The difference between conservatives and liberals is...

[Towlie]

Any good one-liners? I'll start with one that I thought of a while back:

Conservatives and liberals agree that the world isn't fair. The difference is that conservatives like it that way.

[Political Heretic]

1. Which special interests own them. Oh, maybe you didn't mean politicians ;)

Sorry, I'm having a cynical evening :D

[TexasObserver]

2. Liberals want to help others. Conservatives want to control others.

I like your one liner.

[jcarterhero]

4. This post

Sums up the way I feel about libs/cons.

[targetpractice]

8. delete

[targetpractice]

9. woops... did it again.

[Birthmark]

3. Brain matter

The liberals have it.
The conservatives don't.

[kentuck]

14. The difference between liberals and conservatives is a heart.

that is connected to the brain.

[rucky]

5. empathy

[Historic NY]

6. conservatives care only about themselves first...the rest can have the crumbs.

[scubadude]

7. 98 % of Republicans just don't know! nt

Just use that sentence by itself.

Scuba

[targetpractice]

10. re: Openness to change...

Conservatives want to preserve the status quo, whereas liberals seek progress and growth.

[Gabi Hayes]

11. conservatives (read extreme rightwing ideologues) are completely unable to deal with

cognitive dissonance, ignoring anything that conflicts with their worldview

IOW they can't deal very well with reality, thus creating their own, as one prominent, powerful maniac admitted to Ron Suskind (at least the part about creating their own reality)

[Gabi Hayes]

12. the most obvious example:

big government/big deficits are anathema to a free society, but how did they deal with the largest expansion of government/debt in history under GWB? the logical contortions/rationalizations were interesting to watch

[SeattleGirl]

13. Liberals care about people; conservatives only care about corporations.

Liberals like diversity; conservatives are scared of it.

[omega minimo]

15. The difference between conservatives and liberals is there's a difference between liberals.

:hi:

[DainBramaged]

16. For Liberals, Jesus is not a prop.

[Vinnie From Indy]

17. Easy Question!

Liberals love people and Conservatives love money.

[Hannah Bell]

18. none.

[iris27]

19. One that (IMO) is an honest assessment...

In the balance between equality and freedom, liberals are willing to sacrifice a little personal freedom to gain a more equal society for all, and conservatives are willing to accept certain inequalities in order to obtain freedom.

This is a paraphrase of some conservative dude who was a guest on the Daily Show once...he said this like it was some denigration of liberals and a compliment to conservatives, but I thought it was fairer and more accurate than he realized.

[Quantess]

20. Hi and welcome to DU.

I'm sorry, but who wants us to sacrifice personal freedoms? You mean conservatives, don't you?

And, "Conservatives are willing to accept certain inequalities in order to obtain freedom." Which "freedoms" are conservatives aspiring to obtain, that would require accepting "inequalities"?

Please elaborate.

[timeforpeace]

21. ...the spelling, for one thing.