Mainly because you lefties a) don’t know where either are located, or what they’re for, and b) can’t shoot for shit. You’re infinitely more likely to shoot yourselves in the foot.
I used to attend a So Conservative They Be Whacko Fundie Church (seriously, that was the denomination – First Church of Fundie!), and they would LOVE to rewrite the Bible to get rid of all those pesky Socialist verses.
Instead they just ignored half of what Jesus said. I know we all do that to an extent, but these folks? Whoa…
Seriously, plunk them down in Biblical times at the Sermon On The Mount, and I picture them all with their fingers in their ears “La la LAAAA la la…”
– I mean, if *I *were there I’d be the guy saying “Blessed are the … Cheesemakers?”-- but i’d at least be trying…
The fact that I did not ignore Jesus is why I thought I was a conservative. I mean, I was always taught that all Christians must be conservatives. Since I agreed with Jesus (and Paul), I must also be conservative.
That is, until I started reading what conservatives actually believed. About the only thing they had going for them was their pro-life stance, and I even found that was one thing that I was not absolute on. I just couldn’t see any place in the Bible where human life must start at conception.
Ironically, it is now my Christianity that seems to slip–when I get angry. It’s a flaw I’ve always had, but it just didn’t happen often enough for me to care. And you know what happens when it does happen? I wind up being, if not actually conservative, more totalitarian–the other opposite of liberal.
Gah–I’ve went so far from the OP, I’d better stop, before I get in GD territory.
Dang, that has got to be the most whack sentence ever…not only does it invoke Lovecraftian prose, but it also injects a little alliteration. (I did it too, see?)
That ripping noise was the tent wall as Rand threw Schlafly out of the tent under the No True Conservative rules. Conservatives are always right, Schlafly is wrong to the point of insanity, and therefore he can’t possibly be a conservative. QED.
Some of us, myself included, shoot good enough. More than good enough. We just aren’t “into” shooting people. Or threatening to shoot people. We Libruls aren’t the ones bringing our “hardware” to our Tea Bagger meetin’s.
So, a serious question: at what point CAN you throw someone out of your tent for disagreeing with you and your platform? Do we need a new word for “fiscal conservative who hates social conservatives?”