Conservative coping mechanism: the secret resume
We stopped our unpacking today to host a longtime friend who was visiting from Europe. She’s an unusual sort–an academic, a conservative, and a Christian. I took her through the NRA museum up in Fairfax this afternoon, and this evening out on the porch we discussed a lot of politics. I’ll spare you the details*, but there was one thing she told me that I thought was worth sharing.
Our friend is active in conservative politics in her country, and has held some advisory positions. And just to clarify, that’s not a euphemism for some job title like “Exalted Cyclops” or Obersturmgruppenfuhrer for some fringe White Nationalist rabble–I mean mainstream, right-leaning politics, in small roles that demonstrate responsibility and civic-mindedness. Things she’s enjoyed doing, and is justifiably proud of.
Those don’t show up anywhere on her resume. At least, not on her regular resume. See, my friend keeps two resumes. One is her “straight” resume, which doesn’t mention the party activities.
But then, she confided, she also has her “conservative” resume.
And I laughed, because on my hard drive, I have exactly the same thing.
Now, you might point out that having different versions of your resume isn’t so unusual. Obviously when you’re applying to any kind of job, you’ll need to tailor your resume to meet the requirements the employer might be looking for. Duh: we do that. But this is different–they’re the sort of general CV’s we might bring along to a professional conference to hand out.
And though we’re on different continents and in different professions, we each decided instinctively to omit some valuable experience from our resumes–because of a fear of retaliation for our political beliefs.
I sort of doubt that we’re the only conservative professional-types who do this. Hey, maybe liberals do it too. Yet I’ll bet there are very few of them who would omit, say, an internship at Brookings. On the other hand, I’ll bet there are an awful lot of young conservatives applying to grad school or jobs in journalism or judicial clerkships asking themselves, “should I really include that internship at Heritage?” or “maybe they don’t need to know how involved I was with the Federalist Society…”
In the big picture, it has usually been a lot worse. For much of history and over much of the globe, being on the wrong side of a political divide meant not just difficulty in one’s career, but an end to it–or even jeopardy to one’s property, freedom, or life. Such is the way of things, and my friend and I are lucky to live where we can still believe, worship, and speak out as we see fit with only minor consequences.
Nonetheless, it’s a little difficult to take this crap from the adherents of leftist orthodoxy, who praise themselves incessantly for their openness, tolerance, and so-called diversity. It looks to me like those blacklists Hollywood complains about are alive and well, in many different industries, but nowadays it’s not communists on the lists. Even if most liberals out there would be willing to give conservatives a fair shake, my friend and I have independently come to the conclusion that there are more than enough out there who won’t.
Fortunately conservatives in Hollywood, at least, seem to be doing something about it.
*Actually, I won’t spare you–I’ll just steal enormous chunks of it and stretch it into several blog posts…
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I’m an academic and conservative as well, and wanted to share a story. I had a liberal troll strike my blog. I handed him his hat on numerous occasions. He knew I was faculty, and then used SiteMeter to deduce where I was (erroneously at first) and who I was.
At which point he then posted who I was, where I worked, and what my political affiliation was.
After 5 months of debate, I finally convinced him to remove my data from his blog, essentially because I got him to admit that he was posting my info in hopes of getting me fired.
It’s not something the enlightened liberal needs to worry about. If they get exposed as a liberal on the internet, they’ll probably get a job offer from Kos.
Dude, seriously. Soros is handing out the cash money for ideological warriors on the left.
What a shame See-Dubya that in America we would have to even think about being on the wrong side of politics.
I’m a Christian which I think is one of the reasons I’m a conservative. It seems like I’ve had to become a lot of Anti-’s lately, anti-abortion, anti-gun control, anti-homosexual marriage, anti-illegal alien (because I believe in the law) and the list goes on.
It looks like conservatives are going to have to put up or shut up soon. If we continue to have a liberal take-over of our country, we better be prepared for our loss of freedoms, including our freedom to believe as we choose about issues that matter to us and and our right to worship God as we see fit.
The NRA has a nice 50yd range in Fairfax. Nice place to shoot for those who may be looking
Hmm.. Maybe it’s time for me to pull out my liberal sock puppet, “La Gauche”. Soros, you listening? I want 6-figures to start!
Thank You for the link regarding the “Friends of Abe”, I had all but given up on Hollywood having any patriots left.
Hey! Welcome to the neighborhood, See-Dub!
I debated leaving my former Blogs for Bush webmaster duties off my resume, but ultimately decided that I wouldn’t care to work for someone who might think that was a disqualification.
