[pgyanke]

You are again exposing your biases. Liberals see the world conferring expertise through loss and failure. Conservatives gain expertise through hard work and achievement. She has earned her right to express herself on these subjects and has the pedigree to prove her aptitude.

[najida]

But she expresses her opinions in the framework of emotionalism. Over and over, throughout this thread and all Ann threads, emotional words are used to describe her personna.

Conservatism strongly supports self-gained knowledge and we often hold those who have degrees up for censure because they don't have the 'common sense' to support the claims and beliefs. Conservative values are respecting those who've lived full lives and upheld the foundations of family, childrearing etc equally with those who have taken more scholarly pursuits.

You can't have it both ways. Ann can't one minute be the brilliant brain and the next be the emotional rapier. She can't be the paragon of virtue and the hottie in the mini selling on her sex appeal. She can't be the unmarried/childless/never lived woman one minute and worldly and wise the next.

She is a woman who has hid behind her brain and her words instead of living. If she was a liberal, we'd be pointing that out over and over and over.

No bias here, just the person saying the Empress isn't wearing any clothes. She has not lived. Period.