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Richard Cohen Explains Conservatives

SkyePuppy Wrote: Jan 08, 2013 10:45 PM

So you're saying faithful Jews can't be Republicans? I'm sure when I tell that to my Republican friends who happen to be members of the Jewish faith, they'll realize they're causing a rift in the space-time continuum and will immediately switch to being Democrats for the sake of life as we know it.

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goldilocks Wrote: Jan 09, 2013 9:31 AM

no need to do that.

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Richard Cohen Explains Conservatives

On the last day of 2012, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen inadvertently clarified two huge matters regarding the left.

The first was the ignorance about conservatives and conservatism that permeates the left. The second was the primary reason decent people identify with the left: the effective caricaturing and demonizing of the right. Were it not for caricature and demonization, most otherwise intelligent and decent people would not be on the left.

This is what Cohen wrote in his column, "Republicans Adrift:"

"It is conservatism that is both intellectually exhausted and nearly indefensible. It is the movement of the ideologically ossified,...

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