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To: TimF who wrote (224256)	3/16/2005 2:32:34 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1586426

Sorry but maybe the right was shut out previously because they did not know how to behave in mixed company No generally they were probably more polite than they are now, and on many issues less conservative as well but the liberals had the power and decided that conservative messages were verboten. When in American history was the right more polite? Certainly, it had to predate Joe McCarthy. Frankly, you act as if the right had been out of power for decades prior to Bush's arrival. In fact, conservatives have been more in power than liberals over the past 20 years. But when for some reason the conservative message could not be quieted or marginalized it was harshly attacked. We're told things like Goldwater was going to cause a nuclear war,and that every conservative who isn't an obvious intellectual heavyweight is at least stupid if not a total moron. Conservatives are called fascist, inbred, and full of hate. And I'm not even going to the more extreme elements on the left, like those who think the people in the world trade towers deserved their fate, or those who claim that Bush or Cheney, or Carl Rove ordered 9/11 to happen. Were you even alive when Goldwater was around? The only thing I have ever heard of conservatives prior to 2000 was that they are narrow minded.........and in the extreme, fascists. However, I have heard these remarks made in any concerted fashion........certainly, not in the formatted agenda currently promoted by the right against the left. I think you are taking isolated incidents and turning them into something bigger to justify the right's current behavior. ted