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Why is "liberal" such a bad word?
« on: February 26, 2008, 11:45:40 AM »
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Why is "liberal" such a bad word?
   
"We need your help to counteract the liberal establishment and fight back against the New York Times by making an immediate contribution today,” the e-mail also said in text that links to an online contribution form on the McCain campaign’s website.

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Why are the Republicans so afraid of liberalism? Heck, you have a "Statue of Liberty". So why is it they can use that word and make it a curse word? I don't understand it.

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If the word liberal was still used in the classical meaning of the word, you moonbats would be the ones hating it. But today it means marxist.

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liberal N proud  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Feb-26-08 06:59 AM
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1. Because the right wing fascist have to have talk shows to tell them what to think
   
That gives the talking heads the opportunity to define liberal without anyone countering the claims they make.

I guess it comes down to the fact that we can think for ourselves.
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DUmmies? thinking for themselves?  :rotf:

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liberal N proud  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Feb-26-08 07:11 AM
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7. The freedom of speech we all defend so dearly
   
Kicking us in the ass.
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Yeah, we know you hate freedom of speech.  :bird:

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MissHoneychurch  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Feb-26-08 07:23 AM
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8. It is always amazing to me
   
that the Republicans are allowed to have the freedom of speech but are defying it the Democrats "I have the right to say so and so but you don't" Strange thinking.
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KharmaTrain  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Feb-26-08 06:59 AM
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2. It's Only A Bad Word If You Play Their Games
   
Most GOOPers have no clue of what liberal means or who is one. They exist with the cartoon boogie men that don't reflect reality, but are used as strawmen by their controllers to maintain their corrupt kleptocracy.

Thanks to the corruption of the past 7 years and the moral bankruptcy of the current repugnican party, the term is now another "fear" tactic...as the GOOP this year plans to fear anything and everything....or better termed: chickenshits.
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MissHoneychurch  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Feb-26-08 07:46 AM
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11. Why not install a dictatorship right away
   
:eyes:

I guess they would even support it .... thinking for oneselves is then totally unnecessary ....
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KharmaTrain  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Feb-26-08 07:49 AM
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13. They Already Have
   
That's why many of us are here...fighting to take the country and our language back.
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Posting on DU and saying "Bush sucks!" is not "taking the country back."

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MissHoneychurch  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Feb-26-08 07:48 AM
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12. I just hope
   
that the neocons are done for good after the last 8 years.

The government wants to spread "liberty" to other countries and if it is with force but don't want a liberal thinking in its own country. That is just messed up.
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16. Becaue to the CONmen, liberals...
   
...care more about criminals than victims.
...hate our military and support our enemies.
...think every problem in the world is America's fault.
...want to tax YOUR money and hand it to had it over to shiftless bums who will vote for them.
...respond only to radical special interests (minorities who want special rights for themselves, man-hating feminists, every pervert under the sun, socialists who want to turn the next generation into some kind of gray Stalinist mass, flighty rich do-gooders, pointy-headed intellectuals who all have tenure so they don't know the pressures inherent in having a REAL job, student "activists" who ought to be cracking the books and thanking God how lucky they are, mobster-controlled unions, etc., cowed city-folk who want to take your guns away, baby killers, and so on), not to YOU.
...et cetera ad nauseum.
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MissHoneychurch  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Feb-26-08 08:47 AM
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25. Sigh
   
to think Gore would have become President ... the world would be a different place today. I still believe 9/11 might have happened but Gore would have dealt with it so much more diplomatic.
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You don't want that. Not unless you want endless terror attacks on our homeland. Oh wait, you DUmmies love the jihadists.

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40. for some reason I don't think we would have had 9/11 if gore
   
was President, again, I have this on :tinfoilhat:

after 8 years of this insane cabal does anyone truly think that this scum really cares about the American people, they have committed numerous crimes against humanity, and yet they are still there, this is shameful.
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32. I have relatives who did that
   
Edited on Tue Feb-26-08 10:35 AM by me9399
one of my closest relatives and his girlfriend( now wife) voted for W in 2000 because he was pissed that he had to explain to his then 11 year old daughter what a BJ was. They voted for Kerry in 2004.

His Daughter now 22 said at Thanksgiving that if Hillary or any Dem was elected, she was going to leave the country. :eyes:
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28. Exactly
   
The founding fathers left Europe because they were scared for their lives because of their religion. Still the Repugs nowaday want to tell everyone that the Christian Religion is the one and only. Guess they didn't read about the reasons why the Founding Fathers left the old Europe.
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Re: Why is "liberal" such a bad word?
« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2008, 11:50:00 AM »
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that the Republicans are allowed to have the freedom of speech but are defying it the Democrats "I have the right to say so and so but you don't" Strange thinking.
That's a good 'un.  Ok DUmmie, bash the dim party on the DUmp and see how long that freedom of speech lasts.   :whatever:
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Re: Why is "liberal" such a bad word?
« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2008, 11:58:11 AM »
LIberal/liberals/liberalism is disgusting to me because of all of the things that it stands for.  I makes me feel the same way that the words morals/morality makes liberals feel.
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Re: Why is "liberal" such a bad word?
« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2008, 12:07:35 PM »
'Liberal' is to 'liberty' as 'ordinary' is to 'extraordinary'.
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Re: Why is "liberal" such a bad word?
« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2008, 12:19:36 PM »
Liberal does not equal liberty. As a matter of fact, liberals are doing more to take away liberty from people be it RKBA, smoker's rights, or those ****in' spaghetti looking lightbulbs!
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Re: Why is "liberal" such a bad word?
« Reply #5 on: February 26, 2008, 12:24:13 PM »
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32. I have relatives who did that
   
Edited on Tue Feb-26-08 10:35 AM by me9399
one of my closest relatives and his girlfriend( now wife) voted for W in 2000 because he was pissed that he had to explain to his then 11 year old daughter what a BJ was. They voted for Kerry in 2004.

