"You and your liberal friends..."

[bluestateguy]

Have any of you ever been hit with that line of attack when you were arguing with a conservative? It just seems like a frequently used tactic.

[Trajan]

1. What we need more of ....

Liberal friends ....

[saltpoint]

4. Agreed.

The more the merrier -- and in the next presidential election, let's also count their votes!

(Nice to bump into you again, Trajan. :hi:

[Trajan]

22. Hey Crusoe ....

Nice to see you as well, liberal friend ! ...

[annabanana]

2. "what, all FIVE of us?" What're you so scared of? n/t

[RetroLounge]

3. I always get "You and your friends at Move-On"

Like every Democrat belongs to Move-On?

RL

[Frances]

5. You and your right wing extremist friends

nt

[Liberal Veteran]

6. They think we are monolithic....like a hive mind or something.

They don't seem to understand our diversity at all.

Oh, and we get together once a week to do drugs and have abortions and gay sex and worship satan.

[bridgit]

7. yeah, well, me & my progressive friends...

are going to be taking america back to a state of SANITY starting 2006. so the rest of the 'wing-nut-job goofy ass wrong-wing' of this nation had better get fucking used to it.

[havocmom]

8. Part of the 'dehumanize the opposition' method for warfare.

One can be more callous/cruel/vile to someone they consider less then themselves. They can't call us anything to bad to our faces cuz they are basically cowards. They resort to code words, just like the way they use language in their racist rants. If we are not one of them, we are somehow less human and they don't have to play fair or nice.

[movonne]

11. Well I have to admit I feel the same way about them...(especially

the part less than human).

[BrklynLiberal]

9. A couple of quotes that seem appropriate..

"Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience."

"Don't argue with an idiot. People watching may not be able to tell the difference"

I avoid arguing with conservatives... It only gets me really upset and never changes anyone's mind.

[suziedemocrat]

19. "gets me really upset and never changes anyone's mind.' Exactly!!

I used to try to have political discussions with Conservatives - naively thinking something good might come of it. No More!!!

1) The discussions always turn into an argument. I don't like to argue, but I'm pretty sure conservatives think of it as a sport. They really enjoy it. In fact they seem to get off on it.

2) I realized I will never change a conservative's mind. Never.

3) I almost always end up hating these people.

So what's the point? Now I just skip over the anger and pointlessness and move right to the hatred! ;-)

[Tommymac]

10. It's always me and my friend Mike Moore...lol

Like I eat lunch with the dude every day or something....I wish!!!

[Liberal Veteran]

13. I can barely find time for lunch with Mike....

...what with my fancy upscale dinners with Babs and Jane Fonda all paid for by welfare and the thousand of anonymous sex partners I have each month.

[alfredo]

12. Well, at least I have friends.

[Horse with no Name]

14. A song comes to mind....

Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends
Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends
Mm, gonna try with a little help from my friends

:)
:kick:

[Maddy McCall]

Yes.

I guess it makes them jealous that I actually have friends.

[Maddy McCall]

15. Yes.

I guess it makes them jealous that I actually have friends.

[whistle]

16. Actually it was, "You and your pointy headed liberal friends"....

...which implied that as liberals we are from a different planet. Michael Savage has really gone on the attack on his talk show and pushing his latest book "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder", published by, National Review Book Service, 2005.

<snip>
Friday, June 03, 2005
New Review: Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder
The following is a brief excerpt from a review posted on PopandPolitics.com:

I try not to read crap. I really do. I am a very particular and meticulous consumer of books and generally don’t waste time reading nonsense from either the far right or the far left. I’ve dabbled here and there with a Sean Hannity book (and in my youth, Rush Limbaugh’s two books), but generally I try to read books with a higher pedigree of authorship. In the case of Michael Savage’s third and newest book, “Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder,” I am reminded of why I don’t read this sort of tripe anymore.
If you were to walk into any large chain bookstore right now, you would be able to find a bevy of books written by experts on a litany of subjects from the war on terror to illegal immigration. They’ll have their own slant for certain, but in most cases the reader should come away with a better understanding of the subject material they just read about.

The opposite is true with these “pundit manifestoes,” as I like to call them. Folks like Savage and Hannity, or Michael Moore and Al Franken on the other side, write these broad and schizophrenic books with nothing holding them together except that they have an unreasonable hatred for the other side of the political debate. Their collective lack of scholarship and generally terrible ability to compose a thorough narrative make reading their books an exercise in masochism. This newest pile of venom by crotchety old man extraordinaire Michael Savage is no different.

posted by Markkind at 12:07 AM

<link> http://progressiveconservatism.blogspot.com/2005/06/new-review-liberalism-is-mental.html

That pretty much sums it up for me, and this is from a progressive conservative.

[OrlandoGator]

17. They try hard to marginalize the L-word, usually successfully.

Just tell them that labeling people is a surefire sign that their points aren't good enough on their own.

[LynnTheDem]

18. Yep, so I LIST my liberal friends; GHW Bush, Brent Scowcroft,

General Norman Schwarzkopf, Col. David Hackworth, James Webb, Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni, General Will Odom, Marine General Joseph Hoare, Col. Mike Turner, USAF General, Tony McPeak, Rep. Ron Paul (R), Rep. James A. Leach (R), Rep. John H. Hostettler (R), Rep. Constance A. Morella (R), Rep. Amo Houghton (R), Rep. John J. Duncan (R), Rep. Doug Bereuter (R), Sen. Chuck Hagel (R), Sen. Richard Lugar (R)...

Yeah I got more. LOTS more. And they're all LIBRULS with an (R). ;)

[tsuki]

20. It is something you have to avoid. They label because it boosts

their self-esteem. They are now on the high, moral ground. Throw something back in their face, like Why do you hate the idea of America?

[HockeyMom]

21. Aiding and Abetting the Terrorists

if you don't get in line and support your President (everything from Iraq to SOCIAL SECURITY LOL) during "wartime".

That is the best one.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

23. I won't repeat my response.