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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 09:07 PM
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Who has mostly stopped using the term "conservative"? I have...
I pretty much go with "Republican", "Bush supporter", "Right Winger", "Bushbot" etc.

I find that there is very little that the term "conservative" would accurately describe in the present day Republican Party.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 09:08 PM
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1. I prefer BUSH WHORE
absolutely
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kevinbgoode Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 09:08 PM
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2. I'm definitely into the word
"wingnut"
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 09:09 PM
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3. You are right.
Conservative means something different than what today's Republican stands for. I wonder why real conservatives don't form another party and break away from the GOP who really stand for corruption and criminality in government.
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noamnety Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 09:09 PM
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4. I still use it
because I know it annoys them when I talk about conservatives being unable to balance a budget. :)
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WestHoustonDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 09:11 PM
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5. Right Winger works best for me. My conservative friends
are no longer Republicans
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DemInDistress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 09:11 PM
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6. me I love using "Bush Crime Famliy" and "gopers" nt
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AverageJoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 09:18 PM
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7. I sure don't use "conservative" to describe the GOP
Those freaks are, at best, reactionary.

There is nothing inherently wrong with being conservative, in the traditional sense of that word. It implies caution and judicious action. True conservatives are reluctant to change, and that can be maddening, but they are not, as a rule, evil. True conservatives and true progressives can and have worked together for the betterment of this nation and the world. Sadly, there are few of either left on the national political stage.

The GOP is evil. No two ways about it. No way in hell are they conservative.
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Sarah Ibarruri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 09:22 PM
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8. Criminals, thugs, thieves, serial killers, pimps
I also call them sh*theads, and f******s. (And that when I'm in a gentle mood). :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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Olney Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 09:27 PM
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9. They destroyed conservatism.
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Poll_Blind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 09:31 PM
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10. I love to take a verbal dump on the neocons and finish with a rant...
....with how they're destroying the party for the "real" conservatives. 'thugs get all twitchy when you say shit like that- they don't know how to defuse it. Try it sometime- they wind up looking as vexed as a poodle with two front halves trying to take a dump.

PB
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 09:31 PM
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11. I've been using Right-Wingers when I'm writing seriously. Weasel...
Edited on Sat Dec-24-05 09:34 PM by Hissyspit
Fuckers when I'm on a rant.
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Rick Myers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 09:40 PM
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12. Reich-wingers
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Neil Lisst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 09:51 PM
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13. True, because they are not conservatives.
Edited on Sat Dec-24-05 09:53 PM by Neil Lisst
This new breed of Republican was born of the Gingrich Beer Hall grab of 1994. They're devoted to a very activist culture where those who fail to meet standards are criminalized or attacked, in any way possible. They don't adhere to traditional conservative ideals of budget or of foreign interventions. They are not conservative.

I call them rightwingers, because they are thoroughly fascist.
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grahamhgreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 10:26 PM
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14. How 'bout corporatists?
Randi Rhodes has been using this...
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LittleClarkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 10:33 PM
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15. I use Conservative for Libertarians mostly
as they are more Conservative than Bush, who isn't really all that conservative.

I know a Conservative who thinks, looking at Bush from his perspective, that he about 80 percent wrong.

And he'd be offended if he was lumped in with "bushbots"

So yeah, it still has uses.
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booley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 10:43 PM
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16. They are CONS
Not just CONservative but CON artists and the CONnned and would be CONvicts.

You got neo-CONS in the White House with the Shrubbery and the THEO-CONS from the religous right and the rest are just CONNED.
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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 11:03 PM
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17. Fascist.. says so much more..Fascist Corporatist is Redundant
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Poiuyt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 11:14 PM
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18. If liberals are progressive, then they must be regressive
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K-W Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 11:16 PM
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19. Mispost.
Edited on Sat Dec-24-05 11:17 PM by K-W
ignore
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B Calm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 11:28 PM
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20. I still call them Cheap Labor Conservatives! The republican party
love their pork spending..
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Charlie Brown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 11:29 PM
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21. I was a conservative once, and had conservative friends
We believed in a free-market economy, fiscal sanity, and personal responsibility, all under a government that stayed out of peoples' personal lives.

There is nothing conservative, in these senses, about the current administration.
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JetCityLiberal Donating Member (706 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 11:32 PM
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22. cons
always called them cons...con artists, con jobs is all they are about.
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sandyd921 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 11:54 PM
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23. How about
NeoConMen (or Women)?
:rofl:
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Telly Savalas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 12:27 AM
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24. I don't see any real difference between the modern day GOP
and guys like Reagan, McCarthy, or Hoover. American conservatism is a twisted extremist ideology and always has been.
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Charlie Brown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 12:49 AM
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25. There used to be a strong "center right" contingent in this country
people like Eisenhower, Goldwater, Rockefeller, and even Nixon, to a certain extent, drew most of their support from fiscal conservatives who wanted to keep a strong federal government while allowing for free competition in the private-sector. Giuliani and Schwarzenegger are similar to these kinds of Republicans (I would have said that about McCain until recently).

Sadly, the Republican Party inherited the barrage of racists and George Wallace supporters who abandoned the Democrats in the civil rights era. Reagan put the final nail in the coffin by trolling the religious right for votes in the 1980s.
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Telly Savalas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 12:55 AM
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26. Yes, but the operative word is "center"
Guys like you mentioned were only tolerable to the extent that they weren't conservative.
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Jamison Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 01:53 AM
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27. "White trash" is the term I prefer to use for them. n/t
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