Rhode Island’s Johnny Pez has a public service announcement on how to determine whether the conservative you are debating is sane or insane. And, yes, Johnny Pez has found one sane conservative.
A rough and ready guide is to note that insane conservatives are addicted to a series of words and phrases describing a parallel reality, while sane conservatives are not. Here is a sample list of these words and phrases. Remember, if you find any of these terms being used by a conservative, it’s a sure sign of insanity:
ACORN
Fairness Doctrine
marsh mice
maglev train
birth certificate
porkulus
drill, baby, drill
Vince Foster
Islamofascism
liberal fascism
homosexual agenda
socialism
What other words or terms would you add? I can think of a few: volcano monitoring, Ted Kennedy and discrimination against white men.
Messiah.
Abstinence Only.
Bush wasn’t a true conservative!
With the addition of VC’s three items, the list describes Dave Burris, Rick Jensen and Dana Pico to a tee.
I’m assuming volcano monitoring must have been an earmark that I missed.
Steve, lucky you.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/25/jindal.volcanoes/index.html
Democrat (as an adjective)
Class warfare
Fiscal conservative
Bipartisanship
Rush who?
Palin Power
raise the roof not our taxes!
nemski
OK, since I can honestly claim never to have watched Jindal say anything, you’ll understand how I missed that one.
“There’s plenty of blame to go around.”
Generational theft.
Steve, I assumed as much.
I stand by comment #4, “lucky you”.
wealth redistribution
teleprompter
family values
Bill Ayers
I’m not a racist
Oh and liberal media and fairness doctrine.
I have a wide stance
traditional marriage
conservative underground
viscous left-wing commentators
I have a wide stance
Don’t we all, don’t we all.
“I apologize to my wife, my family, and my supporters”
When is the last time anyone heard a Republican say “family values?” Seems it’s been a while. Maybe they do have a sense of shame after all.
It’s all the unions fault.
the economy is sound.
nothing wrong with are health care system, nobodys dying in the street. A Hannity favorite.
Corporate tax cuts will create millions of jobs. My favorite.
and poor people, welfare queens, and…. (just because no one has REALLY blamed us in a few decades) the Jews
The War on Christmas.
Maybe it would have been easier to make a list identifying a sane conservative.
Fixed your spelling AND your link, nemski
😉
And Daniel Larison is a sane conservative. Sane, conservative AND a sane conservative. I read his stuff routinely. I guess he counts as a paloeconservative, but ideology and the talking points of the day are not a feature of his writing — which is clear, erudite and focused. I don’t always agree with where he comes from or where he is going, but what is true is that he very much owns his mind. John Cole was rooting for Larison to replace Kristol on the NYT editorial page which would have been a great addition.
Carry On!
“I’m running for Governor of Delaware.”
Abolish the Federal Reserve (to qualify the Paulites)
“Maybe it would have been easier to make a list identifying a sane conservative.” and much shorter
“hi my name is john mccain” – pre 2002
A “sane conservative” is an oxymoron.
A “conservative” is just a moron.
“No, I’m a Libertarian.”
The One
Monica Lewinsky
Cheese-eating surrender monkeys
Rooting for failure (any theme on Obama is a failure)
Tea Party/Teabag
Feminazi
Franklin Delano Raines
Fixed your spelling AND your link, nemski
HA!
private property rights
takings
free market economy
war on terrorism, war on drugs! War, War and More war. Muslims are all terrorists.