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I support Condoleeza Rice and GOP, but that wasn't enough for me to start using Dropbox — Google Drive is fine for me. Not everybody is left-leaning here.

icebraining 12y ago
Not everyone who dislikes Rice is left-leaning neither.
- celticninja 12y ago
  Yeah she is female and black so plenty for the right to hate.
  - coherentpony 12y ago
    While a large swath of people believe that conservatives hate women and people that aren't white, this is not the case. Racists prejudice a specific race. Sexists prejudice a specific gender. Conservatives, however, are just people that have a different view on how a country should be run. These three things are completely separate qualities. Some people may exhibit several of these qualities, while others do not. I imagine this is why you are being downvoted.
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    - drivingmenuts 12y ago
      > Racists prejudice a specific race. Sexists prejudice a specific gender. Conservatives, however, are just people that have a different view on how a country should be run. For everything else, there's Fox News ...
    - acheron 12y ago
      Actually I doubt many people truly believe that "conservatives hate women and non-whites", it's just a rhetorical hammer used by those arguing against conservatives. Whether the argument is fallacious and/or inaccurate really doesn't matter. I was about to say something like "welcome to modern politics", except we have evidence of this kind of thing going on since elections in ancient Rome, and it's probably far older than that, too. So "welcome to human nature", maybe.
- dreamweapon 12y ago
  Not everyone who dislikes Rice is left-leaning neither. In right-winger logic they are, of course.
  - icebraining 12y ago
    Please, don't.
    - dreamweapon 12y ago
      Use complete sentences?
freshflowers 12y ago
You don't need to be left-leaning to consider Rice and the GOP unethical extremists. Basically, most of the people on this planet that consider themselves conservative wouldn't want to be associated with the US Republican Party.
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api 12y ago
I'm not sure I consider myself "left leaning" per se -- I guess it depends on the issue. Before Bush Jr. my nomination for best president of the last hundred years would have been Dwight Eisenhower (R) and my worst would have been Lyndon Johnson (D). Bush has likely edged out Johnson for worst. Interestingly both Lyndon Johnson and Bush Jr. were Southern Democrats. Most of the craziness about today's GOP can be traced to the fact that they were overrun with former Dixiecrats. Bush was basically a Dixiecrat who ran as a Republican. The Southern Democrat position combines everything bad about the Democrats (big government, high taxes, etc.) with everything bad about the Republicans (fundamentalism, warmongering). (Bush did raise taxes, just indirectly. Taxation equals spending as per simple double-entry accounting, and Bush raised spending and increased the size of government considerably.)

icebraining 12y ago

Not everyone who dislikes Rice is left-leaning neither.

celticninja 12y ago
Yeah she is female and black so plenty for the right to hate.
- coherentpony 12y ago
  While a large swath of people believe that conservatives hate women and people that aren't white, this is not the case. Racists prejudice a specific race. Sexists prejudice a specific gender. Conservatives, however, are just people that have a different view on how a country should be run. These three things are completely separate qualities. Some people may exhibit several of these qualities, while others do not. I imagine this is why you are being downvoted.
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  - drivingmenuts 12y ago
    > Racists prejudice a specific race. Sexists prejudice a specific gender. Conservatives, however, are just people that have a different view on how a country should be run. For everything else, there's Fox News ...
  - acheron 12y ago
    Actually I doubt many people truly believe that "conservatives hate women and non-whites", it's just a rhetorical hammer used by those arguing against conservatives. Whether the argument is fallacious and/or inaccurate really doesn't matter. I was about to say something like "welcome to modern politics", except we have evidence of this kind of thing going on since elections in ancient Rome, and it's probably far older than that, too. So "welcome to human nature", maybe.
dreamweapon 12y ago
Not everyone who dislikes Rice is left-leaning neither. In right-winger logic they are, of course.
- icebraining 12y ago
  Please, don't.
  - dreamweapon 12y ago
    Use complete sentences?

freshflowers 12y ago

You don't need to be left-leaning to consider Rice and the GOP unethical extremists. Basically, most of the people on this planet that consider themselves conservative wouldn't want to be associated with the US Republican Party.

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api 12y ago

I'm not sure I consider myself "left leaning" per se -- I guess it depends on the issue. Before Bush Jr. my nomination for best president of the last hundred years would have been Dwight Eisenhower (R) and my worst would have been Lyndon Johnson (D). Bush has likely edged out Johnson for worst. Interestingly both Lyndon Johnson and Bush Jr. were Southern Democrats. Most of the craziness about today's GOP can be traced to the fact that they were overrun with former Dixiecrats. Bush was basically a Dixiecrat who ran as a Republican. The Southern Democrat position combines everything bad about the Democrats (big government, high taxes, etc.) with everything bad about the Republicans (fundamentalism, warmongering). (Bush did raise taxes, just indirectly. Taxation equals spending as per simple double-entry accounting, and Bush raised spending and increased the size of government considerably.)