> I do not know which conservatives you have in mind, but once you are > done > with William Buckley, who unfortunately is no longer around to keep > Conservatism honest and clean, the fold is mostly histrionic beyond all > pale > (starting with the current darling- Hannity, Palin, and Coulter).
I'm not talking about public polemicists. I was referring to personal experience with everyday people. But yeah, I miss Bill. If you're going to use who appears on tee-vee as the standard on either Team Red or Blue, then you're pretty much screwed. I stopped watching broadcast news for some of the reasons you mention. > Amazing how when you inject invective and hyperbole, it's acceptable. > When > others use the same terminology, it's offensive. Very true, and also very normal. I'll repost my rules of partisanship: - Your side is brilliant, honest, forthright, righteous, of the highest ethics and above reproach. - The other side is evil, stupid and/or ignorant, dishonest, sleazy and always up to something no good. - And, above all, you are never a partisan, just the other guy. - Most importantly though, if you don't believe in the same thing, you're the other guy from the other side. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
