My former best friend once told me that conservative essentially means close minded. It always pisses me off when people use that argument.
If you happen to run into your former best friend, your response can be that a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged. (quote is from Howie Carr and it works :-)
Did you tell her that liberal essentially means stoo-pit?
Did you point out to the twit that she/he is closed minded about Conservatives? Really one of the most obnoxious aspects of Liberals. They posture as if they were such great thinkers but they are so stupid in reality. They continually confuse how they feel for fact. Just childish. Really hard to be around them for any lenght of time they are so obnoxious. It is like the are perpetually trapped in their adolesent angst and never ever grow out of it no matter HOW old they get.
"An open mind is nothing. The purpose of an open mind is the same as the purpose of an open mouth -- it is meant to close on something." - G.K. Chesterton