It isn’t just jobs that we have to look out for. It is also social gatherings. How many times have any of you gone to, say, a party and have any number of people you are meeting for the first time automatically assume that you are just as Liberal as they are? It happens all the time. You will be having a discussion and the person you are talking to or who is talking amongst the others you are with, begin a diatribe about how much they hate Republicans, how Pres. Bush is this and that, how Conservatives are demon spawn etc.? This leaves you in the position of wither just standing/sitting there quietly, or risking it all and mentioning that you yourself are a Republican and/or a Conservative.
Having jsut exposed yourself, how many times does said “tollerant and accepting” Liberal make a face as if someone just put a small turd under their nose and make their comments even more personal, or jsut walk off in a disgusted huff…shortly thereafter people stop milling around you and talking to you anymore?
This happens all the time. My Liberal friends will actually go out of their way and try to get the person to shut up, yet I have never had the “offender” take the hint and stop.
I have worked in the Entertainment Industry for over 20 years now, and I can tell you that your very ability to make a living is in complete and total jeopardy should it be known that you are Republican and/or Conservative. The last show I worked in june while we were loading it out, on of the road guys was about 15 feet away from me and was going off about how he hated Republicans and how he wanted to smash heir faces in with a hammer. When I yelled out that I was such a target of his hatred, did he apologize? no. What he said was, “Well it’s a damn good thing I didn’t know this on the load-in or during the show.” with no small hint of threat in his voice. Fortunately the Brothers in my Union know what my affiliation is, and have known me for many years, yet that does not mean I do not take a never ending amount of grief every time I do a show.
So tell me, all you obviously going to remain silent on this subject Liberal Trolls…just how often do these types of things happen to you? How often do you need to keep silent about your beliefs and poitical affiliations? Why, I can say pretty much NEVER.
But then, what more would anyone expect from all those tollerant and open-minded keepers of Political Correctness. They are tollerant and open-minded just so long as you are one of them.
Is that what I have to look forward to when I retire from active duty? Maybe I will stay in until HYT.
I can be as openly conservative as I want. And I can freely tell people I attend church and am a Christian.
I haven’t had any political jobs to hide but I have done volunteer work for my church that involved my professional skills, for example I’m the church’s webmaster, and I’ve had to struggle with whether or not I should include those positions on my resume.
It’s easy to say, “I wouldn’t want to work for someone who would disqualify a job candidate on that basis,” when you have a job but if you’ve been laid off, as I was after 9/11, and have been out of work for an extended period of time with no real job prospects, it’s something you have to seriously consider.
Earlier this year I decided to start a blog about my efforts to lose weight. It occurred to me that if I had a blog, I might want to occasionally talk politics. Consequently I decided to make it semi-anonymous so the next time I’m looking for a job, it won’t come up when prospective employers Google my name. No sense giving people an excuse not to hire you for a reason completely unrelated to your ability to do a job.
It was much better in the Fire Department. You could be opennly Conservative and Republican, yet there were still times when you knew, due to a Chief or a Captain and their poitical affiliation, when you knew not to mention what you were.
I would imagine Law Enforcement would be similar.
The same and similiar has happened to me so many times that I stopped going too parties parties, at least with part of my circle of friends. I think the worst was listening to some fat, foul-mouthed witch go on about Christians and Christianity with language that would make a drill sargeant blush and I’m not even very religious. Then listening to the same gush later about tolerance and generosity was just too much. I don’t mind standing up to these morons but is always gets ugly and it is like arguing with a brick – a drunk brick at that. Who wants to do that at a party? It was no great loss as most of these people are aging hippies and burn-outs that sadly still live like they were in college and refuse to act their age. I have moved on and am much better for it.
Kevlaur, you can always Palace Chase into the National Guard and then get an AGR or technicain position and stay until 60 years old.
Tell me about it. Years ago, I was denied the first teaching job I applied for because of my political affiliation (Republican) and the fact I refused to support the superintendent’s pick for board member in my district – a candidate who I knew was liberal Democrat and would immediately act to raise our county’s property taxes. Long story short: I didn’t get the job. The candidate narrowly won by one vote. Property taxes in our county are now the highest in the region.
I’m conservative and I’ve had people assume I’m a liberal for a variety of reasons. (Gardening, irritation with RINOs.)
Sometimes, for my own amusement, I’ll just ask questions just to see how much Kool Aid they’ve been drinking.
Other times I’ll wait until they bear their intolerant soul before I reveal my beliefs. I try to do it so it’s like a cold glass of water in the face. (Offering to say a prayer before eating at some gathering.)
It’s a fun game I call “Hunting the barking moonbat”.
Ok Tennessee Dave
enlighten the unenlightened and tell us what Palace Chase is. And no, I am not going into the National Guard. The Army had me 2 years, 11 months and 6 days. But who is counting?
