"It is
difficult to make
generalizations
about a hall full of delegates, and yet one striking event suggested
that
many in this gathering have mindsets that are several standard
deviations
away from the national average. That underreported event involved a
group
of Eagle Boy Scouts. As the scouts were lining up to go on stage as a
part
of opening ceremonies, they were soundly booed and confronted with
waving
signs which read, 'WE SUPPORT GAY BOY SCOUTS!' "
Linda
Bowles, on the 2000
Democratic
Party Convention
"I
remain hopeful that in
time, the
legacy of the Clinton presidency will be that its classic wretchedness
awakened the American people from a soul-numbing, moral stupor. The
Lord
moves in mysterious ways."
Linda
Bowles
"The
big pushes during
Clinton's
two
terms in office were to: raise taxes, cover up the Travelgate scandal,
increase government spending, diversify the sexes from two to five,
transfer
America's manufacturing base to needy foreign countries, legitimize
sexual
deviancy, sissify the military, cover up Whitewater, foster class
warfare,
cover up the massacres of American citizens at Waco and Ruby Ridge,
keep
as many members of the cabinet out of jail as possible, shred 12 tons
of
incriminating documents, defend racial discrimination against people of
non-color, defend welfare as we know it, strip marriage of its meaning
by extending its benefits to odd couples, defend and promote
infanticide,
register welfare recipients to vote, expand benefits for illegal
aliens,
blame school violence on inanimate objects, recruit illegal aliens to
the
Democrat Party, raise money to defend the president against a
pants-dropping
charge, put the Creator of the Universe under house arrest, confiscate
private property, control the amount of water used in a toilet flush,
deny
parents the right to choose schools for their children, mainstream
hustler
Larry Flynt, subvert the Constitution with loophole-lawyering, return
California
and Texas to Mexico, foster anti-American multiculturalism, start Cold
War II, promote the idea that ######## is not sex, mangle the English
language
with legal babble, prove you can lie under oath and get away with it,
establish
the moral precedent that adultery is OK if the wife doesn't care,
protect
endangered weeds and kangaroo rats from farmers, keep Hillary out of
jail,
develop an affirmative-action program for a venereal disease, promote
cigars
as ########, rent out the Lincoln Bedroom, put degeneracy on a
pedestal,
socialize medicine, sell nuclear secrets to China, criminalize
'incorrect'
thought, use the UnitedNations to teach Third World countries the joys
of wholesale abortions, cover up the cover-ups, meddle in the internal
affairs of other nations, wage illegal wars, and teach underage
children
how to have sex without consequences."
Linda
Bowles
"The
modern
definition of "racist"
is "someone who is winning an argument with a liberal."
Peter
Brimelow
"The only rich people
deserving
of malice are
rich liberals who express bemusement at the non-rich's desire for a tax
cut."
Ann Coulter
"A liberal is a man
who will
give
away everything
he doesn't own."
Frank Dane
"The
tendency of
liberals is to create
bodies of men and women -of all classes-detached from tradition,
alienated
from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob
will
be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well
disciplined."
T.
S. Eliot
"It is not
that
we
have lost our moral
grounding. The American people do have strong moral principles. Central
among these is that no one has the right to impose their particular
morality
on other people's lives. "
Lenora
Fulani
"Now let's
see
if I
understand this
correctly. President Clinton has ordered our forces to engage an
entrenched,
politically motivated enemy, backed by the Russians, on their home
ground,
in a foreign civil war, in difficult terrain, with limited military
objectives,
with bombing restrictions, boundary and operational restrictions,
queasy
allies, far across an ocean, with uncertain goals, without prior
consultation
with Congress, having the potential for escalation, while limiting the
forces at his disposal, and while the majority of Americans are opposed
to, or are at best uncertain about, the value of the action being worth
American lives. ----- So, what was it that Clinton was opposed to
during
Vietnam?"
Lt.
Gen. Tom Griffin USA (ret.)
"All that
we
bled for
and suffered
for the last 25 years is now in the balance here today. This case is up
there with the Dred Scott level of case; did the black man have a right
the white was bound to respect?
If this court rules against counting
our vote, it will simply create a civil rights explosion. People will
not
surrender to this tyranny. We will fight back. ... [These are] nazi
tactics!
... We will take to the streets right now, we will delegitimize Bush,
discredit
him, do whatever it takes, but never accept him."
Jesse
Jackson, protesting the
2000
election
"Affirmative
action
is the attempt
to deal with malignant racism by instituting benign racism."
Elliott
Larson
"A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man,
which
debt he proposes to pay off with your money."
G.
Gordon Liddy
"The
function of
liberal Republicans
is to shoot the wounded after battle."
Eugene
McCarthy
"The left
always
focuses its attention
on dividing wealth -- rather than producing it -- and they do so
because
of their love affair with government power. Bureaucrats can work to
apportion
riches in a manner
they deem fair, but government never
produces the riches in the first place -- only private enterprise can
do
that. In other words, the left sustains the sense of eternal grudge
that
fuels its lunatic projects by persuading people to focus on the
attainments
of others, rather than celebrating achievements of their own. Liberals
love to highlight the 'growing gap between rich and poor' -- without
noting
the far more salient fact that poor people in America have progressed
so
dramatically that they now enjoy a standard of living that would have
qualified
as middle class in previous years. There will always be someone with a
bigger business, a better car, a nicer house, a prettier wife -- and it
can drive you crazy if you concentrate on the blessings of that other
guy."
