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Why I Left The Left
New Media Journal ^ | 7/3/2006 | Seth Swirsky

Posted on 07/04/2006 4:50:08 AM PDT by HansGygi

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To: HansGygi

A very well written article. Thanks for posting it...


41 posted on 07/04/2006 7:19:06 AM PDT by tubebender (Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.)
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To: HansGygi

Wanting war to end is not a sin, being an ass about it is! Welcome Aboard! HG


42 posted on 07/04/2006 7:20:08 AM PDT by wolfcreek
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To: HansGygi
This story is another reminder that liberalism can NOT stand up to critical thinking. It is emotion driven and as such it has to stoked or it will die out. Conservative is an intellectual dish that can be eaten cold. This is why it has a longer shelf life. Nevertheless, like liberalism, conservative must be stoked and fed periodically. The crazy actions of the left serve to stoke both sides. This is at best a 53/47 country. All things even, we will always win but rarely overwhelm.
43 posted on 07/04/2006 7:20:08 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (John Spencer: Fighting to save America from Hillary Clinton..)
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To: HansGygi

"A true liberal today is a combination of socialist, fascist, and hypocrite. They are also rabidly anti-America!"

...let's not forget "arrogant ignorance"...this identifies them to the core.


44 posted on 07/04/2006 7:24:06 AM PDT by Constitutional Patriot (Socialism is the cancer of humanity and Hillary is a socialist.)
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To: George - the Other

I was a liberal in the early 70's until a radical feminist accused my father, (who she had never met) of being a "baby-killer" because he had served in Vietnam. I realized then that liberals specialized in spouting uninformed hatred.


45 posted on 07/04/2006 7:24:45 AM PDT by atomicweeder
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To: HansGygi
I now refer to the Democrats as the Grassy Knoll party.

LOL

46 posted on 07/04/2006 7:24:58 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: HansGygi
Its the repellent quality of the Left that's driving moderates out of the Democratic Party. When even a liberal like Lieberman is registering to run as an Independent, that speaks volumes about what is happening to a once great party... its cannibalizing itself.

(The Palestinian terrorist regime is the crisis and Israel's fist is the answer.)

47 posted on 07/04/2006 7:25:36 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: Archon of the East
But why in the hell does Nixon's name get associated with Vietnam? I mean wasn't it exclusively Democrats, Kennedy and Johnson that got us involved and escalated it?
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Very True. Nixon actually got elected because he maintained he had a secret plan to win the war. The plan was withdrawal and defeat.
48 posted on 07/04/2006 7:26:26 AM PDT by photodawg
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To: HansGygi

Great article. Thank you!!!
I will pass this one on!!!


49 posted on 07/04/2006 7:26:31 AM PDT by jackv (just shakin' my head)
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To: jsh3180
Pretty much the same here....as Winston Churchill predicted (If you're not a liberal at age 30 you have no heart. If you're not conservative at age 40 you have no brain.)

Typical college liberalism hung over me for a while in the 70's, but Rush came along in the 80's and Clinton ticked me off. I realized I'd been fed a load of liberal crap for years and years by Walter Cronkite and company at which time I went firmly conservative.

It's grown to feelings verging upon hate for liberals now. It really got serious when the New Jersey Supremes pulled that Torricelli/Lautenberg switcheroo TOTALLY ignoring the rule of law. That slap in the face was probably the day I signed up for FR, after a few years of lurking.

The 2004 re-elect of W, I thought, would shut the libs down, since it would put an end the 2000 "stolen election" BS. Ahhh, soooo wrong. I did some journalism work and voted democratic and am now embarrassed by, and despise both institutions.

50 posted on 07/04/2006 7:28:26 AM PDT by chiller (every time we call MSM "mainstream" we confirm their status. "Drive-by" works nicely.)
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To: Puckster
What we ask has been graciously granted to the Philippines. Like the Philippines our goal is full independence and full cooperation with the UNITED STATES. We will do our best to make this independence and cooperation profitable to the whole world.

I am Dear Mr. PRESIDENT,

Respectfully Yours,

(Signed) Ho Chi Minh

It sounds great, but if it's not a forgery, it's propaganda. Ho Chi Minh was one of the founding members of the French Communist Party, in the 1920s. The idea that he would have repudiated communism in favor of the US is ridiculous.

51 posted on 07/04/2006 7:30:48 AM PDT by JoeFromSidney (My book is out. Read excerpts at www.thejusticecooperative.com)
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To: reaganbooster
I was most disappointed with liberal Jews...

Liberal Jews are, indeed, a great mystery.

85% of Jews vote for Democrats and it's difficult to understand why.

Usually one would find they are more "conservative" than typical Democrats.

They are family-oriented, very intelligent and their children are required to stay in school.

They are diligent workers who save and invest and many are financially well-off. Many Jews are religious and they "succeed" in the United States without any welfare hand outs.

Many Jews own and direct huge interests in banks, in the Hollywood movie-industry, in radio and television,in the stock-market and, lastly, as lawyers.

