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Bill Maher Opens Panel Discussion With Study Suggesting Social Conservatives Have Lower IQs

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You can’t get much more controversial in the world of American politics when you bring up the link between personal philosophies, intelligence, and prejudice. But that’s exactly what happened earlier this week when a study found that low intelligence is connected to prejudice and social conservatism. On his show tonight, Bill Maher read the findings of the study and did not make any kind of strong editorial opinion on the subject, stating that he was “agnostic” about the results.

RELATED: Bill Maher On Palin: “Anybody Could Be President In This Dumb F*ckin’ Country”

Former Republican Congressman Rick Lazio looked just a bit awkward reacting to Maher reading off the study, even when Rolling Stone writer Michael Hastings said that having been following the GOP primaries, he “already agree[s] with that study.” However, rather than focusing on the more uncomfortable topic of “are conservatives dumber than liberals?”, a subject matter which, let’s face it, would not necessarily be a controversial topic for this show, Maher and the panel shifted the discussion to more of an overall look on the education system in America.

The discussion touched upon everything from how much the United States is spending on education to the responsibilities of parents to provide children with good opportunities and make sure teachers are held accountable. It was surprisingly level-headed for an episode of Real Time, and amidst all the serious talk, any mention of the controversial study was lost.

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  • Anonymous

    Here is a funny joke: (but also a true story)

      A terrorist and a woman who just received an abortion
    walk into a bar, the bartender says “hey you murdering piece of slime
    get out of here”.  So they both leave!!!!!  get it?

  • Anonymous

     You fail at both humor and truth. Don’t feel bad. Conservitards are rarely funny.

  • Anonymous

    There was a time when being a conservative meant you could actually boast of some intellectual chops. But that was when the right was inspired by people like William F. Buckley, not low rent hacks like Rush Limbaugh.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001154023994 Daniel Thompson

    While this study saying that lefties are smarter than righties may be true, if you believe all internet studies then another one last week said that Republicans are having better sex than Democrats and as someone who leans-left, it’s really not worth it is it?

  • Anonymous

    Really? You’re pathetic. Exhibit A for the study.

  • Verreauxii

    Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha…man, you should do that for a living! Remarkable!

  • Ben

    Why O why can’t we have both?

    WWHHHYYY?…..

  • Anonymous

    back on the topic of our education system.  the system is more concerned about its funding then the children.  For example, a child that only needs 1 credit to graduate is being required to take a full school load, which caused my oldest to drop out and almost cost my youngest honor roll student to drop out with only 1/2 a credit.  we need to find a better way.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    We can… and often do.

  • Anonymous

    not to mention i have always tried to be on the side of the teacher but cautious do to a comment a teacher during the teacher strikes in OK, “they don’t pay us enough to care”.  I have asked teacher to let me know if there is any issue quickly so i can help.  these teachers wait for weeks upon weeks and then expect me to clean up their mess. as i always told my kids respect is earned and these teacher need to earn that BUT i can require common courtesy  

  • Ben

    Coool….:)….smart sex….nice….

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Nothing like discussion of the Bretton Woods System during a reverse cow girl. The stuff of the Gods.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bart-Morgay/100001554351938 Bart Morgay

    Exhibit A

    Sarah Palin and Rick Perry

  • Ben

    It is a well known fact that smart chicks are more flexible.
    And more firm…and sl…prettier.
    Read that on the internet machine,so it’s true.

    “Nothing like discussion of the Bretton Woods System during a reverse cow girl”

    Yeeehaw!!. 

  • Anonymous

    Do you happen to have a Dr. Charles Krauthammer hidden up your sleeve?

  • Eve

    Two guys talking about sex late at night on the internet .
    Creepy cliché , I presume ?
     

  • Anonymous

    Here’s a funny joke (but also a true story):  Social conservatives have low IQs!

