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Are Americans stupid?-- Some liberals think so, but they have their own problems with knowledge
WORLD Magazine ^ | 12/4/04 | Gene Edward Veith

Posted on 12/09/2004 7:05:11 AM PST by dukeman

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The angriest lefties will never, ever get this. They're busy right now trying to figure out which new words to use to dupe the unwashed electorate into voting for them next time. They say, yet again, that they "didn't get their message out." It's like a broken record-- same message, loud and clear, slapped down by the voters. So, just who are the stupid ones?
1 posted on 12/09/2004 7:05:11 AM PST by dukeman
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Well their, in your face, campaign didn't work. There is anecdotal evidence that they are switching to the old 60's style propaganda campaigns. I guess since they think we are all stupid, we can't recognize it.

Yesterday someone posted to me that in a very short time about 60% of FR members will be converted. We shall see. If so, I will have gravely overestimated the abilities of the vast majority on FR.

2 posted on 12/09/2004 7:11:15 AM PST by marty60
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The liberals are trying to make this look like everyone who voted for Bush is some sort of religious nut. What they are over looking is that there are a very large number of non-religious conservative. I count myself among that group. I voted for Bush based on conservative principles not because Jesus told me too.


3 posted on 12/09/2004 7:13:14 AM PST by foolscap
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Stupid? Bush won the vote of college educated Americans--as Republicans always do. Meanwhile, Kerry won the vote of high school dropouts--as Democrats always do. 'Nuff said.


4 posted on 12/09/2004 7:13:41 AM PST by CivilWarguy
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FACTS. Now your in trouble.


5 posted on 12/09/2004 7:15:55 AM PST by marty60
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Yes we are stupid. We've stupidly let our technologocial, engineering and manufacturing base be absolutely gutted.

Of course, it was the ONLY way to get it out of the hands of the unions and the fascist/socialist-managed old-line big companies. But there it is.

From today on we have to rebuild from scratch. Sort of like Japan after WWII. May we have even better success then they did. And they did!

6 posted on 12/09/2004 7:16:43 AM PST by bvw
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Hmmm, if American voters are stupid, maybe the teachers' unions should be held accountable.

No, let's see: the teachers are liberals, so they MUST be teaching correctly...


7 posted on 12/09/2004 7:19:21 AM PST by Redbob
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Yes, we're all stupid. And yes, we all own guns. We also are into forced conversions to Christianity and hate everybody else. We all work for Halliburton and are out to conquer the world.

And weren't we supposed to put all non-white and homo-Americans into camps? How's that going?


8 posted on 12/09/2004 7:19:31 AM PST by Gefreiter (When seconds count, the police are minutes away.)
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Experimentation that discards and seeks to redesign human life (the destruction of embryos for their stem cells, genetic engineering, cloning, designer babies).
I was reading along nodding my head to the author's points until I got to the bold section. What exactly is inherently immoral concerning genetic engineering, cloning and "designer babies".
9 posted on 12/09/2004 7:24:27 AM PST by Durus
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Yesterday someone posted to me that in a very short time about 60% of FR members will be converted

Converted to what?

10 posted on 12/09/2004 7:31:50 AM PST by wizardoz
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I think you're correct. There are many conservatives who do not consider themselves "religious." Once again, the left will draw up a caricature of its opponent (i.e., we're all the Dukes of Hazzard) and then try to pound their strategy home using it. This will tick off more people than it attracts and they will shoot themselves in the foot yet again. It's like how Kerry's saying "I was an altar boy" and "Can I get me a huntin' license here?" were supposed to draw votes to him. It was phony, he was a joke of a candidate, and the Dems are even further behind for their trouble. And you could tell them this until you're blue in the face and they'd to it all over again!
11 posted on 12/09/2004 7:32:12 AM PST by dukeman
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Anti-military,anti-Bush


12 posted on 12/09/2004 7:32:55 AM PST by marty60
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And weren't we supposed to put all non-white and homo-Americans into camps? How's that going?

It's going great! We call the camps "cities." Shhhhh....

13 posted on 12/09/2004 7:33:31 AM PST by wizardoz
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...They say, yet again, that they "didn't get their message out."...

Kerry's mantra, "I have a plan," sounded like a line from a soap opera the FIRST time he uttered it. Astoundingly, stupid liberals "informed" me, rolling their eyes as if I were the ignorant one, that Kerry would reveal his "plan" once he became president. That is NOT the way I would choose the best candidate for President. Quite frankly, it makes the DEMOCRATS look like Adolph Hitler.

They didn't get their message out because Kerry chose to play the pseudo-intellectual, examining every facet, angle and NUANCE of an issue instead of explaining, in clear and simple terms, exactly which issues he deemed to be priorities and which solutions he deemed best to deal with those issues. The best image of the Democrats that came out in this election season 2004, in my opinion, was the one that depicted the World Trade Center aflame while the Nero-like DHIMMICRATS watched and did NOTHING. God-like, Clinton played his saxophone and Kerry played his guitar, as they stood taller than life over the scene of devastation. Yes, the DHIMMICRATS have a serious image problem among the rest of us. We should look forward to a true landslide victory in 2008, and now is as good a time as any to make certain that this happens!

[P.S. And, in this festive season, the immortal words of a mall Santa (in MASSACHUSETTS - be forewarned, be forearmed) come to mind (and this is an exact quote): "MERRY...HO HO HO, MERRY...HO HO HO! Have a happy!" This is political correctness on a rampage, run amok and running rough-shod over our rights. One woman looked him straight in the face and shouted, "AND WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN DRINKING?" - as she stormed off into the consumer paradise with her caterwauling little ones in tow (a case of "I saw mommy DISS Santa Claus!). This is but one depiction of the ANTI-culturalism of the Left. "Sensitive" multiculturalism it most decidely is NOT. Proof positive that political correctness is the virulently fundamentalist religion of the postmodern liberal. The mother who dissed Santa is to be applauded for her raw, instinctive reaction against liberal hypocrisy and the extreme prejudice of secular humanism.]

14 posted on 12/09/2004 7:33:34 AM PST by albertp (Malice in Blunderland, The Wizard of Odd, Gullible's Troubles! Steal the wealth, spread the poverty.)
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>They're busy right now trying to figure out which new words to use to dupe the unwashed electorate into voting for them


"Joe Biden pledges
to give all Americans
free NASCAR tickets . . ."






15 posted on 12/09/2004 7:33:39 AM PST by theFIRMbss
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Wow. Anyone who thinks even 15% of Freepers can be made anti-military is high as a kite. I suspect the majority of us ARE military, former military, or have a close family member in the military.


16 posted on 12/09/2004 7:35:43 AM PST by wizardoz
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That's what I thought, many people are burnt out from the fight in this election. but the anti-military,anti-Bush, etcetc articles have really multiplied. There is a concerted effort to forget the War on terror and focus on making the American Administration the enemy. I'm not a gov fan, but I DO know who the real enemy is, for pete's sake.


17 posted on 12/09/2004 7:40:15 AM PST by marty60
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I always felt that every liberal who wanted to move to Canada should be required to answer three questions:

1. What's the capitol of Canada?
2. How many Provinces are there?
3. Name 'em.


18 posted on 12/09/2004 7:47:12 AM PST by norge
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ping


19 posted on 12/09/2004 8:09:58 AM PST by infohawk
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"Many Americans go so far as to reject the very existence of any objective truth, insisting that reality itself is nothing more than a construction of their minds"

The "Matrix" effect!


20 posted on 12/09/2004 8:12:26 AM PST by Bigh4u2
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