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My fellow Americans: A liberal learns it's not so wrong to be right [MSM trolls FR]
Seattle Times ^
| October 3, 2006
| By Mark Rahner
Posted on 10/03/2006 1:40:35 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
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To: Jim Robinson
Q: How are the "Lord of the Rings" movies conservative with all those gay hobbits?
A: Keep in mind the striking similarities between Sam and Tony Blair. "Here's this mission that we're going off on. We've got to go do this thing that nobody understands." "OK, I'm with you." So in this analogy, Frodo is George W. Bush, Sam is Tony Blair and Bilbo, conveniently, is George H.W. Bush.
And I maintain that if George H.W. Bush had acted like Bilbo when he actually has that ring for that moment and gets all bug-eyed and crazy, he might have beaten Perot and Clinton.
To: Jim Robinson
I would say Braveheart is about the best conservative movie.
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posted on
10/03/2006 1:52:15 AM PDT
by
Steve Van Doorn
(*in my best Eric cartman voice* “I love you guys”)
To: Jim Robinson
Interesting read. I think that this guy might be savable because he lacks one thing that is essential to today's left -- he doesn't hate enough. I think the fact that he is able to relate emotionally with folks in conservative areas will eventually weaken his liberal ideology.
To: Jim Robinson
"So then I thought, what are some of the more friendly towns I've been in? And they were like rural Montana, rural Arizona, these really small places that are really conservative places. OK, where have people been the biggest jerks to me? Seattle, San Francisco, Portland, Los Angeles, safely blue state kind of regions. So it was a little dissonant. Also everyone has seven babies in Rexburg, Idaho."
Yep. Honesty, decency.
There's something to that.
To: Jim Robinson
"Lord of the Rings" was none political. That is why I liked it got me away from reality for a few hours.
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posted on
10/03/2006 1:56:59 AM PDT
by
Steve Van Doorn
(*in my best Eric cartman voice* “I love you guys”)
To: Jim Robinson
Sorry Jim but GHW Bush did himself in. His thousand points of light turned a lot of people off. Also, his inability to get on a personal level with the American people like W has been able to do.
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posted on
10/03/2006 1:57:06 AM PDT
by
eastforker
(.308 SOCOM 16, hottest brand going.2350 FPS muzlim velocity)
To: Steve Van Doorn
LOTR was not political, but it was conservative culturally.
To: Steve Van Doorn
""Lord of the Rings" was none political. That is why I liked it got me away from reality for a few hours." That's not how lefties see it. Karl Rove needed that ring....
To: Jim Robinson
That's the problem with liberals. They look at conservatives in a stereotypical prism and apply this single template among the entire spectrum. Conservatives are probably the most diverse group of people on the planet. Liberals march in lockstep like lemmings, Conservatives actually apply brainpower and principles passed down through the ages.
Conservatism is not as monolithic as these sheltered liberals think.
I'm probably one of the more diverse, "hip" and "in tune" Conservatives a person will ever have the occasion of getting to know. I'm neither embarrassed or ashamed to admit that. I'm comfortable in my own skin.
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posted on
10/03/2006 2:09:59 AM PDT
by
BigSkyFreeper
(Karl Rove you magnificent bastard!)
To: PetroniusMaximus
I agree. The guy is obviously not a total loss, unlike those on the rabid left. Perhaps if he came to visit here a bit more often, we might be able to "save" him! He seems to have possibilities.
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posted on
10/03/2006 2:10:32 AM PDT
by
singfreedom
("Victory at all costs,.......for without victory there is no survival."--Churchill--that's "Winston")
To: Jim Robinson
The Islamics are the awks... Liberals are the Nasgool...
To: Jim Robinson
To: Jim Robinson
A liberal willing to listen? Interesting.
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posted on
10/03/2006 2:15:03 AM PDT
by
BamaAndy
(Heart & Iron--the story of America through an ordinary family. ISBN: 1-4137-5397-3)
To: Jim Robinson
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posted on
10/03/2006 2:15:44 AM PDT
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: IncPen
To: FreedomCalls; Jim Robinson
What did Burkman1 do to get suspended?
Or is that a Taboo question?
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posted on
10/03/2006 2:41:54 AM PDT
by
Pontiac
(All are worthy of freedom, none are incapable.)
To: FreedomCalls; Jim Robinson
Good chance!
His account has been banned or suspended, and I remember him as someone who often took less than conservative positions -- I don't think I remember him becoming nasty though.
To: Jim Robinson
A list of FReeper movies that does not include
Flight 93? Or
The Patriot? Or
Braveheart?
Sounds like a pretty incomplete list...
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posted on
10/03/2006 2:49:34 AM PDT
by
gridlock
(The 'Pubbies will pick up at least TWO seats in the Senate and FOUR seats in the House in 2006)
To: FreedomCalls; Jim Robinson
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posted on
10/03/2006 2:51:35 AM PDT
by
bad company
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