To: The POPmuse who wrote (1649 ) 9/10/1999 3:19:00 PM From: Neocon Read Replies (5) | Respond to
The idea is to actually mention, with only some exaggeration, beliefs held by the other side. For example, if you said that conservatives thought that Gates was being penalized for success, it would be an exaggeration (since some conservatives are anti-Microsoft), but it would at least describe the beliefs of many. If you said that that conservatives believe that they are fighting a pagan society, that would, again be an exaggeration, but it would be closer to the mark than saying that the think all Americans are Christian. Since few conservatives are against simple gun registration, it may be that the hyperbole of the next point is, well, silly, and it since conservatives don't give the Peace Corps much thought at all, that observation is pretty silly. Gays are not outcasts, but are better educated and make more money than the average; women are not outcasts, but are better represented among Republican office- holders than among Democratic office- holders; and blacks, well, they are better off Republican, as Colin Powell realized. I have never heard a conservative opine that the rich were better off in Canada or Europe (scratches head). Few conservatives think that abortion before the third trimester is murder, manslaughter would be more like it; and few conservatives support police brutality, they are just not as willing to support allegations without due process. Clinton was not impeached for private sexual acts, but for perjury; the Contras were not our enemy; the Sandanistas were not democrats, nor were they deposed, they lost an election forced on them; the Boland Amendment technically did not apply to the National Security Council staff; and before the matter might have been litigated, the Boland Amendment was repealed. The ACLU is too liberal. Only libertarians think that the NRA is too liberal, not mainstream conservatives. Clinton abuses women, period. I never heard similar allegations against Strom. I never heard a conservative claim that racism had nothing to do with socio-economics, nor that people working fourteen hour shifts were lazy. Posting the 10 Commandments will be more effective than national standards for what? Beats me, never heard them discussed together. Most libertarians (the ones who think the NRA is too liberal) are pro- legalization; most conservatives are not, but the discrepancy in sentencing between powder and crack was a result of panic about the crack wars, not racism. As for the health crack, yeah, and we want to starve children and turn families out into the street, thanks for sharing.....I tire of correcting you, and since you begin to lapse into self- parody at this point (e.g., to be a liberal you have to believe that conservatives want to ensure that everyone has a berreta at birth), I will quit....Oh, by the way, plenty of conservatives went to Ivy League schools and got fancy scholarships like the Rhodes, too, so it is neither here nor there.....Some, like Milton Friedman (more a libertarian, but hey, he'll do) even won the Nobel Prize in Economics. Others, like T.S. Eliot, won the Nobel Prize in Literature. So sorry that they are not all Okies from Muskogee.....
