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How Liberals Lost A Liberal (Why Many Democrats Became Republicans Alert)
Townhall ^ | 4/15/2008 | Dennis Prager

Posted on 04/14/2008 10:28:26 PM PDT by goldstategop

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I'm still a liberal. I'd be a Democrat today but something in the Democratic Party and liberalism changed. That's why I'm now a conservative and a Republican. My first vote for a Republican for President was Bob Dole in 1996. I had no regrets and have never looked back. I didn't change my values; the Democratic Party did. I can't understand, like Dennis Prager, how a true liberal could support a party that refuses to acknowledge confronting Islamofascism is our greatest challenge today.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

1 posted on 04/14/2008 10:28:26 PM PDT by goldstategop
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“I will never forget when the professor of my graduate seminar in advanced Communist Studies, Zbigniew Brzezinski, chided me for using the word “totalitarian” to describe the Soviet Union.”

I thought Brzezinski was a staunch anti-communist.


2 posted on 04/14/2008 10:35:36 PM PDT by RussP
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To: RussP

Please tell me that this is a trend.


3 posted on 04/14/2008 10:40:14 PM PDT by tennteacher (Hunter Conservative)
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To: RussP
He became Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser. Somehow, I don't remember him being an advocate of confronting Soviet expansionism. That was never a goal of the Carter Administration in the late 1970s.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

4 posted on 04/14/2008 10:40:41 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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Ugh, just reading and remembering how badly Democrats have acted makes my stomach feel all sick and woozy again.

How can Democrats be so dumb, how can they be so stupid, when Liberalism means human rights and Liberation it is a false term and definition. The only war that Liberals like was WWII and that was when we got into the war after getting attacked. FDR didn’t care about freeing the Jews, he cared about popular opinion.

I changed into a Republican(first time I registered for party registration) when I realized that all of the arguments for Iraq had no point, the Anti-War protestors were vile, malicious and had no point, in fact nothing had any point but to put on a travelling circus. It was then and all of the evidence for Saddam’s destructive tactics that made me align with Republicans because they saw the world the same way I did. The Democrats cannot as they are completely warped on the Iraq War.

I also learned about the common sense values of Fiscal Conservatism, started to oppose mulitculturalism(which I found to be very stupid already), other Liberal pet issues(which I also found dumb) and I also found out that what I liked culturally was linked to the values of the GOP mostly as it emphasized taste and class in culture. I also loved Libertarianism and I think that the GOP is America’s best kept secret. It is that hidden by the Media and the colleges.

I can never be a Democrat today, they are too pretentious, too hypocritical, too “cool” and hip, and too linear. They are idiots, who really have no idea how people feel and take their time coming with the populist shovel to drive America down a ditch.


5 posted on 04/14/2008 10:45:02 PM PDT by Merta (They Call Me The Ranting Man)
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I mean arguments against the Iraq War.


6 posted on 04/14/2008 10:45:21 PM PDT by Merta (They Call Me The Ranting Man)
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I always knew that Democrats were bad even though my mother was a flaming liberal. Although I’m not a Republican and I don’t always vote for them, I have to this day never voted for a Democrat and I’m proud of it.


7 posted on 04/14/2008 10:49:35 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Democrats spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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I thought Brzezinski was a staunch anti-communist.

He was/is also a chief proponent of the theory that totalitarian regimes cannot improve on their own without intervention. Zbig used and uses the term totalitarian frequently. It seems to be one of his favorite words. Something doesn't sound right about this narrative.

8 posted on 04/14/2008 10:56:22 PM PDT by BitBucket
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...I don't remember him being an advocate of confronting Soviet expansionism...

I do. There were news clips of him standing in front of Pastuns crowds in Pakistan urging them to go fight for Allah in Afghanistan. The way I remember it Zbig was the most hawkish member of the Carter administration.

9 posted on 04/14/2008 11:01:41 PM PDT by BitBucket
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Democrats and liberal leftists must be protected from their own stupid ideas. For if we gave them everything they want, even they would hate what they end up with.

They’re emotional, simplistic and short sighted, in other words, they’re foolish.


10 posted on 04/14/2008 11:06:30 PM PDT by Bullish ( Reality is the best cure for delusion.)
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You’re so absolutely spot-on! Because (seemingly) no liberals/Dems are willing to address this most vital issue or even voice it, they seem (at least to us conservatives) to not care a whit about it, or even worse, not care about our country and its future. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.


11 posted on 04/14/2008 11:11:22 PM PDT by llandres (I'd rather be alive and bankrupt than dead and solvent)
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And he’s also an active and vocal anti-semite as is Carter. Not good and never was, for our foreign policy.


12 posted on 04/14/2008 11:13:24 PM PDT by llandres (I'd rather be alive and bankrupt than dead and solvent)
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Dear Dennis,
The progam changed in '63.
Stop over analyzing it.
13 posted on 04/14/2008 11:26:14 PM PDT by norton
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To: RussP; goldstategop; BitBucket

Brzezinski’s Back:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1997264/posts


14 posted on 04/14/2008 11:27:47 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: goldstategop

Excellent article. BFL.


15 posted on 04/14/2008 11:29:53 PM PDT by vlad335
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To: RussP
Brzezinski was what was called at the time (an LBM term, so you can guess/judge its ''accuracy'') a 'pragmatist', which to all intents and purposes meant an accommodationist to Soviet expansionism.

Remember which president Brzezinski served? 'Nuff said.

16 posted on 04/14/2008 11:45:33 PM PDT by SAJ
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If he was a staunch anti-Communist, how come Carter gave away the Panama Canal (with Brzezinski as his Natioanl Security Adviser)?
17 posted on 04/14/2008 11:45:46 PM PDT by detch
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Nowadays he does, you're quite right.

In the 1970s, I'd wager hard cash that the term 'totalitarian', or any derivative thereof, only ever crossed his lips accidentally, if at all.

He was, while serving Jimmuh Peanut, the ARCH-accommodationist to Soviet expansion.

18 posted on 04/14/2008 11:47:56 PM PDT by SAJ
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“I thought Brzezinski was a staunch anti-communist.”

That's the line the media fed us during the Carter years. It's pretty laughable. It's kind of like when they call Ruth Bader Ginsberg or the Clintons a “moderate.”

You know the media. They live in Bizarro land.

19 posted on 04/15/2008 12:11:57 AM PDT by Luke21
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“The only war that Liberals like was WWII and that was when we got into the war after getting attacked.”

Liberals were isolationists until Hitler attacked the Soviet Union.


20 posted on 04/15/2008 12:23:18 AM PDT by preacher (A government which robs from Peter to pay Paul will always have the support of Paul.)
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