Thought this was interesting. I have cut and pasted this from another site. The following was posted by a gentleman named Brad:


Are You A Liberal?


These are some points that I heard on a radio talk show hosted by Dennis Prager, on key beliefs of the Liberals (Democrats) in America. He points out that most people who label themselves as Liberals, do not agree with most of these beliefs.



What do you think?



Brad



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You say you are a liberal.


Do you believe the following?


1. Standards for admissions to universities, fire departments, etc. should be lowered for people of color.


2. Bilingual education for children of immigrants, rather than immersion in English, is good for them and for America.


3. Murderers should never be put to death.


4. During the Cold War, America should have adopted a nuclear arms freeze.


5. Colleges should not allow ROTC programs.


5. It was wrong to wage war against Saddam Hussein in the Gulf War.


6. Poor parents should not be allowed to have vouchers to send their children to private schools.


7. It is good that trial lawyers and teachers unions are the two biggest contributors to the Democratic Party.


8. Marriage should be redefined from male-female to any two people.


9. A married couple should not have more of a right to adopt a child than two men or two women.


10. The Boy Scouts should not be allowed to use parks or any other public places and should be prohibited from using churches and synagogues for their meetings.


11. The present high tax rates are good.


12. Speech codes on college campuses are good and American values.


13. The Israelis and Palestinians are morally equivalent.


14. The United Nations is a moral force for good in the world, and therefore America should be subservient to it and such international institutions as a world court.


15. It is good that colleges have dropped hundreds of men's sports teams in order to meet gender-based quotas.


16. No abortions can be labeled immoral.


17. Restaurants should be prohibited by law from allowing customers to choose between a smoking and a non-smoking section.


18. High schools should make condoms available to students and teach them how to use them.


19. Racial profiling for terrorists is wrong -- a white American grandmother should as likely be searched as a Saudi young male.


20. Racism and poverty -- not a lack of fathers and a crisis of values -- are the primary causes of violent crime in the inner city.


21. It is wrong and unconstitutional for students to be told, "God bless you" at their graduation.


22. No culture is morally superior to any other.
Those are all liberal positions. How many of them do you hold?


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"We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free."- Ronald Reagan at the D-Day Anniversary

Negative

WHEW! Thought I was gonna have to go in and bring you back man!

E-Chick....I'll be whatever you want me be!

I am NOT a liberal ... not simply because my opinions are the absolute opposite of each and every one of those statments, but in other ways as well ... I respect the rights of others to have an opinion different than mine and am glad our system is such that such differences are not stifled, but I don't have to like those opinions ... I've got a son that lives in MA who IS liberal and whose liberalism causes me to regard myself as a failure as a father in his case ... I think the government has infringed on personal liberties FAR too much (what business is it of the state, for example, whether I wear a seat belt or not??) ... big brotherism gone amock ... the kind benevolent omniscient governent knows what is good for me, for you and for everyone in town ... they'll take as much of my money as they can get, spend as much of it as they like on perks for themselves and for more pork in their barrels, then dole out pittances to people they deem worthy of government aid ... Social Security is a sham and if it were an insurance plan offered by a private company that we could each buy into or not as we chose, the people running the company would be put in jail ... plain and simple, it is an illegal Ponzi scheme, but for some reason, no one seems to recognize it as such ... (oh, my, he's on a roll now ... look out) ... what the hell is it going to take for so many people in this country who behave as if they were brain-dead ... I've been properly taken to task for calling them idiots (a figure of speech I used in describing people who buy into the liberal hogwash) ... they are not idiots and many are even highly educated ... it makes one wonder whether perhaps some of their wiring is crossed and is short-cicuiting their common sense .... but as I've heard many times and even repeated on occasion, the most notable thing about common sense is that it really isn't all that common ... goverment should and was intended to be nothing more than providers of that which can be provided in NO other way ... they should not be minding my business, taking an absolutely unconscionable amount of my earnings to support their projects and have no right to be peeking in the windows of my car to see if my seat belt is around me or not ... if it's not and I am injured it is MY fault, not that of the mayor, the governor, my senator (oh, DON'T let me start on my senators!!!) nor is it that of any other furshlugginer government officials ... (those of you whose youth was as influenced by MAD Magazine as mine was will recognize "furshlugginer" ... the rest of you will have to gather it's meaning by the context in which it's used) ... more another time, but no, I am not and never will be a liberal ...

