We’re reaching the 100th birthday of Ronald Reagan, and it’s interesting how even President Obama can speak fondly of him now. It’s a bit counterintuitive that liberals seem to start to like conservatives after their dead. You’d think the longer a conservative was dead, the even more conservative he’d seem in comparison to today and the more he’d be hated, but liberal hate of conservatives is not a policy difference, it’s an emotional one.
Like if you remember when Palin first came on the scene: Liberals knew instantly they hated her because she was a threat politically and reasons came later. It’s an “us versus them” mentality that comes from not keeping politics in perspective, but after the politician dies and they no longer have this emotional feel the person is a direct threat and an enemy. With the emotions gone, they can then look at the person as an actual human being. This will happen with any conservatives that liberals hate today for non-coherent reasons. For example, “Bush lied, people died” is not a meaningful statement that is going to last many years, and we can expect in the future liberals to recognize all the good qualities in Bush that they refused to let themselves see while he was president… maybe even while he’s still alive since he’s stayed out of politics and isn’t seen as a threat.
Anyway, no real point, but I just thought it was interesting. We like to think politics is about the issues, but so much of it is pretty meaningless and just the same mentality as really liking one sports team and hating another. And we can come up with the reasons later.
Spot on, Frank, especially the sports comparison.
The left has “Earth day” to celebrate Lenins 100th birthday. We should have thought of a new holiday to institute we could establish and then feign surprise when people mention it just happened to begin on Reagen 100th birthday.
Freedom from government oppression day
personal responsibility day
smack a !#$%@#$ 2@#%#$%@#$ @#$%@#$ %@# day
In related news: screw you, Ohio State!
“…but liberal hate of conservatives is not a policy difference, it’s an emotional one.”
Bingo!
It must be an uncomfortable thought to them though, because they vehemently deny it.
Right wing news had an interesting, almost Basil worthy take on liberal/conservative thought processes:
http://rightwingnews.com/2011/01/if-a-liberal-and-a-tea-partier-had-been-aboard-the-titanic/
I dunno, Frank. I’m having a really hard time coming up with any dead liberals that I feel good about. Burgess Meredith was blacklisted (prolly a commie), but I like him O.K., so I guess that’s one for me.
maybe 1/2 term Sarah (the quiter) can take a lesson from thee Obama and stop calling President Reagan “Bedtime for Bonzo”. She should also stop belittling President Reagans accomplishments prior to being elected to the presidency.
She has got to be the stupidest right-winger in the history of this once great nation. But thats what happens when you drink the Libertarian Tea. It makes you stoooopid.
Before all of this is over (I mean before Obamageddon and the Barackalypse) Resident Obama will be historically placed on the same level as President Reagan. For instance:
Reagan brought down the Wall.
Obama brought down Capitalism.
Reagan’s economic policies stimulated the economy!
The Obama economic policies assimilated an economy!
Reagan was a Great Communicator.
Obama is a great Telepromoter reader.
Ronald Reagan helped bring about the collapse of the Soviet Union.
And thee Obama caused the collapse of another EVIL Empire (America).
The similarities between them are simply “unbelievable”.
Burmashave,
Lee Marvin is an easy choice. Perhaps Smedley Butler as well.
Pardon me, I just did a little bit of reading on dear old Smedley and I retract previous statement. There was one Marine who went utterly wacky after service.
Lee was a liberal? He definitely qualifies. Not only did he serve as a Marine in WWII, he also made a Marine training video after he had become a star. Big Red One: Superb war movie.
Isn’t that the same process that Science! uses:pre-determine the desired findings, then screen the sample to ensure skewed data and manipulate the data to suit the desired findings. Oh, I forgot:destroy the original data so that peer-review is impossible and charachter assassinate anyone who questions you.
It is strange how much
Science! mirrors politicspolitics mirrors Science!Fair enough – I certainly like dead liberals.
Funny you use the sports metaphor as with politics and sports I never personally care who wins.
