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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 12:51 PM Original message |
Has ANYTHING good ever come from "Conservatives" or "Centrists"? |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 12:52 PM Response to Original message |
1. Gotta run. K&R & bookmarked to check back later for any response. n/t |
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Richardo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 12:54 PM Response to Original message |
2. The internet started as a Defense application in response to USSR space program |
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SpiralHawk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 01:10 PM Response to Reply #2 |
16. But every 'conservative' 'knows' that Al Gore (D) invented the Internet |
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ChoppinBroccoli (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 03:50 PM Response to Reply #2 |
31. Kennedy Didn't Start The Space Program.......... |
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Richardo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 04:35 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. I think the point of the OP was one of altruism... |
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stray cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 12:54 PM Response to Original message |
3. Bill Clinton gave us a budget surplus |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 01:04 PM Response to Reply #3 |
10. Abe Lincoln was a Liberal Republican (yes they existed back then) |
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harkadog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 02:45 PM Response to Reply #10 |
23. Lincoln was not a liberal anything |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 02:48 PM Response to Reply #10 |
24. The republicans were the liberal party back then |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 04:44 PM Response to Reply #3 |
36. you had to go back that far to find something |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 05:25 PM Response to Reply #3 |
47. A surplus budget at what price? |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 12:56 PM Response to Original message |
4. Brings forth Business (Travesty) As Usual (Mission Accomplished!) |
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no_hypocrisy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 12:57 PM Response to Original message |
5. In a yin-yang way, they've helped to define us by who we aren't and |
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Kaleva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 12:58 PM Response to Original message |
6. We keep the extremists from taking us all over the edge. |
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tkmorris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 01:01 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. The Earth isn't flat |
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Kaleva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 01:03 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. The Grand Canyon isn't either |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 03:21 PM Response to Reply #6 |
29. Thank GODD.... |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 12:22 PM Response to Reply #6 |
44. My memory of Bush enablement isn't that short. |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 05:28 PM Response to Reply #6 |
48. Now that's just funny. |
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supernova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 12:59 PM Response to Original message |
7. No, because doing something isn't in their job description |
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NRaleighLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 01:05 PM Response to Reply #7 |
13. Wow! great minds and all - we used the same phrase at the same time! |
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NRaleighLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 01:04 PM Response to Original message |
11. By definition, it is not in their job description. They prevent progress, not enable it. |
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FiveGoodMen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 01:04 PM Response to Original message |
12. They all die eventually |
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arcadian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 01:06 PM Response to Original message |
14. They maintain the status quo for corporations. |
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FarLeftFist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 01:09 PM Response to Original message |
15. No. |
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Individualist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 01:12 PM Response to Original message |
17. Their defeat is the only thing I can think of. |
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KansDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 01:14 PM Response to Original message |
18. Well, if you talk to members of the oligarchy, MIC, the corporatists, and the like... |
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Zoeisright (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 01:53 PM Response to Original message |
19. No. |
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unblock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 01:58 PM Response to Original message |
20. sure. reagan ended communism with a single speech! |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 02:09 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. ...and forgot what he said 5 minutes later! |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 02:01 PM Response to Original message |
21. Their project to drive down wages and humble the American middle class has been a success. nt |
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Kitsune (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 02:51 PM Response to Original message |
25. There is only one thing I can think of, and it's something I've never understood about the left. |
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reggie the dog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 02:52 PM Response to Original message |
26. the Terminator and Terminator 2 were not that bad.... |
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Barack_America (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 02:53 PM Response to Original message |
27. Their gross incompetence at running government provides opportunity for drastic change. |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 03:01 PM Response to Original message |
28. Absolutely NOTHING in the past few decades. |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 03:28 PM Response to Original message |
30. Short answer = NO. |
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Joe the Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 03:58 PM Response to Original message |
32. Conservatives and centrists are against anything and everything....... |
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OffWithTheirHeads (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 04:35 PM Response to Original message |
33. I,ve got one! |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 04:40 PM Response to Original message |
35. Food for worms? |
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Shell Beau (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 04:45 PM Response to Original message |
37. Me! lol! My parents are republicans. |
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BR_Parkway (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 05:27 PM Response to Original message |
38. Much laughter from their stupid signs, mis-spellings and even their ignorance of basic |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 11:22 PM Response to Original message |
39. Kicking this up for the late shift |
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Telly Savalas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 11:28 PM Response to Original message |
40. The EPA |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 12:14 PM Response to Reply #40 |
41. Yeah, that and Earth Day |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 12:16 PM Response to Original message |
42. They really didn't stop anything radical coming from the Right in the Bush Years |
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kenny blankenship (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 12:17 PM Response to Original message |
43. Computer says No |
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Johonny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 12:42 PM Response to Original message |
45. Centrists pass most laws |
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timtom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 12:52 PM Response to Original message |
46. Not to put too fine a point on it, and to cut a long story sideways and down the middle, |
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