Posted by
SonOfTed on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 8:30:24 PM
I have seen the points below posted elsewhere in various forms with the wording slightly different. I apologize for not knowing who originally wrote this, but it IS important to review now and then, if only to remind ourselves that TRUTH above all is more important than silly, political posturing.
I have edited this list to include a couple of key points of my own.
If a majority of the points below make sense to you, you COULD be a looney, extremist liberal Democrat.
1. You are against capital punishment for unrepentant, repeat offending cold-blooded murderers, but support abortion on demand.
2. You believe that businesses create oppression but big 'tax and spend' government and 'trustworthy' politicians create prosperity.
3. You believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding Americans are more of a threat than nuclear weapons in the hands of radical Islamist, and/or Chinese and Korean communists.
4. You believe that there was no art before Federal funding.
5. You believe that global temperatures are more affected by people driving SUV's, than by documented cyclical changes in the Earth's climate.
6. You believe that gender roles are artificial but being homosexual is natural.
7. You believe that the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of federal funding.
8. You believe that the same teacher who can't teach fourth graders how to read is qualified to teach those same kids about sex.
9. You believe that carefully monitored hunters who help to prevent mass starvation of animals and winter deaths due to overpopulation don't care about nature, but looney activists who have never been out of a large metropolitan city somehow do.
10. You believe that self-esteem is more important than actually doing something to earn it.
11. You think 'The Passion of the Christ' is too violent a movie, but regularly watch many of the other "R" rated movies that glorify sex and violence.
12. You believe the NRA is bad because it supports certain parts of the Constitution, but the ACLU is good because it supports certain parts of the Constitution.
13. You believe that ATM fees are too high, but taxes are too low.
14. You believe that Margaret Sanger and Gloria Steinem are more important to American history than Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Edison, and A.G. Bell.
15. You believe that standardized tests for students are racist, but racial quotas are not.
16. You believe that increasing our domestic supply of oil, natural gas and nuclear electrical power is a bad energy policy because it will take years to put in place, but throw support behind alternative forms of energy such as wind, solar, and bio-fuels... new technology that is not affordable to the average consumer and that will take even LONGER to put in place.
17. You believe that the only reason socialism hasn't worked anywhere it has ever been tried is because the right people haven't been in charge of it yet.
18. You believe conservatives telling the truth should be required to testify repeatedly in witch hunts conducted by the partisan, opposite party in Congress (on the taxpayer's dime) even if there is no tangible evidence against them, but a President who perjured himself deserved to stay in the White House.
19. You believe that public displays of homosexuality and parades honoring bestiality are constitutionally protected, but public displays of manger scenes at Christmas are illegal.
20. You believe that illegal funding of the Democratic Party by the Chinese Government is acceptable.
21. You believe that it's okay to give Federal workers Christmas Day off, but it's offensive to say 'Merry Christmas'.
22. You believe that terrorism is a 'law enforcement' issue, but oppose the expenditure of the time, treasure and patience necessary to build new democracies and ESTABLISH that rule of law in countries like Iraq and Afghanistan.