrogate personal rights. both are insatiable for power, micro management and taxes. repubs are more reprehensible, because they operate under the pretense of freedom. dems make no such pretense, they admit it.
5 posted on 04/19/2002 2:43:16 PM PDT by galt-jw
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To: vannrox
>How to Tell a Democrat from a Republican...

Oh so very funny.

Of course, we all know how to recognize a libertarian:

Mark W.

6 posted on 04/19/2002 2:43:31 PM PDT by MarkWar
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To: vannrox
This sounds like it was written by someone who, at least superficially, understands that democrats (and their positions) are idiotic and/or immoral, but doesn't really want to come to grips with the true republican (or conservative, or whatever) views on the issues. Odd.
7 posted on 04/19/2002 2:46:59 PM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee
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To: galt-jw
loser objectivist
8 posted on 04/19/2002 2:48:17 PM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee
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To: vannrox
If you se John McCain sitting in your garage with the lights off and blind folded murmering..."forestal...forestal... more rice please" Then your a democrat!
9 posted on 04/19/2002 2:57:32 PM PDT by Kay Soze
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To: vannrox
This is easy:

There's a bus headed for Hell. Periodically, the passengers get to vote on the driver, entirely missing the point about the destination.

When Democrats are in the driver's seat, they have the pedal to the metal.

When Republicans are in the driver's seat, they also have the pedal to the metal, but they tap the brakes every now and then.

10 posted on 04/19/2002 3:08:32 PM PDT by Noumenon
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To: vannrox
If you must have pleasurable sex, which by definition would be outside of the marriage.....

It's really too bad you married the wrong person if this "outside of the marriage" thing is true for you! Be jealous of me, VERY, VERY jealous, and YOU FORGOT THE BARF ALERT!

11 posted on 04/19/2002 3:09:10 PM PDT by mil-vet
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To: vannrox
Entertaining piece!
12 posted on 04/19/2002 3:12:50 PM PDT by SoDak
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To: MarkWar
OR:


13 posted on 04/19/2002 3:13:52 PM PDT by E=MC<sup>2</sup>
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To: vannrox
oh - ha ha

Truth is: liberals base their facts on feelings and conservatives base their feelings on facts.

14 posted on 04/19/2002 3:15:49 PM PDT by roylene
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To: vannrox
Generally the democRAT would be the one that wears a styrofoam helmet while driving their oil burning Volvo through the corner gas station parking lot to avoid stopping for the traffic light with a Gore/Lieberman 2000 and Earth First bumper stickers on the bike rack fitted to the rear bumper.

They are also inclined to be the one with the shopping cart loaded up with about 5,000 items that has taken station at the 10 item limit express lane and have their food stamp card at the ready. More likely than not, this individual will demand the plastic rather than paper bags. They are also prone to having their kids (the ones that were not aborted) running around the store aisles "rearrainging" displays with reckless abandon.

15 posted on 04/19/2002 3:21:52 PM PDT by Howie66
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To: mil-vet
Please don't be nasty. I did not write this, and I do not agree with everything written. This is true for most of my posts. I generally post quite a bit, and I sometimes get some awful statements by others thinking that I agree with what I post.


Not that you have done this, but words like "idiot" or "stupid" or "typing in Caps while making an agressive statement" is not really a nice way to comment on the posts.


What benefit does it serve? Does it get your point across? What point could that be?


I suppose it is like walking into a tea-party with a bunch of nice little old ladies. They are all sitting down in a nice white room with fine china and flowers. Suddenly you walk in with a sledgehammer. And pound it on the table. Glass shatters! There is a loud crash! Things fly everywhere! The women are startled...


Not nice. Not cool. Not justified.

16 posted on 04/19/2002 3:22:37 PM PDT by vannrox
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee
well if you would please enlighten me as to the "true" republican views, i'd certainly be appreciative
oh, and the names of any currently living politicians who are "true" republicans.
oh, and one more thing, who was it that appointed you the keeper of the "true" republicanism?

my apologies to columbo

18 posted on 04/19/2002 3:38:50 PM PDT by dmz
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To: vannrox
Bump for later.
19 posted on 04/19/2002 3:40:34 PM PDT by SolitaryMan
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To: vannrox
Re: your post #16:Please don't be nasty.

Hold it! I didn't call you names, I did not use profanity, and I didn't attack you personally! I took one statement of many in your post which slammed conservatives, and I commented, and then, IN RED CAPS, stated that you had forgotten the barf alert! You DID leave off the barf alert.

