Liberals Hate SUV's

Reese on line ^ | 2 Dec. 02 | Charley Reese

[CFC__VRWC]

Trust me, Libs hate it. ESPECIALLY when they see my Naval Aircrewman's Wings and my Air Warfare wings on the back windshield. The "non-stock" exhaust helps, too.

Tweaking libs is sooooo much fun. And you don't even have to do whole lot to light their fuses. You'd be amazed at how many libs get all bunched up over a plain old pickup truck with a gun rack and an American flag sticker.

[Henrietta]

Leftists say they hate SUV's, but a disproportionate number seem to drive them. I went to law school at the #1 environmental law school in the country, and many of the "environmentally conscious" students drove SUV's. One of the most rabid enviros on campus drove a Ford Expedition, in which she commuted alone daily from a suburb about 30 miles away. Talk about hypocrisy!

[Pitchfork]

Interesting that no one has mentioned foreign energy dependence. We now import over 75% of our oil needs. To sustain this we have to whore our military out to any pissant Arab feudal holding that can hire a good Washington lobbyist while holding our noses and pretending they and any other backward anti-democratic regime in the region is some how our closest ally since the Brits in WWII.

OR

We must consider tearing up the last areas of completely unspoiled wildeness (perhaps our country's--and the worlds--most rapidly vanishing resource).

I'm all into personal freedom and choice but folks our choices have wider implications. I'd generally like to see our society become less wasteful more energy efficient and less poluting for a host of reasons. But the most important is so my kids will have clean air to breath, water to drink, wild spaces to visit and won't have to put themselves in harm's way to defend the 'soverignty' of some petty Arab sheik just so I commute to the office alone in my sub 10mpg monstrosity.

[Henrietta]

Easy......most SUV drivers are women and most women are liberal. By the way, before I get flamed, I'm a woman SUV driver who loves the space for my kids.........I just know that most women are overly emotional and not logical when it comes to politics, I'm sorry to say.

Couldn't agree with you more! This is why we women should not be allowed to vote! We are screwing up the world with our accursed Mommy State! Flame me if you want to, but I honestly believe that the world we be a better place if women could not vote!

[Henrietta]

Start asking irrelevant questions("WHY does anyone NEED such a thing/truck/engine/gun/etc...")

Those sorts of questions are always my favorite. I'd like to ask a rich leftist why, for example, he or she "needs" a 4,000 square foot house. We all know what a waste of resources a big house is, with all the heat and water they waste. Why not live in an apartment?

Also, why do leftists "need" to buy $400 Manolo Blahnik shoes (Sarah Jessica Parker, a leftist of note, likes this brand)? Why not go to Volume Shoes, and donate the $380 leftovers to charity?

Why do you need to buy original art for your home, leftists? Why not just buy posters? I could go on and on, but I won't; we all get the picture.

[Pitchfork]

Revealing the hypocrisy of the 'other side' however, doesn't reduce the truth that all of the things you illustrate are true. Our society has become obsessed with material possessions. Conspicuous consumption is a plague on both ends of the political spectrum.

One thing I will never understand is why Conservatives aren't in favor or conservation. There is a large element of the conservative movement that relishes outdoor activities like hunting and fishing. Certainly, their stewardship philosophy differs from that of the environmental abolutist. However there shouldn't be anything inherently liberal or conservative about wanting to reduce pollution and preserve wild space. There is little evidence that tougher pollution standards reduce economic output in the long run (there may be short run losses from pollution dependent industries).

Republicans are on the wrong side of this issue if they plan to try to build rabid anti-environmentalism into the core of the party's beliefs. The Lets-despoil-the-wilderness-because-it-pisses-off-the-dems impulse is not one shared by the majority of Americans.

[supercat]

One thing I will never understand is why Conservatives aren't in favor or conservation... Republicans are on the wrong side of this issue if they plan to try to build rabid anti-environmentalism into the core of the party's beliefs. The Lets-despoil-the-wilderness-because-it-pisses-off-the-dems impulse is not one shared by the majority of Americans.

The media like to portray the Republicans as anti-environment. What the Republicans oppose, however, is specifically the leftists' version of environmentalism: create large tracts of federally-owned land which are off-limits to everyone except the "environmentalists", while forcing more and more people into the Democrat-enclave cities.

Conservatives, needless to say, don't share the leftists' vision. They believe that some resources are better conserved by measured use than by complete neglect. To use a crude analogy, consider two identically-constructed homes. One is occupied by a reasonably careful and prudent homemaker. The other is completely abandoned. In twenty years' time, which will be in better shape?

[cubreporter]

Very nice.

[Henrietta]

One thing I will never understand is why Conservatives aren't in favor or conservation.

I think that most Conservatives are in favor of conservation. I think it makes sense to use our resources wisely. I do not, however, think that the "sky is falling" or that we are mismanaging our natural resources. We have an incentive to manage our natural resources, and I'm sick of more and more heavy-handed regulation to coerce us into doing more than each of us think is necessary to manage our own lands. More regulation does not necessarily equal a better environment. It has nothing to do with pissing off leftists, and it has everything to do with freedom.

[driftless]

I agree that conspicuous consumption and sprawl are not necessarily good things. I don't own a SUV nor do I desire one. However what right do I have to tell someone else not to get one if they desire one?

Radical environmentalists, like Paul Ehrlich, have been telling us for years that the sky is falling. In my younger more liberal years I used to blieve them. When they were proved wrong, it still didn't stop them from predicting disaster. So you can forgive me if I view their admonitions with a jaundiced eye.

Certainly we should try to preserve the beauty of our wilderness. But because conservatives do not fall for the end-of-the-world malarkey handed out by the wackos does not mean that we don't care. I'm a tree-hugger myself, but we don't lack for trees. It's a renewable resource. And if we shouldn't depend so much on foreign oil, why do liberals oppose drilling for oil in desolate areas like ANWR?

[Xenalyte]

Why? Because you can't afford one?????

No, because I could!!!!!

Seriously, because they're apparently undrivable by the rules of the road, like "keep inside the lines."

[litehaus]

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