Perceptions of conservatives

[makattak]

Ayep.   I'm very bitter, as well as clingy to my religion and guns.   

As I recall, Obama was talking about Pennsylvanians... 


I swing vote.  I vote for the least worst candidate I can find regardless of party.  Sometimes it's R, sometimes it's D.   I think giving your vote unconditionally to a party is a bad negotiating tactic.  If a political party knows it has your vote regardless of its conduct, it will not stay bought.  If you make candidates actually compete for votes and money, they are more likely to stay bought.

I used basically the same rational for supporting Bob Casey Jr's run for senate.  I do not like all of his policies or beliefs, but the dude is the PA Democrat moderate equivalent of Ted Nugent (how's that for a really weird analogy).   He has affirmed publicly and in his voting record that he strongly favors "Absolute right to gun ownership". 

I don't swing vote.

However, it's not because I am a dyed in the wool Republican or nothing voter, it's because there is no democrat I would vote for (in my elections so far.) The Republicans get my vote so long as they best represent my views.

If they send me Arnold Schwarzenegger against a more conservative democrat, they're not getting my vote.

[Kwelz]

My friend Karen's take on the stereotypes for conservatives. 
http://vimeo.com/4284553
I am proud to call her and all the ladies in the Video my friends. 

[Monkeyleg]

Most of my friends are liberals, so I can't seriously make sweeping generalizations about liberals. It's not possible. One thing I have noticed, though, is that for many of them, their normally cheerful dispositions get downright ugly when it comes to seeing or talking about "rich" people.

At first I thought it was because they hated the idea of wealth, but I learned that's not true. They all would love to live in expensive homes and drive expensive cars, fly around the world in private jets, and generally live the Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. (One friend has been living that lifestyle, but without the income to support it).

They want the goodies, but they don't want the work that getting the goodies requires. So, if they can't have the goodies, they don't want someone else to have them either. The goodies remind them that it's possible to achieve just about anything if you work hard enough, and my friends just don't want to work that hard. It's not about redistributing wealth, it's about redistributing misery.

[MechAg94]

Most of my friends are liberals, so I can't seriously make sweeping generalizations about liberals. It's not possible. One thing I have noticed, though, is that for many of them, their normally cheerful dispositions get downright ugly when it comes to seeing or talking about "rich" people.

At first I thought it was because they hated the idea of wealth, but I learned that's not true. They all would love to live in expensive homes and drive expensive cars, fly around the world in private jets, and generally live the Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. (One friend has been living that lifestyle, but without the income to support it).

They want the goodies, but they don't want the work that getting the goodies requires. So, if they can't have the goodies, they don't want someone else to have them either. The goodies remind them that it's possible to achieve just about anything if you work hard enough, and my friends just don't want to work that hard. It's not about redistributing wealth, it's about redistributing misery.

I think I have seen that attitude as well.  The other "liberal" type I have seen is the type that can't seem to analyze issues further than their nose and either don't understand people at all or can't see the consequences of short term actions.  They are the type that when asked about using a gun for self defense claim the odds of it happening to them are so small it is not worth worrying about. 

[roo_ster]

Not a contradiction.  The majority of racists are actually invisible, so they did not "show up."  Garafalo knows this. 

They are so white that have become translucent?  And their innards, too?

Or, are they black, as in black hole, so that not even rays of light can escape their gravity well?

[longeyes]

Conservatism is predicated on reason and sublimation.

That doesn't mean All The Time.  :)

For people whose whole universe revolves around immediate gratification and emotional froth, yes, conservatives will look dour indeed.

Whatever.

[Perd Hapley]

They are so white that have become translucent?  And their innards, too?

Precisely.  And if you spend enough time line-dancing to Donny and Marie Osmond, while watching NASCAR, you could be translucent, too.