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Topic: A Southerner's Response
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LyKcantropen
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posted November 12, 2004 13:10
    
Quite amusing. The irony that the article does everything he ascribes to the "whiners" is interesting, though. Oh well.Reading more now. Very interesting. I may get back to you.
 Good articles on Arafat. I think my father phrased it well - "Some terrorists and revolutionaries can grow to become great statesmen. Some terrorists and revolutionaries remain Yasser Arafat." Speaking of my parents, they're both lifelong conservatives, and share a lot of common ground with opinions I see here - "toughness" on law and order, family values, aggressive foreign policy, low taxes. Neither of them would vote for Bush in a million years. A great deal of British conservatives feel they have little in common with Bush or the neo-conservatives running the Republican party. As for the other articles, there's a great tendency towards faction. For a movement which prides itself on honour and morals, there's a disturbing trend towards smug self-congratulation and demonisation of anyone who sits on the other side of an ideological fence. The current attack politics regarding Senator Specter are absolutely appalling, and an excellent example of this. Conservative American thought has once again created a "demon" against which they strive - once it was "the communist", now it's "the liberal". What next? "The moderate"? "The not quite as right wing as us"? There's not even much attempt to explain why there's hatred for people following these ideas - just vague references to "secularism" "leniency" and such. Just like they never made the distinction between the various forms and interpretations of socialism, immediately everything was tarred with the Leninist-Stalinist-Maoist brush. I'll continue reading, mind. Derbyshire's witty, but I sense he stands only ever so slightly to the left of Genghis Khan.  Just browsing, but I prefer this magazine more. Deeper, more intellectually based, and less hysterical, while still sitting firmly on the side of the right. http://www.amconmag.com/index.html The kind of conservatism I like - true, principled, ideological conservatism, with writers who can at least explain their points in rational terms, as opposed to the imperialistic apologetics, warmongering amateur dramatics and "blame them!" hysteria of the neo-cons.
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LyKcantropen
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posted November 30, 2004 17:36
Such well-reasoned arguments. Here's a few other choice cuts from the fine brain of this wonderful human being. quote:
"The swing voters---I like to refer to them as the idiot voters because they don't have set philosophical principles. You're either a liberal or you're a conservative if you have an IQ above a toaster.
-Fox News, 4th June 2000 quote:
"My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building."
-New York Observer interview quote:
"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war."
-NRO, Sept 13. 2001 quote:
"When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors."
-Adress to CPAC, Jan. 2002 quote:
COULTER: God says, "Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It's yours." FENN: Terrific. We're Americans, so we should consume as much of the earth's resources... COULTER: Yes! Yes. FENN: ... as fast as we possibly can. COULTER: As opposed to living like the Indians.
-Hannity and Colmes, June 22 2001 Ah, the sweet smell of freedom, tolerance and democracy. Not a woman worth listening to. She has a tenuous grip on reality at best. My favourite Coulter-isms are when she decries ad-hominem character attacks, then fills pages with unsubstantiated ad-hominem character attacks. She's a one trick pony, and that trick is neither big, nor clever, nor helpful.
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Cthon
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posted December 01, 2004 16:53
hey its the Ann Coulter thread!good lord, i could write a better book than her (if i was getting payrolled by a political bandwagon that is). and im a fucking terrible writer.
i often wonder where she stands on religion, drugs, and premarital sex, tho. she obviously had to bellyflop on her personal beliefs to go from a Deadhead to NeoCon.
-------------------- www.myspace.com/mastersofpunkrock
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