When conservatives speak of our "bedrock institutions"

[Louisiana1976]

I'm always amused because that expression makes me think of the Flintstones.

What other conservative cliches do you find amusing?

[tularetom]

1. I can't read the words "family values" without puking

Not to mention "this is a christian nation".

[Skittles]

2. "small town" values, "middle America"

small-minded racist bastards

[anonymous171]

5. I always laugh at that one because "small town values" are suprisingly "socialist"

[ashling]

3. In other words, they crawled out from under a bedrock

:rofl:

[PDJane]

6. OK, that's a duzy........

and a spew alert.

[PDJane]

4. patriotism and

respecting the flag. Patriotism is too often used to mean nationalism and tribalism.

Respecting the flag too often means a kind of magical thinking....if you believe that you can disrespect a piece of red white and blue cloth, there's something odd in your makeup. If you believe that flag burning is a criminal action, that's simply magical thinking. The flag is merely a symbol.

[LostInAnomie]

7. "Real Americans"

Pretty much amounts to "The percentage of people between the coasts that are dumb enough to vote Republican".

[TlalocW]

8. This got me thinking

About how republicans went after Hillary's book, "It Takes a Village," and remembering Bob Dole during the '96 race taking her to task about it in one breath and then telling a story about the good old days when neighbors cared for each other and watched out for everyone's kids - specifically a story about going to the barbershop with friends, and when one of them got in the chair, to impress his friends, he put a cigarette in his mouth, and the barber snipped it in half before he could light it. This happened two more times, and the barber told him he was too young to smoke, and he would be informing his parents about it.

TlalocW

[BlueIdaho]

9. That Barney Rubble - he's some patriot... nt.