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In reply to the discussion: What did liberals do that was so offensive to the Republican Party? [View all]Proud liberal 80
(4,167 posts)15. I can't stand when republicans
Try to make this argument knowing full well their is a difference between party an idealogy; and that both parties have did a 180 degree turn around when it ones to idealogy. Back when the Republican party was established it had a very liberal idealogy, while the Dems where conservative. The founders of the Republican party would be Democrats today. In the 20 century republicans were liberal and so were Northern Dems, while the southern Dems were the conservative ones that left the Democratic party and hijacked the Republican part to what it is today
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What did liberals do that was so offensive to the Republican Party? [View all]
Curtland1015
Aug 2012
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You often hear Republicans take credit for such things as the Voting Rights Act
aint_no_life_nowhere
Aug 2012
#4
I'm becoming convinced their lust for profit is ultimately going to be the demise of the human race.
Initech
Aug 2012
#83
Liberals also won the Civil War. Something southern conservatives haven't been that happy about.
Initech
Aug 2012
#16
"If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas
tclambert
Aug 2012
#42
Alan Alda is NOT the liberal in the video, so you might not like him in it. n/t
Tx4obama
Aug 2012
#47
Totally with you on Alan Alda. Actually, Arnold Vinnick in "The West Wing" was a moderate GOPer.
calimary
Aug 2012
#77
Brillant!! This little story deserves a thread of it's own! Thanks for sharing!
Yooperman
Aug 2012
#67
Liberals interfere with those who desire complete, unaccountable control of everything.
Fire Walk With Me
Aug 2012
#56
If it wasn't for liberals we would still be in the stone age or swinging from trees...
Larry Ogg
Aug 2012
#73
Need to add passage of the ADA -the Americans with Disabilities Act- to his list
FailureToCommunicate
Aug 2012
#88