But as far as politics and faith at work I do wonder. For the greater number of my people we used a Job Application. We deliberately DID NOT want to know their affiliations. I also did not allow political buttons, t-shirts and such on the floor, so we supplied them unifroms. I am rather sure it often came out and if they kept it civil I did not care. But distractions cost me money.
On the management and supervisor level I did not need no stinken liberals.
I have a favorite line from “A Christmas Story” and a revised one.
“You’ll shoot your eye out kid.”
see-dubya version
“You’ll shoot you knuckle skin off kid”
Yup, all true, and I have walked away from many situations here in Moonbats by the Bay ( San Francicsco), Add to all of that trying to date as a staunch Conservative in this cesspool.Well, on that point I’ve just thrown in the towel, just gotten to be too much of a headache.
I’m not usually one to suffer in silence, but I try very hard to avoid conflict on the job. When I worked at the newspaper, that meant I sometimes endured vile, hate-filled liberal rants without fighting back.
Not only do I not put political things on my resume, I keep them off of public online things like LinkedIn.com. For me, it is irrelevant to my profession. Apparently the same is not considered to be true when you work in the media or academia.
I work contract for a large, well-known software company on the Left Coast, and I can assure you that you can be as loudly political as you want as long as your views are on the left. Stray to the right (I’m actually more libertarian than conservative) and you are at serious risk of either a stern lecture about bringing politics into the workplace or of being blacklisted. Since I work to support a family like most here, I keep my mouth shut. If the political atmosphere gets really bad, and it frequently will, I just get up and walk around for a bit, then return to my desk and carry on as if had nothing happened.
As for advice, do not ever lose your temper over politics at work! You will be labeled a “Nazi” and will never be permitted to reenter the human race.
Being a member of the non-left is a great character building exercise wherever you go. Thanks to work and marriage, I have achieved a zen like control over my emotions. Well, I like to think so.
Someone said something about sock puppets and handing out wads of cash?
I’ll bring out my left-leaning sock puppet, Pierre LeDouche, and start singing some Obama love songs. Thats gotta be worth at least a few grand a day, right?
I’ll supply Soros with some deposit slips so he can get started
Yep. Same here.
I know my ideologies don’t sit well with many I work with. I’m too “Catholic” (I don’t want women priests, so I’m “brainwashed” by my husband and the Pope. Ha.) and must hate everyone who doesn’t look like me because I’m conservative.
Never mind that my performance reviews have always emphasized that I treat everyone with respect and excellent service – both internally and externally (my supervisors are both less liberal than others on the staff).
There’s one woman in my office who I can talk to about politics. The rest of the time, I respectfully leave the office until the discussion is over.
I did – once – get into an argument with someone over Rush Limbaugh. She said he’s a “fat drug addict” and I looked at her and said, “Calling him names makes you just as guilty of doing what you’re accusing him of doing, you know.”
She looked at me and said, “Well, he deserves it.”
Okay. Great way to argue the position, right?
EQ,
you should know better by now than to try and get into a logical discussion with a liberal. Just verbally bash them with the facts, make them feel stupid, and move on.
Because of their short attention span, you can repeat that every 2 minutes if you like
/sarc mostly off
Seriously, debating with most people who are incredibly liberal is…a difficult proposition. Many times (at least in discussions -i’ve- had with them here and elsewhere), they don’t, can’t or won’t accept the fact that they might just be wrong.
It’s believing that they’re completely right all the time that gets them into trouble. But sometimes even that doesnt matter, because they will dispute facts (even ones that can be presented with solid evidence) because it doesnt fit their view.
We have some libs here that sometimes present a good argument, and that i dont mind talking to at times. I think irl, they’re the kind of people we could sit down, have a couple drinks and relax and not feel like enemies.
Others…we’ll not so much.
Others…
we’llwell not so muchhad to correct….multitasking.
I need a new job LOL
The President of the University of Colorado admitted that his “schoooool” of higher education was so biased that he literally could not find a conservative professor anywhere on campus. He lamented the fact and wanted to hire a conservative. Has anyone heard of a followup to that request? I certainly haven’t heard of any action.
I saw this look many times on Peter Jennings (deceased) and Tom Brokaw, et al, during the first Bush election. I will never watch any of those people on the news anymore because of it.
I leave a copy of David Horowitz’s “Party of Defeat” at work, they don’t want to talk to me because of it, oh well.
The key to dealing with libs in a “social” situation is to keep your cool at all costs. Libs have a “pack mentality” and can get quite vicious when together in a group. Tolerance is not part of their genetics.
However, there is often little basis for their way of thinking, so it’s easy to prick their elitist balloons. They will prattle-on about how Bush lied (he didn’t); Iraq is illegal (it isn’t); Obama is qualified (he’s not). Just be cool and keep stating the truth.
