Thanks for the humor, you could be another Stephen Colbert. By masquerading as a conservative and spouting simplistic talking points, you show through humor how foolish the typical conservative rant can be. Thanks again.

Mostly you confuse “more government” with using government to fix malignant failures and abuses of private enterprise, and that it somehow would means less freedom for you, personally. Are you still mad about that whole paying workers for overtime thing? You lost a lot of liberty back then…

Maybe you should start stockpiling those nice, bright 150w incandescent light bulbs, you’re completely justified in worrying about your light bulb liberties. And be careful what you post on websites – they are watching….

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Thanks, George, for the very appropriate links, all necessary reminders of who Emmers is, and what he stands for. In any given election, someone like him can always count on the same 30%. I’ll bet he has a lot of friends on the other side of the aisle.

We end up with public figures – elected officials who are supposed to represent all of us saying
“I don’t think you can call yourself a freedom-loving American and be a Democrat,”

No, Thank You.

Tom Emmers aside, I have no dog in that fight. Your arguements are as dissapointing as they are illogical. You stoop to name calling for those who disagree with you – where does that leave us?

Thank you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e9XeKVJ2PI

The same Tom Emmer who refers to climate change as “Al Gore’s climate porn”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx9y_jc0sN4

The same Tom Emmer who would rather talk about porn than pork:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIPZg_-Jtgw

As for your question, Thomas: do they always have to try appeal to the stupid, the least informed, the lowest common denominator?

Yes, because that’s who exactly who votes for inbred asshats like Tom Emmer.

I’ve been curious though, how liberals reconcile their desires for liberty with their continued cries for more government. Liberals are staunch defenders of the first amendment, abortion (government hands off my body and out of the bedroom), their general hysteria regarding the patriot act, etc.

Yet the liberal democrat supports speech codes and draconian campaign finance laws; liberal democrats are constantly assualting religous freedom (almost exclusively Christians). Most recently many liberals have denounced the opponents of HR 3200 for showing up at townhalls and expressing their opinions to their elected representatives. No doubt many liberal democrats would like to see the “fairness” doctrine reinstated. Liberal democrats generally support the some form of government run healthcare and “cap and trade” legislation. Liberals may even support politicians telling us what light bulbs to buy.

My brother and I have had converstaions with some of you who unwittingly complain about high taxes and the smoking ban in bars. Ironically both are resrictions on liberity and the result of overreaching government supported mainly by liberal democrats.

All of this increases the power and reach of government thereby decresaing your liberty. With each new tax and piece of legislation, we surrender more of our freedom, liberty and dignty over to politicians. So, how do all of you reconcile these competing philosophies? Or do you simply accept a permanent state of cognitive dissoance?

So, either you believe in the inherent dignity and liberity of people as granted to us by God and allow them to make decisions for themselve, or you believe most people are no more than cattle to be led by the nose, to be treated as children.

Thank you