Not suppressed. The bottom line is money. They support what makes money.

Try this one link for an indicator

http://usconservatives.about.com/gi/...s/US/P000.html

Hmmmm.... 63% of people who attend church more than once a week voted for Bush. Holy Shit! Do people really go to church more than once a week? Scary.

Bible Thumpers love thier Bush! He's Jesus approved! :thumbsup

Hmmm... and of those who think that Bush's drunken driving arrest was significant.... 77% for Gore...

Teatotalers for Gore....Seems to counterbalance the frequent church visitors.

"Think for yourself =Liberal
Be told what to think = Conservative "


Is part of that thinking manipulating and keeping down the black man. Using scare tactics on seniors. Buying off the lower class' votes with handouts. Appealing to ideological college kids who have never made more than eight bucks an hour yet feel like they know everything. etc

Agree Rooster...

Is it not Liberals who want to tell me...

Whether I should smoke
How fast to drive
What to drink
What to eat
What to do with my property...

Bottom line, both groups want to dictate my behavior, they just have different behaviors they wish to control.

You got it backwards son. Its republicans and their 'moral bible' that attempt to dictate everyone elses personal behaviors.

liberals could care less what you eat, but they make sure that the meat packers follow basic rules for handling meat. Republicans would just as soon let them poison you to 'stay off the back of business'.

they could also give a shit if you want to kill yourself doing 120 mph in your car, but they won't let you do it on the highway so you can endanger everyone else.

they don't particularly care if you smoke, but don't like the hypocrisy of allowing some drugs and not others that are less harmful but more demonized.

you just want the freedom to be a cancer on society, and we don't want to give it to you.

Conservatives want to tell you what you can read and say and think, who you can fuck and where you can fuck them.

Scare tactics on seniors? If you consider telling them the truth scary, yes... keeping down the black man? that's a fucking joke. DAVID DUKE - TRENT LOTT - conservatives are racist to the core.

Teetotalers aren't for Gore, but YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED to parade your moral superiority in front of everyone when you're a fucking drunk and a cocaine sniffing party hound yourself, even when your daddy was the President. That's called hypocrisy, and it's the ugliest thing about the Republicans right now.

:thumbsup Very well said

First off, I am neither conservative nor liberal. I would actually be impossible for me to define my politics simply.

I do, however, always react to derision from both sides of the spectrum, so I will reply

In 1994 Clinton proposed legislation that would place a tax on foods considered "unhealthy", much like a sin tax on alcohol and tobacco. The proposal was such widely derided, it was quickly withdrawn.

We currently are witnessing a suit, financially supported by a number of organizations typically associated as "liberal", regarding the financial culpability of restaurants for offering foods with a high fat content.

I would say this is a trite more than regulation of the meat packing industry.

Sorry, I lived in Ny state during Coumo's regime there and actually challenged the maintenance of the 55 mph speed limit there when the rest of the country was at 65 mph. Having received three tickets in three weeks for the tremendous crime of going 62, 59 and 65 in a 55, I challenged the legitimacy of the law (hell, I was going to lose my license which was critical at the time). Suffice it to say that discovery revealed one of the primary motivations for retaining the 55 mph speed limit was fee generation (ergo, taxation). I furtermore don't think that doing a 60 in a 55 rates as a major social transgression on my part.

Then please explain the concept of sin taxes. There are quite a few activities that are actually more dangerous to your health than smoking but are not taxed at the same level - or at all. Why? I think it is because smoking is unfashionable right now while some other activities are not.

All I am saying is that both groups wish to regulate your behavior, they just have different priorties. Whether you agree with one set of priorities or not, is not the issue. To deny, however, that one of the groups does not attempt to legislate their values using hysterical examples is naive.

By the way, my comment about teatotalers was a metaphor to point out the irony of using urelated statistical data to reach a conclusion...it wasn't really a serious comment. Maybe the rediculous nature of the comment did not touch your humour nerve.

As far as the generalization that conservatives want to tell you what to read and think, etc. Yeah, social conservatives do, but most conservatives are not social conservatives, just as all liberals are not eco-terrorists or socialists.

let's take this down to a more simple level




people on far left = fucked up

people on far right = fucked up



people in the middle where most of the truth is = :thumbsup

Thanks Jimmy...simple way to say it.

lol