DeclinetoState
03-19-2006, 11:08 AM
In the next few weeks, I hope to start some threads here using one of the quotes or comments in my signature as springboard for discussion. My first one is the sig I've used nearly from the start: "Never overestimate the intelligence of a liberal."
Considering that many if not most schoolteachers are liberals (or at least registered Democrats, which is not exactly the same thing), am I being unfair? It doesn't seem to be that difficult to find a liberal making a stupid statement, like Cindy Sheehan and her comment about America possibly seeing her panties when the cops carried her off from her protest. It's also not difficult to find a liberal doing something stupid, or at least showing questionable judgment, like Ted Kennedy with his Portuguese water dog, Splash, "writing" a book about how a bill becomes a law.
However, DU has a column every week or so of (supposedly) the top 10 conservative idiots. Even though there are 10 items, often one person, such as President Bush, gets mentioned two or three (or more) times, each time for something different, so usually only four or five individuals (at most) make the list. (Groups, such as the Bush administration, often are named as individual idiots.) We don't have anything similar here, though I'm sure other conservative forums may have one. In any event, it seems that DU's list may have one or two more-or-less valid examples of what it claims to be, while the rest of its entries tend to validate my arguement that libs are not very bright.
Take this thread wherever you want (within reason, of course), but my initial question would be: Am I unfair to liberals when I say that they don't appear to be very smart?
Considering that many if not most schoolteachers are liberals (or at least registered Democrats, which is not exactly the same thing), am I being unfair? It doesn't seem to be that difficult to find a liberal making a stupid statement, like Cindy Sheehan and her comment about America possibly seeing her panties when the cops carried her off from her protest. It's also not difficult to find a liberal doing something stupid, or at least showing questionable judgment, like Ted Kennedy with his Portuguese water dog, Splash, "writing" a book about how a bill becomes a law.
However, DU has a column every week or so of (supposedly) the top 10 conservative idiots. Even though there are 10 items, often one person, such as President Bush, gets mentioned two or three (or more) times, each time for something different, so usually only four or five individuals (at most) make the list. (Groups, such as the Bush administration, often are named as individual idiots.) We don't have anything similar here, though I'm sure other conservative forums may have one. In any event, it seems that DU's list may have one or two more-or-less valid examples of what it claims to be, while the rest of its entries tend to validate my arguement that libs are not very bright.
Take this thread wherever you want (within reason, of course), but my initial question would be: Am I unfair to liberals when I say that they don't appear to be very smart?