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satyrne -> RE: This Was a Great Election for Conservatives... (11/9/2006 12:28:05 PM)
FirmKY ... going even further with your point: It's not just that the Conservatives were "thrown bones" like the religious right, and finally had enough of it -- they were manipulated very effectively by the same method as every other American -- FEAR. Each group was given something to be terrified by, and the script finally wore out. It went something like "You have to trust us to be in charge because we are the only ones standing between you and the _____[insert: Terrorists, Homosexuals, Liberals] It's still a dangerous world, but there is probably nothing better that we as a country could do to beat back the power of terrorism than simply learning to stand up to our fears and look at facts.

caitlyn -> RE: This Was a Great Election for Conservatives... (11/9/2006 12:37:56 PM)
This was a great election for Caitlyn ... there may be sanity in Congress, and I got to see LaM chastize someone for making a personal attack. I now know that anything is possible. [;)]

happypervert -> RE: This Was a Great Election for Conservatives... (11/9/2006 12:39:10 PM)
quote: If the Republicans had not rejected the conservative values they ran on in the first place, they would still have control of both the House and Senate. The conservative voters threw them out. The conservative voters didn't throw them out -- it was the independents who believed them before and now realize they had voted for liars. And it all starts with the liar in the White House, because the republican congress has just been mindlessly approving his bad ideas. The republicans may claim they will now get back to their traditional issues, but nobody will believe them when the figurehead of their party is the self-described "compassionate conservative" and "uniter, not a divider" who used to proclaim that it was stupid for our country to engage in nation building in other countries. It is the independents who control the elections and they don't trust republicans now, and they won't in two years because that lame duck liar will still be hogging the spotlight. He needs to disappear in Crawford TX and be forgotten before the conservatives can stand a chance again in national elections.

justheather -> RE: This Was a Great Election for Conservatives... (11/9/2006 12:49:45 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: FirmhandKY The truth is, that most "right of center" members of CollarMe simply stay out of the discussions, and rarely call the "left of center" posters on their behavior. I choose to interpret this in two ways: 1. Most of them have lives and jobs, and better things to do than engage in rhetoric just for the shake of arguing (some of us don't mind, and have jobs that allows us to engage when we so choose). So glad you explained your reason for hanging out here with all of us jobless left-wing losers. Thank god for welfare, eh? Pass the foodstamps, julia, we are running low on beer nuts. quote: [ 2. Most right of center posters seem to have better manners, in that name calling and juvenile displays of frustration and sarcasm isn't something that they like to get involved in for the most part. Names, please? Or should I say-- Name of the planet onwhich this is an accurate appraisal, please? quote: Because of this, the left of center posters pretty much have the run of the forums, and their self-congratulatory posts about the election, and their petty name calling and juvenile displays of both hubris and pettiness pretty much dominate here. It's an example of mob psychology and dynamics. They get a lot of reinforcement from each other, because they are so active. Wow, one day in the minority and the conservatives are already whining about it! quote: Decorum and it's appreciation isn't always a strong point of many left of center people Backhanded comments and sarcasm hidden behind frilly white doilies and Southern drawls do not constitute decorum.

KatyLied -> RE: This Was a Great Election for Conservatives... (11/9/2006 12:54:04 PM)
quote: Pass the foodstamps, julia, we are running low on beer nuts. If only we could eat cashews, like the rich folk.

BitaTruble -> RE: This Was a Great Election for Conservatives... (11/9/2006 1:17:54 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: FirmhandKY The money quote: "This election does not show that voters have abandoned their belief in limited government; it shows that the Republican Party has abandoned them. In fact, these results represent the total failure of big government Republicanism." I'm not familiar with Senator Coburn, but based on just this sentence, I'd vote for him. FirmKY That's actually rather scary. All it takes is a single sound-byte to get your vote? Celeste

FirmhandKY -> RE: This Was a Great Election for Conservatives... (11/9/2006 1:35:13 PM)
Well, I certainly seemed to hit a nerve. Should I read all kinds of things in your post, just as you are reading them in mine? FirmKY

FirmhandKY -> RE: This Was a Great Election for Conservatives... (11/9/2006 1:36:26 PM)
I just a slow ole country bumpkin from kain-tuck-ee. You expect anything else? FirmKY

BitaTruble -> RE: This Was a Great Election for Conservatives... (11/9/2006 1:41:11 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: FirmhandKY I just a slow ole country bumpkin from kain-tuck-ee. You expect anything else? FirmKY Actually, from you, yes I did. Celeste

juliaoceania -> RE: This Was a Great Election for Conservatives... (11/9/2006 1:54:51 PM)
quote: You know, julia, I can be pretty sarcastic and vile when it suits me. As a matter of fact, I had a hilariously funny response to this post, but on reflection decided that you are obviously upset enough. Oh please do not let the emotional states that you are projecting on to me hold you back, I love seeing people expose themselves for who they really are. quote: Why don't we just agree to disagree, and get back to the discussion, rather than taking potshots at each other? FirmKY I would, but you are STILL taking potshots with insinuations of how it is easy to be "vile" to one such as me.. so let me know when you are done being unkind, because if this post was supposed to be an olive branch, it reads like a stealth attack

