What stupid shit do you have to believe to be a conservative today?

Hmm… that God exists?

Believe that using gun-related terminology like “reload,” “targetting,” and “aim” when discussing political opponents and mapping their districts with gun sight crosshairs is acceptable. (Cite)

Believe in judicial activism when it suits you, but not the other way around. (Cite)

Think it’s perfectly acceptable to refuse an open hearing to a presidential appointee (let alone a confirmation vote) because said appointee has the gall to openly disagree with Bush doctrine. (Cite)

Be opposed to providing full, accurate and timely responses to the Census for who knows exactly what reason. (Cite, Cite, Cite, Cite)

That family, charities and churches will automatically step in and take over if the government would just stop the entitlements of unemployment insurance and public assistance.

Meh. I didn’t do that last time. It was painfully clear to me by then that McCain and especially Palin weren’t fit to run the nation and that the Republican Party only spouted some platitudes I generally believed in but conducted themselves in complete opposition to that.

Actually the last time I “held my nose and pulled the handle” was when I voted for GWB in 2004, because I just could not stand John Kerry or John Edwards…but I didn’t much like GWB and certainly not Cheney, either.

I wanted to vote for Ron Paul, even if some of his ideas were a little…strange, but I identified with his assertions regarding the hijacking of the Republican Party and the concept of “blowback” in reference to our foreign policy.

Regarding evolution, you are indeed in the minority among Republicans:

Same goes for Abortion, OTOH Marijuana legalization is not really supported even by Democrats:

The largest number of supporters for legalization are independents.

As for global warming.

Suffice to say is that Republican Think tanks still pulled a number on you, as Historian Naomi Oreskes reported, it is important for conservative think tanks and bloggers to keep pushing the idea that scientists are **still **debating about the human component behind the current global warming to confuse the issue. In reality there is virtually no debate going among active climate researchers regarding the human component of the current warming.

http://ideonexus.com/2008/02/19/naomi-oreskes-the-american-denial-of-global-warming/

Ron Paul?

DAMMIT!

I thought I was voting for RuPaul! :smack:

:rolleyes: That’s even more stupid than the OP’s list.

You mean like most liberals/democrats?

Mostly, the dumbest thing you have to believe is that your party’s elected office holders are actually conservative in any meaningful characteristic. It’s kind of like believing that your party comprises actual liberals, if you are a Democrat.

Tris

Bingo!
Equal-opportunity bashing

I suppose so.

But the OP/thread is specific to Conservatives. Most of them believe God exists, therefore that is an answer to the OP’s question.

Only if you think that “belief in God” = “stupid shit”. Now, I’m sure many on this board would agree, but it’s certainly objectively true. And I say that as someone who doesn’t believe in God.

Er… OK. You’re correct. Can I go now?

**John **gets very tired of hearing that. So, five or six more times should be enough.

:smack: “not objectively true”. Now, that was some stupid shit! :slight_smile:

You have to believe that the Free Market works on Darwinistic principles that promotes economic well-being by eliminating the weak and inefficient.

That Big Government exists as a discrete entity, and that it has certain invariant characteristics, and that one of those is that it always interferes with the Darwinistic function of the Free Market

You don’t believe in Darwin.

“Darwinism”.

. . . all opinions and not factual at all. You failed at listing examples that meet your own criteria.

Now this should be good, are you claiming that it is not a fact that Birthers are following stupid shit with no evidence in their favor?

You thought I was going to go for global warming huh? :stuck_out_tongue:

That is next if you do not pull out of the Birther shit.

This would be an example of the casual stupidity I was talking about. :smiley: