Rep vs. Dem Differences

"Corky Scott" wrote in message
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On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 19:01:18 -0700, "Tom S." wrote:

His smooth assured and decisive reaction? He sat there stunned for 8
minutes on camera until someone came and hustled him out of the
classroom.

Wow!!! You're a pilot AND a mindreader!!

You're one for two.


Well, if you think (apparently) he was stunned into paralysis, you must be a
mindreader...(i.e., knowing what was going through his head)...

In article , "Roger Long"
wrote:

I'll have to confess to being mystified the overwhelming appeal among
pilots
of a jet jockey who hid out in the National Guard over a GA pilot like us
who had the conviction to put his ass in the line of fire.

Waffle is "like us"? guess again.

--
Bob Noel
Seen on Kerry's campaign airplane: "the real deal"
oh yeah baby.

Bob Noel wrote:

Waffle is "like us"? guess again.

"Waffle" like opinions about nation building, free trade, states' rights,
etc.?

- Andrew

"Roger Long" wrote
a VERY interesting "spin", using his own views as the basis.

WoW, no doubt who you will be voting for. Could you be any more biased?

You (and others) still don't get it. Those who support the current
president, are not going to be influenced by your song and dance, and think
it to be really "out there". You are wasting your breath.
--
Jim in NC

Jim Weir wrote in message . ..
In an on-the-air (*) broadcast, a BBC announcer was trying to explain the
difference between the Republicans and the Democrats to his British audience.

"The Republicans are verry like our ... ahhh ... Conservatives.
The Democrats are verry like our ... ahhh ... Conservatives."

It'd be nice for once to see a conservative politician in the US want
to conserve something: the budget, our soldier's lives, the economy,
the environment where we live...

(*) "on-the-AIR" makes this on-topic {;-)

Spoken like a politician...

Malcolm Teas
Fiscal conservative

"Jim Weir" wrote in message
...

In an on-the-air (*) broadcast, a BBC announcer was trying to explain the
difference between the Republicans and the Democrats to his British
audience.

"The Republicans are verry like our ... ahhh ... Conservatives.
The Democrats are verry like our ... ahhh ... Conservatives."

Thereby quoting the late Michael Flanders in a live US appearance (with his
stage partner, Donald Swann) many many years ago.

-- David Brooks

generally promote greater freedom

Unless that freedom happens to involve saying that abortion is murder,
women are often happier as housewives, or that most poor people are
lazy and won't work...

....leftists are the most close-minded people I've ever met. Very, very
few can discuss "hot button" issues rationally. In fact, I've never met
a true leftist who was able to logically and reasonably defend his
position.

....I think that G. W. B. has made some VERY serious errors during his
first term. John Kerry, however, has a long history of not changing his
position. He's been an advocate of increasing Johnson's "Great Society"
from every avenue. He's been a class warfare hypocrit from before his
Vietnam Service.

I read some statistics yesterday that made my skin crawl: Most poor
households in this country have:
air conditioning,
hot & cold running water,
eat more meat (per capita) than the US RDA (and considerably more
than MIDDLE CLASS Europeans!),
have 1.5 cars,
1.5 color TVs
and own a VCR or DVD player.

Most poor households are single parent with an absentee father. Most
poor households work less than 15 hours per month.

Our "poor" live better than the middle class in Europe and considerably
better than Asia. We won't even talk about Africa!

The "Great Society" hasn't worked, instead of decreasing, the
percentage of "poor" has increased. By paying people to stay in
poverty, the bureacracies continue to justify their own existence.

Only by making poverty "undesirable" will we be able to motivate our
so-called "underclass" to better themselves and rise up out of the
station to which they were born. The GREAT NEWS is that here in the
U.S. we have the ability to do that! We're not bound by society to stay
among the lowly and despised! We can educate ourselves and rise up
beyond the reach of our fathers!

Hallelujah!

Flying A Mortgage...
....is descended from poor, black watermen in DelMarVa's eastern shore.
He thanks God that his ancestors were born in this great country where
they were able to steadily improve their lot in life until now he gets
to CHOOSE to pay off his mortgage early instead of buying a Skyhawk!

Political Liberals don't believe human beings are capable of taking care of
themselves or making decisions that make any real difference in the outcome
of events in their lives. Liberals feel that they, being the elite humans
because of their compassionate humanitarian attitudes, education, etc., are
the only humans capable of making any decisions of any relevancy whatsoever.
Therefore political Liberals take more and more of the real decision making
power away from the common person usurping his/her efficacy to the point
where they ultimately rule the lives of everyone.





Political Conservatives have an uncontrollable desire to tell people what to
do under the pretext of what is right for them. They feel they have an
incredibly well developed sense of what is right and what is wrong regarding
themselves as well as everyone else. Consequently, Conservatives make up
rule after rule and law after law in the name of universal morality. This
creates a continuous and unrelenting stifling of individual rights in an
effort to govern the moral and ethical lives of the populace to the point
where they ultimately rule the lives of everyone.





Most of what you just read is rhetoric. The only relevant words in each
paragraph are the first two and the last six.



Just my two cents.



BillC

"BillC85" wrote in message
...
Political Liberals don't believe human beings are capable of taking care
of
themselves or making decisions that make any real difference in the
outcome
of events in their lives. Liberals feel that they, being the elite humans
because of their compassionate humanitarian attitudes, education, etc.,
are
the only humans capable of making any decisions of any relevancy
whatsoever.
Therefore political Liberals take more and more of the real decision
making
power away from the common person usurping his/her efficacy to the point
where they ultimately rule the lives of everyone.





Political Conservatives have an uncontrollable desire to tell people what
to
do under the pretext of what is right for them. They feel they have an
incredibly well developed sense of what is right and what is wrong
regarding
themselves as well as everyone else. Consequently, Conservatives make up
rule after rule and law after law in the name of universal morality. This
creates a continuous and unrelenting stifling of individual rights in an
effort to govern the moral and ethical lives of the populace to the point
where they ultimately rule the lives of everyone.





Most of what you just read is rhetoric. The only relevant words in each
paragraph are the first two and the last six.



Just my two cents.



BillC


Clever. I'll mod you up one.

BillC85 wrote:

Just my two cents.

Sigh too true. But it wasn't always this way!

Once upon a time, a "political conservative" would have been apalled at the
notions expounded by religious zealots. Today, these terms of come to be
hopelessly intertwined. Annoying.

Similarly, once upon a time "democracy" was a liberal idea. Today,
"liberal" appears to carry all sorts of unrelated baggage.

What we really need are better labels.

I take the evolution of "conservative" more personally, I suppose, because I
used to be a "conservative". But, believing as I do in small government,
free trade, separation of church and state, states' rights, personal
responsibility, etc. has left me label-free (and abandoned by the major
party that claims to represent me).

- Andrew