    *Ba-dum tsssh*

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

     http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2011/02/understanding-the-implications-ctd/175963/  His role in conservatism is “controversial,” of course. (What a dumb,
    recurrent word “controversial” is hard to avoid, too.) When people bash
    Limbaugh, they sometimes like to use WFB. “Oh, Limbaugh’s no Bill
    Buckley,” they say. Yeah, so what? Each is his own man. And they have a
    lot in common. Moreover, WFB loved Rush, and got a huge kick and great
    satisfaction out of his success. I know this to a certainty. I vas
    dere, Chollie. People also like to use Reagan, to beat Rush even people
    who had nothing remotely good to say about Reagan when he was alive and
    working. In December 1992, the former president wrote to Limbaugh, “Now
    that I’ve retired from active politics, I don’t mind that you’ve become
    the number one voice for conservatism.” He also said, “I know the
    liberals call you ‘the most dangerous man in America,’ but don’t worry
    about it, they used to say the same about me. Keep up the good work.”

  • Anonymous

    I’m sure republicans are having better sex…..but it’s more than likely with another man at  some airport in a dirty bathroom stall

  • Anonymous

    I thought he was a RINO?

    Mistake in the hitting the like button, btw.

  • Anonymous

    “Social Conservatives Have Lower IQs?”

    Well, the fact that Paul Krugman exists destroys THAT theory.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    You can just hit “like” again to unlike something. 

  • Anonymous

    Yeah I know Sarah Palin, lets see,she cleaned up the corruption of the State of Alaska,got a pipeline built,had a 90% approval rating, ran on a Presidential ticket,wrote two bestsellers, had a successful cable TV show, got hired as a FOX TV contributer, about three quarters of her Congressional and Senate endorsements won their seats in 2010, acclaimend by intellectuals, Liberal Camile Paglia, and others. I would say Sarah is dumb like a Fox.
    I will give you FOX and Friends though.

  • Anonymous

    More genius comments from the brilliant Little Fella Bill Maher. Hey Bill leave the Politics at home, leave it to the experts, your copied Johnny Carson smirk isnt funny.

  • Anonymous

    OMG she’s a rocket scientist

  • Anonymous

    Thank you!

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/XVOR56LHNIAD6Q6JCE4RAZWDYI DC

    Oh and you forgot “quit being a governor to become a reality TV star and to make millions off the conservative IQ”

  • Anonymous

    I work in a field  where both left and right exist.Very few are totally left or totally right, and that is where the true dumbasses are. I admire both, not necessarily in philosophy or political opinion. But as men or women with certain skills or expertise that can get things done. Some times i think as as man on the left, as I deal with someone on the right this guy is a total moron. But he will bring skills to the table that I cannot help but admire as a human being.  I would probably argue with them all night long and declare them ignorant on religious, philosophical, and economic issues but in truth  some of them are more practical and skilled than many on my side. I tend to look at men and women as individuals with their own wants and needs that are not the same as others. I sometimes wish they were as enlightened or imaginative as I feel i am. But alas I understand that many are not. And I don’t see that as necessarily a bad thing. Some are inspired to do great and amazing things by this so called god. Some lead lives that are dettecated  to him and they are exemplary in doing so. I could not and would never be this way. I am who I am. I don’t feel Bill is a bad man, for calling out what he sees as ignorance. I would probably be the the same way if I was in position. But in my eyes  a right wing man or women who can fix my car or build my house is every bit as useful if not more so than some left wing commentator on tv who can do neither.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/XVOR56LHNIAD6Q6JCE4RAZWDYI DC

    Teachers are the bedrock to this nation. Education is the only way for people to move up and to be qualified to actually get the so many jobs that are being left positionless. They are more important than movie stars, talking pundits, and recording artists. It’s time we started paying them like the people who get paid millions of dollars for what, playing a sport on TV? Society needs to get there act together.

  • Anonymous

    thats right all repubs have lower iq’s

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/XVOR56LHNIAD6Q6JCE4RAZWDYI DC

    Lmao this guy’s a parody of a right wing conservative, it’s obvious.

  • Anonymous

    Every time this person posts, Stephen Colbert’s SuperPAC gets $100

  • http://www.facebook.com/andrew.sappington Andrew Sappington

    They gave the noble prize for economics to a person with a low IQ?  Oh, I guess you are a social conservative. 

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    “low IQ, Social Conservatism, And Prejudice” ……..
    In other word – DITTOHEADS,  like Mr. Comedy here! 