Though they can be loud, obnoxious and get “in your face”; they are cowards at heart. So it’s not like getting into an argument in a biker-bar. And if some guy decides to get too pushy, I just pipe-up with, “Say, did I tell you about the new IWB holster I found for my summer-carry side-arm?”
I work for the city of San Francisco. And you think YOU have problems being a conservative at work.
Fortunately, I’m a private sector mechanical engineer. Few employers of engineers care what their political affiliation is, and many workplaces using large numbers of engineers are actually fairly conservative (my workplace, which works some defense contracts, is a good example).
Ditto from another NoVa resident. Please let me know if you need to borrow a cup of sugar, or some ammo.
We have the same thing here in my office. Two African American men and one transplanted Jewish liberal from New York have SEVERAL DAILY discussions about how George Bush is evil and and Obama is the next messiah. No one dares to contradict them. This is in the heart of Texas.
See-dubya, I have to tell you you’re lucky to even have two resumes. That means there’s hope you’ll someday get to use the “conservative” one. And you’re even luckier to have a friend you can discuss it with.
I am and must remain completely in the ideological closet. If my political cartoons and pshops ever got attached to my real name I’m certain I would never work again in my field. My spouse cautioned me against even pseudonymously sharing my first cartoon (SNOBama) because we live within rock-n-bottle distance of the street. That famous liberal tolerance might be attached to a projectile, dontcha know.
To say I’m sick of being totally surrounded by moonbats who’d call for the head of anyone who dared challenge their rigid orthodoxy would be an understatement.
This is chilling ! How in the world did we come to this, being afraid to speak our minds? And in Texas of all places !
Any suggestions as to how to return America to sanity? I’d settle for true tolerance. Live and let live, but we don’t even seem to have that anymore.
Lose a job over conservative and Christian beliefs, God Help Us.
Another Northern VA resident here, and definitely one of the lucky ones. While most of my friends are decidedly liberal, we have enough respect for each other that we can generally keep it civil, even after a few beers.
Of course, now I hear all that stuff at my church too, and that’s a bit harder to take. Having the war in Iraq denounced from the pulpit by a visiting priest, having our usual priest put us through about a month straight of the Eco-Responsibility Show, having a woman I’ve known for over a decade react with shock at the thought that I might be conservative…
What RetFireman said– the automatic assumptions are starting to get old.
I thought that activity in the workplace constituted an ‘atmosphere of intolerance or fear of reprisal’ that the harassment police promise to help you with?
I lot of my customers are leftists. Its hard sometimes, especially since they never let facts get in the way of trashing conservatives.
Outside of work, I make sure I know my facts. I discuss and never raise my voice. Libs are all about emotion and believing and spreading lies. I don’t go out of my way to get into political discussions, but I refuse to let them go off half cocked in my presence. Reason: They might be convincing another moderate capably thinking person into a false socialist agenda.
Usually they look foolish when I’m done. Especially when they say something that isn’t true and I ask them to prove it.
And I never hire anyone that I determine has moonbat connections. Life is too short.
see-dubya said:
“because of a fear of retaliation for our political beliefs”
see-dubya, isn’t that the practice at the Justice Department under the current administration?
I tried getting an academic job and had two resumes as well. One included volunteer work I did for my church and other related activities, but I only used that one for Christian schools because I knew if that information was known to the non-Christian schools my chances of getting an interview would decline dramatically. Working for the Air Force is better because they encourage volunteer activity and aren’t too concerned about what groups one volunteers with.
BTW see-dubya, I’m moving to the Washington DC greater metro area at the end of next month, coming from Alaska. Any advice on the move?
Explain and describe.
I recently attended a seminar held by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, and one of the speakers said that being a conservative is subversive in our society nowadays. (In criticism of the lack of tolerance of the left)
Hehe, I rather like the idea. We are the rebels now. We are the subversives.
GEE HAW, I’ve never been a rebel before. What do I do next? Back in the 60’s I was too naive to believe the government, even democrats would not be completely honest with the American public. So I missed out on all the drugs and stuff, does this mean it is my turn now?
Ah heck, never mind, I’m too old now to get pepper sprayed.
abstractmind #41
For starters read about the politicized hiring in the honors and intern program:
http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/s0806/final.pdf
Or you could just ask Alberto Gonzales about David Iglesias, John McKay, Margaret Chiara, Daniel Bogden, Paul Charlton, H.E. “Bud” Cummins III, Kevin Ryan, and Carol Lam.
I like that too. The best art is subversive art!