That's it. In every large Jewish family there exists their share of dentists, medical doctors and LAWYERS!

Oy!

52 posted on 07/04/2006 7:36:13 AM PDT by HansGygi
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To: jmaroneps37
liberalism can NOT stand up to critical thinking.

Never so evident as these past few weeks with the Libs sloppy logic over the Swift banking leak. Keller and Lichtbau claim it's no big deal.."everybody knew" ...while their headlines and story said exactly the opposite.

My God. They obviously have no clue as to what they believe, or even what they themselves write.

53 posted on 07/04/2006 7:36:24 AM PDT by chiller (every time we call MSM "mainstream" we confirm their status. "Drive-by" is working nicely.)
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To: photodawg
Johnson

Lincoln was the Great Emancipator while Lyndon-Bird was the Great Escalator!

We were doing just fine, fighting Russia through their Viet Cong proxy, acting as MAAG, training and fighting alongside the patriots from the South.

Johnson, whose Great Society caused the chaos we see in America today with welfare,kept shipping troops until South Vietnam was overrun. Many of our troops had too much time on their hands and too much tension and began doing drugs and fragging their junior officers.

Nixon (not our greatest president, by far) pulled the plug on the circus making us the losers. This was pretty much what happened in Korea with the "armistice."

54 posted on 07/04/2006 7:43:54 AM PDT by HansGygi
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To: HansGygi

Great thread on a great day!

Happy Fourth of July!


55 posted on 07/04/2006 7:44:43 AM PDT by stevestras
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To: All

Great piece. It shows there are still some people who can think.

What concerns me is knowing millions of public school kids are being brainwashed into becoming good little socialists....uh, excuse me....liberals.....and I'm wondering what kind of voting block they're going to present in a decade or two.

85% of the Christian kids attending public schools are losing their faith by high school graduation. We fool ourselves if we believe conservative principles will continue to prosper once the majority of voters become politically correct robots.


56 posted on 07/04/2006 7:46:31 AM PDT by USA Girl
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To: jmaroneps37
Another perfect example of feel-good sloppy liberal logic is found in the right to life debate. It was a classic.

The West Wing actor Josh/Brad was on Bill Maher berating some conservative about abortion. He asked the conservative who supported protecting the unborn; "Do you believe in the death penalty"...as if to ask "how can you condone killing in one case, but oppose it in others, you hypocrite."

He was so full of himself, as if he'd caught the conservative contradicting himself. What went COMPLETELY over his head was his own faulty moral equivalence. In his mind, an innocent unborn life = a murderous criminal. Breath taking. That typified the depth of thought I see in liberalism every friggin' day.

57 posted on 07/04/2006 7:47:30 AM PDT by chiller (every time we call MSM "mainstream" we confirm their status. "Drive-by" is working nicely.)
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To: spanalot

["I was surprised by the furor it caused from the likes of Frank Zappa"

"Why are we outlawing words - they are only WORDS".]

Ah, another of the things they just don't get - no one was outlawing anything, just warning us of its existence.


58 posted on 07/04/2006 7:48:35 AM PDT by smalltownslick
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To: All
Happy 4th of July!

I believe everyone on this site (with, perhaps very few exceptions) understand what this day means and has meant to generations of Americans.

Many of the weasels who keep getting reelected and "kept" in our nation's capital have sold their souls to satan and have disavowed practically every tenet of what was sculpted for us by our founding fathers.

They won't last until the Second Coming, but I honestly believe this nation will. We just have to work hard to cast these traitorous liars into the Dustbin of History.

God Bless America and God Bless Our Troops!

59 posted on 07/04/2006 7:49:36 AM PDT by HansGygi
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To: HansGygi

Ive always been a conservative, almost surely resulting from being raised in mid-Michigan where - at the time - everyone was. I recall being totally entranced with the 1960 race. I was only eleven at the time, but I remember thinking that Kennedy was smooth, a pretty boy; Nixon clumsey, but serious, believable.

The first election I was eligible to vote in was 1972, voted for Nixon. Have voted Republican in every election save 1980, when I couldn't bring myself to vote for RR as I had no confidence in an actor/Govenor from CALIFORNIA!!

That year I voted for Larry Holmes and Gloria DiRiva as a protest vote against "the system".

In 76' I knew enough about Jimah Carter as the GA Guv (I was in the USN stationed at NAS Albany GA, formerly Turner AFB) to recognize how lame the Dems had become by nominating such an incompetent.

And though I have some disagreements with GWB on some issues, I find it hard to believe that anyone else could have led this country as capably. I mean, look at the pool of people on both sides of the aisle that claim the presidential material high ground. I am particularly impressed with the relative overall stability of this administration.

As I review this thread I am gratified by the words of those who have seen through the lies and deception and left the party of slavery. They are an encouragement for me to pass Seth Swirsky's testimony on to a few who need to read it and hope for the best.


60 posted on 07/04/2006 7:51:43 AM PDT by pilipo
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