    “Piles” Limbaugh was:
    - married four times;
    - Ruined his hearing and lost his teeth by using un-prescribed cracked Oxycontin – Google “opiate hearing loss”;
    - Dodged the draft to Viet Nam because of “extreme anal cysts”;
    - was stopped at customs with a thousand unprescribed Viagra tablets coming back from a “sex resort” in the Dominican Republic.

    His most amazing trick is that he has convinced millions of lower class Americans that the ultra rich shouldn’t have to pay taxes.  This moral disaster making over 57 million a year is a working class hero!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_34VQ3NDNOFFUF6R7ALXY6O33S4 Cal

    Paul Krugman is probably the most brilliant economist alive today.

    You, on the other hand, seem to be a product of the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

  • Hout Bosques

    A little rueful laugh for your little bitty joke, so: heh.

    But otherwise, you’re comment risked being taken seriously, so little bitty jokes aside, it’s important note to that you’re comparing apples to orangutans.  The study Maher’s referring to is from an eastern Canadian university. As he explains (& properly – just read it: it’s available online), that study follows scientific protocols, including fixing parameters & controls, identifying questions & other criteria designed to provide counters & checks on false positives, was based on over a decade of results from testing, it wasn’t released until the findings were compared to findings from other testing by other groups in the same area, and it still wasn’t released until it had gone through a fair amount of peer review (Indeed, that peer review is still ongoing, and further testing is being designed to challenge some of the bolder conclusions. The “better sex” thing you’re referring to was pretty much indistinguishable from an open-to-anyone internet poll, the sort of thing all sorts of internet flocks love to dive bomb like Ronulans  (Biology professor P.Z. Myers keeps a huge roost of just such birds happy as larks, regularly dive-bombing polls from all over the country in the area of religious & other cranky beliefs:  http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula.)Back to the study Maher referred to: the Mediaite report is accurate in conveying that the panel discussion didn’t really go into at all, but instead used one aspect of it as a point of departure for a discussion on the value of education, to individuals & to the economy, but they could have gone on because education affects everything in human civil society. One has to avoid being overly simplistic about the findings of the Canadian study. It’s large & extremely rigorous, but also subtle & open to a lot of misinterpretation. It’s interesting to note that most of these sorts of academic studies on authoritarian thinking comes not from here but from other countries, and of course Canada is so close & so intertwined with the U.S., with such a huge uncontrolled experiment in the results of poor education standards in the general population, it seems to be irresistible not to study it – & indeed there are all sorts of studies of authoritarian cognition & social interaction being done in Canadian universities, particularly out of the University of Manitoba – for example, this book (in PDF form – FREE:
    http://members.shaw.ca/jeanaltemeyer/drbob/TheAuthoritarians.pdf ) from some years ago, by professor Bob Altemeyer, which got John Dean interested in writing several books on the phenomenon.

    Wingers won’t like this, because they’re bound to resist accepting themselves as study subjects, but their actually front-line victims of the organizations which DO study this phenomenon in this country, primarily around the Heritage Institute, the American Enterprise Institute, and other such think tanks that work in support of the Republican party, both at the national & state levels.

    (And I can’t resist noting that there are other efforts here to study this phenomenon, much of which, as I’ve linked to before, one can find by reading here: http://scienceprogressaction.org/intersection/, which I note has a blog item right on top at this moment on this same Canadian study.) 

    Once you read into this phenomenon, you begin to have more respect for the motivations of President Obama in trying to meet with & engage the political representatives of authoritarian voting bases in the discussions that result in our national governmental decisions, and in why he so often pursues what he called “conservative” and “Republican” solutions to national problems, even though it upsets much of his own party’s base. Authoritarianism doesn’t qualify as a mental disorder, which is just one among many reasons that treatment or sequestration won’t work, it’s not something that’s going to go away entirely (As we know, it even shows up in the Scandinavian countries, particularly in Sweden.), so if one sees politics as the art of compromise, as obviously Obama largely does, this is the kind of presidency one gets, even in the face of national economic crisis.  

