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Originally Posted by bomelia
Labels are meaningless until you decide to wear one. And one based on the ideals of someone who has been MIA for over 200 years... so context is prolly an issue here.
Mike
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Mike, that is pretty funny...you are the one who titled this thread using a label. I also tend to see people on this site who define themselves as conservatives using those labels a lot, and generally in a bad or insulting way. By insulting libs as a general group you are insulting Jefferson, Franklin, Paine, and a bunch of other folks who do not deserve it.
None of them were perfect, and none of us are either (though some of you seem to think that I am
), but Jefferson and others had some great ideas that are still valid 200+ years later. I do my best to emulate their better ones, and I think Clay does the same. Doing so frequently gets me a label of a lib on this forum, as well as as bunch of insults. Perhaps I am a bit more Jeffersonish than Clay as I will be an a$$hole to those who are an a$$hole to me.
If we apply generic labels to conservatives based on the same criteria you guys use for Muslims, gays, and liberals then you are all uptight closet homosexuals who are as militant about Christianity as the Taliban is about allah. You spend without taxing and blame your debt on others, you think that a guy having Hussein as a middle name is reason enough not to vote for them. You support torture, indefinite incarceration without due process, and you seek to limit the personal freedoms of gays. You promote the display of your religious items on public grounds, but I doubt you would be so accommodating to other religious groups wanting to do the same. You do not want sex education, but you do not want to allow abortions either. You want to invade Iran, but point to Australia when asked to locate it on a map.
Based on the actions of some conservatives it really looks like all of them are hypocrites that do not believe in anything America stands for except the right to keep and bear arms.
