Reasons why the NeoCons aren't real Republicans

i think we should institute a plurality system here. my idea for it is this: you check a box that says "liberal" or "coservative." from there, you select a candidate within that group of parties. the group of parties with the most votes wins, and the candidate with the most votes within that group represents the group.that way, third parties could get larger because you could actually vote for them without worrying about that swing vote problem. hahahaha.

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yeah, i'm not sure how the good war record of a decorated veteren became a bad war record, which was then beaten by the nonexistant war record of a draft dodger.i mean, don't get me wrong, i'm all for draft dodging. but jesus. that's some spin powers on the right.This message has been edited by arachnophilia, 06-16-2005 11:20 PM

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"my name is jesus h. christ, and i endorse this advertisement."

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you know, we hear from the right about the leftist media bias. in fact, it's all i ever hear anymore. the media's left biased.it seems that since i keep hearing this over the media, it actually disproves itself. if the media were ACTUALLY left-biased, we probably wouldn't hear about how left-biased it was. and yet if we write that the lying is inherent in the right, we also get slammed, by people who insist we're just listening to sources on the left and saying the right isn't credible. such as, well, here.it's sort of the backwards logic of threat. before the hutus masacred the tutsis in rwanda, all you heard about was how much of a threat the tutsis were, and how they were the people in power and didn't deserve to be. but it was really the hutus in the power, and their distortions, that lead to the atrocity. when one party decries that the other is biased and controlling, it's usually just the opposite.it may well be bigotry to say that hatred and terrorism are inherent to islam, but that's because you forgot a few words. most muslims are pretty decent people. hatred and terrorism are inherent to radical fundamentalist islam, in the middle east. but the religion as a whole is probably not the blame ---- just the part that says we're a threat to them.

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i'm hearing it anytime a conservative pundit opens their mouth on the media. you simply repeat the same old rightist line. now, i called them spin doctors because they are calling other people liars and bigots, when often it seems to be that they're the liars. it doesn't take a genius to spot a spin campaign, and that's what this is. all spin, no facts. something bad comes out abotu the republicans? no, that's not what really happened! it really happened the other way! the leftist media is showing their bias! whine whine whine. ....what reasonable arguments? from what i see, the right is pretty pre-occupied with telling us how left-biased the media is. nobody even seems to care about actual politics anymore, we're just sitting here duking it over who actually said what to whom first, and how none of the facts actually matter and they all happened the other way around.and the left is not innocent either. the left are cowards, and need to grow a pair. how about this. i know muslims. and they're not trying to kill me.

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Main Entry: bigot
Pronunciation: 'bi-g&t
Function: noun

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: a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices

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"terrorism is inherent to islam" would be a prejudice that paints the picture of all muslims being violent criminals with no respect for life. that *IS* bigotry, because it is a pre-judgement of muslim people you have never met, and misrepresents the majority of the islamic citizens of the world. so i'm a bigot for claiming that a majority group in power asserting the minority poses a threat to it is spin? but you're not a bigot for claiming all muslims are terrorists? then reasonably correct me, faith. where is your proof of the liberal media bias?

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