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_34VQ3NDNOFFUF6R7ALXY6O33S4 Cal

    Yeah I know Sarah Palin, lets see,she cleaned up the corruption of the State of Alaska

    She did no such thing. She ran on an anti-corruption platform, but proved to be even more corrupt than the governor she replaced.

    had a 90% approval rating

    Which by the time she quit as governor had collapsed to half that, and was still trending downward. If she’d bothered to serve out her full term, her approval rating would probably have dropped under 25%.

    ran on a Presidential ticket

    And was described by her debate prep team as “not knowing anything”.

    wrote two bestsellers

    Or rather, paid somebody more literate to write them in her name.

    had a successful cable TV show, got hired as a FOX TV contributer

    Being a reality TV star and a Fox talking head are signs of intelligence? By that “logic”, Snooki and the Fox & Friends crew must be geniuses!

    about three quarters of her Congressional and Senate endorsements won their seats in 2010

    I’m pretty sure you’re considerably overstating that.

  • Gloves Alan Donahue

    I’m constantly amazed that modern Democrats have evolved beyond living in caves.  I mean what other animal on this planet can disregard all common sense and logic and surviveThat using the military to oust a murderous thug dictator in 2003 was criminal, and using the military to oust a murderous thug dictator in 2011 was noble.
    That the best way to grow the wealth of the private sector is to take all the money out of it.
    That the best way to make us energy independent is to block any effort to produce more petrocarbons in this country.

    Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/01/i_finally_understand_democrats.html#ixzz1lPRK8t1p

  • Anonymous

    The only statement that was true there was that he was married 4 times. 

    Rush’s hearing loss is due to autoimmune inner ear disease
    as for his teeth, not sure where you came up with that gem.

    A pilonidal cyst is not an “extreme anal cyst”. It is a cyst at the lower back and top of the buttocks. 

    Rush was stopped with one bottle of Viagra not thousands of pills. Nowhere in any credible news report does it say he was at a “sex resort”

    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/27/national/main1753947.shtmlLimbaugh does not advocate the ultra rich should pay no taxes he advocates ALL americans should pay “Less” taxes. Instead of letting Media Matters tell you how to feel about a person, perhaps you should listen to them yourself to form your own opinion. You know, don’t be Media Matters “dittohead”. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Krauthammer’s potential is diminished by his lack of ethic.

  • Anonymous

    They gave the Nobel prize to Obama before he did anything, enough said.

  • Anonymous

    You could at least pretend to be honest.  The reason her approval rating was declining was the hate campaign launched by the left, largely but not entirely based on lies.  If she hadn’t been selected as VP she would both have finished her term, and more than likely would still have had a sky high approval rating – with much better performance all around than your beloved President.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

    So now it’s political opinions, along with race and ethnicity, which are indicative of prejudice, personality, and intelligence? – Is this the INANE concept
    you’re asking rational people to believe?

    LMAO!

    You Progressives are so petrified in your static, group-identity think that it’ll take generations before your progeny evolves to any broader level of awareness.

    And you Smear Republicans as “racist”? – While panels like this show that Progressives espouse the textbook definition of the word as a matter of course!

    11-06-12 — The PURGE!
    - not just for America, but for Evolution!
    heh-heh-heh

    http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

     Krugman’s been proven wrong time and again, what are you talking about?

    He’s become a joke in financial circles, as a “politically-correct economist” who’s incorrect on most of his economics.
    He’s become the Jester of Wall Street!

    - but I’m sure the OWS Revolutionaries just Love him!

  • Anonymous

    Not to mention that Obama used and sold drugs and Biden was a draft dodger.  You don’t here that from the vile liberal group.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_34VQ3NDNOFFUF6R7ALXY6O33S4 Cal

    Krugman’s been proven wrong time and again, what are you talking about?

    Only in the feeble imaginations of wingnuts like you.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

    LOL!
    The Nobel Prize has been politically determined, and consequently irrelevant, for the past decade, or so.
     As CS noted earlier, they tossed one of their awards over to Obama, and he hadn’t even taken his first movement in the White House yet! (There’s some poetic justice in there somewhere.)

