Could someone please explain this to me?

[zbdent]

Conservatives keep trying to take credit for all the good things that happen.

HOW THE F*CK CAN THEY GET AWAY WITH THIS?

I mean, the entire idea of "conservativism" is "keep things the way they were/are".

That means, no "new" ideas. Period. Anybody who decides on doing something new and different is making "progress".

Conservatives wanted the US to remain a colony. They sided with the British.

Conservatives wanted the states to be able to keep slavery (oh, "states' rights"). They seceded from the US (maybe that was their one "brilliant idea").

Conservatives were likely to shout "Get a horse" as the "horseless carriage" passed by.

Believe it or not, Hollywood has gone conservative. Not the indy films, but the big studios. It's funny, one "conservative" writer in a local Akron weekly (who said he became a "conservative" because he liked Michael J. Fox's image in "Family Ties") lamented about the dirth of "new idea" films coming out of Hollywood (saying that his last chuckle was from, get this, "Team America"). What's the big films that are hitting the summer fare? Dukes of Hazzard, Batman Begins (the writer had lamented that "I know that Batman lives"), lots of TV shows converted to movies, rehashing of comic books, and sequels. Essentially, the conservative move in Hollywood is to go with an established audience (can you say "Star Trek"/"Star Wars"?). The Academy Award winner was one that the conservatives hated: Billion Dollar Baby.

So, how do they get by with the claim that they come up with the great ideas? If they hadn't smeared Al Gore for "inventing the internet", they'd be claiming that, too.

[bertha katzenengel]

1. get a horse?

"Conservatives were likely to shout "Get a horse" as the "horseless carriage" passed by."

They were?

[rman]

2. How they can get away with this: the MSM do not challenge them

on their claims. And public opinion is largely based on the 'mass information' presented by the MSM.

[priller]

3. Modern GOP is all about PR and image.

Facts have no bearing on what they say. If the pollsters tell them that people want new ideas, then presto! The GOP is suddenly the party of big ideas, where the Dems are mired in the past. Notice that nothing has changed, really. They're just now projecting a new image.

How do they get away with it? As long as the press continues to avoid doing their job of making politicians accountable to the people, the GOP will continue to get away with it.