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.
I got news for Neal. Even if there were ZERO dumb/ignorant conservatives and even if conservatives NEVER did anything stupid, leftists would STILL think conservatives are idiots.
jw
Boortz opened my eyes. I am what William Safire called a "LIBCON" libertarian conservative. You will find that even Boortz is on on the outs with the Libertarian party because of his stand on closed borders and fighting the Islamofascists. Nitwits like the flat earthers in the story are why I am registered indep. I refuse to get involved with "holy roller" issues. These are matters of personal faith not gov't policy.
Is this the gay son?
Well we do have:
McCain
Hagel
Gulianni
Stowe
Specter
Graham
No wonder they think we're idiots.
"What's wrong with these people? Religious zealots, of any faith, are a sham"
Democrat looney zealots make ours look positively boring. We need a picture inserted here of the charming man defacating on a U.S. flag during a "peace" march. Or maybe a clip of dems spitting on soldiers.
It's easier to accept differing religious viewpoints than having to observe the vulgar actions of the looney left.
If not, he isn't talking about you...
If you do, you've got bigger issues that Boortz does...
Excellent! My point exactly in post #40.
According to Einstein the Earth does not rotate around the Sun, they are actually moving in straight lines. Their gravity causes space to curve giving the appearance of oval orbits.
After all, science has been spectacularly wrong so many times throughout history ... more times, in fact than it has been right.
Every generation has scoffed at the scientific follies of the past while assuming the theories of the present were infallible.
Not to support this fixed-earth business ... just giving a little perspective.
So Bortz thinks Libertarians are not conservative? Or even vice-versa, WTF?
I'm not sure about the first two allegations, but here is what Conservapedia has to say about earth:
The Earth is the third planet from the Sun. Its equatorial circumference (measured around the equator) is 24,901 miles (40,075 kilometers), and the polar circumference is slightly less at 24,809 miles (40,008 km).[1] The reason its metric circumference is so close to the "round number" of 40,000 is that the French defined the kilometer as 1/10,000th the distance from the equator to the North Pole. The Earth orbits at an average distance of about 93 million miles (150 million km) from the Sun in an almost circular orbit
It looks like conservapedia believes in a spherical earth that rotates around the sun just like the rest of us.
That they do. Global Warming. Gun control. Socialist economic policies. The list of liberal idiocy is damn near endless.
This in no way negates the fact that flat-earth types don't do our side any favors either. Nor do the conspiracy nuts or other "fringe" elements.
We can point at lib-tards all we want. However, we should be aware we ain't perfect either. Sounds like common sense to me.
I don't have any problem with them participating in the political process. The rest of us do to.
As Ronald Reagan said, to paraphrase, it isn't that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't true.
Certain tribes claim that their peoples have always lived exactly where they were when found by the white man. This is not true, as many migrations have occurred. Notably, the Sioux uses to live around the Great Lakes. They didn't start moving onto the Great Plains until the late 18th century.
The claim they make is in rejecting the "white man's theory" that they came across the Bering land bridge some 10,000+ years ago. They claim they have literally "always" lived here. And purportedly scientific books treat their claims with great respect.
My only question is why idiotic unscientific tribal beliefs are treated respectfully when they are those of the Sioux tribe, but not when they are those of the fundamentalist tribe?
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