  • Anonymous

    But being a “tolerant” liberal you are fine with that.  So why did you even feel a need to bring it up?  (no pun intended)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_34VQ3NDNOFFUF6R7ALXY6O33S4 Cal

    No, the reason her approval rating was plummeting was that she was revealed to be both unethical and ineffective.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

     All your getting from Bart is a regurgitation of mainstream medi talking points.

    It’s the integrity, honesty and credibility of the Media that’s brought into question here, not Palin.

    Two glaring examples of political corruption on the part of the media was the way they excoriated Palin; and the blatant double-standard with which they reported the Tea Party movement to the OWS movement.

    The reality of both showed the media narratives they reported to be little more than BALD-FACED LIES!
    That’s an indictment of America’s “mainstream (DNC) media” today!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

     Yeah I know Sarah Palin, lets see,she cleaned up the corruption of the State of Alaska
    She
    did no such thing. She ran on an anti-corruption platform, but proved
    to be even more corrupt than the governor she replaced.
    ——————————————————————————

    You see, here’s the problem – you’re confusing Palin with Obama!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

     Two glaring examples of political corruption on the part of the media
    was the way they excoriated Palin; and the blatant double-standard with
    which they reported the Tea Party movement to the OWS movement.

    The reality of both showed the media narratives they reported to be little more than BALD-FACED LIES!
    That’s an indictment of America’s “mainstream (DNC) media” today!

    AND – that’s not even taking into account the way they lambasted Bush for 8 years, then had chills up their legs for the Marxist!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

     Yes, it kinda makes you wonder how a such a prolific writer on economics can be so categorically wrong in his prognostications.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_34VQ3NDNOFFUF6R7ALXY6O33S4 Cal

    No, it’s just that I live in the real world, and you clearly don’t.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_34VQ3NDNOFFUF6R7ALXY6O33S4 Cal

    Yes, there was a double standard between how the media covered the Tea Party and how they covered OWS. Except that the double standard was in the Tea Party’s favor.

  • Anonymous

    Well, ‘brilliant’ seems to be a Lib ‘dog-whistle’ for blind Leftist ideologues and it speaks to the utter failings of Kruggie & OBAMO. But please, by all means…keep drinking your Leftist Kool-Aid. Jonestown will be here in November for you.

  • Anonymous

    In all fairness, when it comes to racial issues, ALL Canadians think exactly like the low-IQ ‘study’ participants. The only difference is that higher IQ Canadians would not express & phrase things the way the dumb ones do. Or not just “say” anything at all. Which the study should at least hinted at the possibility of, if they’re not of the mind to admit it

    Not being facetious. This is all true based on decades of close observation. Caucasian Canadians are definitely demonstrably more racist than the typical American red neck.

    One factor is that a few good Canadian founding fathers, with pure and good, intentions have put in place tough and stringent rules that impinge on freedom of speech in that country that Canadians with just barely racist tendencies, not the full-fledged racists, have no room to freely express those tendencies and thus get to bottle up these tendencies and perhaps innocuous politically incorrect views & these tendencies get to become full-fledged ugly racist thoughts

    Those tendencies eventually get to be expressed artfully inconspecously and sneakily in the form of denying jobs to minorities, housing discrimination etc

    But, hey, I give them credit for daring to do the study, albeit in their usual trade-marked Canadian half-assed way

  • Anonymous

    Bottom line, blaming racism on low-IQ is a cop out and giving racists more of a benefit of the doubt than they deserve.

    Limbaugh is by no means dumb nor was Hitler nor Molosevic nor Bahseer of the Sudan nor apartheid’s De Clark and by no means nor is Israel’s Netanyahou nor his secretary of state Avigdor Lieberman

    Racists are not dumb, they’re dangerous.

  • Anonymous

    Bottom line, blaming racism on low-IQ is a cop out and giving racists more of a benefit of the doubt than they deserve.

    Limbaugh is by no means dumb nor was Hitler nor Molosevic nor Bahseer of the Sudan nor apartheid’s De Clark and by no means nor is Israel’s Netanyahou nor his secretary of state Avigdor Lieberman

    Racists are not dumb, they’re dangerous.

