Re: Are liberals dumber than conservatives?

From: sinister (sinister_at_nospam.invalid)
Date: 08/24/04 

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 01:44:39 GMT

"BlackWater" <bw@barrk.net> wrote in message
news:NJAqQZ1LbRSAmjP+1SSC1nD7gp70@4ax.com...
> "sinister" <sinister@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>
> >
> >"BlackWater" <bw@barrk.net> wrote in message
> >news:412a2e7c.25514888@news.east.earthlink.net...
> >> On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:37:51 GMT, Socialism is a Mental Disease
> >> <root@localhost.> wrote:
> >>
> >> >According to new research out of UCLA, the answer appears to be yes:
> >> >
> >> >http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/22/magazine/22IDEA.html
> >>
> >> Hey ... they believe that the govt can just
> >> hand out "free money" with no consequences.
> >> You've GOTTA be dumb to believe something
> >> idiotic like that.
> >
> >AHA! So that means George "spend, spend, spend, and float more debt!"
Bush
> >is a liberal.
>
> He's spending as FAST as many 'liberals' ... which is
> not a great thing. Kerry, however, wouldn't be any more
> frugal - and would waste the money on the 'poor'.

No, actually, he's spending more than many liberals. E.g. I'm a liberal,
and I'd spend less because I'd stop throwing so many greenbacks down the
military rathole.

Not to mention all the goodies, implicit and explicit, granted the rich.

> >Uh huh...
> >
> >>
> >> >
> >> >"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one
> >> >percent of the people may take away the rights of the other
> >> >forty-nine." -- Thomas Jefferson
> >>
> >> Which is why there are no bona-fide "democracies"
> >> in the world. Republics, with a written bill-o-
> >> rights, are better. The question however is whether
> >> they actually FIX the problems of pure democracy,
> >> or simply DELAY them for awhile.
> >>
> >> I'm beginning to believe the answer is "delay" ...
>

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