In terms of my current safety I do worry about the modern left since their ideology’s history (which they are in total denial about) clearly shows that after they have decimated the other team then they start murdering the fans who opposed them to say nothing of their paranoid purging among the survivors.
Its like as if a hundred years after the crusades Catholics where like, “Whaaat that? Wasnt us, that was everyone else we now hate.”
Most of the Liberals I know hate George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton.. and they have been dead a long, long time..
To use that one and Ronald Reagan on the same page is an insult to all Real Americans.
Was Reagan perfect? No. He was way too trusting of the lying marxist left. An example is the first amnesty for the criminal mexican invaders. The left lied and swore we would close the border if we only let them stay and be legal.
Can that one be trusted? No. He would sell his mother, again, for power, or cocaine depending on if he is in chicago or not.
I am still waiting, since prior to the election, for a marxist to tell me one thing that one has done that could be considered good or an accomplishment. Still hearing crickets, and of course the screeching of the harpy helen thomas.
It’s not at all surprising. Liberals simply think; “The only good Conservative is a dead Conservative”
So, Barry is trying to tie himself to Ronaldo Magnus! That’s rich! It really is! Barry, the poor lost little boy who has done EVERYTHING wrong is trying to be the guy who beat communism, fired the air traffic controllers when they went on strike, uttered the famous “Mr. Gorbachov, tear down this wall”…
Yea I see a lot of the same qualities. I remember Reagan bowing…umm…actually I think he was whispering in their ears “the bombing starts in 15 minutes”….
Liberals like dead Conservatives; that about sums it up. Don’t let your powder get wet, and don’t fire until they get past the land mines. Damn O-bah-muhh Zombies.
I hate all the Massachusetts-based Sports teams because I hate Massachusetts Politics/Politicians, I’ll come up with other reasons later.
Liberals like dead Republicans because dead people always vote Democrat. Simple as that..
I can’t answer this question, but I can tell you why conservatives like dead liberals: what is considered liberal now will be considered conservative 50 years from now. Cultural mores change, society progresses, and what was once a normal opinion to espouse (such as ‘Women should stay home and cook/clean/raise babies’ and ‘Black people are biologically inferior’) becomes, over time, an example of appalling ignorance…thanks to the work of liberals.
Choey…let me correct you on your terminology. The current politically correct and universally accepted term is ‘life impaired’ not ‘dead people’ which is totally unacceptable, biased, and bigoted. As far as their right to vote goes…why should their right to vote be any less important than yours? If you don’t believe me just ask any Chicago ward heeler.
They like dead Republicans because they can rewrite history to please themselves. Taken out of context you can make almost anyone should liberal. Typical bait and switch, snake oil salesmenship right out of the Socialist Alinsky playbook.
They never really change.
seanmahair is onto the reality of Obama’s love for Reagan. Obama is trying to take on the mantle of Reagan, by which he cloaks himself in Reagan’s popularity. He then sells himself as a limited government guy while expanding government at a mind boggling rate.
Said burmashave, “I knew Ronald Reagan. Barack, you’re no Ronald Reagan.”
There wouldn’t be a love fest for Reagan on the cover of Time,
or in the Obama White House
if they had won the mid-term elections.
Everything BHO says and does, everyplace he goes, even everything he wears
since the Tucson
memorial servicere-election rally ,is and will be focus group approved for the re-election campaign.
In reality they think Reagan was an empty suit who could put on a good enough
performance to attract the idiots who support him-
everything that Barack Hussein Obama actually IS.
Actually it all makes a lot more sense once you realize that in order to be a liberal you have to be mentally retarded, and nothing they say or do makes sense or serves any useful purpose except to spread their self-hatred to others.
your initial premise is wrong. Progressives don’t like conservatives, dead or alive. They do seem to like to eat, however, and continuing to advertise that they hate Reagan would threaten their ability to do so, so they lie.