That does not apply to Republicans and Conservatives. See, the people who would be investigating such things would be the biggest Liberals of them all, therefore, you would, in no way, get a fair shake in the matter, and in fact would probably be the one to get reprimanded for beginning the problem in the first place.
See, that whole “Affirmative Action” thing only counts if you are of the proper type. Since Conservative/Republican beliefs are just this siide of Gestapo and SchutzStaffe policies and demeanor, it is obvious that you would deserve what you got and were the instigator in the first place.
I didn’t even broach the subject of religious beliefs. Being a Catholic, you would think I was actually worshipping Satan. Christian is bad enough, but I have had to put up with people going on and on about how the Pope is Satan, listened to people go on and on about how all priests are nothing more than closetted gays who would molest the first child he was alone with, and many other foul and disgusting things that, if said about any of their Liberal icons or beliefs, would land me in the next tolerance and Sensitivity Re-Education camp…I mean…seminar that they could toss me in.
Forget for a moment that the rate of sexual misconduct (the “PC” term) within the Catholic Church and Her Priesthood is no higher than any other religious denomination..that is one of those pesky little facts that isn’t, pardon the pun, “sexy” enough for them to recognize. It is all the fashion to bash Roman Catholics in a way that would be considerd hate speech or hate crimes were it to be said of Islam, judaism or anything else.
there is no one on earth, short of Muslims, that are more racist, biggoted, hate-filled and violent than an ardent Liberal.
All one has to do is read the comments section of any Libby site, or read some of the hate mail Michelle occasionally posts on here to see he proof.
As an aside, I re-read some of the ones Michelle had posted awhile back, and just shook my head at the blatant hypocrisy of those that would say such things as, “You are nothing but a slant-eyed racist pig”. Yes…the hypocrisy/irony of statements like that just blew right over their heads.
Thank God my daughters are growing up to think hippies and Liberals are not the things that “civilized” people aspire to become. In fact, i teased my 8 year old the other day about looking like a hippie because she was wearing a tie-dyed shirt, torn jeans and her beautiful long hair was a bit tussled and she took a great amont of offense at it, telling me, in no uncertain terms, how she would never want to be…in her words…a “disgusting hippie”, and I was never to refer to her as such again. *Sigh* the truly are little angels.
Tennyson #45:
“The best art is subversive art!”
I like the thought of that slogan splayed across conservative political cartoons.
This thread has been enlightening. I’ve had very few run-ins with some really “out there” liberals so far. The stand-out exception is my boyfriend’s father, who told me that our soldiers were committing “genocide” against the Iraqi people… after I spent a good deal of time telling him about the friends I have in the military, no less. (It still enrages me to think about it.)
Other than that, most of my friends are conservatives or moderates, and as long as someone has their facts straight, I don’t mind considering other perspectives. I mostly practice with dealing with unreasonable lefties on Digg. It’s a good exercise in fact-checking even if my face is red from all the face-palming I do. ^_^
It’s not just liberals who are woefully bigoted (and ignorant) of Catholicism.
There are purported conservative Christians commenting here on this blog who do the same.
Anti Catholicism is the last respectable bigotry in America.
I find it all very depressing. We all are supposed to have “freedom of speech” but I learned a long time ago most liberals (not all) will verbally abuse you for expressing an opinion that differs from theirs and some will resort to violence. Over an opinion. Words. These are supposed to be “peace loving” people, yet they may bash your head in if you don’t agree with them on universal healthcare, the environment or any other hot button issue. It is really scary how many of these violent people are not only allowed to teach our children but I suspect they are sought out for their “passion and enthusiasm”. Or maybe it’s their ability to tranfer these qualities to their studients?
Along the same line I read somwhere recently, maybe heard on the radio, that there is a strong corolation between the number of political bumper stickers on a vehicle and incidince of road rage. I don’t know aboout you, but I don’t see many cars covered with conservative bumper stickers, but that’s just what I see.
atheling:
IAWTC. I’m not Catholic, but I went to Catholic school for 8 years (including HS) and primarily identify with the Catholic faith. (I’d convert, but I’m still having a hard time with transubstantiation.)
It sickens me to see non-Catholics rejoice in the pedophilia scandals and join in the Catholic-bashing that goes on. They don’t seem to realize that one denomination could represent the entire Christian faith to non-Christians, and that by bringing up one group’s shortcomings, they’re undermining themselves.
Oh No, you left out fat smokers. That would be me. A Southern Baptist fat smoker. Doesn’t get much worse than that does it.
Southern Baptist White male Conservative Republican fat smoker who is married, monogamous and partakes in co-parenting the children.
I think you would be stoned in the public square.
