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gabeana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-08 01:20 PM
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Great Quote on Conservatives
from an article by Paul Craig Roberts, courtesy of Counterpunch, Quote is from John Stuart Mill

“Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.”

-- John Stuart Mill

thats been pretty much my experience with the Con's

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fascisthunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-08 01:34 PM
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1. So Stupid their own arrogance precedes Them
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sailor65 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-08 01:54 PM
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2. Since you like quoting Mill,
"A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

AND

"A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life."

Many, many Democrats are Conservative. Try to remember that before you jump on the bandwagon.
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gabeana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-08 02:02 PM
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3. I guess those were the dumb asses
that voted for Reagan and Bush.
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Marr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-08 02:16 PM
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4. No Democrats are also Conservatives.
Many may be conservative, but big-"C" Conservative denotes a social movement with a specific set of goals-- all of which run in direct opposition to liberalism and, presumably, the Democratic Party.

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