Can we please stop calling them "Conservatives"?

[Lady Freedom Returns]

[rock]

1. I like calling them "Conservatives"

It's so ironic and they're so hypocritical.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

2. But it sounds so Fracking polite!

There has got to be something else not so polite, yet ironic at the same time.

[House of Roberts]

3. Fifth columnists

works for me.

Quislings is another.

[Agnosticsherbet]

4. Conservative - a political philosophy based on tradition and social stability, stressing

established institutions, and preferring gradual development to abrupt change; specifically : such a philosophy calling for lower taxes, limited government regulation of business and investing, a strong national defense, and individual financial responsibility for personal needs (as retirement income or health-care coverage)

So I woiuld say, no. What we should do is point out the drastic consequences of a Conservative
Political philosophy.

Conservative, as a political philosophy, has its own definition. It is related lingquisticly to "Conserve" but the two words do not mean the same thing.

[SevenSixtyTwo]

5. I've often wondered

As well why they're called conservative. The only thing conservative about them is what they're willing to pay others to work for them. Beyond that it's reckless disregard for everything and everyone. I think today's conservatives are more extremists than conservative. Ayn Rand fanatics would be more fitting.

[Cosmocat]

17. There was a time when they had a well developed line of bullshit

about "conservatism" that made sense at a very superficial level.

But, they have gone in so many half cocked directions over the last 15 years they don't even give pretense to it anymore cause where they are today - in total opposition to Barrack Obama, is somehow in total opposition to where they were 20 years ago except what the power to be really care about - wage suppression and economic class warefare.

[el_bryanto]

6. I call them Conservatoids

But I can't explain why.

Bryant

[IADEMO2004]

25. How about Conservarrhoid

A do-nothing pain in the ass

[niyad]

7. reactionary, woman-hating cretins works for me.

which is why I also hate the term "radical right". there is nothing RADICAL (as in, getting to the root of something) about them.

[SummerSnow]

8. Lets call them Baggers

Nothing conservative about them

[LordGlenconner]

9. Sociopaths

That's what I call them.

[Jamaal510]

10. The Regressive Party (coined by Rob Reich) nt

[PrestonLocke]

15. That's what I call em

Never knew who coined the term, thanks!

[stage left]

24. That's really good.

But, if you called them that, you'd have to explain it to them. I usually call them rightwing squirrely nut job fundamentalists, the simple people of the soil. You know------------morons.

[tenderfoot]

11. The only thing Conservatives conserve is the misery index.

That should be brought up often.

[SamKnause]

12. I call them many things.

Conservatives is not one of them.

[Faryn Balyncd]

13. Gangster pseudo-capitalists.

Interestingly, after the CEO's, banksters, and sundry other insider 1%er's have taken their share, the return to those who actually provide the working capital (such and the millions of average Americans who have invested their IRA's, 401K's, SEP-IRA's, qualified retirement plans, union and teacher retirement plans, taxable mutual funds, ETC ) has been for the last decade, after adjustment for inflation, close to zero.

So . . . not only do the CEO's, banksters, and sundry other insider 1%er's rip off their customers and their workers, but they simultaneously rip off those who provide the capital for the enterprises they have hijacked.

The REAL capital providers are not the over-compensated CEO's and financial industry gangsters, but the under-compensated investors such as the California Teacher Retirement system, etc.

A system which rewards manipulators and not the savers who provided the capital has no more right to be labeled "capitalism" than right wing destroyers have to be labeled "conservative".

K & R.

[Bryce Butler]

14. I'll stick to calling them Tealiban or American Taliban.

[3catwoman3]

16. Cold-hearted, mean-spirited...

...bastards works for me.

[ErikJ]

18. FDR called them Economic Royalists.

I like Monopolists too. I'm going to try using that for awhile.

[Fuddnik]

19. I've never called them "Conservatives". They're Reactionaries.

[Bortman33]

20. I deal with this conundrum by

always writing "CONservative",
minimally thinking "CON ~ Fricking ~ servative",
and speaking "CON. . servative".

The ever so slight pause after CON, always sees to get a response.

[Cryptoad]

21. call them what they are,,,,,

and you will have a jury assigned to you!

[Cosmocat]

22. I get the point, but it really does not matter

They just don't care anymore.

They have done some many half witted, desperate turns that they have contradicted their "principles" so many times they can't even keep up with it.

It has degraded to simple tribal bullshit, and you can call "them" whatever you want, but it won't change their position one fricken bit.

I can't fight it anymore.

REALLY, REALLY good people who I know and like, who are kind and generous and civic minded, all completely immersed in the republican bullshit complaining about Obamacare, about raising the minimum wage, about how hard it to get a mortgage now because THE GOVERNMENT for no good reason in their minds, requires more paperwork to get a loan ...

All things that are good for them, all things THEY need, but ... Because they don't have someone from their team in the White House, fuck it all ...

[Bernardo de La Paz]

23. There are social conservatives, fiscal conservatives, and RW Authoritarians.

"Conservatives" is a rather a broad brush but we live in a world of "texting" instead of careful thought.

[bluestateguy]

26. Sunday morning talk shows are so outdated

They are only for the Washington establishmentarians and the elite media to talk to themselves.

I'd rather just watch football and baseball on Sunday mornings.

[JI7]

27. they are conservatives and people finally see that it's not really a good thing

so we should not stop.

[meow2u3]

28. They're not Conservatives. They're CRIMINALS

Unindicted, unconvicted criminals, but criminals nonetheless.

[Cha]

29. Yes! It's a long ass ol word that means absolutely nothing when

referring to teabagger assholes.