Letters to the Editor
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@sic semper...
who wrote:
Nowhere did I mention Bush, or the GOP congress, or anything else. I stated simply why Hillary scares me. You simply jumped to a conclusion that (a) if Hillary scares me then (b) I must be a Bush supporter.
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Touche.
That said, just who DID you vote for in the last two presidential elections?
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I'm not an American citizen ...
... therefore I can't vote.
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To anon and Rick..
What "straw man argument"? All of the things I described are things I have actually seen and heard, how is that a straw man? To rick: I have been in Barnes & Noble as much as and probably more then most of the population. If you think they are trying to censor conservative authors then you obviously haven't been to the current affairs section! The attempts to crack down on your hero Rush and those of his ilk are based on the fact that they SPREAD LIES! I used to listen to christian talk radio and watch christian television and if regular talk radio is anything like that then there is plenty to correct! How about that phony breast cancer/abortion link you people tried to pass off? Even your buddy Rush a while back stated that the people hiring illegals were all liberal democrats. He of course offered no proof of this. Free speech and libel are two different things. That's just the stuff I can think of off the top of my head, I bet I could go listen to it right now and come up with plenty more (if I could bring myself to stomach it)!
The incidents of campus activity you described haven't been my experience, where I live there are a larger portion of conservative students then liberal. I local college tried to grant gay partners of employees the opportunity to buy into benefits and all the conservatives in the area got all their panties in a bunch! The one (yes, count it, one) incident of liberal bias in one of the area colleges was dealt with cleanly and that professor was let go. But since we're on the subject, how about my political science teacher who openly condemned the hippy movement of the sixties and used her classroom as a bully pulpit against it? Liberal bias indeed!
You, however, have yet to address my concerns. If you do not like something, like TV shows, like a movie, like a certain book or a dixie chicks song (that actually happened here after the Iraqi invasion) will you try and take it away from everyone else? Where I live, that has been exactly what has happened. Fortunatly, where I live is still not as bad as some of the places further south, but I have no doubt all it would take is another republican win to change that. I take issue with the conservative movement because they are run by religious extremists trying to take my freedoms away. I have no doubt in my mind that if you got control of the whole country that you would do that everywhere. Just look at the Massachussettes gay marraige ruling, or the Oregon assisted suicide law, or California's legalizing medical marijuana, you people believe in "states rights" until a state does something you don't like, then you have to pass a constitutional amendment banning it! All of which were incidents that were none of anyone else's business. This is the kind of future we can look forward to under the cons! So don't try and tell me you people are "persecuted"!
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"The incidents of campus activity you described haven't been my experience ..."
Spoken like a true solipsist. You sound like the silly NY socialite who, in 1980, wondered how Ronald Reagan won the election: "No one I know voted for him."
Now if you got around more and actually read news sites besides Salon, you'd know it's a regular occurrence on college campuses for entire print runs of publications to be seized and thrown in dumpsters if (a) they espouse a conservative position or (b) contain an article/editorial/cartoon that liberals object to. It's happened at Cornell and Columbia most recently. Just go to www.thefire.org to see the numerous documented examples of liberal speech codes and squelching of dissent on university campuses.
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@ SickSemper (Sic)
SicSemperMorannis wrote: "...Kinda like all the Dems have to kiss the asses of race-baiters like Al Sharpton and Jesse "Hymie Town" Jackson and hold hands and sway back and forth as they sing "We Shall Overcome" no matter how badly they suffer from CRD (Caucasian Rhythmic Disorder)-- Sic Semper Morannis
Wow...such thinly-disguised racism on public display. May I suggest that, with an attitude such as yours, you change your screen-name to "Sick Simper Moranus"?
Have a nice, Canadian-style day, eh?
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Cheneyesque
We already have a word for that, Machavelien
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Benito Giuliani
How can anyone who calls himself a conservative conceive of voting for this neo-con twit? The man is pro-abortion, pro-gay "marriage," pro-illegal immigration (in that he believes illegal immigrants should have access to welfare & food stamp programs), pro-gun control, and is part of the plutocratic tradition of the American BiPartisan Party, which would boil down all aspects of human culture to the thin grease of mere money. What the Hell does this ignorant, war-mongering thug have to do with the values of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Robert E. Lee, Theodore Roosevelt, Robert Taft, Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan? Not a freakin' thing! He's like some morbid hybrid of Hillary Clinton's "Western-Civilization-is-icky" social values combined with George W. Bush's policy of "is-there-anyone-else-we-can-senselessly-bomb-today?" Seriously, observing American democracy today, in all its revolting degeneracy, makes me wonder if we wouldn't have been better off had Alexander Hamilton gotten his way and were thus ruled by a hereditary monarch.
When I registered as a Democrat on St. Patrick's Day of 2003, I did so under the naive impression what I was just doing it in order to vote for Howard Dean in the primaries, so that he could beat Bush, and all would revert to something vaguely akin to sanity (albeit somewhat to the left of my personal preferences, but at least we wouldn't be at war with half the globe), yet here I am in the year 2007, Ken Blackwell was permitted to pretend that Bush actually carried Ohio in 2004 against The Worst Candidate in American History That Bush Still Couldn't Really Beat, and my once-beloved GOP is on the verge of nominating a worthless neo-"conservative" cypher as its presidential nominee. WTF? I'm never really going to fit into the Democratic Party, but its starting to look like we're stuck with each other for the duration....