  • Anonymous

     So…….You agree with the study and wanted to provide an example.

  • Anonymous

    Acclaimed by intellectuals? Ahahahahahahahahahaha! Who? Rush? Hannity? You’re deluded.

  • Gloves Alan Donahue

    “Social Conservatives Have Lower IQs”

    Ever heard of any kind of a conservative dumb enough to buy carbon credits?

  • Anonymous

    Limbaugh, Beck and their ilk are what made me reevaluate my own conservatism. Their appeal is based on fear and in-your-face nationalism mixed with conspiracy theories and a destroy-your-opponent-at-any-cost savagery. With all due respect to the former prez, these men have set the movement back decades and sent it into the intellectual woods.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_34VQ3NDNOFFUF6R7ALXY6O33S4 Cal

    What we’ll see in November is Obama winning big and Teabagger Republicans getting swept back into the minority in the House.

  • Sean Smith

    I thought IQ tests were only indicative of one’s ability to take IQ tests, and that they were culturally biased. I like what this study is saying.

  • Anonymous

     One of things that crack me up about Palin is her approval rating is linked to something smacking of socialism, even while she traveled the country ranting agasint it. The people of Alaska get a share of the oil money from the major corporations, and she increased how much they get.
    Seriously, how does the natural resources belong to the people and the companies that profit from them must pay the people, not scream socialism to anyone. Rather than try and change it in favor of  miricle cure of a free unregulated market, she did what a savy {but not nessecarily principled} poltician would do. She gave the voters cash, and then left Alaska to tell the rest of us how wrong that is.

  • Anonymous

     Apply that same standard to Fox and take them all off the air. We’d all be better off.

  • Anonymous

    More CVS here – Conservative Victimization Syndrome. You drones carry on about the “media bias”, as you eviscerate anyone you perceive as the dreaded “left”. As soon as someone calls you out on your twisted logic, you run and hide behind the veil of victim. You are so predictable. There’s a hate campaign being carried along daily on AM radio and Fox, where the screechiest, most homophobic and most racist voices get the most airplay. You want government to stay out of our lives, except when it comes to the bedroom. There, you want regulation.  

  • Sean Smith

    The Lit and Peace prizes have in the past 50 years become politicized – basically awards for leftism, anti-Americanism what have you. But the hard science prizes still have a degree of integrity.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1572984371 Cindy Nowicki

     Maybe not so humorous, but…..

    Where is the lie?

    A terrorist murders, as does abortion!

    The commenter left out one additional individual….

    The doctor should have been in the bar too!

  • Anonymous

    Maher’s IQ is room temperature.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1572984371 Cindy Nowicki

    You left one out…. Biden is also a plagiarist!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

     How often do you listen to those “idiotic ravings” there, ex?

  • Anonymous

    My kids are in the top 1% in nationally standardized tests and I am proud of that.  I am a stay at home parent and in my family’s case we chose between having ‘things’ and lavishing our kids with love, attention and my time.  We live comfortably but paycheck-to-paycheck.  Our cars are 10+ years old and our mortgage is underwater.

    Many families choose to have both parents work, drive new cars, have nicer houses and see their kids (awake) only ~2.5-3.5 hours a day (weekdays) while the kids spend 8-11 hours a day with Bus drivers, teachers, and before/after school care.  

    In our case we are fortunate enough to be able to scrape by on one salary – I know not everyone can do this.  We just dont see the point of having children then giving them to 100′s of random persons to raise them while we work all the time.

  • Anonymous

     There was a very good special on MSNBC about education about a year ago. There aired it at least twice. Two shows aired back to back, IN one show they had a teachers town hall with teachers from all over the nation came together to comment and ask questions of different subjects. Several of the younger teachers made some comments about older teachers just not caring and giving the students thier full effort. Parents do need to be more involved and communicate with their kids teachers and actually expect some real effort from thier kids. I supervised my kids homework and made sure it was done.
    I agree with you that our priorities are messed up. To much emphasis on entertainment rather than growth and accomplshment.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1572984371 Cindy Nowicki

     Limbaugh, Beck and their ‘ilk,’ made me re-evaluate too!

