What is a liberal?(vanity)

Halls | 8/6/06 | Halls

[Halls]

Ok, I need help. I need a very good Conservative answer as to "what is a liberal?" Someone has asked me what a liberal really is and I need a good answer. If any of my fellow freepers want to give me their opinion of what a liberal is I would be greatful!

[saganite]

Pretty good. You forgot amoral but I guess you covered that with the reference to Machiavelli.

[DesignerChick]

*%$#! You're harsh.
:-)
If you want to know what a liberal is read Ann Coulter's book "Godless" it explains everything.
On second thought, start with P.J. O'Rourke's "Parliment of Whores".....

[Halls]

your probably correct!

[Reagan Man]

A liberal is everything a conservative is not.

[ErnBatavia]

Here's one of their chief spokesheads...his being a half-chromosome-click away from Downs Syndrome speaks volumes.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

Liberals think that they know how to socially and economically engineer the world. Since, government is the agent of power, they seek government power to create whatever version of utopia. Liberals are frequently
Socialists. Socialists seek for government to tax and then spend the revenue on programs that either try or make people behave the way they want them to. Socialists don't have faith in the free market, they don't mind some free market capitalism (unlike communists), but they want government to direct and manipulate markets. They have little faith in private property.

[FightThePower!]

A liberal is someone who can't take their own side.

[MNnice]

The difference between a liberal and a communist is that a communist knows what he's doing.

[JamesP81]

Let me add another thing. All of what I said in #15 are the non-spiritual reasons. I think that some of liberal's ideas are informed by the devil himself. I think the reason they fall prey to such suggestions is for the aforementioned reason; anything for a little more comfort. It's all based on greed.

That's why I constantly fight and argue against them. My mother doesn't understand why I would subject myself to a state of constant frustration in trying to stop liberalism. It's because, to me, politics is just another front in the spiritual war against evil that has been going on since the foundation of the world, and the libs are on the wrong side (sadly, there are quite a few conservatives that are too, but the concentration among libs is very high). AFAIC it's a fight to the finish and there will be no peace or ceasefire until it's over. That's why I will never stop.

[diverteach]

"Justifier Supreme's" They can justify doing anything they feel like with no moral base in the equation.

[WWTraveler]

Someone who wants the Government to protect them from their own stupidity

[ConservativeStatement]

Someone who lives in a cocoon, thinks realism is what is portrayed through Hollywood or through the self-professed elitist mindset, is inanely critical of America, is anti-military and believes America is a bully, pro-big government and anti-business, offers little in terms of solutions, believes in quotas, is vapid, negative and sanctimonious.

[Bush gal in LA]

A liberal is a latte drinking, Volvo driving, sushi eating. freak show on wheels................ok scratch that I drink latte's and that's been done before anyway, Ok I believe they are emotionally unstable people that like to argue a lot and have no facts whatsoever to back up their claims. They ''NEED'' to blame America first for everything wrong with the whole world. IF they lose an election, the other side ''us'' cheated and stole their votes. If they win everythings great ! They hate and despise George Bush and believe Karl Rove and Dick Cheney are the Anti-Christ! They're heroes are Cindy Sheehan and Cynthia Mckinney. That about somes them up!

[Dako no tane]

Conservatives should stop using the term "liberal" to describe leftists. Please use "leftist", or "regressive", so that we can avoid confusion with classical liberals.

[ThomasThomas]

You might be a libral if...

You believe that Mikhail Gorbachev deserves more credit for losing the Cold War than Ronald Reagan deserves for winning it.

Your parents gave you an acre of preserved rain forest for your first birthday.

You think that Dan Rather got a raw deal.

You think that the phrase “separation of church and state” is in the Constitution.

http://www.roanoke.com/columnists/lynch/wb/xp-16203

[JennysCool]

"Liberal" means nothing anymore. These people are socialists with a fascistic streak a mile wide, who prefer the term "progressive."

[Halls]

thanks, I also believe that as a Christian I shoulde be involved in poltics because clearly the devil is!

[ishabibble]

Dudette...remember your friends that went on spring break in 1970 and never came back? That's them.

[Halls]

lol

[Steely Tom]

Liberals love humanity but think that individual people are a pain in the a$$.