Fellow Conservatives, do Liberals protesting the war seem to get on your "Fighting side"??

Question

First of all, sorry about taking your singing idea Earnest, but this needed to be said.

OK guys, do any of you just feel outraged about the people who claim that, say, terrorism is really OUR fault for helping Israel? Or that we DESERVE it because we act like we are better than everyone else (which we are!)??

Well, just remember, we aren’t the first generation to have that problem. This song was sung in 1970, the last time the Anti-America crowd reared it’s ugly head:

I hear people talkin' bad,
About the way we have to live here in this country,
Harpin' on the wars we fight,
An' gripin' 'bout the way things oughta be.
An' I don't mind 'em switchin' sides,
An' standin' up for things they believe in.
When they're runnin' down my country, man,
They're walkin' on the fightin' side of me.

Yeah, walkin' on the fightin' side of me.
Runnin' down the way of life,
Our fightin' men have fought and died to keep.
If you don't love it, leave it:
Let this song I'm singin' be a warnin'.
If you're runnin' down my country, man,
You're walkin' on the fightin' side of me.

I read about some squirrely guy,
Who claims, he just don't believe in fightin'.
An' I wonder just how long,
The rest of us can count on bein' free.
They love our milk an' honey,
But they preach about some other way of livin'.
When they're runnin' down my country, hoss,
They're walkin' on the fightin' side of me.


So maybe we ought to take up the fight, stand up for our country, and tell these folks to like it or leave it. At least Johnny Depp had enough courage to leave because he didn’t like this country, so why don’t you do the same?

So the question is:

1. Do any conservatives besides me feel this way, and

2. Why don't Liberals go move to Europe, since they want the U.S. to be so much like them (high taxes, shoddy government-sponsored health care, etc.

Answer 1

They do get me upset. I also pity the fools. I agree that Johnny Depp had the integrity to follow through on leaving. I just wish Alec Baldwin had been as honest when he "threatened" to do the same.

Seriously, I do not hold these people in very high regard. They show no integrity and little intelligence for people so full of...knowledge. They are in a country that affords them tremendous freedom. However, that's not good enough. They are then miscreant enough to bite the hand that feeds them. They attack the very system that affords them their greatest liberty.

To answer your question, they don''t move to Europe because there they would be just one of the crowd. Here, they can rant and rave and the drive-by media will give them all the exposure they want. Unfortunately, since they are acting like the southern end of a north-bound gelding, they only thing they are exposing is their nether region.

Answer 2

It would certainly be nice to see cons at a protest for a change, not that the media would cover it.

The liberal movement in the US is part of a broader, global movement (in the 50's it was paranoically characterized as an "International Communist Conspiracy"), which, like others such as the "West's" agenda of democratization, or free-trade/open-borders globalization, or Islam's vision of a universal Ummah, want the entire world to conform to it's ideals. Leaving behind a benighted place that still needs to be saved for another where the battle is further along would hardly further that agenda.

Answer 3

Well, I am a liberal as you know IHHC. I will say that terrorism is the fault of a religion whose followers are not smart enough to know crap when they hear crap. The intelligent ones are generally not the ones blowing things up.

The bombs going off in Iraq, those are partially our fault. Where would we be today had we chose not to go into Iraq? Aside from a half trillion dollars richer, having a positive opinion in countries other than England is about the only thing different. I understand most conservatives say that doesn't matter, but that is a matter of opinion.

If you remember, Iraq had very little of this suicide bombing crap happening over there until we moved in. I have sent you references to this in an email during previous debate IHHC. So in my opinion which happens to also have supporting facts, we are in ways indirectly responsible for the terrorism and directly.

I'll never understand how people in a "proud to be an American" speech can suggest that those that do not agree with political decisions leave the country. Isn't that one of our freedoms that are the most exercised and appreciated? You suggest I leave for stating an opinion not popular with your own, seriously sounds like you are wanting to live in a dictatorship where you only live here if you verbally agree with the nation's strategy.

What happens if Dems win the Presidency? Are you going to agree and accept everything without giving your opinions that disagree with the gov't? It is your right to speak your opinion and anyone suggesting that you leave is anti-American for saying that.

It isn't as much that we act like we are better than everyone else, I think it is closer to we try to be the World police. Problem is you alway have to do the moral thing as a police officer, which means not occupying another country if they are not a threat to you. Otherwise we are just being big bullies.

Answer 4

I'm far from being a liberal and just as far from being a conservative, but to the best of my understanding what made America great was the freedom to be on either side.

If you want to send all of one people away because they don't agree with you, that pretty much marks you as a fascist which in and of itself is anti-American.

I hate hippies, but people protesting and speaking their mind is activism, one of the rights we have in America that defines this country as being great. You want to impede on that right, one that is guaranteed by the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights. I'd sooner call you anti-American than them.

Answer 5

That was the Hag's song. Merle Haggard and to all you Yellow Streaked Liberals he's also a Redneck Country Boy and loves it. The Hag probably made more money off that song than you make in your lifetime in food stamps.

To answer your question. Most Libs on here are probably one toke short of what Johnny Depp had before he left.

Answer 6

I'm sorry that you have devolved from a peace loving Jose Wails to a hippie hater.

Jose was a hippie he danced in the forest with Sandra Locke.

Go Team Red Go

Answer 7

well yes but it only gets on my laughing side. just watch some of these protests there absolutely PATHETIC! i would call them hippies but at least they were hyped up on drugs these new bred of yuppie hippie is just way too humorous to be taken seriously.

Answer 8

Any one that quotes Merle Haggard? Is a Friend of mine!! We need to keep our attention to motivating Voters. Not harping on the wrongs of the Democrats. But damn good stuff!

Answer 9

Well being as the cons on here are not in Iraq themselves, they have not got a lot or room to talk.
You can support America and the troops but, be against the war and the reasons we went in the first place.
I do not know what America you live in where if someone disagrees with you they are a terrorist but, it sounds like you live in McCarthy-ville.

Answer 10

I absolutely agree. I think a dose of time living in N. Korea might straighten them out.
And, to the libs - incessant carping is cowardly.