"It is difficult to make generalizations about a hall full of delegates, and yet one striking event suggested that many in this gathering have mindsets that are several standard deviations away from the national average. That underreported event involved a group of Eagle Boy Scouts. As the scouts were lining up to go on stage as a part of opening ceremonies, they were soundly booed and confronted with waving signs which read, 'WE SUPPORT GAY BOY SCOUTS!' "

Linda Bowles, on the 2000 Democratic Party Convention

"I remain hopeful that in time, the legacy of the Clinton presidency will be that its classic wretchedness awakened the American people from a soul-numbing, moral stupor. The Lord moves in mysterious ways."

Linda Bowles

"The big pushes during Clinton's two terms in office were to: raise taxes, cover up the Travelgate scandal, increase government spending, diversify the sexes from two to five, transfer America's manufacturing base to needy foreign countries, legitimize sexual deviancy, sissify the military, cover up Whitewater, foster class warfare, cover up the massacres of American citizens at Waco and Ruby Ridge, keep as many members of the cabinet out of jail as possible, shred 12 tons of incriminating documents, defend racial discrimination against people of non-color, defend welfare as we know it, strip marriage of its meaning by extending its benefits to odd couples, defend and promote infanticide, register welfare recipients to vote, expand benefits for illegal aliens, blame school violence on inanimate objects, recruit illegal aliens to the Democrat Party, raise money to defend the president against a pants-dropping charge, put the Creator of the Universe under house arrest, confiscate private property, control the amount of water used in a toilet flush, deny parents the right to choose schools for their children, mainstream hustler Larry Flynt, subvert the Constitution with loophole-lawyering, return California and Texas to Mexico, foster anti-American multiculturalism, start Cold War II, promote the idea that ######## is not sex, mangle the English language with legal babble, prove you can lie under oath and get away with it, establish the moral precedent that adultery is OK if the wife doesn't care, protect endangered weeds and kangaroo rats from farmers, keep Hillary out of jail, develop an affirmative-action program for a venereal disease, promote cigars as ########, rent out the Lincoln Bedroom, put degeneracy on a pedestal, socialize medicine, sell nuclear secrets to China, criminalize 'incorrect' thought, use the UnitedNations to teach Third World countries the joys of wholesale abortions, cover up the cover-ups, meddle in the internal affairs of other nations, wage illegal wars, and teach underage children how to have sex without consequences."

Linda Bowles

"The modern definition of "racist" is "someone who is winning an argument with a liberal."

Peter Brimelow

"The only rich people deserving of malice are rich liberals who express bemusement at the non-rich's desire for a tax cut."

Ann Coulter

"A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own."

Frank Dane

"The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women -of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined."

T. S. Eliot

"It is not that we have lost our moral grounding. The American people do have strong moral principles. Central among these is that no one has the right to impose their particular morality on other people's lives. "

Lenora Fulani

"Now let's see if I understand this correctly. President Clinton has ordered our forces to engage an entrenched, politically motivated enemy, backed by the Russians, on their home ground, in a foreign civil war, in difficult terrain, with limited military objectives, with bombing restrictions, boundary and operational restrictions, queasy allies, far across an ocean, with uncertain goals, without prior consultation with Congress, having the potential for escalation, while limiting the forces at his disposal, and while the majority of Americans are opposed to, or are at best uncertain about, the value of the action being worth American lives. ----- So, what was it that Clinton was opposed to during Vietnam?"

Lt. Gen. Tom Griffin USA (ret.)

"All that we bled for and suffered for the last 25 years is now in the balance here today. This case is up there with the Dred Scott level of case; did the black man have a right the white was bound to respect?
If this court rules against counting our vote, it will simply create a civil rights explosion. People will not surrender to this tyranny. We will fight back. ... [These are] nazi tactics! ... We will take to the streets right now, we will delegitimize Bush, discredit him, do whatever it takes, but never accept him."

Jesse Jackson, protesting the 2000 election

"Affirmative action is the attempt to deal with malignant racism by instituting benign racism."

Elliott Larson

"A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money."

G. Gordon Liddy

"The function of liberal Republicans is to shoot the wounded after battle."

