# Annoy a liberal: put a stupid sticker on your car **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 27, 2005, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoy-a-liberal-put-a-stupid-sticker-on-your-car/301416 "2005-04-27T19:19:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![wonderwench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/35a633/32.png) [@wonderwench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderwench)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoy-a-liberal-put-a-stupid-sticker-on-your-car/301416/21 "2005-04-27T20:29:36Z")
Question - Who was the first liberal Democrat? Answer - Christopher Columbus. He left not knowing where he was going, got there not knowing where he was, left not knowing where he’d been and did it all on borrowed money. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoy-a-liberal-put-a-stupid-sticker-on-your-car/301416/22 "2005-04-27T20:29:51Z")
Conservatives are people who are too dumb to realize that helping one person help himself, and helping 10,000,000 people do so, are vastly different operations. ---
**Author:** ![wonderwench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/35a633/32.png) [@wonderwench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderwench)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoy-a-liberal-put-a-stupid-sticker-on-your-car/301416/23 "2005-04-27T20:36:54Z")
Liberals: people who think that the words “to promote the general welfare” in the Constitution mean to promote welfare generally. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoy-a-liberal-put-a-stupid-sticker-on-your-car/301416/24 "2005-04-27T20:36:55Z")
**Annoy a modern American liberal:** Advocate liberty and call yourself a liberal. **Annoy a modern American conservative:** Advocate liberty and call yourself a liberal. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoy-a-liberal-put-a-stupid-sticker-on-your-car/301416/25 "2005-04-27T20:40:42Z")
> [@wonderwench](#): > > Question - Who was the first liberal Democrat? > > Answer - Christopher Columbus. He left not knowing where he was going, got there not knowing where he was, left not knowing where he’d been and did it all on borrowed money. Nah–the dude launched a major business operation at taxpayer expense and enslaved foreigners in order to line his own pockets. Classic Republican. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoy-a-liberal-put-a-stupid-sticker-on-your-car/301416/26 "2005-04-27T20:46:32Z")
Question: Who was the first conservative Republican? Answer: Christopher Columbus. He hasn’t changed his beliefs in 500 years, and (a reference to the urban legend involving Queen Isabella), he got the capital for his ventures by screwing someone. > [@wonderwench](#): > > Question - Who was the first liberal Democrat? > > Answer - Christopher Columbus. He left not knowing where he was going, got there not knowing where he was, left not knowing where he’d been and did it all on borrowed money. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoy-a-liberal-put-a-stupid-sticker-on-your-car/301416/27 "2005-04-27T20:49:49Z")
Not to mention when he was screwing everyone over, he claimed he was doing it in God’s name. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoy-a-liberal-put-a-stupid-sticker-on-your-car/301416/28 "2005-04-27T20:54:15Z")
Well, if he mentioned God at all, he couldn’t have been a liberal. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoy-a-liberal-put-a-stupid-sticker-on-your-car/301416/29 "2005-04-27T20:54:48Z")
What do you get when you combine a conservative with an education and a basic level of human compassion? A liberal. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoy-a-liberal-put-a-stupid-sticker-on-your-car/301416/30 "2005-04-27T21:01:18Z")
**Annoy everybody:** claim you own the franchise on defining ‘liberty’. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoy-a-liberal-put-a-stupid-sticker-on-your-car/301416/31 "2005-04-27T21:02:58Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Well, if he mentioned God at all, he couldn’t have been a liberal. Indeed: liberal Christians have read the parable of the rich man in the temple. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Pyrrhonist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/919ad9/32.png) [@Pyrrhonist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyrrhonist)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoy-a-liberal-put-a-stupid-sticker-on-your-car/301416/32 "2005-04-27T21:06:56Z")
Vote for the Liberals: It’s easier than working. Vote for the Conservatives: It’s easier than thinking. * * * Vote for the Libertarians: It’s easier than casting meaningful ballot. Vote for the Greens: It’s easier when you live in a shack built with your own hands without electricity or running water and eating all organic produce grown on a Government plot of land doled out for your personal use. ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoy-a-liberal-put-a-stupid-sticker-on-your-car/301416/33 "2005-04-27T21:09:39Z")
Wouldn’t it annoy them more to put a stupid sticker on _their_ cars? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoy-a-liberal-put-a-stupid-sticker-on-your-car/301416/34 "2005-04-27T21:12:05Z")
Conservatism: The idea that the government should stay the hell out of your personal life, so long as you are not gay, liberal, female, foreign, young, old, pro-choice, black, brown, yellow, paisley, a university professor, a student, use the library or internet, or receive food stamps or other public assistance. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoy-a-liberal-put-a-stupid-sticker-on-your-car/301416/35 "2005-04-27T21:14:15Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > **Annoy everybody:** claim you own the franchise on defining ‘liberty’. Wow, you’re right. Instead of advocating liberty, I should be following your examples — calling people “too dumb to realize” things, and claiming to speak for everybody. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoy-a-liberal-put-a-stupid-sticker-on-your-car/301416/36 "2005-04-27T21:16:53Z")
> [@AerynSun](#): > > But I was alternately confounded and bothered by this bumper sticker I saw recently: > > **Annoy a liberal: > Work hard and be happy** > > Huh? The implication being liberals want people to be lazy and miserable? Or perhaps only miserable if they work hard, and only happy if they are lazy? I could almost understand “Make huge piles of money and be happy,” since rich liberals often seem to have some guilt over it, and it spits in the eye of progressive taxation. But I just don’t get the connection here. The person with this sticker is making a statement that liberals don’t believe in individual efforts to work hard and get ahead, and are always miserable and complaining about something. As opposed to all the joyful, industrious conservatives picketing Terry Schiavo’s hospice. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoy-a-liberal-put-a-stupid-sticker-on-your-car/301416/37 "2005-04-27T21:24:52Z")
Vote Republican – It’s Easier Than Thinking! ---
**Author:** ![griffen2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ce7236/32.png) [@griffen2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffen2)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoy-a-liberal-put-a-stupid-sticker-on-your-car/301416/38 "2005-04-27T21:26:04Z")
“Conservatives are people who teach the value of prudence but are incapable of exercising any” - David Brooks ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoy-a-liberal-put-a-stupid-sticker-on-your-car/301416/39 "2005-04-27T21:58:33Z")
> [@Ponder Stibbons](#): > > Liberalism: The belief that there is no problem so big that it can’t be solved by adding more layers of big government. > Convervatism: The belief that there is no problem so big that it can’t be solved by throwing outrageous amounts of money at your favorite big-business contractor(s). Liberalism: We don’t know what’s wrong with the country, but we can fix it. Conservatism: There’s nothing wrong with the country, but we can fix that. Per P.J. O’Roarke, approximately. 11811 ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoy-a-liberal-put-a-stupid-sticker-on-your-car/301416/40 "2005-04-27T22:05:58Z")
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