Should Conservatives Support Rudeness? Why booing Senator Clinton is beneath us.

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[watsonfellow]

First of all, to prevent the flamings, I should say that I am a strong conservative, and my number one issue is the life issue and so I am not at all a supporter of the Clintons etc.

That being said, I thought it the height of rudeness for these firemen and policemen to boo and yell at the Senator this weekend. It lacked dignity and class. I thought we conservatives were supposed to stand for such things, or perhaps this is just what we say, but do not practice.

I wonder what Burke et al would have said about this conservative embrace of very questionable manners.

The policemen and firemen should have just done nothing when she appeared on stage, no clapping, no booing, the silence would have expressed the same thing, but in a much more dignified way.

[Hemlock]

What's rude is giving a self-aggrandizing speech at a benefit concert for New York. She abused the NYPD to get into office, so the booing served her right. Like she really gives a rat's arse about New York's finest.

[One4Indictment]

As Sean Hannity said to Peter Fenn last night on "Hannity and Colmes", "I was about this close (holding fore-finger and thumb about a half inch apart) to feeling sorry for her"...LOL

[tet68]

Au Contrare,I thought the degree of self restraint quite amazing.After all,they didn't show her the rope!

Hill! and Bill! are going to start to find out what it really means to be America's most vilified couple.

[vacrn]

You reap what you sow.

[Rudder]

silence would have expressed the same thing, but in a much more dignified way.

You missed the point that Fire and police were making: they did not want to show her dignity.

They intended to be rude and undignfied, because that is what she deserves for having been rude to them and many other Americans.

[Goetz_von_Berlichingen]

" . . . a very strong distinction between populist conservatives and more traditionalist conservatives . . . "

I will take a wild guess here and assume that the populists are the "pro-booing" party and the traditionalists are the "thank you ma'am, may I have another" party. Speaking as a staunch Tory, which is about as traditionalist as you can get, I consider booing fairly tame. I would much rather she were tarred and feathered and sent out of town on a rail. And that's only because burning at the stake is generally thought to be unconstitutional.

[B52Bomber]

"That's how we New Yorkers always greet each other!"

Ain't that! the truth. I only wish you had greeted the Mrs. that way before you elected her to be your representative. (I hope you weren't one of those who put her on her newfound perch...)

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Aha! Chelsea's roommate did this!

She did Chelsea's homework; she might as well be writing this, too.

[mc5cents]

From this poster's bio, they are a recent college graduate. Most likely, that would've made him/her 13 years old when the Clintons assumed the throne. This person is still very naive and weak, or they're a shill.

From the above picture of our roast-of-honor, I can understand your androgynous statement.

[PJ-Comix]

watsonfellow reminds me a bit of my brother. My brother read some book on philosophy in high school and suddenly he became the Philosopher King, unafraid to expound on the transcendental meaning of all subjects. Unfortunately, I was around to parody his pretentiousness which he had to stifle in my presence for fear of humiliation. However, when I left home he reverted to his silly Philosopher King mode.

[small voice in the wilderness]

Dear Gentle Poster,
While Miss Manners understands your discomfort and obvious shock with the outrageous and "common" behavior displayed by the concert attendees, she must tactfully and respectfully disagree with your comments. With all due respect to your opinion and feelings, she must state unequivocally The Bi*ch Deserved It. YOU GO, HEROES!!Miss Manners must remind you that manners is not something to be wasted on mannerless and offensive oafs. Thank You.

[Ruth323]

You have your opinion, Sir! And there is "never a reason for BAD MANNERS"! (As my Grandmother taught me.) She also taught me, Sir, that there is WHITE TRASH AND THERE IS WHITE TRASH"! ALL THREE MEMEBERS OF THIS DISFUNCTIONAL FAMILY ARE WHITE TRASH! I would prefer to reach out and touch a Leper than to reach and touch one of the Clintons. I will leave that to Jesus Christ for He is a far better Christian than I! TarJessie

[AgThorn]

but I believe her simply to be misguided and not evil.

Nope, she's EVIL and You're NAIVE!!

[Goetz_von_Berlichingen]

"....but guys like this really interest me....they have no practical use...the represent the classic parasitic element to a overdeveloped society. Any positive benefit of these people's education toward the arts is obscured by their egos....more on next post..."

Parasitic element? How so? You mean our Watson Fellow is on welfare? I am impressed that you can derive this much from a rather minimal profile.

Y'know, it comes off as a lot less arrogant when you condemn someone's education without touting your own. Just because someone lists his education on the profile page, does NOT mean he's saying, "Hey, look at me, I'm better than everybody else." That would, regrettably, be the impression I got from someone who found a way to work his academic background into a thread for the sole purpose of beating someone else over the head with it.

For what it's worth, the way I use the profile is this: if someone with whom I am not acquainted posts something that I find either unusual or questionable (or something, I might like to use in a future discussion) I will check the profile to establish a level of confidence in the poster's expertise. I am happy to see a list of accomlishments and areas of expertise, so that I have a fair expectation how much confidence I can have in a poster's statements of fact. It also permits me to understand his opinions in some sort of context.

[BulletBras]

Go back to Amherst where they boo Americans, and tear down American flags. Hitlery is not an American. She and her husband are a self serving coniving individuals who should be tried for treason. Do some studies in what these people have done to destroy this country. You can start with selling top secret R&D secrets from Los Alamos to the Chinese.

[Media2Powerful]

. I can't believe that you believe the crap she is throwing out.

You're right. I'm wrong. I don't believe the crap she throws out. I was having a temporary mental setback or something. I've been sufficiently and deservedly set straight by others like yourself.

Too near that time of the month or something....LOL!

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Oops. I thought that was a photo of Bill Kurtis from A & E and the History Channel. My bad.

[katnip]

I just had a mental chat with St. Thomas and he said that just this once it was ok if conservatives sided with the booers.

LOL, yours is my favorite so far in this massive flaming

[murdoog]

BTW, where can I get a supply of the rasberry "tooters" that mimic flatulence.

mimic? dude,you are such a piker!

[murdoog]

If you click on this guy's name, you will find a pompous weenie who tells us that he is "traipsing about Europe presently."

Does anyone else suspect this guy is Frasier and Niles's long lost brother?