The CEO of “Strawmen R Us” Inc. [AKA, a dumbass] checks in, and as his edit says, Jesus made him do it. Admittedly, it’s better than the usual “The Debil made me do it”… :rolleyes:
Lets spell this out in words of one syl… uh, short words so you will get it. Your entire post was nothing but a “strawman” argument. You claim that “conservative = [everything that you posted]”, when, in fact, most conservatives reject many of the ideas you used. Your argument appears to be “I can find one dumbass who believes everything I posted, and calls himself ‘conservative’, so therefore EVERYONE who calls himself ‘conservative’ believes what I posted.” You are wrong. So very wrong, that the whites of your eyes are turning brown. You are a dumbass… Do you need further clarification?
Well, he calls his “conservative” website “Conservapedia” which does seem to imply that he considers himself and his views to be “conservative.” Maybe “conservatives” should have a conversation amongst themselves to determine what is actually conservative and what is merely “conservative.”
In other words, he’s your raving wackadoo. You sort him out.
Very true, but your average KKK member will claim to be ‘an average white person’. Can we reasonably take him at his word? Does he speak for me? Or even anyone I know? FUCK NO!. Congradulations! You have managed to construct a valid "strawman argument…
ETA: I forgot to end that by calling you a DUMBASS!
Wasn’t it terrible how those Dems forced the tax cuts through Congress? And I’m sure conservatives spend a lot of time by the fire reminiscing about those anti-war marches they went on.
Now when Bush did start trying to get something humane through, like his immigration reform package, then the conservatives revolted.
Your policies caused the country to melt down, and it is damn dishonest to pretend now that they weren’t your policies. And, this being the real world, supporting policies which will cause disaster if not implemented 100% is asinine.
So, all those Republican presidential candidates denying evolution during the debate are not conservative, or going against the mainstream of the party? When is the last time one of them said not cutting taxes was the right thing? Which one of them has admitted that European “socialist” medicine is more efficient?
Or are there no real conservatives except you and the ghost of William F. Buckley.
That’s what it means now. The Progressives of the Progressive Era were . . . well, put it this way, they were in definite opposition to the Socialists, who were almost a big deal then. But I wouldn’t call them “conservative” either. They were upper-class and upper-middle-class reformers.
Repugnican =/= conservative. Any attempts by Repugnican party candidates to portray themselves as such is likely bullshit, as we conservatives have found out, to our detriment, for the past couple of decades.
At least you lefties can rely on your Democrat dogs (except, possibly for the blue ones) to “leftify the world”. Us righties can only rely on Repugs to “not leftify the world” very fast. I envy you your political dogs.
Well there have apparently been no rational lefties since Daniel Patrick Moynahan died. You are a perfect example of the idiots the left has been presenting since he died.
Even if I disagree a little bit with **Voyager **regarding Artificial Intelligence (the scientific subject, not the assumption that you even have a real one), he is smarter than you.
In GD I already sized you up, you will swallow any unscientific ideas from the right wing regarding global warming and other subjects so you can not even hold a candle to him.
I hate to pull a Godwin, but this is starting to sound like one of those arguments that Hitler/Nazism was actually leftist. There are many different types of conservatives, just like there are different types of liberals. Get over it.
Depends on what we’re regulating, and I think they’re definitely pro-regulating abortion and pro-regulating-same-sex-marriage and pro-regulating-non-Christian-faiths–all of which are abhorrent positions.
And where, precisely, do you get that? I don’t recall EVER posting anything on “global warming”, either denying or supporting, to this or any other forum. I may have made an “aside” type comment on the subject, but I have never done a Dio about it. You seem to be attributing something to me that I didn’t say. Please, quote me, and cite (with URL) your source for my alledged statements.
William F. Buckley
Walter Williams
Thomas Sowell
Michael Adams
W. E. B. Du Bois
Martin Luther King
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Florence King
Du Bois? King? Men engaged in a lifelong struggle to change the injustice of the social order of America are somehow conservative? Well, might as well chuck in Norman Thomas and Bertrand Russel. What the heck, Pope John XXIII and the Dalai Lama as well, why screw around? King Arthur, Sitting Bull, Edgar Allen Poe. Jesus, of course, goes without saying…