Posted on 03/26/2007 1:25:49 PM PDT by NYC Republican
Sorry .. it's true. Liberals love to paint conservatives as being ignorant, stupid, obtuse, mindless, irrational and, on occasion, retarded. For the most part leftists use this "stupid" tactic in order to avoid actually having to intellectually engage with someone who thinks differently than they. After all ... you really don't have to consider the opinions offered by someone who disagrees with you if you can successfully and falsely brand them as ignorant.
Sadly ... many conservatives seem to have dedicated their lives to lending credence to the left's "conservatives are idiots" claim. You will remember several weeks ago I told you about one Georgia Republican (former Democrat) legislator whose campaign chairman sent out some memos and letters promoting legislation to outlaw the teaching of evolution in government schools. The letter referred the reader to the website of "The Fair Education Foundation, Inc." In this website --- and I'm not kidding you here --- you will learn that the Earth stands still in space ... not even rotating ... while the Sun and everything in the universe rotates around the earth every 24 hours. Think I'm kidding? Check it our for yourself.
Well .. there's more. Sunday's Atlanta Journal-Constitution tells us about another website, this one run by Andrew Schlafly, the son of Phyllis Schlafly. Conservapedia pushes the creationism theme with revelations that dinosaurs and humans roamed the Earth at the same time.[video] You'll also learn that atheism has led to a large increase in bestiality. But once again you'll learn that not only is the Earth standing still, but it's actually flat ... and sitting still in space while everything revolves around it.
Tell me .. how do you counter the "conservatives are ignorant" argument, and how do you manage to recruit more people to the cause of lower taxes, less government and more individual responsibility when you have people running around loose calling themselves conservatives, getting elected to office as conservatives, and running websites as conservatives all the while telling us that the earth does not spin on its axis and does not revolve around the Sun .. and that everything in the known universe revolves around the Earth?
If true conservatives really want to expand their philosophy and mount a sustained movement that just might save individualism, freedom and economic liberty --- they had better jettison these zealot nut-cases .... and FAST.
This all sure makes me glad to be a Libertarian.
There, fixed it. I have literally never met one of these fixed earth types and very few Flintstoners, but I encounter Moon Landing denialists and 9-11 "truthers" practically every day.
jettison these zealot nut-cases
AMEN, just give us your votes and keep your crackpot theories to yourself.
REMEMBER flat-earthers...science is a creation of the LORD...
Sarcasm is wasted on Freepers
Einstein was right, except that there is no gravity reaching across space. Rather, everything is getting BIGGER, by about one-one-millionth of its size every second. This causes things that are moving to slowly to expand into each other. It also creates the orbital effect.
Of course, objects in motion move naturally in curvilinear paths, and only move in straight lines (relative to a fixed observation point) if energy is continuously applied to them to force them to move straight. Cease adding the energy, and they resume their curvilinear movement.
Lib stupidity and pseudoscience are less commonly recognized as such because they are institutionally approved:
Professional Person of Teach: "Ok, Antjuan, define the word 'catastrophe' for us."
Larval Consumer Unit: "That's like, uh, when a nuke melts up, er, down, and tears the O-Zone and all the other zones get hot and the polar bears, like, drown."
PPOT: "Excellent, you are very bright for an 18 year old. Your internship at MoveOn.org will be approved in no time."
"Splitter!"
What has happened is that the GOP turned into the God Squad and as a result the whacko fringe found a voice when it came to social and religious issues.
It also says the sun [gasp] RISES! This means the Bible teaches the earth is FLAT! Oh the horror of those obscurantist fundamentalists!
God save us from wingnuts who are religious and stupid and content to remain so...., and from pompous asses who think they know something and are hell bent to show themselves just as stupid as those they purport to mock.
Naw. The sad truth, son, is that we got lotsa dumbasses over here. Good people, lots of em, but stupid as dirt sometimes.
Yes, I'm aware of not just his "moderation", but his move away from anything that could be called conservatism. Perhaps marrying a leftist 30 years his junior had something to do with that "progression".
heh heh.
It's not all about money, NYC.
So I Boortz also opposed to rebuilding the Jerusalem Temple? Does that endanger his precious tax cuts?
"inbred". However, I once joked with a leftist friend of mine that it was a physiological impossibility for me to turn left in my car, but had to make a series of three right hand turns. He thought that was lots funnier than my Hillary jokes.
It is possible to be wrong. :p
Guess he had to save all his passion for....Oh well, never mind.
"I think Conservatism can withstand the presence of two flat-earthers in our midst."
Get a roomful of deep ecologists together, and they'll tell you that the earth is a living organism that punishes man for his transgressions against Gaia. Rats have a patent on moonbats and turn them out by the thousands in the crazy factory.
One important difference between open borders Libertarians and open borders Republicans is that at least the open borders Libertarians oppose any sort of welfare or government funded benefits for the illegals.
Boortz wasn't alone in saying it wouldn't matter if the dems took over the congress and senate.
No doubt these a$$es are happy now. Betrayed the troops, betrayed the country, our allies and the civilized world that counts on America being strong!
Disdain and disgust is the understatement of all time....to describe how I feel about this elite knowitalls.
Many conservatives make themselves look very bad with not much help from the usual suspects in the MSM and the dominant media culture. The alarming thing is the strange, self satisfied tone they adopt after they make themselves look stupid.
It happens.
True, but they would be less right.
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