What is it with all the Angry Conservatives here?

[Anonymous]

You sound like the most persecuted group in American history. Get a grip already! You are not walking the trail of tears. You still make money, still live in nice houses. You just lost an election. So stop whining and pull your party back together.

[Anonymous]

I can't speak for all Conservatives, but we feel like Obama is taking the country in the wrong direction. We have every right to be angry.

Your generalization that Conservatives are doing just fine making money in their nice houses is moronic, but you know that and just said it to be an ass. Job loss and money problems have hit every tax bracket.

[Anonymous]

Well how about you? Are you living in a nice house, do you have a job making good money?

[Anonymous]

Actually I suspect that there are fewer really angry conservatives than it appears. I notice a general theme and structure to the posts. I think there are only one or two angry conservatives and they're posting like crazy.

[Anonymous]

Although I love watching the Republican Party in such dire straits, I would lay off conservatives for complaining here. I was pretty f-ing angry at the previous admistration so I know how they feel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Although I love watching the Republican Party in such dire straits, I would lay off conservatives for complaining here. I was pretty f-ing angry at the previous admistration so I know how they feel.

An honest liberal! Can I buy you a beer?

[Anonymous]

I get disagreeing with the administration. But the anger is disproportionate to the situation. Obama is pulling economic levers both parties have used before. Yes, taxes are going up a notch, but only a notch. And the biggest foreign policy changes are a return to the use of diplomacy and international action, which is really something the FP veterans agree needs to happen anyway. Yes, you can disagree with it. But the posters act as though this government is personally harming them. I know people personally harmed by the government (Japanese internment camps, for example) and they do not have this level of hostility in them.

[Anonymous]

I think conservatives have been surprisingly level in the invective. There is little of the personal broad stroke attacks: he's a moron, he's the devil -- a la Bush 2 that passed for liberal argumentation (I even heard it from the profs in grad school; how humiliating for them). People seem to be pinpointing specific issues and hammering on them. That's called discussion. --happy conservative

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think conservatives have been surprisingly level in the invective. There is little of the personal broad stroke attacks: he's a moron, he's the devil -- a la Bush 2 that passed for liberal argumentation (I even heard it from the profs in grad school; how humiliating for them). People seem to be pinpointing specific issues and hammering on them. That's called discussion. --happy conservative

Completely agree!

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:I think conservatives have been surprisingly level in the invective.

That is true as far as the posters here are concerned. However, stop by freerepublic.com and see if you continue to have the same opinion.

[Anonymous]

Much more fun to stop by here. Who would want to talk with only people they agree with? --happy conservative

[Anonymous]

An honest liberal! Can I buy you a beer?

Yes, please! Spent $2K today fixing my dog and my car.

[Anonymous]

What is that supposed to mean? If the intimation is that conservatives are rich, you would be wrong. Conservatism represents all socioeconomic areas because the something like 47 percent of people who voted for John "McCain weren't all wealthy, it just wouldn't reflect things accurately. The commonality with conservatives is freedom. Freedom to be as successful or not as successful as you choose and not have he government "redistribute" your wealth. The liberals tend to blame other people for their lack whether the lack would be lack of job, lack of opportunity, lack of education and it goes on. The liberals also tend to look at the government to fix their problems while the conservatives just ask that the government protect the country and have a minimal national framework and most conservatives believe the states should have more say and not the other way around. I do think it's interesting that pp made a snide remark on how someone spends their money and that is another problem with liberals. They tend to think that people should spend their money in a certain manner and you hear about waste all the time. A conservative, such as myself, only cares that you earned the money honestly and I will leave how you spend it up to you and I promise I won't riducule you since it's your money.

This site tends to not have many conservatives who go into the political forums because the liberals get very nasty as well as it sort of strange to have the site administrator be so against conservatives instead of just acting as a referree.

[Anonymous]

Good summation of conservatism; I don't think the above was meant to snide. Rather, good-natured? That's how I read it at least. --happy conservative

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is that supposed to mean? If the intimation is that conservatives are rich, you would be wrong. Conservatism represents all socioeconomic areas because the something like 47 percent of people who voted for John "McCain weren't all wealthy, it just wouldn't reflect things accurately. The commonality with conservatives is freedom. Freedom to be as successful or not as successful as you choose and not have he government "redistribute" your wealth. The liberals tend to blame other people for their lack whether the lack would be lack of job, lack of opportunity, lack of education and it goes on. The liberals also tend to look at the government to fix their problems while the conservatives just ask that the government protect the country and have a minimal national framework and most conservatives believe the states should have more say and not the other way around. I do think it's interesting that pp made a snide remark on how someone spends their money and that is another problem with liberals. They tend to think that people should spend their money in a certain manner and you hear about waste all the time. A conservative, such as myself, only cares that you earned the money honestly and I will leave how you spend it up to you and I promise I won't ridicule you since it's your money.

This site tends to not have many conservatives who go into the political forums because the liberals get very nasty as well as it sort of strange to have the site administrator be so against conservatives instead of just acting as a referee.

I think you captured one aspect of modern conservatism, the economic part; as you put it 'Freedom to be as successful or not as successful as you choose and not have he government "redistribute" your wealth.' But you left out the social aspect of modern conservatism (i.e. the religious right agenda) is quite at odds with the philosophy of limited government.

I think you also tend to see nastiness in a one-sided way. I am quite convinced that personality is independent of politics. There are repulsive characters on both liberal and conservative blogs, and I would bet that admirable qualities like intelligence and charity are fairly evenly distributed between those who would call themselves liberal and conservative, as well as those who would refuse either label.

Jeff can explain himself, of course, but as a participant in this site, I'd say that my understanding is that he started the political forum not because he loves site administration but because he loves politics. If we want to play in his yard, I think it is only fair that we accept him in the game. Besides, I think everyone will admit, even if you are one of those who disagrees with his opinions, that he digs up some good information.