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Personal Reflections of a Conservative Who Wants To Be Liked
American Thinker ^ | June 23, 2009 | Harold Witkov

Posted on 06/22/2009 11:40:53 PM PDT by neverdem

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To: neverdem

No, NOW he needs to delete the Rush Icons as not to embarrass conservatives with such detachments. (To me, it’s like the writer is one of those horrible drivers I’ve often encountered on the road who, ironically, also happen to STILL sport Bush/Cheney bumper stickers! ARRGHH!!)

Anyway....

I don’t buy that he’s a Rush 24/7 member. He would otherwise know better than to share such thoughts on American Thinker as some great epiphany. Casual listeners of Rush (as I) should even already know that these ideas have been covered FREQUENTLY and for years now - and loudly since the election.

His insecurities probably have more to do with not getting out of his house more - and interacting with people. If he doesn’t get out of the house more, he needs to listen to Rush more than once a quarter...I mean reallllly listen.

(BTW, how does he know the person he dealt with was really of ‘’African’’ origin and not ‘’West Indies’’? How does he know that person is ‘’American’’ and not illegal from say, Canada? Why is B-HO defaulted to black and not white? Why do people - especially liberals - fixate on labels? Why must many poor drivers maintain Bush/Cheney bumper stickers on their cars?)


81 posted on 06/23/2009 5:59:50 AM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (''If you look good and speak well, people will buy anything.'' - Criswell in ED WOOD.)
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To: neverdem
What a load of horse...(blank).
Harold Witkov has some issues and 'not being liked' is the least of them. Personally, I don't give a sheet who likes me. I'm 'me', take it or leave it. And if it turns out to be be no one, fine, see ya. It's that simple.

My mom always used to say, "Don't let your friends choose you. YOU choose them."
[it's funny how moms are always right :-)]

82 posted on 06/23/2009 6:37:50 AM PDT by Condor51 (The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits)
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To: ForeignDude

i am wondering how he can possibly be married to her.


83 posted on 06/23/2009 6:40:07 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: ForeignDude

Sadly you are correct in many cases.


84 posted on 06/23/2009 6:41:49 AM PDT by Free Vulcan (No prisoners. No mercy. 2010 awaits.....)
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
I.E., I have heard Rush talk about buying the biggest SUV he can afford, and burning a tank of gas without going any where, just because he can afford it. This is very uncomplimentary, and makes me ashamed to be a listener. I know he did this just to tweak the eco-crazies, but still it makes for a bad sound bite.

He also liked to joke about clear cutting an old growth forest, again, just to tweak the eco-crazies. I knew what he was doing, but makes for bad sound.

I love to listen to Rush when he is talking about the issues, but at times he is embarrassing. Just a by product of being entertaining, I guess.

85 posted on 06/23/2009 8:22:54 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: bustinchops

I see. I perused your posts and agree with your sentiments very much but the ovens comment was a bit over the top as you quickly found out.

But you are correct ..some folks here think any realspeak about various “minorities” is verboten.

I never played that game. I call it as I have lived and observed it for 52 years and have lived all over the planet and experienced all this pretty up close and personal unlike some folks here driven by the conventional wisdom.

Beware of the cliques here...that will get you quicker than anything but it’s much better than it used to be when the Harpies were the power here.

Most left over Rudy Guiliani whom they loved.

But expect political correctness even here over:

blacks
some women stuff
liberal Jewish self hatred and animosity to Christian conservatism
evolution versus mormons
illegal brown immigrants
hunting
pit bulls
haughty catholics
haughty prods
momonism and especially polygamy

if you hang with gun freaks or southerners (or like minded) it’s easier to be un-pc

good luck


86 posted on 06/23/2009 9:04:39 AM PDT by wardaddy (ASAP................As Southern As Possible)
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To: Rebelbase

yep, I lived with a Skidmore undergrad/Columbia Phd for several years

no way could I have handled that all my life

and she was fetching with blonde hair and blue eyed...Jamaican arisocrat beleive it or not..an heiress


87 posted on 06/23/2009 9:09:07 AM PDT by wardaddy (ASAP................As Southern As Possible)
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To: neverdem

When I was young I used to worry about what people thought. Now that I’m a mature old fart, I don’t give a shit.


88 posted on 06/23/2009 12:45:10 PM PDT by TexasRepublic
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To: TexasRepublic
"Now that I’m a mature old fart, I don’t give a shit."

Oh my, take Exlax! LOL ;^)

89 posted on 06/23/2009 12:47:48 PM PDT by Landru (Arghh, Liberals are trapped in my colon like spackle or paste.)
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To: wardaddy

Thanks very much, ;)

I’m not a southerner, but I am a gun-freak, Second Amendment type.


90 posted on 06/23/2009 1:16:52 PM PDT by bustinchops
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To: Stentor

“My favorites are the folks who wouldn’t fight back if they had a knife in their kidney because “we don’t want to be like them”

Let’s just say the spinelessness of congressional Republicans is easily explained by reading this forum.

Thank you for the welcome.


91 posted on 06/23/2009 1:20:42 PM PDT by bustinchops
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92 posted on 06/23/2009 1:48:41 PM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: sauropod

read


93 posted on 06/23/2009 1:52:42 PM PDT by sauropod (People who do things are people that get things done.)
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To: neverdem

It is ok to be a racist. It is a strength to recognize there are racial differences and to learn to know and understand those differences.

The fact Obama is President is precisely because he is not white. The people who voted for him are mostly racists who practice negative racism. They proudly assume the mantle of nonracist while in the act of voting for a black man because he is black.

By the same token it is ok to be very critical of a black populations that shuns education and personal growth while retreating to urban enclaves where they are unassailable in their racist war on the mainstream.

The concept of racism has been raised as a political cudgel with which to flog the opposition.


94 posted on 06/23/2009 2:05:59 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . The boy's war in Detriot has already cost more then the war in Iraq.)
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To: neverdem
...media land, has unfairly convinced much of America into believing conservatives do not want safety nets for those who fall through the cracks. This is not true. The difference between liberals and conservatives is that conservatives understand safety nets should not be massive entitlement programs capable of bringing down the nation.

Great post, neverdem.

95 posted on 06/23/2009 2:54:34 PM PDT by GOPJ (Chubby people live longer - by years! Will food police put a tax on tofu and sprouts!)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
Conservatism is in trouble, not because liberalism is better for the nation, but because conservatism does not play well on the much watched television news, which is short on substance yet high on passive thinking imagery.
Thanks neverdem. IOW, time to take over the news. Oh wait, we did that. ;')
96 posted on 06/23/2009 3:21:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (http://www.troopathon.org/index.php -- June 25th -- the Troopathon)
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To: wardaddy
Most left over Rudy Guiliani whom they loved

Still do.

97 posted on 06/23/2009 5:37:03 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Pas d'ennmis a droit)
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To: Jim Noble

where is howlin anyhow?


98 posted on 06/23/2009 5:45:04 PM PDT by wardaddy (ASAP................As Southern As Possible)
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To: wardaddy
I don't know. I really miss Peach.

But it is a fact that Rudy would be President today if he had been the nominee, and we would be better off.

99 posted on 06/23/2009 6:43:18 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Pas d'ennmis a droit)
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To: sausageseller

Amen brother... you brought that young lady to the truth!

LLS


100 posted on 06/23/2009 6:45:32 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my President... NEVER!!!)
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