Have you seen the email that is titled, "Bet you stand up and say HELL YEAH! after you read this." An undecided voter at the office said, "I agree with most of these things, does that make me a Republican", so I realized I needed to answer each of the points. It's my mantra that we haven't said "These are the values of a liberal" loudly enough.
Middle America hears a lot of the highlighted points in the original email and agrees with them completely, because they never hear our half. The email is italicized, my response is in bold
Bet you stand up and say HELL YEAH! after you read this.
Bet you stand up and say, I am proud to be an American after you read the bold, also.
I like big cars, big boats, big motorcycles, big houses and big campfires.
Okay, I'm off to a bad start: there's nothing liberal about this.
I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some governmental stooge with a bad comb-over who wants to give it away to crack addicts for squirting out babies.
A liberal believes that your money is yours, and you should be able to keep as much of it as possible. A liberal believes that there are services that the government CAN provide more efficiently than corporations: Defense, Education, and things that corporations don't want like environmental protections. A liberal believes that you own the airwaves, the FCC leases them to corporations, and the corporations make money by serving your interest. So a liberal believes that a small, efficient, effective government is not BAD. Garrison Keillor mentions the bump at the end of the curb so you can get up on the sidewalk as an example of one of those little things that is something that people SHOULD do to create a "kinder, gentler society". Capitalism is the best system in the world, but we can have capitalism without clinging to a Darwinian version of it. Society pays a terrible price if we don't at least TRY and help the poor become the working class and shoot for the moon eventually. That doesn't mean handouts for not working, but rather the help so you can.
Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.
Liberals don't hate guns. We don't think there is a defensive or hunting reason to have automatic weapons in people's homes, or where criminals can get to them. A person with an automatic weapon can kill more people than a person with a baseball bat. Liberals believe in the Second Amendment, but wonder what the founding fathers would have thought about this.
I believe they are called the Boy Scouts for a reason, that is why there are no girls allowed. Girls belong in the Girl Scouts!
A liberal believes that a private organization that does not take public funds should be able to be a "Boy" Scouts. But the Boy Scouts should not discriminate on the basis of race, sexuality, disability, religion, etc. This is a red herring. Just because a girl might have tried to sue to become a boy scout doesn't mean it's what a liberal believes.
I think that if you feel homosexuality is wrong, it is not a phobia, it is an opinion
If you believe that homosexuality is wrong, that is an opinion. If you are offended with the possibility that a homosexual can have the same rights as you, that is homophobia. If you believe that seeing homosexuals will make your children want to be homosexuals, that is homophobia.
I don't think being a minority makes you a victim of anything except numbers.
1: On racial minorities: 40 years ago, that's probably in your lifetime, blacks couldn't go to the same schools as whites, hold the same jobs, ride in the front of the bus, or drink out of the same water fountain. That was 100 years after the Civil War! We are slow moving towards the change towards our attitudes. So the parents and grandparents of today's black youths WERE victims. It took 100 years to even give them the LEGAL equality. It's not hard to see why there is a victim mentality that they have a hard time overcoming.
2: On "minority" in general: Our constitution was designed as a Republic with two distinct Houses on purpose. Our founding fathers were religious minorities who came to escape persecution, but set the system up to protect against minorities rights: The individual has rights even if the masses might not agree.
The only things I can think of that are truly discriminatory are things like the United Negro College Fund, Jet Magazine, Black Entertainment Television,and Miss Black America. Try to have things like the UnitedCaucasianCollege Fund, Cloud Magazine, White Entertainment Television, or Miss White America and see what happens. Jesse Jackson will be knocking down your door.
My above answer on racial minorities addresses this. The United Negro College Fund is there because we still have a lot of work to be done. BET, etc. are relevant because they appeal to a certain culture. A culture that we ENFORCED for hundreds of years by separating the African Americans from the rest of us. Greeks, Lebanese, and Italians are allowed to celebrate their culture, but if blacks do it, we say that it's "reverse racism"?
I have the right "NOT" to be tolerant of others because they are different,weird, or tick me off.
Depends on what you mean. Personally, you can walk away. Liberals believe you just have to obey the law when you are doing it. You can not tolerate whoever you don't want to tolerate as long as you don't discriminate against them.
When 70% of the people who get arrested are black, in cities where 70%of the population is black, that is not racial profiling, it is the law of statistics.
Crime is a problem in the inner cities, and a disproportional number of minorities are in our prison system. The reasons why are complicated, but that is not racial profiling. Racial profiling would be stopping a minority for a routine traffic stop and searching their glove compartment for drugs without any reason (other than race).
