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Wouldn’t you know it, a few days after I ponder my Beliefometer, the Wall Street Journal publishes a commentary by Arthur C. Brooks that points out a common polling instrument called a Feeling Thermometer.
As we are dragged through another electi…

No, the local voting officials in many of the districts were Dems.

And if you are so informed on the Florida elections, you will know that the NYT, WAPO, and many other papers got together and sponsored their own recounts after the fact, and came to the conclusion Bush won. They just never bothered to make a big deal out of publishing it for some strange reason!

Like so many things liberals “know”, the “stolen election” is a myth that the MSM and Dems find convenient to let fester.

Michelle Malkin is talking about the data of new surveys designed to determine the passions of those on both the left and the right about varying things. She quotes an article by Syracuse University professor Arthur Brooks in he……

The differences between liberal and conservative in the USA is found in the beliefs of a part of the population. Most people don’t understand or care about those differences.

Once a Republican or a Blue Dog is elected, it is a rare person who stays conservative (really, classically liberal) in their fiscal policy.

We all might have strong values and core beliefs, but it seems that there is a force along the Beltway that cleanses you of those when you cross it to serve in the federal government.

The Left has their share of loons, but they’re just so much noise. Questions of comparisons to communists and fascists belong in classrooms of political theory. Answers to those questions don’t serve any practical purpose.

Where’s the conservative leadership in Washington?

The only thing that I can see that President Bush has done in 8 years that a liberal president (or any other president, I believe) would not have done is invade Iraq. (I mention this only as a concrete example of a real difference.)

When it comes to domestic and economic policy, it feels like it is just a question of degree when it comes to digging into my wallet.

I know there are differences between left and right out here in the real world. I’m just looking for those professed differences in Washington.

Liberals, unable to hide their socialistic roots, engage in the intellectually dishonest arguement which in effect states that since they, liberals, are socialists, Republicans must be fascists. The truth is that liberals are both socialists and fascists while Conservative American Republicans are, well, Conservative American Republicans, and as such are quite apart from either.

How do we know? Look at the facts, using Hitler and Stalin as the poster children for their respective socio-political viewpoints:

1. Hiter and Stalin both wanted big government. “Conserpublicans” (to coin a word) want neither.

2. Hitler and Stalin insisted – and did – entirely control the media. Liberals do exactly the same as much as is possible for them to in this country and blacklist conserpublicans, who engage in nothing of the sort (talk radio being borne of market demand, not government or socio-political backlisting)

3. Hiter and Stalin both crushed particular religions which threatened their socio-political powerbase. Conserpublicans want none of that while American Liberals are trying to drive God out of the public arena with the absurd notion that such religious expression offends secularists.

4. Hitler and Stalin eventually destroyed their economies through high taxation to create a world in their own, forced viewpoint, while conserpublicans want low taxes and individual initiative driving the free market and open and fair discussion driving the character of our society.

This bullsh*t about conservatives being fascists while liberals are socialists is just that: bullsh*t. And it’s time more people said so and put liberals where they deserve to be put, quite frankly: defined as both fascist and socialist, combining the worst qualities of both, since in the absolute practical sense that’s exactly and precisely what they are, absurdly outdated definitions from a past world of 60 years ago notwithstanding.

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