OMG RetFireman, you poor thing. How do you look at yourself in the mirror of a morning. All I can say is ‘PROUD OF YOU”
Like many of you, I’ve had to keep my politics to myself as much as possible. In some ways, it’s just the civil thing to do. I have no wish to beat someone over the head with my views or proselytize. I find it annoying when liberals do it, why should I be the same?
In other ways, I’m covering my butt. I know there are conservatives/Republicans where I work. Fortunately, my supervisor is not a liberal and neither is the division chief. But some of my co-workers are liberal in their views. I have no wish to antagonize someone I spend 8 hours a day with. You can figure out who you can have a civil discussion with and who you can’t. One of my co-workers is gay but some of her views are decidedly libertarian, so I’ll pipe up with, “Yeah, I hate that nanny state stuff too” and no one ever be the wiser. Who knows, they might suspect, but nobody says anything to me about it. Heh heh.
But you know where it’s really hellacious? The geek world of the internet. It’s easier to be an Israeli in Riyadh than a conservative/Republican on LiveJournal, which I affectionately call “LeftJournal.” On other fan websites, the lefties cheerfully spout off on politics and dominate the conversation. The nail that sticks up quickly gets hammered down. On a fashion magazine’s forum, I stuck up for WalMart and one of the board’s frequent posters went after me for “always defending corporations.”
I’m going to Comic Con this weekend and I’m always outnumbered by leftists, liberals, anti-Christians, atheists, and pagans. There are plenty of people hawking “Republicans For Voldemort” t-shirts and I’m sure I will see Obama’s mug everywhere. Maybe I can put together a “Democrats for Dolores Umbridge” pin by tomorrow.
I agree with this wholeheartedly. I really think that we’ll all have to be doing concealed carry pretty soon. If Obama wins, the Obama fanatics will think they have the green light to physically attack dissenters. I’ve got a real bad feeling that unless something changes big time, we are the people who are gonna be on the losing end of this whole thing. And it’s simply because of numbers. Although there are young conservatives, the vast majority of youth today are brainwashed to be Obama worshippers all the way. There’s really only two options for victory; get these people to see things our way, or defeat them by force in time. I unfortunately fear that it’ll have to be the latter.
I would never place a political bumper sticker or decal on my car for fear of moonbat damage.
Somehow I doubt liberals have that same fear. And that says a lot right there!
CCM:
Same here. Bumperstickered cars bearing anything that supports the GOP or conservatism are routinely vandalized in the little town I live in, which fancies itself as a “mini Berkeley”. We conservatives call it, “Berkeley without the brains”.
When the Iraq war started, I put a “Support our Troops” lawn sign in front of my house, which disappeared promptly within 6 hours. My neighbor’s “Impeach Bush” lawn sign has remained for 8 years. Some fascist libtard apparently thought that he had the right to trespass and steal on private property.
I detest the libtards. I detest them more than I do Muslim terrorists.
You know, that picture see-dubya posted looks a lot like a black hole. Or, is that a white void around it?
Just saying.
See-dubya,
So, you have to have two resumes because you can’t get some jobs because of your conservative background?
Wow. Where have you been for the past 8 years? There hasn’t been a better time to be a conservative wanting to get a job in the fed govt, or a worse time to be a liberal competing for the same job.
If you were a young and talented conservative back in 2003, you could have easily gotten a job with the CPA in Iraq making a lot of money. Competing resumes from liberals were being tossed in the trash. Try submitting your “conservative” resume to any defense contractor sucking on the public teat – I bet you won’t have a lot of liberal competitors.
Or if you had a law background, being an ideological conservative would have given you a huge advantage over your liberal competitors when it came to trying to get jobs in the Justice Dept. As a matter of fact, liberals were actually purged from the Justice Dept – talk about being blacklisted!
And the list goes on. I daresay, if you are a conservative and you weren’t able to get a job in the fed govt during the “golden years” of the GOP (i.e. 2000-2006)… then I bet the problem isn’t with your ideology…
it’s probably that you aren’t very talented.
Either that, or you need to brush up on your networking skills. They offer classes at your local community college. Look into it.
Liberalism is popular for several reasons, one of which was indirectly touched on in the comments. That being that if you are a liberal, you automatically have the luxury of always being right.
It’s all about the self. All about what feels good at the time, and not having to deal with any responsibility for the results.
Liberalism therefore is naturally a very strong attraction to those who are to lazy for morals.
Republicans/conservatives on the other hand, also have issues that have been mentioned in this thread. We have sat on our butts for to long with a “if we are just patient, it will go away” attitude. Never “stooping to their level”, having faith that the constitution will protect us (all the while allowing more and more liberals to decide what the constitution says).
Now conservatives are perhaps truly becoming a minority in the US. Millions of people have let the TV and the news media melt away their brains and tell them what to think, what to buy, and who to vote for, playing on the human desire for self importance.