Perhaps next time I will rephrase "It's really too bad you married the wrong person if this "outside of the marriage" thing is true for you!" to say "If one finds this 'outside of the marriage' thing to be true, then one married the wrong person"! Would this take the sting out of what I wrote, which was not meant to upset as much as to poke fun at the attempt to slam conservatives while setting the stage for the insertion of a BARF ALERT?

Didn't mean to piss you off, and I'm not upset with you going off on me, because heaven knows I've sure misinterpretted MY share of posts in my time!!

20 posted on 04/19/2002 3:44:57 PM PDT by mil-vet
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I took a test last year and it came out that I am a CENTRIST. In case anyone is interested....
21 posted on 04/19/2002 3:58:59 PM PDT by Sungirl
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To: mil-vet
If you can't tell a Democrat from a Republican, you're a flake. If more lazy conservatives put some effort into the GOP, it would be more conservative. Sitting out elections, voting for the LP (LOL, as if they could even spell conservative!), and gross exaggerations, (if not outright lies), are not productive pursuits. Bellyache 24/7 all you want; we will either live under the Dems or the GOP. If you want to make the GOP more conservative, work at it. If you just want to crap about it, you have your right, but empty hot air will not make a positive difference. If you voted the "party of principle" into power, (Gawd, the epitome of false advertising!), to STAY in power, they would morph into Dems in a NY minute. Plus, on many issues, the LP is more liberal than the Dems, (drugs, anti-Christian to the Nth power, etc.). But by all means, don't stop giving us you invaluable insights into what's wrong with the GOP. You flakes are a constant source of humor.....
22 posted on 04/19/2002 4:01:25 PM PDT by Malcolm
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To: vannrox
Gov. Wallace was right. There's not a nickle's worth of diffeence between the two of them.
23 posted on 04/19/2002 4:01:26 PM PDT by Rule of Law
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To: roylene
Truth is: liberals base their facts on feelings and conservatives base their feelings on facts.

Unless several well known Freepers are just pretending to be conservatives, it appears that die-hard Bush supporters are just as willing to turn a blind eye to facts as liberals ... if it suits their perception of what will help THEIR candidate and party in the NEXT election. I call them "move-on'ers" because they think that by ignoring serious crimes by democRATS (little things like election tampering, blackmail of Republicans and the murder of cabinet members), the GOP will be better off. Never mind what ignoring those crimes does to the rule of law, our freedoms and the long term future of this Republic.

24 posted on 04/19/2002 4:02:21 PM PDT by BeAChooser
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To: vannrox
How do you tell the difference between a Democrat and a Socialist?

The Socialist takes the dishes out of the sink before he takes a dump in it.

26 posted on 04/19/2002 4:06:17 PM PDT by Governor William J. LePetomane
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To: Sungirl
In Fact, here it is:

Quick Test

27 posted on 04/19/2002 4:09:29 PM PDT by Sungirl
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To: patriotUSA
East St Louis was a mean city some years ago, but now it's mostly just a poor city.

50 years ago it was filthy.

28 posted on 04/19/2002 4:10:56 PM PDT by retiredtexan
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To: vannrox
I believe the point of your post is to clarify the differences between Liberals and Conservatives. In my opinion this issue may be summed up as follows: Liberals (and Democrats in their party platform) advocate and promote murder (abortion), sloth & greed (the welfare state), envy (the class hatred of the "rich"), lust - if it "feels good do it" & homosexuality --- I could go on but all of the "seven deadly sins" are represented by the Liberal agenda.

The Conservative movement was started in the '40's as a reaction to the Liberal movement (Conservatives are Anti-liberal) by my definition, there is no grey area, one is either working for God (and promoting His will) i.e. "Conservative" or is working for Satan and promoting his agenda i.e. "Liberal".

30 posted on 04/19/2002 4:20:50 PM PDT by PA_hayseed
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To: vannrox
How to Tell a Democrat from a Republican

One wears a Union suit and the other a Business suit ;-)

31 posted on 04/19/2002 4:26:09 PM PDT by varon
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To: vannrox
One wants to be your mother, the other wants to be your father.
32 posted on 04/19/2002 4:30:59 PM PDT by Dinsdale
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To: Sungirl
Me too. (On that test) That puts us in the worst of all positions, though. We centrists get beat up by both sides because we don't have a "team" like the others do. LOL
33 posted on 04/19/2002 4:35:47 PM PDT by Goldsters
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To: Goldsters
Well...I just think we are honest with ourselves.
34 posted on 04/19/2002 4:37:14 PM PDT by Sungirl
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To: Goldsters
I was always an independent though....never followed the 'team'. I led my own team.
35 posted on 04/19/2002 4:38:51 PM PDT by Sungirl
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To: vannrox
Howdy

Vapid propaganda, utterly worthless except as an object lesson in communicating with strangers to the truth.