Eugene McCarthy

"The left always focuses its attention on dividing wealth -- rather than producing it -- and they do so because of their love affair with government power. Bureaucrats can work to apportion riches in a manner they deem fair, but government never produces the riches in the first place -- only private enterprise can do that. In other words, the left sustains the sense of eternal grudge that fuels its lunatic projects by persuading people to focus on the attainments of others, rather than celebrating achievements of their own. Liberals love to highlight the 'growing gap between rich and poor' -- without noting the far more salient fact that poor people in America have progressed so dramatically that they now enjoy a standard of living that would have qualified as middle class in previous years. There will always be someone with a bigger business, a better car, a nicer house, a prettier wife -- and it can drive you crazy if you concentrate on the blessings of that other guy."

Michael Medved

"The principle feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things-war and hunger and date rape-liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things. . . . It's a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don't have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join it, you just have to be liberal."

P.J. O'Rourke

"With money comes power over the world. Men are freed from drudgery, women from exploitation. Businesses can be started, homes built, communities formed, religions practiced, educations pursued. But liberals aren't very interested in such real and material freedoms. They have a more innocent - not to say toddlerlike - idea of freedom. Liberals want the freedom to put anything into their mouths, to say bad words and to expose their private parts in art museums. That liberals aren't enamored of real freedom may have something to do with responsibility - that cumbersome backpack which all free men have to lug on life's aerobic nature hike. The second item in the liberal creed, after self-righteousness, is unaccountability. Liberals have invented whole college majors - psychology, sociology, women's studies - to prove that nothing is anybody's fauult. No one is fond of taking responsibility for his actions, but consider how much you'd have to hate free will to come up with a political platform that advocates killing unborn babies but not convicted murderers. A callous pragmatist might favor abortion AND capital punishment."

P.J. O'Rourke

"The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it."

P.J. O'Rourke

"So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people that don't even know that fire is hot."

George Orwell

"A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment."

Willis Player
"Few Americans realize it, but the Democratic Party adheres to the basic premise of Marxist political parties. The defining characteristic of a Marxist party is class warfare."

Paul Craig Roberts

"Liberalism is driven by a mysterious antagonism to the moral traditions of the Many. In any society the Few rule the Many, but in most societies the ruling elite shares the general moral outlook of the majority of the population and there is no basic conflict between the rulers and the ruled. In today's America, so alien to our ancestors, it is different. The Few not only hate the traditions of the Many; they have conducted a relentless propaganda campaign against those traditions, variously called 'education,' 'eradicating prejudice,' and 'consciousness-raising.' They coin new-fangled words like 'homophobia' to stigmatize deep-seated popular attitudes; they publicize and memorialize minor local incidents, like vicious murders of homosexuals, making them symbols of the moral attitudes they want to condemn. In pursuit of this agenda, the Many must be made to feel guilty about their natural feelings. And the government must be empowered to engineer a mass psychological transformation, until those feelings cease to exist. The process must begin with children in the public schools, where state propaganda will teach them that homosexuality is normal. The desire of the Few to control and change even the inner lives of the Many is of course a totalitarian ambition. Liberals denounce 'sexual McCarthyism' as they practice what might be called sexual Stalinism. As Stalin aspired to create the 'New Soviet Man,' liberals want to produce new, sexually 'liberated' children, with homosexual propaganda as one of their tools."

Joseph Sobran

"What is rare is a liberal who doesn't think his liberalism is in itself sufficient proof that his heart is in the right place, even when he's supporting late-term abortion: the liberal position is by definition the 'compassionate' position."

Joseph Sobran

"Why is "diversity" the favorite word of monotonous people? The instant you hear it, your nervous system braces itself for a torrent of cliches. Liberals are lucky the rest of us don't demand reparations for decades of boredom. If boredom were officially recognized as a form of suffering, the full extent of liberal guilt would be incalculable."

Joseph Sobran

"Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help."

Thomas Sowell

"Liberalism is embarrassed by success and prosperity because independent and free people do not need liberals -- and above all, liberals need to be needed. Otherwise, they'd have to find real work instead of careers in politics, entertainment, class warfare (the only kind of war in which they believe) and, yes (and here I might be guilty of self-incrimination),
column writing."

Cal Thomas

"People who think like us may be in the minority, but we're the smart ones. ... [The Ten Commandments] are a little out of date. If you're only going to have 10 rules, I don't know if [prohibiting] adultery should be one of them."

Ted Turner (Idiot)

"The reason that the World Trade Center got hit is because there are a lot of people living in abject poverty out there who don't have any hope for a better life."

Ted Turner at Brown University

"History is not going to be kind to liberals. With their mindless programs, they've managed to do to Black Americans what slavery, Reconstruction, and rank racism found impossible: destroy their family and work ethic."

Dr. Walter Williams

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