I know what sex is, and there are not varying degrees of it. If I received sex from one of my subordinates in my office, it wouldn't be a private matter or my personal business. It would be "FIRED" immediately!
Liberals believe that Bill Clinton was a failed human being who worked hard for eight years for the American people. This does not have to do with anything.
I believe that if you are selling me a milk shake, a pack of cigarettes, a newspaper or a hotel room, you must do it in English! As a matter of fact, if you want to be an American citizen you should have to speak English!.
America is an immigrant country. Ellis Island has brought thousands and thousands of people through who did not speak English. You don't want them to work until they speak English? We've had German schools, italian schools. We've also had regions of the country where Spanish has always been an important language. They will learn English eventually, just like your relatives did once upon a time. Are you really scared of what they're saying about you?
My father and grandfather should not have died in vain so you can leave the countries you were born in to come over and disrespect ours.
It's the greatest compliment in the world that doctors and engineers give up their advanced degrees to come here and sell you your fastfood. Liberals believe that if immigrants come here legally and work that that is the ultimate RESPECT to our country.
I think the police should have every right to shoot your sorry ass if you threaten them after they tell you to stop. If you can't understand the order"freeze" or "stop" in English, see the above lines.
Liberals respect the difficult job that the police face every day. There have been some mistakes that have caused a rift and these should be addressed.
I feel much safer letting a machine with no political affiliation recount votes when needed. I know what the definition of lying is.
What if that machine was built by a company whose owner promised to deliver Ohio for the president? What if that same company makes ATM's (with the little paper receipts) but claims that it is impossible to have a paper trail to protect your rights? What if the machines give 4000 extra votes to a single candidate (not the liberal one) in a county with 600 voters?
I don't think just because you were not born in this country, you are qualified for any special loan programs, government sponsored bank loans or tax breaks, etc., so you can open a hotel, coffee shop, trinket store, or any other business.
Liberals like business ownership. Legal immigrants who are willing to work night and day making a living with a small business are as deserving of small business loans as anyone else who is willing to work.
We did not go to the aid of certain foreign countries and risk our lives in wars to defend their freedoms so that decades later they could come over here and tell us our constitution is a living document and open to their interpretations.
? Our founding fathers said our constitution is a living document. That just means it is as relevant today as it was 220 years ago! I agree that only the citizens of our country should decide what our constitution means. This is one of those "everyone feels this way" kind of arguments. It makes no meaningful claim.
I don't hate the rich. I don't pity the poor. I know wrestling is fake, but so are movies and television, and that doesn't stop you from watching them. I believe a self-righteous liberal or conservative with a cause is more dangerous than a Hell's Angel with an attitude.
This sounds like a liberal attitude. Liberals like Hell's Angels.
I think Bill Gates has every right to keep every penny he made and continue to make more. If it ticks you off, go and invent the next operating system that's better and put your name on the building. Ask your buddy that invented the Internet to help you..
Bill Gates has the right to make as much money as he wants, but Microsoft has to obey monopoly laws, which are made to protect the interests of the people. You own the country, not big corporations. The corporations have the right to operate as capitalists because that serves YOUR interest. The economy is best served by many players, after all.
It doesn't take a whole village to raise a child right, but it does take a parent to stand up to the kid and smack his/her little ass when necessary and say "NO".
Liberals believe that there are better ways to discipline a child. And "It takes a village" means that we all have to cooperate for whats best for the children. Liberals do what is best for the children. Conservatives say "family values" while liberals implement policies which value families.
I think tattoos and piercing are fine if you want them, but please don't pretend they are a political statement. And please stay home until that new lip ring heals, I don't want to look at your ugly infected mouth as you serve me French fries!
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I am sick of "Political Correctness" and of all the suck ups that go along with it. I know a lot of black people, and not a single one of them was born in Africa, so how can they be "African Americans"?
Calling it Political Correctness is a way of belittling the common courtesy that makes our country so wonderful. Call people what they want to be called, what's wrong with that? I know plenty of third and fourth generation Americans who are still "Italians" and "Irish". Black Americans don't have the luxury of assimilating and only bringing out their background when they choose.
Besides, Africa is a continent. I don't go around saying I am a European-American because my great,,, great, great, great grandfather was from Europe. I am proud to be from America and no where else.
We'll call you that if you want.
And if you don't like my point of view, tough!
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GET OVER IT!!! WAKE UP WHILE YOU STILL HAVE A COUNTRY TO WAKE UP TO.
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If you are not ashamed of America, forward this to everyone in your address book while you can still do it for free
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