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To: Bearcatbob who wrote (51057)	2/29/2008 8:43:53 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542839

The examples of the right wing characteristics that quickly come to mind are as follows: Thanks for being such a good sport. It was fun to watch you dig for those. Out of so many choices, that's the best you can come up with? You and John are two sides of a coin. "What, there are loonies on my side, too?" <g>

To: Bearcatbob who wrote (51057)	2/29/2008 9:04:15 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542839

I'm curious. What do you think of Coulter, and other folks who claim the left is "insane", or liberals are "insane", or "evil", or that they "hate America". Seems to me that's every bit as hateful as claiming folks who are conservative are "insane" "evil", or "hate America". I presume we all love our country- we just love it in different ways. Some of us concentrate more on what we want to be better, and some of us want to wave the flag about what's great. Seems to me both ways of looking at the country are needed. And neither side seems particularly insane to me (except on certain issues- the left is flakey (for example) on global warming, and the right is nutty on guns (kind of a "when all you've got is a gun, everything looks like a target" approach- to take just one topic for each side imo, yada yada yada.) And of course evil always seems to mean "you don't think the way I do, ergo you are evil" which just seems stupid to me- which ever side is doing it. Not that I think I'm a centrist. Far from it. I'm VERY liberal on most social issues, and pragmatic, when it comes to crime and punishment, rather than punitive.

To: Bearcatbob who wrote (51057)	3/2/2008 1:06:28 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542839

Looney - anyone who believes that the market can handle medical costs. You might disagree with that idea, and thus think them wrong, but at the very least it seems an enormous stretch to call that idea looney. Another one is guns - I see absolutely no need for automatic weapons for instance. So anything you don't see a need for is loooney? In any case automatic weapons where never really the issue, they have been highly regulated since before my parents where born. The "assault weapons ban" dealt with semi-automatic weapons. One trigger pull, one shot.