Posted on 09/26/2004 9:53:27 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
I just got back from a trout fishing trip with some friends. Somehow Kerry came up, and I mentioned the fact that the War Remnants Museum in Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City has a photograph of John Kerry honoring him as a NORTH Vietnam war hero, and that this made Mr. Kerry a traitor to his country.
A friend of a friend who was fishing with us WENT OUT OF HIS MIND. He said it was a lie, and the the Bushes were this and that and the other thing. I offered to give him my copy of "Unfit for Command" and he said there was nothing but lies in it, even though he has never seen it.
It was pretty incredible. There are some deeply disturbed Liberals out there right now, and like all people who wear "peace" on their sleeves like "the religion of peace," I fear violence when John Kerry suffers a humiliating defeat this November.
If it's not close, they can't cheat, but I am betting that soon you won't be able to tell the difference between a Liberal and an Islamofascist.
Sorry for the vanity, but this encounter really bothered me.
My advice? Work hard every day to register new legal voters, sign up as a poll monitor, etc. The Bush Administration is presenting a powerful positive message, one that will (I believe) lead to a lopsided victory in November. The more lopsided it is, the sooner liberals will start to reconsider the fever swamps into which they've been led...
Two positive trends - they're pro-choice, and we're pro-2nd Amendment; two negative trends: we need to do more about illegal immigration (can't win WOT w/o winning WOII, IMHO), and we need to break up the liberal education establishment)
Not at all surprised at your dismay. However, I tell you -- you are in good company here!
Never stop sharing your viewpoint; just remember that most spittle does wash off. I can yet see Gregory Peck wiping the ugly bigot Bob Ewell's spittle off in "To Kill a Mockingbird". In this matter, you were indeed the Gregory Peck character.
My dad always used to say: You can pick your friends; but you can't pick your relatives. Count your blessings!
I thought about it alot over the last few years as to why people really hate Bush. I can only think that it is because he stands in such stark contrast to Bill Clinton, the biggest joke and embarrassment in American history.
Well at least dims are consistent :-}
Having never been a liberal, even in my misspent youth, I just can't seem to fathom their mindset. I guess they don't have inquisitive minds and have let the MSM subliminalism seep into and corrupt their minds.
Liberalism is also a cult. It effectively uses the tool of "expulsion from the clique" to enforce adherance to its norms and expectations.
echoes of an earlier response but, I am convinced that overwhelming liberalism of our educational establishment, as evidenced by polls, voting records, etc. over 30+ years has intentionally dumbed down two generations. Graduating functional illiterates who demand a right to vote my pocket book is a recipe for disaster. When they find out the world is the opposite of what they were taught, the smarter ones will adjust their politics; the others will rebel out of frustration (IMHO)
You know, the older I get, this Good Book has about as plausible an explanation as any:
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do: he was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.[although, for the record, I'm not the biggest fan of the transcriber of that sentiment].
When I was a kid, we used to try to make nice with these people, and, charitably, call them things like "anti-anti-communists," when, in fact, we should have been honest and called them what they were.
I don't know how long you can stick your head in the sand and pretend that evil isn't evil.
Your premise makes sense to me. Satan hasn't much to worry about when it comes to the world's status quo. Watch out, though, when men and women of God change the status quo--Satan gets very busy.
I think we need a reverse get out the vote campaign. How about a $5 fee when you register, and elimination of motor voter for starters?
I've been working on a different theory: These people are, almost uniformly, aetheists.
Having turned their backs on God, they experience a terrible, deep-seated emptiness in their lives, and this socialist/materialist/elitist/hedonist/narcissist culture BECOMES their religion.
I.e. it is not that their beliefs systems have snapped shut like a box, but that "socialism" [or materialism, or elitism, or hedonism, or narcissism, or whatever you want to call it] is precisely their belief system, and they are committed to it with the same sort of religious fervor that the jihadists are committed to the Koran [and its unequivocal commandments to murder us, the infidels].
"Religious" peoples [read: classical "Protestants" - I don't know that I understand "Judaism" or "Catholicism" well enough to comment on them, although I fear that I do] don't suffer from this sort of investment in the here and now - rather, their hopes and dreams are invested in the hereafter, so if their candidate fails to become Ward Boss [and hence can't deliver the goods], then it's no big deal.
They just shrug their shoulders and get on with their lives.
John Petitpierre Kerry, surrendering America's security for political gain.
The problem, though, is that you ARE paying for it.
Your Federal Income Tax goes to pay for the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the National Humanities Institute, National Pubic Radio, The Corporation for Pubic Broadcasting, the Department of Education, and a whole host of other entities that fund our Marxist university system.
Your State Income Tax goes to pay for your state universities [and, often, under the table, to many of the so-called "private" universities in your state - our most prominent "private" university receives an annual subsidy from the state legislature] and of course your primary & secondary "education" [read: indoctrination] systems.
When you purchase Heinz ketchup, you're funding TehRAYzuh and all of her looney-tune marxist beneficiaries.
When you purchase Coca-Cola, Geico Insurance, The Washington Post, or a whole host of other products, you're funding Warren Buffet in his quest to murder every unborn child on the face of the earth.
When you purchase Apple computers or Oracle database software, you're funding Steve Jobs & Larry Ellison and whatever fascist candidate they're supporting these days.
When you pay to see almost any Hollywood movie, well, I don't need to say anymore on that subject.
It's sad, but these people are very powerful, and their stranglehold on our society is disturbingly endemic.
Trying to divorce yourself from them may prove to be nigh unto impossible. [Believe me, I've spent a lot of time thinking about it.]
Right.Anything said to this guy would be a lie in his eyes. There are none so blind,as those who are dumbassed liberals.
Sorry, I made it up myself.
I didn't mean to trick anybody. I thought it would be pretty obvious it was satire.
My 80-year old mother voted for Clinton twice, Dukakis, Carter, Mondale, Gore...
...but she is also a New York native...
...this year, she has a W'04 bumper sticker on her car.
...nuff said.
Actually it was a friend of a friend. Nice guy other than that incident. I wish it hadn't happened.
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