Comments on: Rules For Being A Republican

By: delta_bordeaux

delta_bordeaux — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:13:00 +0000

Hello everybody. I apologize for the eventual mistakes in my writing as english is not my mother tongue.

It is quite complicated to draw the protrait of an ideology. This article tackles this question with an ironical and cynical approach (wich obviously led to a quite sterile debate, but was it the original purpose?) but it sometimes underlines facts that, to me, can not be denied.

quotation #11
You must believe that profitable pollution is perfectly ok, and that all science is bunk when it cuts into profits.

Sarcastic but somewhere true. Why has the Bush governement refused to ratify the Kyoto protocol that president Clinton had promissed to approve (with some negociatings)?
Life is a question of priority. Nowadays, U.S.A still stands out as the most polluting country in term of gaz emissions.

This is just one example that stresses the differences between the two different views and ways of acting. Please let me know your reaction about this, it may be interesting to share our point of view, me as a French, and you as Americans (I suppose).

I allow myself to add that saying that either democrats or replublicans have never been into logic, is totally illogic.

By: Penn2154

Penn2154 — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:49:32 +0000

in response to the responses of txcnsrvtve and Prufrock > HUH?

By: Prufrock

Prufrock — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 20:37:19 +0000

Kudos to txcnsrvtve for an intelligent counter. What the writer of this article forgets to see is that a similar list of offenses can be created for Democrats as well.

If people would stop slinging mud, blaming others, and complaining about things without doing anything about them, the world just might change. Until then, things will always be the same. Humans will always be money-grubbing, will always utilize resources to create and destroy, and they will always blindly confess that they are infinitely superior to everyone else.

By: manoman

manoman — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 22:05:46 +0000

What a pile of crap, I don’t even know where to start. Democrats have never been into logic or reason, just blanket statements without any concept of proof or evidence to back things up. So sad.

By: justabrit

justabrit — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:56:56 +0000

I’d like to believe that a lot of this isn’t true. But it is.

The biggest failing of the US conservative population is that it is blind to its own double standards, and ignorant of the reality of other world views.

There are great conservatives/republicans in history who would stand way to the left of current standard. These people had brains too and weren’t afraid to use them.

Exhibit one: “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” - Lincoln.

Exhibit two: “A bill of rights [should provide] clearly and without the aid of sophisms for… the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land and not by the law of nations.” –Thomas Jefferson.

Exhibit three: “The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.” - Jefferson, again.

As a Christian, I am appalled to see my faith sullied by some of the words and actions of US conservatives. While I live and breathe, my God compels me to speak up for the oppressed and those who have no real voice of their own.

Yes, this article is a rant but it rings very true and not just with the left.

JustABrit.

By: rusjam

rusjam — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 09:30:04 +0000

unfortunately, i must admit that mix is (technically) right that this is not misleading, nor is it propaganda, as it is obviously a joke. however, it is also obviously entirely based on stereotypes and not the truth. if you’re not privy to that mix, i’m afraid that you’re no less ignorant, smug, and self-righteous than bill o’reilly himself.

By: txcnsrvtve

txcnsrvtve — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 23:05:25 +0000

This post is enlightening. It reveals the degree of self-deception necessary to justify the once extreme but now mainstream progressive view. As an active and involved conservative, all of the views expressed in this list are familiar to me. They represent the paranoid inventions of delusional Democrats. Mainstream conservative views are based on logic, not emotion. For example, contrary to item #26, it is a relatively small minority of the population, including some Republicans and many Southern Democrats, who doubt the theory of evolution. In contrast, those who are not inclined to accept alarmist propaganda about the causes and likely effects of global warming are simply not blinded by environmentalist dogma (Alarmist Global Warming Claims Melt Under Scientific Scrutiny).

Make an effort to hear or read the conservative view on issues of the day, and the basis upon which that view was arrived. You’ll find that the supposed hypocrisies exposed above are untrue distortions. You’ll also be surprised to find that Republicans who base their party affiliation on conservative principles have deeply considered and nuanced beliefs that cannot be effectively parodied with such a “black and white” list.

By: evolved

evolved — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 17:35:51 +0000

37. Life begins at conception and ends at birth.
38. The shareholder is always right. Shareholder earnings are the purpose of a free economy.
39. I would serve in the military, but I’ve got an open sore on my ass.
40. The Second Amendment states something about “militia,” but I don’t know what that word means.
41. The Constitution should be interpreted strictly, yet selectively. (Failing that, it’s just “a worthless piece of paper.”)
42. Torture is the only way to get some people to tell the truth.
43. Habeas Corpus is just another Liberal plot to undermine national security.
44. Privacy? If you aren’t doing anything wrong, WHAT do you have to fear?
45. The Dept. of Homeland Security has raised the Terror Alert level to Orange.

And finally:

46. Just another Liberal lie….

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By: Mix

Mix — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 03:21:09 +0000

This may be biased, but it is NOT misleading, NOR propaganda. You simply are not obviously privy to the truth if you do not see the hilarity of the truth in this post. Just because you don’t like the truth, doesn’t mean you can just yell out propaganda. That is simply ignorant, smug, and self-righteous, like you seem to have insisted the subby was.