If this was the Revolutionary War, * supporters would be British loyalists

[Rocknrule]

"Anyone who opposes King George is a traitor"
"King George is keeping us safe"
"We must sacrifice liberty for safety"
"King George rules by divine right"
"Shut up and fall in line, traitors"

Just goes to show that the FFs were liberals like us

[AllieB]

1. They would be the Pharisees in Jesus' time, the Tories during the

Revolution, the collaborators in Nazi-occupied Europe. They occupy the lowest rung on the human chain. They're selfish cowards.

[Rocknrule]

2. The Tories during the Revolution - that's the word I was looking for

And they WERE the collaborators in the Nazi days (Prescott). They would also have been the ones burning crosses and bombing black churches in the 60s.

[proud patriot]

3. Liberal Patriots vs. Conservative Loyalists

Reject King George

[Bonhomme Richard]

4. The same 30% that causes ill for.................

the entire world. They have always existed and always will. If there really is a hell it must be the only place where this excrement make up 100%.

[Botany]

5. About time this was brought up we were founded by liberals

Washington = liberal
Jefferson = Liberal
Adams = Liberal

It was the conservatives that were loyal to the crown.

Stick that in your American Eagle flag waving praying to Jesus pipe and smoke that.

[stevietheman]

8. And Jesus was a liberal.

If Conservatives want to insist that the country was founded on Christian principles (a dubious claim), then again, they're saying that liberals are the ones to thank.

ON EDIT: Actually, Jesus was a RADICAL LEFTIST. Or that's at least the way he would be viewed by the reich wing if he came back.

[ugarte]

6. And they wouldn't have let any Irish in, or Italians, or Jews...nt

[TygrBright]

7. Heck, they did their best to keep the Catholics out...

...not to mention the Quakers and anybody who didn't go along with the Anglican or Puritan protestant line.

derisively,
Bright

[Lisa]

9. aaaargh! Does that mean that Canadians are descended from freepers?!

Many of the Tory/anti-revolutionary side (or as historians call them up here, UELs -- United Empire Loyalists) ended up moving to Canada, in large enough numbers to kick-start the country's expansion. Having a UEL ancestor used to be the Canadian equivalent of being connected with the Mayflower.

http://history.cbc.ca/history/?MIval=/EpHome.html&episode_id=5&lang=E

Okay, some were snobbish and reactionary (by today's standards) -- but there were also decent folks among them. Arguably, Canada in its present form would likely not exist if it hadn't been for them ... in fact, a complicated history of cooperation (and conflict) with the US over many generations has made us who we are today. (The party currently forming Canada's government calls itself "Tory", but most Canadians do NOT support their agenda -- that's why they have a precarious minority which was mainly a protest vote.)

At the time of the Revolutionary War, there are numerous accounts of reasonable people on both sides, despite political differences, intervening to prevent friends and neighbours from being robbed, beaten, or worse. I was greatly moved by this -- and so was President Carter, when he wrote his recent book on the era. He hadn't expected to feel sorry for those on the opposing side, but he did. That's the humane, compassionate, down-to-earth side of America which makes me glad that the revolutionaries won!

Bush's more rabid supporters remind me of the bitter, angry fanatics who organized the tar-and-feathering (something we would likely classify as torture today), or outright lynching, of fellow colonists. And the opportunists who stirred things up on purpose, to be able to loot property. Their motives aren't any more patriotic than those of the later agitators who were itching for the Civil War to begin, for their own glory and profit -- boasting about how wonderful it would be to shoot a Virginian or a New Yorker through the head, on the field of battle.

Sad to think that those who are fanatically clinging to Bush while branding any criticism, however slight, as coming from "the evil empire", haven't learned after all these years that you can't build a stable democratic nation on hatred and vengeance. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson -- and later on, Abe Lincoln -- didn't show up on the historical equivalent of FOX News, trash-talking the opposition and calling them subhuman, and calling for the assassination of Hugo Chavez (or Michael Moore, for that matter). I may be a Canadian, but there are lots of things I admire about America's founders -- and it pains me to see Bush's people equating their guy to the nation-builders of the past.

[gatorboy]

10. Freerepublic = Redcoats

EOM