http://www.city-journal.org/html/13_...ot_losing.html

Interesting article on the Republican party. It deals with a ton of stuff, but the focus of this string is what they call South Park Republicans.

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Jason
Lynn Swann 06'

"Individualism is absent when other peoples' standards, not reality and reason, are ones primary guide."

I read the whole article and failed to find any ideas where these South Park Republicans had any socially liberal ideas. In fact they sounded quite a bit like selfish hedonists to me.

The article in itself is scary because it points out how conservative views have found a home on cable news, cable t.v., the internet and book publishing. What bothers me is that in this piece the whole idea of the Fairness Doctrine is non-existent.

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Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. - Robert Orben

I'd probably be a libertarian if so many people weren't stupid and/or greedy.

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this thread does show that you have to be both arrogant and self important to be liberal. yes, bruce, i'm referring to your baseles accusations too.

How so?

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How is my remark arrogant and self-important?

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For years, people have used the term "bleeding heart liberal." I'm arrogant because I use the term "selfish hedonist" to describe someone who says, "We might have long hair, smoke cigarettes, get drunk on weekends, have sex before marriage, watch R-rated movies, cuss like sailors?"

Oh pulleze Andre, you're going to have to do better than that! :shock:

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b/c you assume that liberals are not selfish and greedy and along with their leaders are capable of deciding how everyone else should live. I've been on this board a long time and it seems to have become a mouthpiece for the extreme left. bashing anyone who doesn;t agree into submission. comments thrown around about stupid, ignorant people outside of the "blue" philly. it's just plain disgusting the amount of self righteousness (the word I shoulda used to begin with) that goes on. that's all, over and out. I also think it's funny b/c I beleive selfsh hedonist used to be used to describe the left. people are people.

See, here's the problem...you're the one doing the assuming here. I merely said the following:

I'd probably be a libertarian if so many people weren't stupid and/or greedy.

Rather than asking me what I meant, you reply, "this thread does show that you have to be both arrogant and self important to be liberal."

While I do consider myself a liberal, you might have noticed (both here and on my own board) that I don't tow the liberal line--particularly when it comes to business, guns and unions. Did you consider that I might actually be poking fun at liberals at all?

You seem like a decent guy, el, but perhaps you should consider someone's words more carefully before you respond in the future.

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