Go away.
I hate these cheesey anecdotes.
Melinda,
no.
When the Dims get on their knees, apologize for all the crapflinging, and shut up entirely for three months straight, then I might be interested in opening up a dialogue.
The left doesn't get it. We dont WANT common ground, and we don't CARE what they have to say.
The concessions are going to come from the losers this time.
You can lead them to a mandate, but you can't make them think!
With the left... bipartisanship ALWAYS means that conservative set aside their beliefs and values and give into demands from the liberals.
Well....Melinda.....when YOU start accepting DIVERSITY OF THOUGHT and BELIEFS....maybe, just maybe, we can have a dialogue....but, doubt that will happen.....good bye.
We've just been through hell listening to the "other" for months now. Enough! I'm tired of them doing all the talking and expecting us to do all the listening. Now it's time for use to concede?...what?? Full speed ahead, damn the liberals and the conciliators.
The only problem is that talking to a dimwit demo is like getting into a mud-wrestling match with a pig.
You get yourself sloppy dirty and the pig loves it.
Hee heeeeeee....my wife works at an elementary school and she said when she walked into the staff room yesterday morning there was a group of teachers sitting around the table looking all gloomy. She walked in and the first words out of one of the teacher's mouth was, "Well, we lost."
My wife said she practically had to bite her lip to keep from smiling and saying, "What do you mean 'we' white woman?"
We were talking about the Obama-Keyes race, and he made the crack that "at least he got a black Senator out of the deal."
"What the hell are you talking about, you would have had a black Senator in either event," I replied.
"Well, not really," he said. "After all, Keyes doesn't exactly subscribe to the beliefs of the majority of the black community."
I blew up and completely went off on him. He tried to use the "just agree to disagree" line dismissively on me. That didn't help. I started yelling louder.
Next he tried asking me who was playing ball on the tube.
"I don't know, and I don't care," I yelled.
"I'd better talk to you later," finally said.
"Fine," I yelled, and slammed the phone down.
I haven't talked to him since. I figure he MAY call Sunday -- most likely after he tells my mom that I chewed him out and hung up on him.
"Agree to disagree." I guess the phrase works -- as long as you don't use it as a sneering epithet, which so many libs like to do.
Just damn.
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Unwittingly, Melinda has hit upon the dirty little secret about this election.
The Silent Majority has spoken.......AGAIN.
Yeah, it's time. You lost the debate and the election so NOW you want to discuss things. My experience has been that 'we might as well not debate this because we aren't going to change each other's minds' AFTER I have made a point that you couldn't rebut. Go to hell. Save your reconciliation of ideas for the minority of the country that voted for Kerry. The majority is entitled to policies that Bush promised them. PERIOD!
they can just SHUT UP and get the hell outta the way
Interesting article. And please don't send her hate mail.
She is telling her fellow lefties to drop it and concede defeat.
Another interesting part from the article....she is a pro-life liberal......weird. I insert a comment in brackets. Note how she says liberals are hypocritical.
"What pains me most, though, is to admit that I must be no better. Because when I returned home from Kerry’s election-eve campaign appearance in Cleveland, where Bruce Springsteen sang, “No retreat, baby, no surrender …,’’ I found my living room covered with homemade campaign signs. My 8-year-old daughter, who loves all God’s creatures and spent last summer doing cicada rescue ops, had made one that said BEWARE THE WAR-STARTING, NERVE-RACKING BUSH. Uh-oh, another teaching moment—and not only for her.
I told my friend, the secret Bush supporter, never to censor herself with me. As a pro-life progressive, I am out-of-step with pretty much everybody.
But I do find it ironic that we who consider ourselves so open and tolerant [us liberals] are not really so unlike our caricature of closed-minded evangelicals. And as long as we listen only to those who confirm us in our right thinking, we won’t have learned anything."
Fine.....I'll consider the Left's main political belief....
Fine, I thought about it.....and I have decided that I am not a racist, homophobic, bigoted, greedy, scumbag.
I think this is a good idea. I am now officially willing to allow any willing liberals to join me in my conservastism.....