FirmhandKY -> RE: This Was a Great Election for Conservatives... (11/9/2006 2:03:41 PM)
Bita, Perhaps you are mis-understanding. I said "based on just this statement". In other words, if I had nothing else to go on. I said that I wasn't familiar with Senator Coburn. If I had something else that led me to believe that he wasn't worth voting on, I wouldn't. I said it for effect and emphasis, not necessarily as an unwavering declaration that he would get my vote until my dying days based solely and exclusively on a single statement. Better? FirmKY

gooddogbenji -> RE: This Was a Great Election for Conservatives... (11/9/2006 2:09:57 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: FirmhandKY I said "based on just this statement". In other words, if I had nothing else to go on. I said that I wasn't familiar with Senator Coburn. If I had something else that led me to believe that he wasn't worth voting on, I wouldn't. "Based on just this sentence" means you would ignore all other factors. "If this was the only thing I had to go on for all candidates, democracy would suck." is a better way of expressing your thought. Yours, benji

FirmhandKY -> RE: This Was a Great Election for Conservatives... (11/9/2006 2:12:19 PM)
Why, no. Not stealth attack meant at all. Most everyone can be vile and sarcastic. It's a choice. How someone reacts to you, whether kind and considerate or vile and sarcastic is what we have little control over. What your true emotional state is, is unknown to me. I can only go on what your words seem to tell me. FirmKY

justheather -> RE: This Was a Great Election for Conservatives... (11/9/2006 2:13:44 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: FirmhandKY Bita, Perhaps you are mis-understanding. I said "based on just this statement". In other words, if I had nothing else to go on. I said that I wasn't familiar with Senator Coburn. If I had something else that led me to believe that he wasn't worth voting on, I wouldn't. I said it for effect and emphasis, not necessarily as an unwavering declaration that he would get my vote until my dying days based solely and exclusively on a single statement. Better? FirmKY I havent seen backpedalling moves that fancy since the BMX World Championships of 1997.

gooddogbenji -> RE: This Was a Great Election for Conservatives... (11/9/2006 2:19:40 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: FirmhandKY Why, no. Not stealth attack meant at all. Most everyone can be vile and sarcastic. It's a choice. How someone reacts to you, whether kind and considerate or vile and sarcastic is what we have little control over. This is kinda like "I could tell you I fucked your mother with a chianti bottle, but I won't." "See? I didn't say it!" Yours, benji

FirmhandKY -> RE: This Was a Great Election for Conservatives... (11/9/2006 2:21:17 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: gooddogbenji "Based on just this sentence" means you would ignore all other factors. "If this was the only thing I had to go on for all candidates, democracy would suck." is a better way of expressing your thought. benji, No, not ignoring other factors. In ignorance of all other factors. FirmKY

FirmhandKY -> RE: This Was a Great Election for Conservatives... (11/9/2006 2:23:31 PM)
Your ignorance of the English language isn't my problem. How's that for sarcastic? FirmKY

gooddogbenji -> RE: This Was a Great Election for Conservatives... (11/9/2006 2:24:48 PM)
That's what I mean. It means that you would choose to ignore other factors because of that sentence. I know what you meant to say, and I showed you how to say it. We don't each choose what our words mean, we choose based on what they mean. Yours, benji

Lordandmaster -> RE: This Was a Great Election for Conservatives... (11/9/2006 2:30:19 PM)
I don't have a "side," Firmhand, and I don't approve of personal remarks WHOEVER makes them. I'm sure you've seen me squabble with both julia and Sinergy plenty of times. But what exactly is your point--julia supposedly insulted you, so it's all right for you to get right down to that same level? All you've managed to demonstrate here is that you feel authorized to insult someone who insults you first. That's not Christian, Firmhand. quote: ORIGINAL: FirmhandKY What I saw was julia calling people who support republicans the "religious right whackjob base" and saying "getting rid of republicans was like giving America an enema and flushing the toilet". Basically, she was told that these comments (and others) were insulting. Which they are. Then all hell broke lose. So, it appears to just be fine and dandy for your "side" to cast insults, but it's a terrible injustice and petty if someone on the other side calls them on it? You and your supporters don't seem to be capable of impersonal discourse, and it's tiresome.

FirmhandKY -> RE: This Was a Great Election for Conservatives... (11/9/2006 2:32:08 PM)
benji, I understand your point. When Bita made her comment I had to go back and read my post several times before a light dawned on me what she meant. But, the sentence prior to the one is question is the important one. I admitted my ignorance of the Senator. With that thought in mind, it was plain to me the sense of the second sentence. But, if you take the second sentence in isolation, I'll grant everything you said. FirmKY

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