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.

[Jonx6]

"As much as she and her elitist, sissified pals would like to believe that these heroes are just ignorant, mouth-breathing, blue-collar grunts who scrape their knuckles along the ground as they walk into the bar to drink some Schlitz, they're smart and perceptive people. They have to be -- they have had to learn to quickly assess situations and make fast decisions, otherwise they could risk lives."

This is very true. These are guys who make it through a very tough hiring process. Thousands show up for just a few positions. Everyone takes a civil service test, which is just an aptitude test, and only the top 100 or so scores are even considered. So everyone you work with is sharp, which is a bummer when you have to test against them for promotion.
However, things change. Our department has gone away from the standard civil service test for hiring. They prefer a more subjective approach that allows them to handpick by race and sex.

[Wm Bach]

Actually, booing IS called for in an entertainment venue. Even at Carnegie Hall, if the performer is just no good. This "no booing allowed" nonsense is a very modern invention and should be done away with forthrightly. How is a performer or stage character to know how badly they stink, unless there is immediate audience feedback. Also, booing is the ultimate form of courtesy. It discourages bad performers from returning to the stage, thus sparing future audiences the same bad experience. This is the timeless lesson of the Emperor's New Clothes.

It is polite to boo a disgraceful presence on the stage. Please have some consideration for future audiences.

[slouch-no-more]

Hey, no problem booing the opposition. Booing is as American as Mom, apple pie, and baseball.

[jjbrouwer]

Hey, I was wondering where you'd gone, Watson.

I'd missed your vanity posts - especially the one about how you and several other Catholics sat up all night in the London McDonalds. A fascinating read!

[Invincibly Ignorant]

One of my dearest issues is "life" as well. And right now you need to get one.

[angry beaver norbert]

Our founding fathers gave us the right to be rude. And, while she is not bin ladden, she is considered by many to be a domestic enemy.

[Jonx6]

That was meant to read;

"You should have just done nothing when policemen and firemen made their feeling known, no clapping, no booing, no starting stupid threads, the silence would have expressed the same thing, but in a much more dignified way."

[NYC GOP Chick]

trust me... the hag's a bunt (oops! wrong first letter on that one ! ! !)

In my family, we prefer Citizen Under New Training. :-D

The Hillary Watch is ON!

[bvw]

Somehow, just somehow, it might be that someone who throws ahstrays at the help, who runs down a policeman at the airport gates, who curses out secret service "red-caps", who demands that no lesser White House employees so much as look at her, that they scamper into their holes when she walks down the hall, who manages tightly each and every event she appears at, denying access to any who might not worship her farts, that that someone might NOT have much of a turtle shell.

I know turtles, and Hillary is no turtle.

Perhaps the shell of a DDT-laden kormorant -- what a dirty, ugly, pest of a bird that is.

[NYC GOP Chick]

Safe bet: most of the people who died at the WTC - most of the ones who were US citizens and New Yorkers - voted for Hillary Clinton last year. Thats just a fact. The concert was to honor their memories and the meatheads in that audience who booed Hillary Clinton were just selfish.

You know something? Those firefighters, police officers, EMS techs, etc., -- the ones who perished on 9/11, those who survived and those who weren't there that day, but perform heroic acts on a regular basis -- don't care who you voted for, who you support, what your politics are, etc., when they put their lives on the line.

But somewhere out there, a village is missing its idiot. Although we may be so thuggish as to *dare* to applaud those heroes who see through the witch's bullspit and booed her, we're generally kind lot here and would like to help you find your way home:

[NYC GOP Chick]

I declare this thread UNKILLABLE

Yessiree, I do believe that this will become one of those legendary threads -- one that people talk about for years to come. Hehehehe.

[Brookhaven]

Conservatives shouldn't boo because booing is a strictly emotional response. Liberals do politics by emotions. Conservatives think.

What they should have done is chanted "F A L N". Then the world would have known why they didn't like Hillary.

[Pompah]

Time to get back to your "Traipsing". You stuffed shirt.

[NYC GOP Chick]

Except that this wasn't (as far as we know) a group of conservatives -- and they probably had no advance warning that she was going to show her fugly mug on the stage. Give 'em a break! :-D

[karth]

Exactly. she doesn't have feelings. Heck, she raised her own kid not to have feelings. She's chortling up her pantsuit at those cops and firefighters booing her. She knows the next benefit concert or whatever will invite only schoolteachers and NAACP and Communications Workers and every Democratic interest group you can think of. She knows that the organizers of that benefit are mortified that the big news coming out of it wasn't how much money they raised but that invited guests behaved rudely towards an invited speaker.

You folks won't be happy until they repeal the 22nd amendment and we get her husband as president for another 8 years.

[ethical]

I disagree with the writer. In this case it was correct to boo and loudly. This was not a political debate between two candidates. The level of disgust for this vile woman was appropriate and it was the right place to show it.

[Slyfox]

I know. This is a test thread to see how many posts it can get. Right?

[Godfollow]

What a nice sentiment...
What a nice person you must be...
What the world could be like, if we were as thee...
I won't say you're wrong, and I can't say you're right...
But what I do say, I believe with all my might...
If I could have, I would have booed too, that night!

[farmguy]

Yes Booing was uncalled for. This situation called for eggs and tomatoes.