As such I thank you for providing a unsullied sample of the most vile abuse of objective reality I have ever read.

I will keep in on a shelf, preserved in formaldehyde, under the "goebbles meets stalin" information collection.

36 posted on 04/19/2002 4:43:41 PM PDT by MoscowMike
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To: Confederate Keyester
But I thought PB's description of them as Two Wings of the SAME Bird of Prey to be more accurate and chilling.

But can a bird fly if it has two left wings?

37 posted on 04/19/2002 5:25:30 PM PDT by Rule of Law
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To: Sungirl
I also took the test and was rated a Centrist, but did you consider the source of the "test"? - Libertarian
38 posted on 04/19/2002 5:26:12 PM PDT by JSloth
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To: Rule of Law; Sungirl
Good point!

Unfortunately, a lot of voters see the parties just as the author described, and feel most comfortable when both sides are fighting and neither wins.

39 posted on 04/19/2002 5:41:02 PM PDT by Goldsters
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To: Sungirl
I am a "right conservative." This is somewhat of a disappointment to me, as I thought I was further right than that.
40 posted on 04/19/2002 9:17:45 PM PDT by stylin_geek
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To: Malcolm
If you can't tell a Democrat from a Republican, you're a flake.

What on earth are you talking about (your post #22)? I make one comment poking fun at a derogotory statement supposedly attributable (sp?) to conservatives, and I'm a flake? Hmmmm. Methinks you may have made the same mistake I make sometimes and misread or took me out of context, because, believe me, I can tell the difference between a liberal and an American after only a few moments of conversation.

At the risk of oversimplifying, liberals (democraps) are almost UNIVERSALLY intolerant and ill-informed, while conservatives actually have the open mind liberals claim THEY have, and are generally of the better informed in any given group.

Unlike a certain former POW from Arizona, my 21 years of active military duty (along with 15 years - and counting - of civilian gov't service) proved unequivocally to me that liberals are the domestic enemy being addressed each of the three times (once when I enlisted, once when I was commissioned, and once when I entered civilian service) I swore to uphold the constitution of the united states and defend it against enemies, foreign and domestic!

As one who has and does work where the rubber meets the road, I respectfully submit that you have erred grieviously in referring to me as a flake. As I said in another post, I'm not upset, though, because it's clear you misinterpretted something, and I've made the same mistake, so no problem, OK?

42 posted on 04/23/2002 12:48:51 PM PDT by mil-vet
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To: mil-vet
The hysteria on this site of late has been entertaining but one needs to take a break from it on occasion.

I like a one month on and one month off senario. Seems to work for me, otherwise I lose my perspective.

It is time for my vacation because I now believe that if the election were re-voted today, Gore would win because Buchannon would get at least 200,000 votes from republicans. But that can't be! He did not get crap and for good reason before. Sheesh!

Gotta go! I'm having tremors again. See you after my break.

43 posted on 04/23/2002 1:02:16 PM PDT by Cold Heat
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To: vannrox
Bump for later
44 posted on 04/23/2002 1:06:35 PM PDT by WhiteGuy
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To: wirestripper
Re: your post #43 - "hysteria", roger!! I can clearly understand losing perspective since, especially after THIS thread, I apparently have done so - LOL!!

See you after the break....

Regards.

mil-vet sends

45 posted on 04/23/2002 1:14:17 PM PDT by mil-vet
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To: vannrox
DEMOCRATS enthusiastically propose statist power-grabs.

REPUBLICANS "reluctantly" acquiesce to them.

46 posted on 04/23/2002 1:18:10 PM PDT by muleboy
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To: vannrox
Nice article, funny but true stuff here.

The dems & the goper's both exist for the same reason....

Power. Cradle to grave, control over your life and...

most importantly your money.

The only difference is why.

47 posted on 04/25/2002 2:06:41 AM PDT by WhiteGuy
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To: LilFreep
See this
48 posted on 11/08/2002 8:33:55 AM PST by MotleyGirl70
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To: MarkWar
BULLSEYE!
49 posted on 11/08/2002 8:41:01 AM PST by ampat
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To: MotleyGirl70
Thank you! That is kind of what I was looking for.
50 posted on 11/08/2002 12:01:09 PM PST by LilFreep
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