Liberals like to drape themselves in the flag of personal liberty, conservatives in the flag of morality
This is nonsense. Al Gore brought us the 1.6GPF toilet. I want a 3GPF toilet. Is that your idea of personal liberty? Liberals don't want personal liberty a damned bit more than conservatives. Liberals just want the government to run our lives because they apparently can't run their own lives satisfactorily.
Very few conservatives believe the government should be dictating personal behavior such as consensual sexual acts, and they are only the most extreme of the genre.
And conservatives are behind laws regulating personal behavior like the sodomy laws here in Texas, the laws against oral sex in Virginia, the cohabitation laws in North Carolina, laws regulating when and where alcohol is sold and other social engineering laws
Come on, this is a totally bogus argument. No one is getting arrested for consensual sexual acts, period. Laws of this nature were put on the books many years ago, by liberals and conservatives alike.
Law regulating the sale of alcohol is certainly nothing new (nor should it be). Most reasonable people do not object to such regulation -- again, liberals, conservatives, whatever. These laws have much less to do with personal freedom and more to do with personal safety from those consuming the product.
It lets people like my little buddy David Ray paint everyone he doesn't agree with as a "liberal"
A cogent, well-reasoned argument can be made that liberalism is responsible for the most serious problems our nation faces today; to this argument, liberals are nearly defenseless.
Liberalism brought us such gems as Social Security, Medicare, the Vietnam War, the Welfare State, the worst aspects of our criminal justice system, the list goes on and on. When you review what liberalism has done to this nation, one might doubt that liberalism and intellect can coexist in the same person. |
