How Conservatives Argue: A Case Study

[kpete]

Re: How Conservatives Argue: A Case Study
by ellinton
Fri Jan 13, 2006 at 12:14:48 PM PDT

Liberal: The USA has fifty states.

Conservative: No, it doesn’t.

Liberal: Yes, it does. The USA has fifty states.

Conservative: What about Guam? What about that Guam, huh? Or the Virgin Islands?

Liberal: Those are territories, not states. The USA has fifty states.

Conservative: Oh, so you’re saying those don’t count?

Liberal: Yes.

Conservative: Oh, so the people there don’t count? They’re not good enough, huh? I thought you liberals wanted everybody to be counted.

Liberal: No, I said the territories don’t count as states. The USA has fifty states.

Conservative: You’re really something, you know that? You liberals are always going on about how all of us conservatives are racists, how we don’t care about anybody but people who look like us. But you don’t even want to count the blacks who live in Guam as Americans.

there's more...

http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/13/141448/171

[ixion]

1. how very true

the author captures some of the more subtle (sic) nuances. :evilgrin:

[Opusnone]

15. No it isn't

[ixion]

17. nice rebuttal

:dunce:

[Initech]

2. Wow, that sounds like every argument I've ever been in.

I would have left the second he brought up Michael Moore.

[Nikki Stone 1]

3. This hits the nail on the head!

:kick:

[silverweb]

4. LOL

Too true! And based on personal experience, it's the same way some hard-core Libertarians (note the capital L) argue, too.

:D

[applegrove]

5. Butterflies and Wheels goes into great detail about woolly retoric.

http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/rhetoric.php

[Nikki Stone 1]

6. My fave:

"Conservative: Oh, sure, the World Book! Yeah, like I’m going to believe the World Book!

Liberal: What?

Conservative: Come on, it’s a liberal rag!"

[driver8]

11. That is so funny! I argue a lot with a freeper on a Navy veteran

board I belong to. Every source I provide, he calls it "liberal media" or "liberal rag." This from the guy who tried to use Rush Limbaugh's website as a source.

Do these people get their "stupid chips" implanted in their brains at the same place?

[yellowdogmi]

12. Yep. San Diego of Orlando.

Everyone knows that real sailors go/went through Great Lakes. co.912 1987

:evilgrin:

[FreedomAngel82]

7. Oh that is so true

I was rolling in the floor and even I was giving frustrated. LOL. :silly: :rofl: :spray:

[Not_Giving_Up]

8. Oh man...I worked with that guy

Imagine having conversations like that EVERY DAY, insert moments for him to spit into his nasty cup of tobacco spit on his desk.

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

9. George Clooney used this example:

Conservative: "Witch! Burn the witch!"

Moderate: "Well, just in case, let's do it."

Liberal: "There is no such thing as witches."

[driver8]

10. I lived on Guam for four years...the Guamanians are dark, but I

wouldn't exactly call them "black."

Your analogy is right on, by the way.

[sakabatou]

13. So true...

[Pryderi]

14. He forgot the, "What about Clinton" argument.

[Opusnone]

16. You win the argument the second Clinton or communism comes up

Walk away with your head held high and live to fight another day, if you don't the opponent gets desperate and angry.
Best to just say "mission accomplished" adjust your codpiece and swagger off jingling your spurs.