His Daughter now 22 said at Thanksgiving that if Hillary or any Dem was elected, she was going to leave the country. :eyes:

Somebody help me here. If the daughter was 11 in 2000, how could she be 22 only eight years later?

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How many of you clowns at the DUmp said you would leave the USA when W was elected? Seems to me those posters were treated like heros over there.  Just a tad bit hypocritical on your part, don'tcha think?
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Re: Why is "liberal" such a bad word?
« Reply #6 on: February 26, 2008, 12:26:41 PM »
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32. I have relatives who did that
   
Edited on Tue Feb-26-08 10:35 AM by me9399
one of my closest relatives and his girlfriend( now wife) voted for W in 2000 because he was pissed that he had to explain to his then 11 year old daughter what a BJ was. They voted for Kerry in 2004.

His Daughter now 22 said at Thanksgiving that if Hillary or any Dem was elected, she was going to leave the country. :eyes:

Somebody help me here. If the daughter was 11 in 2000, how could she be 22 only eight years later?

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How many of you clowns at the DUmp said you would leave the USA when W was elected? Seems to me those posters were treated like heros over there.  Just a tad bit hypocritical on your part, don'tcha think?

Nobody said the DUmmies were good at math.........



Or told the truth about anything.
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Re: Why is "liberal" such a bad word?
« Reply #7 on: February 26, 2008, 12:29:07 PM »
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7. The freedom of speech we all defend so dearly
   
Kicking us in the ass.
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I wonder what this asshat has ever done to defend any of the Rights on the Constitution.
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Re: Why is "liberal" such a bad word?
« Reply #8 on: February 26, 2008, 12:47:41 PM »
Liberal is not a bad word, but you goons aren't liberals.
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Re: Why is "liberal" such a bad word?
« Reply #9 on: February 26, 2008, 12:52:59 PM »
Quote from: darkangel82 on February 26, 2008, 12:47:41 PM
Liberal is not a bad word, but you goons aren't liberals.

Liberal=Socialist
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Re: Why is "liberal" such a bad word?
« Reply #10 on: February 26, 2008, 01:52:37 PM »
Quote from: freedumb2003 on February 26, 2008, 12:52:59 PM
Quote from: darkangel82 on February 26, 2008, 12:47:41 PM
Liberal is not a bad word, but you goons aren't liberals.

Liberal=Socialist

Liberal=hardcore socialist.
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Re: Why is "liberal" such a bad word?
« Reply #11 on: February 26, 2008, 02:58:33 PM »
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32. I have relatives who did that
   
Edited on Tue Feb-26-08 10:35 AM by me9399
one of my closest relatives and his girlfriend( now wife) voted for W in 2000 because he was pissed that he had to explain to his then 11 year old daughter what a BJ was. They voted for Kerry in 2004.

His Daughter now 22 said at Thanksgiving that if Hillary or any Dem was elected, she was going to leave the country. :eyes:

Somebody help me here. If the daughter was 11 in 2000, how could she be 22 only eight years later?

::sidebar to the primitives::
How many of you clowns at the DUmp said you would leave the USA when W was elected? Seems to me those posters were treated like heros over there.  Just a tad bit hypocritical on your part, don'tcha think?

Poor grasp of grammatical syntax. The moonbat was saying that the daughter was 11 when Clinton lied under oath...still off by a year, but I think that's what the moonbat is referring too. The mistake was made of putting it right after the line about voting in 2000.
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Re: Why is "liberal" such a bad word?
« Reply #12 on: February 26, 2008, 03:22:36 PM »
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32. I have relatives who did that
   
Edited on Tue Feb-26-08 10:35 AM by me9399
one of my closest relatives and his girlfriend( now wife) voted for W in 2000 because he was pissed that he had to explain to his then 11 year old daughter what a BJ was. They voted for Kerry in 2004.

His Daughter now 22 said at Thanksgiving that if Hillary or any Dem was elected, she was going to leave the

Somebody help me here. If the daughter was 11 in 2000, how could she be 22 only eight years later?

::sidebar to the primitives::
How many of you clowns at the DUmp said you would leave the USA when W was elected? Seems to me those posters were treated like heros over there.  Just a tad bit hypocritical on your part, don'tcha think?

Damn that George Bush, he's made us age faster!
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Re: Why is "liberal" such a bad word?
« Reply #13 on: February 26, 2008, 03:33:43 PM »
Because that's how this guy probably votes.....
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