RE :”Again, sickoflibs we encourage the information gatherers... If they come up with nothing, we’re still better off for their effort. What’s leaned from an experiment that fails is as important as what’s learned from one that succeeds”
This is not true with a huge number of ‘conservatives’. I have many witnesses here how tons of times freepers have shut down a valid argument with ‘Those are democrat talking points’. It’s frustrating because as most of the country develops an valid (or partially valid) opinion, and many freepers are trained by talk radio to be exactly exactly like liberals, If it conflicts with a belief, it must be tuned out. This is how so many republicans thought we would win 2006+2008.
Trained by talk radio?
Where do you get your talking points, anyway?
I know liberal positions so well I could argue that side better than most liberals. Lots of us can. We swim in a liberal sea.
You doubt me?
I don't know how many conservative professors you had, but I had ZERO. Or how many conservatives newspapers you read - I read ZERO. I subscribe to four newspapers - only the Wall Street Journal has a few conservative pages - the op-ed section - and that's it. All the other pages in all the other papers are written or chosen by liberals. To the best of my knowledge, none of the local newscasters are conservative.
In the last twenty years, I've never met a teacher - grade school, high school etc who wasn't a liberal.
We know the liberal side.
We swim and live and breath and drown in a liberal sea. It's in our movies, the Sunday cartoons, most books, in the PC riddled military of Fort Hood. It's everywhere.
So, when those ideas are presented ONCE again, we get impatient. Not just because we've heard those ideas, but because we've heard them a million times. And we know many are based on lies. Like Global warming. Can you name a new idea dems have had in the last 40 years? Really - just one?