I have to admit i'm with you on that one.

Steve, since I live in MA I often see friends and family who are not only Democrats, but bleeding heart liberals bordering on socialists. I enjoy in depth conversations with them all and love many of them dearly. I hope your feelings of "failure" is an exageration intended to make a point. Most liberals do have their heart in the right place, even if their head is deep in a dark orifice elsewhere on their body...

too many double negatives possible, but here are my answers. i do not know html or phyz so i use dashes. let me know my score.
1. not correct.---

2. not correct.---
3. i do not believe in the death penalty.

4. i thought we had.---
5. who cares.---

5. BS war. served no purpoose.---

6. no one should get vouchers.it's all about the christian coalition anyway.---.

7. possibly, so what.---

8. it is also defined as . 1.a The legal union of a man and woman as husband and wife. b.
Wedlock. 2. A wedding. 3. A close union.---

9. not sure i care.---

10. what is this about?---

11. no tax is good.---

12. what speech codes?---

13. BS. the palastinians have followed the wrong demigog. life could have been different for
them.---

14. no, it is bs.---

15. no it's not, there is enough money to go around.---

16. of course some can be immoral.---

17. no they should not.---

18. they should be made available and any boy that doesn't know how to use one should not get
laid. (that's like a chicken laid an egg. nothing fowl intended.)---

19. not my grandmother.---

20. too narrow a scope, too simplistic.---

21. that is correct, unless they include all the gods, god of fire, god of rocks, hercules,
promethious, the rain god, etc.---

22. well we certainly aren't.

Uh, Rick, does that mean you are not a liberal?

i think it doesn't not mean neither. don't you not disagree.

If "liberal" is defined by those points, then "conservative" can be defined as: 1. Narrow minded. 2. Self righteous. Conservatives have attached too many negatives to the term "liberal". It's good to be a liberal thinker. What exactly is bad about it?

Rick: LMAO; you are one funny guy!

Rick: LMAO; you are one funny guy!

X, how can you be against Labor Unions and still claim to be a Liberal? Just wondering!!!! Charlie

Charlie, you must be talkin' to me, I don't see any other X here. Actually if you look at the long unions post, I was mostly for them. And I must qualify this: I am a liberal thinker. Not a liberal as defined by the right wing everything good must be made to look bad politicos.

Unions epitomize the Liberal agenda: equal pay for unequal work. Be it lack of ability or lack of desire, unions reward longevity before accomplishment. Work your ass off and make x dollars. Punch the clock and go to sleep and make x dollars. Union members have no right to bitch about "big brother" because they are funding an entity with more control over their lives than the government has ever had.

X: "everything good must be made to look bad politicos"???? Are you OK? Most "conservatives" think it's OK that you want to support the drug use of poor, street-bound addicts. It's when you want to use MY money that makes it wrong. It's OK for you to contribute to the perpetual lifestyle known as welfare. But not with MY money. You should feel free to support the rights of murderers and rapists to have comfortable living conditions while institutionalized. Just don't demand that I assist financially. You liberals can vote for whoever you want. Just don't cry to me when you do it incorrectly.

I love how we are so confined in our thinking to assume that there are only two ways to think and that people must abide by these stringent schools of thought. The terms liberal and conservative are so trite and meaningless. Anyone who will vote for a candidate for the simple reason that they're in the same political party as the candidate is a lemming, and does not deserve the right to vote. I am neither "liberal" or "conservative", not because I'm too much of a pansy to "pick sides", but because I'm true to my beliefs and I'm unwilling to give in on the issues I feel strongly about. As far as this list is concerned, it's b*llsh*t, and for the most part I agree with Rick's answers.

Five years ago the federal government sent me a questionnaire to see if I was a liberal or a conservative , I filled it out to the best of my ability and sent it back. Two weeks later they suspended my drivers license and confiscated my dog. LOL JonR

Hey 'gater, thanks for telling me what I'm for. I don't have to be confused anymore. I have been spending way too much time trying to solve the country's moral dilemas. Just a couple questions: MUST a democrat be a liberal? Is there such a thing as a liberal republican?