# Most Liberals are Hateful and Nasty Individuals **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 29, 2013, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-liberals-are-hateful-and-nasty-individuals/659635 "2013-05-29T16:41:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-liberals-are-hateful-and-nasty-individuals/659635/241 "2013-06-02T16:16:34Z")
Nixon? ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-liberals-are-hateful-and-nasty-individuals/659635/242 "2013-06-02T16:27:17Z")
That guy who has never been in Cliff Clavin’s kitchen. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-liberals-are-hateful-and-nasty-individuals/659635/243 "2013-06-02T16:32:16Z")
Bob Dole thinks that this is referring to Bob Dole. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-liberals-are-hateful-and-nasty-individuals/659635/244 "2013-06-02T16:35:19Z")
Bob Dole in his 1996 run for President. Those used to be the positions of the lead Republican. These days, they’d be called outrageously liberal by the current Republican party. Funny how liberals these days can be called hateful and nasty for espousing positions that used to be part of the platform of the lead conservative of the time. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-liberals-are-hateful-and-nasty-individuals/659635/245 "2013-06-02T17:17:33Z")
What suspense! The drama, the anticipation. All to find out a former Republican nominee had some positions which were sensible and some that were outright stupid. What a shocker. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-liberals-are-hateful-and-nasty-individuals/659635/246 "2013-06-02T18:17:49Z")
> [@bigdfrombigd](#): > > Why is it that anyone with conservative values is trashed??? Alan West, Herman Cain, Sean Hannity, Michelle Malkin etc. I’m not going to waste more than two minutes on this thread, so it’s probably already been said, but those people you named are not a fair sampling of “anyone with conservative values.” Cain is the best of the lot; he’s merely grossly inadequate for his ambitions. The other three are some combination of evil and batshit crazy. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-liberals-are-hateful-and-nasty-individuals/659635/247 "2013-06-02T19:40:33Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > The first seems a bit moronic. Name a law that Congressmen are exempt from. This bit is usually promoted by the same half-wits that think Congressmen don’t pay in to Social Security. > > The second is perhaps even dumber. Yeah, we want a bunch of amateurs in Congress. When tough issues come up, we want people with very little legislative experience. Not. Congresscritters are exempt from _some_ laws. Section 10 of the Securities Exchange Act, for example; you may remember the recent furor over the STOCK Act, which rectified that. Until 1996, they were exempt from an awful lot of federal laws, which was fixed with the passage of the Congressional Accountability Act. That bill was, in fact, [what Dole was talking about](http://www.dolekemp96.org/agenda/issues/congressional.htm). ETA: who knew Dole’s 1996 campaign website was still up? ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-liberals-are-hateful-and-nasty-individuals/659635/248 "2013-06-02T19:58:08Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > ETA: who knew Dole’s 1996 campaign website was still up? If you check the fine print at the very bottom, “This Web Site is Presented for Educational Purposes by [4President.org](http://4President.org)”. I seem to recall that they have several old campaign websites preserved, though the Dole one is unusual in still being at its original URL. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-liberals-are-hateful-and-nasty-individuals/659635/249 "2013-06-03T22:15:48Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > I remember burning some clothes last Thanksgiving, but I don’t specifically remember why. That is . . . probably for the best. :o [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-liberals-are-hateful-and-nasty-individuals/659635.md?page=12)