Nuke Free World . . . it's ILLOGICAL.

Obama, I admire your lofty oration and naivety in believing we're all basically good. It's childish, yes, but really a sort of childish faith in the goodness of humanity that probably endears you to the people who already think you can do no wrong.

Granted, that's only if you ACTUALLY believe what you are doing is right. That's giving you the benefit of the doubt that you aren't a heartless, master-mind determined to destroy the country.

I will break it down in simple terms. Honestly, I did this with my (hopelessly uninformed) liberal friend on the issue of gun control/ownership.

Hypothetical: Guns are illegal. People who follow the laws no longer have guns. People who do not follow the laws, HAVE GUNS. This is the failure that is "gun control" and "I would make guns illegal and stop all gun violence" theory. Only GOOD PEOPLE OBEY THE LAWS. In the liberal's ideal world, only criminals would have guns! Why does that actually make sense to them?

Hypothetical: Nukes are bad, all countries will get rid of their nukes. Except, obviously, countries that a) harm, imprison, torture, starve, and murder their own people mindlessly b) hate Israel and deny that the German to Jew Holocaust ever occurred (Seriously? You want to deny it and be taken seriously on a global stage) and c) hate the United States, as spoken again and again in their own media, in our media, in U.N. speeches, in celebrations when thousands of U.S. civilians die in a terrorist attack. Because really, what's the point of NOT keeping your nukes if America, Israel, and any other semi-intelligent and realistic ally gives theirs up?

I would argue that countries who are SANE and lawful should retain their nuclear weapons and deny countries that are INSANE and unlawful (denying basic human rights for example), and threatening toward the SANE countries, nuclear weapons.

~Conservative Minority

We're a Lot Like You - A Little Different

Conservatives and Liberals, at the heart of issues are really quite the same. There are decent people and not so decent people. You'll find, as the news shows, the rude, adulterers, molesters, pornography addicts, thieves, and liars in every existing party and within all the offices. You also find the family men and women, the honest, the truthful, the hard working, and the good hearted in all of the parties and in every elected office throughout history.

Our fundamental differences are the way in which the decent people want to help others and improve/protect the United States. Somewhere along the way, the Democrat Party, the donkey with the stars and stripes got credited with being the only part that cares about "African Americans", immigrants, people of Latin decent, the poor, and the environment. This is not because they (politicians in the Democratic Party) actually do anything personally to help or improve life for any of these people or the Earth...it's because they TALK about it the most and come up with the most ways to spend other people's money to "help", often making programs that other people pay for that probably do help a little bit.

Let's look at the people who really help other people . . . well you have the people who believe in a higher power, whose religious text' encourage or expect "Loving Thy Neighbor as Yourself" (including Mormons, Christians, Jews...ironically enough probably because they are rooted in the writing of the Old Testament and Yahweh, or the God of the Jews). These people subscribe to many different political parties, but they don't care for others as a result of that decision, it's faith and love for others.

I personally am a walking contradiction, even hearing "I would have thought you were a Democrat" (to my horror), because I endorse caring for the enviroment and the poor. I think that's insulting. I can want to help the poor and not subscribe to the liberal "Give them fish" mentality. Someone wiser than me said "TEACH them to fish". World Vision, and other non-profit, non-governmental programs are far more successful than government is/could be, and they work hard, and they work. They take donations, they don't take tax dollars whether people agree or not. That's where the difference lies...some people want to help others with their OWN money and time...not their neighbors.

~ Conservative Minority