Caroline Langston - a typical conservative hypocrite

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She had a commentary on NPR earlier this afternoon.

She started with a phrase that if you are young and have a heart you have to be liberal; if you are old and have a brain, you have to be conservative... or something like that.

She then went ahead saying how with her the process was reversed. She grew up a "Conservative Christian" in the south but as adult changed her stand. And what caused that stand? Events that were up close and personal. First, she was eligible for unemployment compensation and this monumental event convinced her that the New Deal was not bad, after all.

Then her spouse was a big shot in his union and she realized how important unions are..

But she still is against abortion and against stem cell research. I only wish for her that no loved one of her will be struck with a debilitating disease where stem cells can offer the only hope. And then, as we've seen in 2004, we will see how she changes her mind, again.

And last, she wondered where she fit on the map that describes the land "between New York and San Francisco" as Jesusland.

Dear Caroline, please take another look at that map. Only the South and mountain states are on that map. Certainly not the Northeast, the upper Midwest and the entire West Coast, not just "San Francisco."

And I was thinking, again, on what characterizes liberals: the ability and willingness to think beyond one's own family and Friends and circumstances. We, liberals, do not wait to be affected personally to support a government policy that benefits all. Conservatives do.

[ComerPerro]

1. I've been saying it a lot lately, nice to see it confirmed

Conservatives only give a shit about something when it affects them personally, or when they have a financial stake in it.

That's how you can tell they are terrible people.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Liberals believe in taking care of people

Conservatives only take care of themselves.

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4. She claimed that this was her liberalism

to take care of the unborn.

Still, the examples that I gave left me wondering..

[rhiannon55]

3. There are two kinds of people in the world--

Those with empathy and those without.

[madrchsod]

5. she has nothing important to say

she`s a hack that writes for the feeble minded among us.