That's funny stuff.

I found it interesting that Kerry didn't seem to have any real disagreement with the major points of the Bush Iraq policy speech earlier this week. I'm glad that some people who are voting for him at least realize he's a douche. It renews my confidence in the future of America.

I'm going to be in Wahington this weekend for the WW II Memorial dedication. If you don't hear from me again, it means I got WMD'd. In that event please make known that my dying wish was to renew the Patriot Act.

I don't think Kerry was anyone's first choice. He sure wasn't mine. You probably don't want to know who that was :)

Kucinich? ; ) Isn't he still in the race?

I did like Kucinich a lot, and I think he's still in the race. He's still hitting people up for money, anyway. But I voted for Edwards :)

I voted for Edwards, too. He's so hot. Although, Kerry is not bad looking.

I must admit I really did love Edwards' speeches, they got my blood flowing...mostly because of all the screaming I was doing. You could just see the tax dollars he was promising spewing from every one of his orafices as he spoke, but I've rarely seen better showmanship.

I understand I was your first choice, Emily, but I'm not running... hehe.

In a perfect world Nader would be my first choice. But after seeing the effects of Bush's aggressive foreign policy, I just can't do that again.

A Kerry/Nader ticket would be great, but I know that's pretty much impossible.

Dude, that's why I can't watch any Bush prime time speech. It gets me too riled up before bed time. I was very nearly shaking with rage after the State of the Union.

See? Liberals and Conservatives do have something in common after all!

haha...oh Emily. I would really LOVE to get into your mind. Maybe someday we will have the technology!

Can you imagine how mad you would have been if Bush were actually a conservative? LOL

Okay Dude, if Bush isn't a conservative, what is he?

A plutocrat?

That was my question, too, Polamex (nice to meet you, by the way!)

Dude, I will cop to being confused about your comment. My inital reaction is to be insulted, but, you know, written word is not the best way to convey verbal nuance. So I'm not going to go ape shit just yet :)

1) Massive expansion of the federal government (not just defense and homeland security) supported by the Bush budget, inluding the largest entitlement program in U.S. history (prescription drug benefit) passed by the Republican congress as well.

2) Willingness to pay social conservative issues lip service, but not truly put his weight behind them to move them in Congress(marriage amendment, pro-life issues).

3)Large number of non-consevatives...or conservative posers...in the administration, including HHS secreatary Tommy Thompson, who has approved the Medicaid Family Planning Waiver...nearly 30 Million for EACH STATE that enacts the waiver, going for birth control and abortion counseling for girls as young as 14 without parental knowledge or consent. The amount of funding for these types of programs has increased dramatically under the Bush administration (which, if I'm not mistaken, you should be pleased with).

The list goes on and on...but you get the idea. His near perfect foreign policy that we and the rest of the civilized world will likely benefit from for generations to come, is about his only saving grace with many true conservatives.

Not sure under what scenario you would have been insulted...

To me, saying that you want to get into someone's head implies that their thinking is so skewed that's the only possible way you could understand it. Perhaps I'm being too touchy. It's certainly happened before.

Anywho, if by "massive expansion of the federal government", you mean "massive expansion of federal programs that directly benefit major coroprations and not the individuals to whom the benefits are ostensibly extneded", then I would have to agree with you. Bush has given a lot of my money to those bastards.

Please don't get me into a discussion of reproductive rights because, you know, I have a uterus and I tend to get really fired up about having control over it.

As for foreign policy...I think it's safe to say we REALLY disagree on this one.

But you didn't answer the question: WHO is a good example of a conservative?

In all seriousness, Dude, I think it is good to have different view points represented in public forums. As long as there aren't any personal attacks/insults/etc. flying around, I'm all about this kind of shit.

I should add in fairness that the Ashcroft Justice Department...I do consider conservative.

In addition to the dispicable, civil rights infringing act of arresting people that are conspiring to blow people up and/or kill them with biological and radiological toxins; he has also been very aggresive in prosecuting sex crimes and child pornography. The gall of it. :o)

I was reading an article about some liberal-leaning guy who decided to subsist only on self-proclaimed conservative media for 30 days (a la Super Size Me). It was interesting. At the end of it all he realized that he was agreeing with Rush (or some such -- I don't remember who exactly it was)...but it was about prosecuting child pornographers. Who, I think we all agree, are evil.

Of course I think your thinking is extremely skewed...and that's what the comment was intended to convey, in a friendly, lighthearted way. I'm sure you think the same of me, and that's fine.

One of my favorite conservatives is Alan Keyes...although he's fiercely anti-trade, an issue which I fall more in the middle on.

I am sooo thankful for my wife's profound respect for her womanhood and the life that her body will be able to miraculously generate (with my help of course). I am continually encouraged by her, my mother, my grandmother and the millions of other women in this country with uteruses who are horrified that the violent scraping of a developed child from the wall of the uterus and the tearing of its limbs from its torso (Dialation and Extraction) is totally legal - among other barbaric methods. As a former fetus, I have to agree.

I agree with Dude; Bush is not a conservative. He is also not a Christian. If I were either of those his hypocrisy would bother me even more, which is hard to imagine.

Can I tell everyone how upset I am that a post I wrote that I said I agree with Dude is directly after his anti-choice post? Did anyone else read Savage Love today?

You know, I've typed and deleted about 10 reponses, but I think it's best for me to say that, seriously, the abortion thing is not something I discuss with relative strangers. It's like trying to tell someone their religion is wrong.

religion is a farce. life is preparation for death and nothing more. to believe so is naive, ludicrous, and bitterly human.

I'm too lazy to put this in link form, but it's a summary of Alan Keyes positions on the issues if anyone is curious. We disagree some on trade (as I mentioned earlier) and the death penalty (which I generally oppose)...but otherwise, he's my ideal President.

http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/e2000/blkeyes.htm?once=true&

Haqi...depressing. Sounds like you have been reading the Old Testament book of Ecclesiasties. "Everything is vanity"...man was Soloman pissed off when he wrote that!

Woo hoo! Abortion and religion.

You know, an interpretation of the M-theory says that there are actually 11 dimensions in the universe, but we (along with all matter and all forces we could ever see) are stuck to 4 of them. So no matter what, we could never ever detect the presence of other dimensions.

That leaves plenty of room for me. So to say God is impossible is also naive, ludicrous and bitterly human.

The same argument works for aliens.

Agreed on both counts!