Until conservatives, as a whole, decide enough is enough, and choose to stand up and risk everything, the disease of liberalism will continue to consume this country until some “president” makes a cerimony of burning the constitution, declaring America dead.
A little confused here – how can one be a Christian and a conservative? Don’t Christians combat racism and poverty and violence against children? It doesn’t seem like conservatives care about those things? How would a Christian explain so many Iraqi deaths to their God?
You certainly are confused. I don’t have time to reinvent the wheel for you, so how about doing a little bit of leg work yourself?
Read conservative writings. Russell Kirk is a good start. Edmond Burke. William F. Buckley.
Then pick up the Bible.
Good luck.
It’ true. We conservatives just love seeing children suffer, especially if they are dark skinned and poor. I’m going out going out tonight with some buddies hunting for some, right after church.
Now pack yourself another bong and put on another Micheal Moore documentary to continue your research of conservatives.
We do. Fighting racism = treat everyone the same, regardless of race. That includes holding them responsible for their misdeeds. Fighting poverty = get a job, encourage entreprenourship, don’t go get pregnant out of wedlock, etc. Fighting violence against children = pro-life movement and stern justice for those that hurt children.
As for the people in Iraq, we are killing the terrorists that hurt them as fast as possible. The more the left tries to end the war prematurely, the more they encourage the terrorists to kill the Iraqis instead of giving up and slinking away.
greenfairie #54:
I agree with everything you said. (Fellow LJer here…) But I sort of hate you for being able to go to ComicCon.
Are you going to Dragon*Con in Atlanta over Labor Day Weekend?
I would totally wear one of these. (It’s SO true!)
I got a Roslin/Airlock 08 campaign shirt from Glarkware that I intend to wear on Election Day. Just avoid the confrontation all together… that is, unless someone wanted to debate about how much better the Baltar Presidency was. Heh.
GF #54:
Regarding seeing “Obama’s mug” everywhere, someone wanted to do a group of “Obama Fangirls and -Boys” (literally her words) for the D*C Parade. That someone describes being a “fanboy” or “fangirl” for Obama is telling and disturbing for those who know what those terms connote.
Events like that shouldn’t be about politics; it should be about letting loose and having fun with 50,000 other geeks.
Capt. Howdy: I must contradict you in the “dig” you gave SeeDubya saying he probably isn’t very talented. Have you not been even vaguely aware of his vocabulary, his in-depth knowledge of the world, history, current events, the law and various other subjects? He didn’t get all that insight at a community college, and I don’t believe he needs your advice. He sounds like a winner to me.
Note that Capt. Howdy recommends only government jobs, not the private sector.
That is simple. We took out the biggest killer of Iraqi’s (muslims by the way) in the world and freed their country – THANK.YOU.VERY.MUCH.
Oh, and we do not have to explain ANYHING to Yah. He already knows. You know, He is your Yah too.
I see Southernboy is back with a different moniker.
Here at the tolerant University of Washington…I can think of many examples where it does not pay to bring your political affiliation on campus…the way I got around it is to use my acting ability to fool these libtards into believing that I was one of them.
The hardest class because of this was an English class required for graduation that was nothing but a non-stop glorification of the Weathermen and cursing of the US….I should be in Hollywood because I managed to get a 3.5 in it.
But when I no longer have to put up with them, I let them know politely they are full of s@#t on their viewpoint….and then one realizes that their tolerance is only for themselves.
Arizona,
Palace Chase is the name of the program whereby AD AF can apply to get into the ANG to serve out the rest of their time.
Thanks, TN Dave… but I’m counting on one of those gov jobs that we conservatives can so easily get when I retire.
/sarc off
Thanks Kevlaur. I put that comment in this morning before I headed to my full-time technician job with the guard. It’s federal civilian service.
You underestimate yourself mi amigo. Methinks you’re a lot confused everywhere.
Southernboy always claimed to be a Christian himself, whereas this fellow says “their God.” Maybe….
I believe all of it. I remember how much grief I got in grad school for being both conservative and a Christian. I believe it was the death knell to my PhD when my committee found out about it.
Screw them. This is part of the reason that the RNC thinks that the Reagan coalition is dead. I make libs feel like the idiots they are whenever the opportunity presents itself.
Keep fighting. Most libs can’t articulate a real debate.
Conservative coping mechanism: the secret resume
Liberal coping mechanism: the crack pipe
I have been observing human behaviour for 77 years and still do not understand how presumably intelligent people of both political persuasions can live in the same environment and circumstances and have diametrically opposed political convictions.
I avoid discussing politics whenever possible. I do not believe anyone who has adopted a political mindset can be talked out of it.
