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T Roosevelt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-04 04:34 PM
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A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged...
A liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

I'd never heard that one before.
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StopTheMorans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-04 04:35 PM
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1. no, a conservative is an insecure person who wants to deny everyone
else the right to the american dream, when they enjoyed an easy route themselves...
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Kire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-04 04:42 PM
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8. they can have been mugged, too
it's not a mutually exclusive thing
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Droopy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-04 04:36 PM
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2. Well I've been ripped off on several occasions
and I'm still a liberal. But then again, I've also been arrested a few times. So who knows?
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jellybelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-04 07:26 PM
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20. arrested a few times?
LOL! Like it's so normal...LOL!
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-04 04:38 PM
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3. I've been mugged.
At gunpoint.

Still a liberal.
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deutsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-04 04:46 PM
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12. Same here
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Nay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-04 07:25 PM
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19. Been physically attacked, also held at knifepoint, still a liberal.
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tk2kewl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-04 04:40 PM
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4. what if youv'e been mugged and arrested?
:shrug:
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punpirate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-04 04:41 PM
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5. You're a...
... Libertarian. :P
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-04 04:41 PM
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6. I guess you join the DLC.
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tk2kewl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-04 04:44 PM
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9. Noooooooooooooooooooooooo
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Liberal Veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-04 04:41 PM
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7. I've been robbed at gunpoint and I'm still a liberal.
Maybe even moreso now.
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ronnykmarshall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-04 04:52 PM
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14. Same here.
Poverty causes crime.

Republicans cause poverty.
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TXlib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-04 04:44 PM
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10. The grain of truth in that saying is that
you are exposed to something that affects you very personally that may shake your beliefs.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-04 04:45 PM
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11. I've been mugged and held up and i'm still liberal
thats an old expression that doesn't ring true.
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Cobalt Violet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-04 04:50 PM
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13. I've been robbed at knife point.
And I'm still a liberal.
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hickman1937 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-04 04:54 PM
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15. Hanging on, tooth and nail to white America
Any excuse will do, especially the ones gotten at church.
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BlueJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-04 04:56 PM
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16. No..a conservative is a liberal that has had their brain...
..taken out, put in a Waring Blender, put back together by Zell Miller and reprogramed by the "700 Club"

PS: ...and that's the smart ones.. :)
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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-04 05:03 PM
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17. A socialist is a conservative whose job has been outsourced
and has lost all medical benefits as a result
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KurtNYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-04 05:17 PM
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18. And a libertarian is a republican that smokes pot
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jellybelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-04 07:28 PM
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21. But...
I've never been mugged or arrested:cry:
I guess I'll never fit in at DU
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