I have better things to do with my time than Google what other commenters say for “etymology”.

I’m sorry for assuming your words have meaning. I won’t presume that they do in the future.

I have better things to do with my time than Google what other commenters say for “etymology”. I just don’t care and therefore find anybody who does to be quite pathetic and sad.

Talk about “puffing up your ego”, well there you are.

Actually, I googled it to find its etymology and discovered its etymology was simply… well, you. All the hits on that phrase are attributable to you.

Did you try Phil Hendrie?

So, what is its intended meaning?

Go to hell. Not surprised you don’t get it.

Besides puffing up your ego and making you feel witty and clever upon repetition, of course. That much is obvious.

Oh I see. You’re jealous. Not to mention so enamoured with me that you would Google something I wrote.

Yeah, I’m creeped out.

Wow. I don’t know if I should be flattered or creeped out. Leaning toward the latter.

Actually, I googled it to find its etymology and discovered its etymology was simply… well, you. All the hits on that phrase are attributable to you. So, what is its intended meaning? Besides puffing up your ego and making you feel witty and clever upon repetition, of course. That much is obvious.

Many of your posters have never considered withdrawing support for a GOP candidate because of anti-Gay behavior.

Really? I wonder if you could provide examples of candidates we support despite “anti-gay” behavior. You can start with me. Which candidates did I support?

What ideas do you have on employment non-discrimination or hate crimes?

Call me naive, but isn’t that what a blog’s archives are for?

And your catch phrase is tired too.

Wow. I don’t know if I should be flattered or creeped out. Leaning toward the latter.

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Unmittigated warmongering? Could you please remind me which party has gotten the U.S. into the three largest wars of the last century, notably after they promissed that they wouldn’t?

Conservative “ideas” just don’t work. The ideals are very noble, but in practice they will always and continually fail to the detriment of larger society.

Can you explain to me how, if liberalism is so great, why is there poverty in Louisiana (for example) particularly in New Orleans? Why is there such rampant corruption? Why was there such a shitty response to a major hurricane on the state and local levels? Why did we hear about racism there?

How about DC? How about Michigan? How about California? How about New York? If liberalism is so great, why are these places in the toilet instead of shining cities on a hill? How do states with Republican governors handle disasters better? How do states with little to no taxes fare better?

Can you explain to me which liberal programs have worked? We can look at “The Great Society” and Socialist Stupidity as two of the greatest failures of liberalism. Why would we want more of the same? Remember when folks went ape over Walter Reed and other VA hospitals? Why should we demand the same for all Americans? Look at your local “projects” and tell me you want the same people determining your healthcare.

I would love for you to explain what’s so damn great about liberalism and demonstrate how it’s benefitted the American people. Please show us how dependency on Uncle Sugar is the best way to go. Explain to me how letting the State run my life is real freedom.

Oh and do explain to me how you can be against business, but want more jobs for Americans.

one of the tenets of capitalism is equality of oportunity, not equality of result. You want equality of result, move to N Korea.

Great way to put it.

Tom. I use Bobbie ‘Sheets’ Byrd because he’s an easy and fun target. Unfortunately he’s not alone in the party. As has been pointed out in the past, the Republicans are held to a higher standard, and are more likely to police their own.

Tom, also your assault on capitalism is off target. Capitalism requires winners and losers. The problem is the housing market went boom because we, as a nation, tried to increase the number of winners. Now with the porkulus plan, we’re trying to subsidize the losers, instead of letting them lose, the market correct, and move on.

Does it suck to be a loser? Yes, it does. But one of the tennants of capitalism is equality of oportunity, not equality of result. You want equality of result, move to N Korea.

Let me repeat: why do such liberals choose to insult their ideological adversaries rather than consider our ideas?

Unfortunately, left-liberals don’t have a monopoly on that behavior. They have a near-monopoly but not a total one. In my own recent experience on this blog, for example, I’ve been lied about / pilloried as a “psychopath” and an alleged advocate of human-animal inter-genetics, by a right-winger, essentially because I dare to point out that infertile straight couples and gay couples are equivalent in terms of their reproductive abilities.

I can no longer remember the first time someone called me, “self-hating” for being a gay Republican.

Heck, I can no longer remember the first time that *I called* you gay Republicans “self-hating”… back in the old bad days, when I was a left-liberal. Needless to say, I’ve since learned the error of my ways… on several fronts.

This thread isn’t the place for refuting your “arguments” but I direct your attention to this September 1999 (before Bush) piece in the NY Times:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE7DB153EF933A0575AC0A96F958260

I suppose it’s because it generally leads us to where we find ourselves now – one of the worst financial crises in the last century, two wars, a systematic dismantling of the government, continued privatization for personal greed over public welfare, ad nauseum. Conservative “ideas” just don’t work. The ideals are very noble, but in practice they will always and continually fail to the detriment of larger society. Everything conservatives/Republicans say sounds really nice and idealistic until you realize that they have been taking advantage of the relaxation into these conservative ideologies for years leading us to things like financial ruin and unmitigated warmongering. Or do you have some real world example of a conservative society that doesn’t devolve into fundamentalism and fascistic ideology?

So therefore the better questions is why should anyone for one second even give these “ideas” any credence instead of mocking them outright? Why even engage with advocates that have constantly taken advantage of the trust and goodwill of the people to install themselves in a government they so desperately want to render obsolete (and often abuse for personal gain at the same time)?

See fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, send your sorry butts to jail already. It makes me frankly sick to hear how “intellectually bankrupt” Republicans and Conservatives are when their previous intellectual input only allowed them to gain power for personal benefit, not to help the populace. You were all morally bankrupt long before you became intellectually bankrupt

The experiment of conservatism, especially neoconservatism,is over gentlemen until we as a society get dumb enough or desperate enough to allow it to happen again. The smartest among us knew it before it started, but the rest of the population has wised up. That is why people don’t “engage” in your ideas. Have you ever hear the fable of the scorpion and the frog? It’s just your nature, and we know the story.

That would be because we know, Tom, that gay liberals like yourself define
“antigay” based on political affiliation. For instance, you don’t consider it “antigay” to say that marriage is only between a man and a woman like Barack Obama, or to discriminate in employment as does Howard Dean, or to call gays “filthy” as does Louis Farrakhan, or to endorse and support bans on gay marriage as do innumerable Obama Party politicians; however, you scream that John McCain supports employment discrimination while employing as his chief of staff an out gay man, or that Rick Santorum hates all gays while having a gay communications director, etc.