Michael
Medved
"The
principle
feature of American
liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad
things-war
and hunger and date rape-liberals testify to their own terrific
goodness.
More important, they promote themselves to membership in a
self-selecting
elite of those who care deeply about such things. . . . It's a kind of
natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is
that you don't have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join
it,
you just have to be liberal."
P.J.
O'Rourke
"With
money comes power over
the
world.
Men are freed from drudgery, women from exploitation. Businesses can be
started, homes built, communities formed, religions practiced,
educations
pursued. But liberals aren't very interested in such real and material
freedoms. They have a more innocent - not to say toddlerlike - idea of
freedom. Liberals want the freedom to put anything into their mouths,
to
say bad words and to expose their private parts in art museums. That
liberals
aren't enamored of real freedom may have something to do with
responsibility
- that cumbersome backpack which all free men have to lug on life's
aerobic
nature hike. The second item in the liberal creed, after
self-righteousness,
is unaccountability. Liberals have invented whole college majors -
psychology,
sociology, women's studies - to prove that nothing is anybody's fauult.
No one is fond of taking responsibility for his actions, but consider
how much you'd have to hate free will to come up with a political
platform
that advocates killing unborn babies but not convicted murderers. A
callous pragmatist might favor abortion AND capital punishment."
P.J.
O'Rourke
"The
college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental
movement seem
willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take
science
courses and learn something about it."
P.J.
O'Rourke
"So much
of
left-wing
thought is a
kind of playing with fire by people that don't even know that fire is
hot."
George
Orwell
"A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment."
Willis Player
"Few
Americans
realize it, but the
Democratic Party adheres to the basic premise of Marxist political
parties.
The defining characteristic of a Marxist party is class warfare."
Paul
Craig Roberts
"Liberalism
is
driven
by a mysterious
antagonism to the moral traditions of the Many. In any society the Few
rule the Many, but in most societies the ruling elite shares the
general
moral outlook of the majority of the population and there is no basic
conflict
between the rulers and the ruled. In today's America, so alien to our
ancestors,
it is different. The Few not only hate the traditions of the Many; they
have conducted a relentless propaganda campaign against those
traditions,
variously called 'education,' 'eradicating prejudice,' and
'consciousness-raising.'
They coin new-fangled words like 'homophobia' to stigmatize deep-seated
popular attitudes; they publicize and memorialize minor local
incidents,
like vicious murders of homosexuals, making them symbols of the moral
attitudes
they want to condemn. In pursuit of this agenda, the Many must be made
to feel guilty about their natural feelings. And the government must be
empowered to engineer a mass psychological transformation, until those
feelings cease to exist. The process must begin with children in the
public
schools, where state propaganda will teach them that homosexuality is
normal.
The desire of the Few to control and change even the inner lives of the
Many is of course a totalitarian ambition. Liberals denounce 'sexual
McCarthyism'
as they practice what might be called sexual Stalinism. As Stalin
aspired
to create the 'New Soviet Man,' liberals want to produce new, sexually
'liberated' children, with homosexual propaganda as one of their tools."
Joseph
Sobran
"What
is rare is a liberal who
doesn't
think his liberalism is in itself sufficient proof that his heart is in
the right place, even when he's supporting late-term abortion: the
liberal
position is by definition the 'compassionate' position."
Joseph
Sobran
"Why
is "diversity" the
favorite
word
of monotonous people? The instant you hear it, your nervous system
braces
itself for a torrent of cliches. Liberals are lucky the rest of us
don't
demand reparations for decades of boredom. If boredom were officially
recognized
as a form of suffering, the full extent of liberal guilt would be
incalculable."
Joseph
Sobran
"Liberals
seem
to
assume that, if
you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you
don't
really care about the people that they claim to want to help."
Thomas
Sowell
"Liberalism
is
embarrassed by success
and prosperity because independent and free people do not need liberals
-- and above all, liberals need to be needed. Otherwise, they'd have to
find real work instead of careers in politics, entertainment, class
warfare
(the only kind of war in which they believe) and, yes (and here I might
be guilty of self-incrimination),
column writing."
Cal
Thomas
"People
who
think
like us may be in
the minority, but we're the smart ones. ... [The Ten Commandments] are
a little out of date. If you're only going to have 10 rules, I don't
know
if [prohibiting] adultery should be one of them."
Ted
Turner (Idiot)
"The
reason that the World
Trade
Center
got hit is because there are a lot of people living in abject poverty
out
there who don't have any hope for a better life."
Ted
Turner at Brown University
"History
is not
going
to be kind to
liberals. With their mindless programs, they've managed to do to Black
Americans what slavery, Reconstruction, and rank racism found
impossible:
destroy their family and work ethic."
Dr.
Walter Williams
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