[goldstategop]

George Soros may be a billionaire but like his fellow rich Democrats, he's a political Uncle Scrooge. He spent just 2% of his vast fortune to unseat the man he believed was Hitler without the Charlie Chaplin moustache. And we have his political brilliance to thank for the result. As Burt Prelutsky notes tongue in cheek, their penny-pinching in the 2004 election is exactly why conservatives shouldn't hesitate to shake their hands.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[Gordongekko909]

What the... but I thought that all rich people voted Republican! Gasp! Shock!

[coconutt2000]

I'm also glad that the most vehement anti-Bush Democrats and liberals prefer shooting off their mouth to voting.

[Nateman]

Liberals prefer to use OPM. Other People's Money. It's really what they are all about.

[Blind Eye Jones]

Soros... last I heard he was cutting sugarcane in Cuba and cultivating his ideology!

[Baby Driver]

Leftist Liberals are only gernerous with
*OTHER PEOPLES MONEY*. They sure do make
sure to get every internatinal legal looophole
to make sure as little of *their own* money,
benefits anyone but *their own* narcissistic
piggie tails.

They constantly have one hand between thier legs,
and the other, in *other* peoples wallets.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Why do these people seem to salivate every time an American soldier is killed doing his duty,

They are low-class bums

[mewzilla]

So the next time you run into any of these dunderheads carrying on about the fascists running America, tell them it's all their fault – that if only they weren't such penny-pinching cheapskates, John Kerry would be president today.

That's the definition of a limosine lib: Free with everyone else's money, tight with their own.

[manwiththehands]

See tagline.

[reformedliberal]

In another life, I was friends with 2 of the ultra rich progressives who between them and their families donated at least another $30M to Dean and Kerry. Neither of them will deign to speak to me since their attempt to defeat W failed.

Both have stated at various times that "Money is just a tool." Both truly believe that possession of vast unearned, inherited wealth means they must do all they can to destroy capitalism. Both harbor deep seated insecurities over their own abilities to survive and thrive on their own, without the support of their millions or billions. Neither would feel the loss of that amount of money in their personal lives.

I have thought a lot about their unwillingness to face up to their failure. Obviously, it has stung a lot, or else why would they retreat into their very progressive circles after loudly proclaiming that they hated Bush and would do all in their considerable economic power to destroy him politically....and there was the unspoken promise that they would try to destroy him personally, if at all possible.

But the truth is that their millions of dollars in the end still only accounted for a handful of votes: theirs, that of their parents, siblings, spouses and children...in these instances, perhaps 25 votes in all between them. We, on the other hand, have more votes per dollar and many of us worked to actually get that vote to the polls, rather than just writing a check to organizations dedicated to publishing slander, lies and hyperbole.

Both of my former friends are very sensitive to their own failures and subscribe to "When at first you don't succeed, hide all the evidence." That isn't possible in today's world. Donations of that magnitude are published and even when one went to great lengths to attempt to hide her personal involvement, the media found her out. That same media she thought she could purchase to influence the rest of us working dolts probably intended to praise the donations, but ended up making her look like a loon. I know nothing could make her more angry.

I bet that they have continued to write those checks, even after three stunning electoral defeats. I wonder if it keeps them awake at night, knowing they have no place else to go in this world to be safe, no matter how much they hate George W Bush? How do such people manage to keep from acknowledging that they are, in effect, paying for their own eventual demise and are protected from it by the very working folks they secretly despise? I suspect it takes some extreme form of self delusion.

I hope that one day, I can put Burt's advice into practice and thank them in person.

[Little Bill]

Burt is great, reformed leftists often have a better view of things than many of us that were born on the right.