Maybe if you cleaned under that bed once in a while…
Gee, that’s not the ending I remember. In the version of the book I saw, the kids’ lemonade stand was driven into bankruptcy by the VERYBIGMART that went in across the street, and when the kids went to the bankruptcy court they found that the statute had been recently revised to protect their creditors and not them.
It’s silly. Everyone knows liberals can’t hide under the bed, the alligators will eat them. They better not go in the closet either - there’s a big hairy monster in there 
My only objection is the title.
To display the problem with liberals, the title should be “There are Liberals Behind My Stand” or “There are Liberals Sitting on My Stand” or something.
If anyone were to hide under the bed to impose the “correct” values, it would be the Conservatives.
I don’t get why none of the conservative posters in this thread are willing to explicitly say that this book is bad and stupid. I mean, if the converse book were sold, in which the Conservative government imprisoned the one of the kid’s parents for being gay or chopped down their lemon trees to build golf courses, I’d be fucking embarrassed. I’m embarrassed when some lunatic on my own side hatefully attacks those who don’t share our views. I’m embarrassed when some liberal jerk decides to create ludicrous strawmen to attack. But this book - which peddles ridiculous lies about “liberal” government, and focuses explicitly on teaching hate for those who aren’t conservatives - doesn’t this embarrass you, Bricker and Debaser? Wouldn’t you rather this not be out there as a representation of your politics? Because I sure wouldn’t want it out there making me look bad if I were you guys. Is it more important to maintain that GOP clannishness than to try to make sure your own guys aren’t making you look bad?
Damnit, Revtim, I came here to post that. You missed the part where Osama Bin Laden was named UN secretary-general and was planning on bombing NYC.
Why, that’s mighty tolerant of you there, friend. Perhaps you could point us to the people in this thread who have called for banning or burning.
Of course, your statement that you would not ban or burn this book suggests that there are, in fact, some books that you would ban or burn.
Mind letting us know what type of books might fall into that category?
Burning was suggested in one of the quotes in post 7.
It shouldn’t be burned, merely mocked openly.
Yes, but it wasn’t suggested as a serious option by anyone actually involved in this discussion. I would have thought, as a general proposition, that avowing your opposition to the burning of books was a fairly unnecessary task, on this message board at least.
This message board? The message board where “I burning your dog” is a popular phrase? 
If I were a cynic like Excalibre (who poses a very good question, by the way), I might think it’s the whole rank and file thing. The daily memo has given strict orders to support this pillar of neocon values, and everyone’s trying to comply while doing their best not to betray the faint spark of moral character that lurks somewhere deep within them still. Saying “I wouldn’t burn this book” is like saying of a former employee “He dressed nicely.”
Am I the only one who is having a hard time taking this seriously? I haven’t read this book. From the title and the little bit of description it sounds pretty dumb. Instead of getting all outraged and throwing tantrums, why not just hold it up for all to see and ridicule the shit out of it publicly? make fun of it. Make fun of the author. Make fun of “the kind of people” who would buy it. Give it as much attention as possible, turn it into a huge laughing stock and be done with it.
Are we reading the same thread?
I call bullshit on this. Bricker and Debaser didn’t write the book, haven’t promoted the book, and haven’t said anything particularly good about the book. Why demand that they issue a statement denouncing it? It’s ridiculous to expect all conservatives to speak up every time some nutjob in their party does something stupid. Hell, I think those Amazon.com book reviews quoted at the beginning of the thread are far stupider than the book itself, yet I didn’t feel any obligation to waste my time formally denouncing them just because I happen to be a liberal. There’s idiots everywhere.
I think so, but some people sound pretty serious.
Addendum. According to the examples in post #7, some people out there (some people are really really Out There) are taking it very seriously. It’s the End Of Days. We’re all doomed. All because of this silly little book.
Hmmm. I’d like to see more books in this series. How 'bout Help! There’s A Liberal Driving The Car! , featuring, of course, the Ted Kennedy character?
There are books for all walks of life.
Here’s one for the newly married wife by a moral leader, said by previous lovers to be a “wizard in the sheets”, so she knows a man’s needs!
THE PROPER CARE & FEEDING OF HUSBANDS by Dr. Laura Schlessinger
For the disadvantaged whiners, here’s a man whom pulled himself up by his own stumps
Bwah-ha-ha-ha! What fools, these running dog jackals of the ruling class! Comrade Big Bird has warped the minds of millions! They are ours! Ours! And we didn’t even have to wait for them to get to college and into the clutches of our Academic Commissariat!
(I know Ayn Rand wrote a lot of books for the spiritually retarded, but did she ever actually write any children’s books?)