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1. Duffy says:

   September 9, 2008 at 8:07 am

   A liberal is someone who’s never been mugged.

   A conservative is someone who’s never been harassed by a cop.

2. Dorian Gray says:

   September 9, 2008 at 8:20 am

   That’s pretty clever, Duffy. I actually took an entire 400-level course called ‘Liberalism and Conservativism’. We alternated weeks.. week 1 was Wayne LaPierre’s book on the NRA, week two was some economics book on progressive income tax, etc. Pretty neat semester.

   Anyway, I think the standard definitions and the meaning of the ‘slurs’ are so far apart you’ll never get to common ground. For example, what ideals does W. share with Barry Goldwater. None come to immediately to mind.

3. gun dummy says:

   September 9, 2008 at 8:39 am

   Two assholes that will never agree on anything because their ideological differences prevent it.

4. Brian Shields says:

   September 9, 2008 at 9:06 am

   I prefer to use them as adjectives, not nouns.

5. anon says:

   September 9, 2008 at 9:12 am

   Conservatism is the domination of society by an aristocracy:

   Conservatism is built on a fundamental lie, namely the Great Lie of Class Inversion, by which the super-rich are cast as the heroic working class upon which the economy depends, and the poor and disenfranchised are cast as a privilege-demanding and “entitlement-seeking” elite.

6. delawaredem says:

   September 9, 2008 at 9:20 am

   Actually, ladies and gentlemen, Steve Newton and I were discussing doing a whole series of posts on our respective blogs defining liberalism, progressivism, conservatism, libertarianism, neoconservativism, etc. The trick was that we were going to have the opposite side sincerely and honestly attempt to define it.

   For example, the folks here at Delaware Liberal were going to define Conservatism and Libertarianism. Delaware Politics would define Liberalism, Progressivism and Libertarianism, and Delaware Libertarian would define Liberalism, Progressivism and Conservatism.

   And then we would all comment on where they were wrong or right.

   We are going to save this exercise until after the primary election today and its aftermath.

   So stay tuned.

7. Von Cracker says:

   September 9, 2008 at 10:17 am

   Conservatism – Willingness to forego change for the sake of tradition.

   Liberalism – Willingness to forego tradition for the sake of change.

   Notice that fiscal responsibility has nothing to do with either, along with patriotism, military expertise, etc….

8. Dana says:

   September 9, 2008 at 10:53 am

   A liberal is someone who is blindly optomistic that programs which have failed will be successes if we simply fund them better; a liberal is someone who believes that the lazy scumbags who don’t want to work really do want to work, if only they had opportunities.

   A conservative is someone who, when he sees that a program has not worked, wants to cut it out completely; a conservative is someone who believes that lazy scumbags who don’t want to work should be given the choice: work or starve.

9. Mike Matthews says:

   September 9, 2008 at 10:55 am

   Just like Jesus, Dana. All black and white and no gray areas.

10. Von Cracker says:

    September 9, 2008 at 10:56 am

    ^ sore loser…dana that is!

    Nice girls name. 😉 whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

11. mike w. says:

    September 9, 2008 at 11:02 am

    Actually Dana’s description is excellent. Markell, Obama and others all believe that their policies, despite failing in the past, will work now because “the right people are in charge.” They believe that government is the solution to every problem rather than acknowledging that government is the problem.

    Conservatives – Well Dana’s description is right on, however the current crop of Republicans are not small government & fiscal conservatives, they’re big government & spending, but at a far less objectionable level than the Democrats.

12. Von Cracker says:

    September 9, 2008 at 11:17 am

    Mike – so everyone who’s jobless doesn’t want to work?

    “I think the douche’s description is excellent!
    <<>>

    Conservative = fiscally responsible doesn’t pass the sniff test. I can’t find any examples….

13. DPN says:

    September 9, 2008 at 11:27 am

    VC, all of our friends who have been laid off at our company obviously don’t want to work.

14. DPN says:

    September 9, 2008 at 11:28 am

    Also, I cry Bullshit on Republicans being fiscally repsonsible.

    Name the last Republican President who had a balanced budget?

15. Von Cracker says:

    September 9, 2008 at 11:33 am

    It is the Executive who proposes the annual budget, right?

    Cause the thugs will say it’s all Newt!!!

16. NewWaveLiberal says:

    September 9, 2008 at 11:38 am

    I agree that they are just polarizing terms…and slurs. I still call myself a liberal. What else can you say?

    It frustrates me because of the deterioration of the process into a cultural minstrel show (on both sides). It seems to keep normal voters so far away from the issues and I believe this disproportionately benefits Republicans, who are miraculously achieving a perceived lock on moral rectitude. What is that?!

    I am very pro-cultural-middle-ground between the groups and every time supporters on the right start baiting with terror-talk and supporters on the left spew back anti-Christian bile, my soul hurts.