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Originally Posted by Knightrider966
Quotes by tankdriver: "It's because liberals are diverse, and conservatives are not."
WHAT???? You have got to be kidding me! You don't know many or any conservatives do you? We have more points that we can agree on, true, but conservatives are very diverse and we come in different colors and races too!  |
I know many conservatives, and hold many conservative positions. Conservatives are inherently not as diverse as liberals. Liberalism can encompass more than conservatism can. See Bot's description of conservatism. It's not a value judgement - one could argue that diversity isn't so great. It's just the nature of liberalism.
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"There hasn't been more than two kinds of Republicans in 60 years. There are more kinds of liberals than you can shake a stick at. One can't pander to a diverse group, one would spend too much time talking about a slew of topics - only a small portion of which any one listener would care about."
You don't know many Republicans either. Who would have thought there would ever be a group of law abiding, gun toting log cabin Gay Republicans? Not me! I know that most Republicans find more in common than liberals will.
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I don't know what a log cabin Republican is, but as mentioned in the Bush PBS series, Republicans have either been Eisenhower Republicans or Goldwater (aka Reagan since he's revered now) Republicans.
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I'll agree with there are more kinds of liberals than you can shake a stick at. But in my experience living in areas of the country heavily liberal, I can honestly say that although they pretend otherwise, liberals really don't like much, especially each other!
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That's kind of the point. Liberals have plenty to disagree about amongst themselves. If two conservatives have plenty to disagree about, chances are one of them isn't really a conservative.
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"Liberals are generally smart enough not to blame their counterparts for everything. Liberals spread blame among many. That makes for a more difficult show, and one would tend to sound like a ranting lunatic."
Since when have liberals not blamed their counterparts for everything? RODLMAO! With liberals spreading the blame around to many, who could argue with them sounding like raving lunatics!
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Make up your mind. First you say they blame their counterparts, then you agree they blame lots of people. Which is it?
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"I would only hate to debate any of those guys if it was on their own show. Let me pick the cameraman, producer, and editor and I'd take any one of them on."
Now there we can TOTALLY agree! A liberal on his own show will never let you make your point without shouting you down!
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I think you have liberal confused with conservative. Either that or you've never seen/heard O'Reilly, Limbaugh, and Hannity.
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The one thing I can honestly say that I like about Rush Limbaugh is that he gives everyone the oppportunity to come on his show and debate with him without fear of reprisals or talking down to them. 
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No fear of reprisals or condescension? Plenty of fear of creative editing, interruption, strawmanning, and Limbaugh's ability to turn off the mic whenever he wants.
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Originally Posted by MS Fowler
The claim was that democrats, being liberals were tolerant, and alowed, even sought, diversity.
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The claim made no mention of the word 'democrats'.