tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8640910.post2873351246110385838..comments2023-09-02T10:34:54.836-04:00Comments on MARINADE DAVE: Hard Core ExtremistsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8640910.post-8311693930463480122007-03-19T13:14:00.000-04:002007-03-19T13:14:00.000-04:00You are correct in your history, anonymous, but I'...You are correct in your history, anonymous, but I'm talking about extremists of today, many of whom still do not want anyone beside themselves, let alone people of color, to have the right to vote or run this country. Liberals = Evil. Evil must be destroyed for the good of themselves. It's selfish. It's not for the good of the country or they would adhere to the Constitution, which states that all men are equal. 1 man, 1 vote. They tend to stretch religious doctrine into their way of thinking, too. God and Jesus are Republicans. To disagree is sacrilege and goes against their views. People who disagree should not have the right to say anything. That's why I brought Theo Roosevelt into the mix. Today, staunch Republicans, not even having to be too extreme, would consider him a Tree Hugger. Why? Does it have anything to do with how big business has infiltrated the mindset of people? What does conservation have to do with being liberal? Someone, somewhere along the way decided to put a spin on it and politicize it.<BR/><BR/>Why is it if you turn off your lights to conserve electricity, you do it to save money? Did you even think that it was to cut back on energy consumption for the good of the country? Of course not. That's why, when someone of importance asks you to do that, they're branded as liberals. You rebel. You protest. God Damn it, if I want to leave my lights on, I will. No God Damn Tree Hugging Faggot is going to tell me what to do. See? The bastards want to take my rights away.<BR/><BR/>Something isn't right with that picture.<BR/><BR/>I guess Lincoln's "too easy" terms for reuniting the nation were much too liberal even back then, to many Republicans.Dave Knechelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05895469674279662231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8640910.post-9448329435772063232007-03-19T09:41:00.000-04:002007-03-19T09:41:00.000-04:00"Radical Republican" and HistoryThe Radical Republ..."Radical Republican" and History<BR/><BR/>The Radical Republicans were an influential faction of American politicians in the Republican party during the American Civil War and Reconstruction eras, 1860-1877. They took a hard line against the Confederacy during the war and opposed Lincoln's "too easy" terms for reuniting the nation. By 1866 they supported federal civil rights for freedmen, and by 1867 set terms that allowed free slaves the RIGHT TO VOTE in the South but not ex-Confederates. They fought with moderate Republicans, at first president Abraham Lincoln, and then in a fight to impeachment, his successor Andrew Johnson.<BR/><BR/>This doesn't sound too "LIBERAL" to me.<BR/><BR/>TKAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com