Reply #57: Funny! I hear this a lot too!

[bush_is_wacko]

Their perception is we all want to dictate what they eat, and how they live. The truth is, we just don't want THEM to do it to us! They seem unable to understand that their lifestyle is RESTRICTIVE despite their attempts to minimize the government. Their rules are civil rights violations, we just want corporations to make sure they don't ruin the world in order to make money.

I know many liberals that own guns, hunt, smoke, drink, and make LOTS of money. They just do so in a manner that won't harm others. I never smoke near to someone that doesn't. I can go many hours, really even days without a cigarette if need be. I would never OVER hunt, in fact I don't ever actually shoot at any living thing I just go for the view and peace and quiet. The outdoors are my church now despite the fact I was raised a Catholic. I have always been unable to drink great amounts, but many liberals are wine lovers and beer lovers. I think it is in my best interest to consult BOTH medical doctors and naturopaths. The combination of the two is usually quite successful. My naturopath and my doctor are CONSTANTLY harping on my smoking habits.

Conservatives don't have a clue what liberals represent. They are stuck on a picture of us as pagan, vegan, health-nuts, who won't allow them to immunize our children. Those would be the children we ALL decided we'd keep, AFTER we had all those abortions we love so much, and who all think wearing fur is a sin greater than "Thou shalt not kill."

I actually believe that is to our benefit at times. The shock value alone of a liberal hunter sitting on a rock with a shotgun in hand, meditating, while smoking a cigarette and eating beef jerky is worth it's weight in gold.

Another thing I think shocks the hell out of them is hearing a liberal agree with them that partial birth abortion is murder and then telling them early term abortion is not and explaining to them that an early term spontaneous abortion is called a "miscarriage" ( a woman mis-carries something not someone) and a late term spontaneous birth is either called a "miracle" if the infant survives or a "stillbirth" if it does not. (the implication is that an early birth has occurred not that the woman couldn't carry a thing that was unable to survive)

Early births survive at an astounding rate because of medical technology. When Roe V Wade was decided those same babies all died. When medical technology advances to a point where something humans believed was impossible at the time a law, bill, or amendment, was written, we must change that law to take that into account.

The same applies to stem cell research. I have no doubt many Republican's are still living with the VERY mistaken belief that stem cells come from aborted fetus' and donated fertilized eggs. The fact is, THAT is no longer true. We have known for many many years that stem cells from cord blood and now adult bone marrow can produce stem cells that may be of MORE use to us than what the aforementioned sources ever could be.

These two issues should be grounds for bringing liberals at heart over to the good side. Instead our propaganda masters are using it repeatedly to divide us.