If a conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who’s been arrested.
Conservative Quotes
There, in stark polarity, you have the two camps’ view of each other. Liberals are inclined to see conservatives as bigoted, hate-filled rubes; conservatives are inclined to see liberals as immoral, degenerate, and not really American.
The only conservative art I can come up with are Wagner and the movie Red Dawn.
The enemy is not conservatism, the enemy is not liberalism. The enemy is bullshit.
Conservative Republican – a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. Liberal Republican – a man who believes some things should be done for the first time, just not now.
I suppose I can understand the selfish callous disregard of conservatives, it’s the pride in it that passes me by.
I dream of the day when conservatives learn the difference between a sin and a crime and liberals learn the difference between a virtue and a requirement.
Conservatives are accustomed to being called fascists and well prepared to defend themselves on that ground. Liberals are used to being called socialists. Those labels can be switched, however, and remain valid and instructive.
This new conservative doctrine of absolute fairness only seems to come into play when race is the issue.
On the left and on the right, we hear people claiming to be “beyond” the old categories of left and right, liberal and conservative. These are the beyondists. They are usually liberals running away from the sour smell of liberalism far beyond its sell-by date. And beyondists are sometimes conservatives wanting to distance themselves from […]