My personal “tragedy”: My brillian eldest daughter, raised in a conservative middle class environment and a red,white and blue award winning patriot as a teenager, went off to law school and emerged a flaming liberal.
She has prospered in her law career, lives in a paid for $1.8 million home, drives a Prius hybrid for environmental reasons on weekdays and a $100K Mercedes convertible on weekends,ski junkets to Europe, winter cruises in Caribbean and Greek islands, etc.. and, inexplicably, has a visceral, unreasoning hatred for all things and people conservative.
When I challenge her about why she is so dissatisfied with her country which has afforded her a rather luxurious life and exactly what it is she wants to change, this glib, articulate litigator has no answer.
Living in San Diego it is hit or miss here. One time a friend of mine took me to a party with her, she is not really political, but there was a pack of elitists in the kitchen going on and on about how America has screwed up the world. I went in, made myself a drink and said that I was so relieved to find out it was a majority of liberals at the party. I said that that way I knew there would not be any “minorities” there. They looked at me and I said, you know how we are, we talk about equality, but we don’t really want them around us socially. You could have heard a pin drop as all of these boneheads looked at each other with blank stares. I think they knew I was a conservative and had no way to answer. I bet they had never been to a social gathering that was not all white.
Good one, frontierguy!
It is just proof positive of how tiny and intolerant the liberal mind is. They cannot face a real debate because they are doomed to lose. It is the “knife to a gunfight” argument. Think about it: have you ever had a “conversation” with a liberal that got past the thin veneer of their talking points? Then the ad hominem attacks begin, in a feeble attempt to deflect their lack of facts by putting you on the defensive (see homophobe, racist, bigot etc.).
The inability to deal like adults in a debate extends from the lowest common denominator liberal that will key your car or slash your tires if you have a “W” sticker on it, to the Congress of the U.S. which is trying to pass the onerous “Fairness Doctrine” to squelch criticism of their liberal and frequently anti U.S. legislation and statements.
One way to deal with “conversations” with liberals is to pretend to play devil’s advocate, with the media-esque terms such as “some say” or “many say” this or that. Just keep smiling but lob the facts into the fray, and watch the fun. When you get good at it, it is almost better than plinking at targets at the range!
Seriously: how can you be a Christian and not be a conservative? All the things you mentioned came about as a result of liberal apathy or moral relativism.
It was liberals who supported Saddam Hussein and his regime of atrocities. As for Iraqi deaths, the ones that should be doing the explaining are the terrorists who kill them and/or hide behind them to get them killed.
Poverty: has the so called war on poverty decreased our poverty levels, or do Democrats maintain it while giving it lots of lip service to get votes by blaming it on Republicans? Has handing out services under the auspices of “helping” the poor made them more or less dependent on government?
Good God, man (or woman)! Compare the Carter years to the Reagan years! It took most of Reagan’s two terms to erase the damage done by Carter, but we still enjoy the fruits of Reaganism today (Clinton benefited mightily, although his real savior (well everyone’s actually) was the Republican Congress led by Gingrich). And Reagan still had time to crush the Soviet Union, something the liberals said could not be done (and they fought him tooth and nail all along the way)!
Here is one for you: how could Bill Clinton let millions die in Rwanda while jumping into the Balkans with both feet for considerably fewer atrocities? See any racism there? How can you say that the liberal concept of “affirmative action” is anything but a form of racism itself, and perpetuates racism by its very existence? How does the liberal love of bilingual education do anything but hold people back, and say that they are incapable of learning English like everyone else that came here? Does the “soft bigotry of low expectations” ring a bell?
Sorry to add to your confusion. You have lots of homework to do!
Are you Michelle O’s daddy?
No, I live in SoCal, so DragonCon is a long expensive haul for me while Comic Con is not
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LOL the Roslin/Airlock pin. They gave away a bunch of campaign buttons for different Star Wars characters at Comic Con, so I guess I can wear one of them
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I agree. As it turned out, some vendors had Obama stuff for sale and the campaign set up a booth across the street from the convention center. Liberals politicize everything. I wish I could stand there with a bullhorn and tell the geeks that once Obama has his Civilian Force up and running, there’s not going to be any time to read comics, play video games, or read movie/t.v. rumors on Ain’t It Cool News because all of them will be working for the glory of the State instead. Hard to be a slacker when the Lightworker demands you toil for the betterment of society
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Oh, I understand what the whole fangirl/fanboy thing means. It may be disturbing but it’s also kinda true.
Lonewolf: Great post–I have experienced the same thing–my older sister (the one with all of the degrees) hasn’t spoken to me and my Republican husband for over 3 years.
How sad.