    Not to mention, Jimmy Carter, who led me on my quest for sanity and truth.

    I WAS a hard core liberal, now after much research and thought, (and that president)………… I am a proud conservative!

    My heroes in the 60′s included Malcolm X, the Black Panthers, etc…Look how far I have come!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Miles-Anderson/100001434927874 Miles Anderson

    There may be no moral distinction between breaking a fertilized chicken egg and strangling a baby chick, but my guess is most people do understand there is a distinction.  

  • Anonymous

    He did say it was social conservatives rather than just conservatives. Even at that , I read a little about the study and while it makes some interesting points, to say that liberals are more intelligent than conservatives is a gross oversimplification and distortion.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Miles-Anderson/100001434927874 Miles Anderson

    One country’s murderous thug dictator is another country’s Thomas Jefferson. Taxes don’t remove ALL the money from the private sector. There has never been an attempt to block “any effort to produce more petrocarbons in this country.”  The issues are large, multifaceted and complex. If you have to simplify the world in order to understand it, then maybe you should reconsider your objection to the study’s conclusions.

  • Smack80

    That’s what I’m thinkin’!

  • Sean Smith

    I know what you’re talking about. I think many on the left think that the people whom they pass by everyday who get all the things done that need getting done in this modern world, but that they themselves can’t do, are just a bunch of idiot savants. But hey society needs a useless, self-appointed, self-regarding intelligentsia too.

  • Joseph McDonald

    Why doesn’t he just say religious people have lower iqs.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    International political economy and sex… Which isn’t honestly about sex but more about humor.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

     You still don’t understand what dog-whistle means.

    Keep trying though.

  • Anonymous

    They didnt really need a study to prove this but I guess I’m glad they did it anyway. If there were a correlation between low IQs & infant mortality the world would be better off. Bet you there would be far less conservatives.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

     He get’s criticized daily and does not quit.
    How many other politicians (Dem or Republican) get criticized regularly and don’t quit?

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

     Because the right claims to be against such things.
    Hypocrites.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

     
    Typical
    Wheres your facts.

  • Eve

    Two men bonding late at night , alone , on the internet, on a public forum , through the use of  graphic sexual imagery.
    Creepy cliché , are you still here ?

  • Anonymous

    Sounds exactly like the studies from the Liberal Icons of Eugenics, to prove that The BIack intellect was inferior to the White intellect. Yes, look up the connection between the Eugenics movement and the Liberal Democrats.

  • Anonymous

    You’re backslid…..pray for guidance

  • Anonymous

    How do they know?

  • Anonymous

    Lies, lies and more damn lies, you are the perfect target audience for the debacle coming out called “Game Change” a fiction fantasy. If you want to see the truth see The Undefeated”, by movie maker Steve Bannon, but I know you wouldnt be intellectually honest enough to do that, you want to believe all the propaganda and the false narravtives your blessed mainstream
    Liberal media provides.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2QAWUIHIDMLFEDA2CJV2QIGY7A Aquarian

    Nope…that would be conservative Dixiecrats that became Conservative Republicans that “lost the south for a generation”~LBJ after the signing of Civil Rights Act.

  • Anonymous

    Kids love to learn.  I found that kids learn better when it is fun and entertaining.  Kids have so much homework that school has become burdensome.  It turns kids off.They love the field trips best.

  • Anonymous

    Well, look how cute he is…..

  • Anonymous

    They saw his potential and he’s proving them tight…..

  • Anonymous

    Sounds like you’re someone who’s easily seduced by extremist ideologues.

  • Anonymous

    Sounds like you’re someone who’s easily seduced by extremist ideologues.

  • Anonymous

    Gee, that’s a million dollars for each State that Candidate Obama visited while he was running for President of the United States!

  • Anonymous

    In other words, you disagree with him.

  • Anonymous

    You can’t make this stuff up and now you don’t have to, they are more dumb.

  • http://www.facebook.com/taradacktyl Tara Devlin

    Did you hear the one about the “small government” Republican?  Neither did I – because they don’t exist.  Republicans are true authoritarian fascists who aren’t mature enough to actually live in a free society.  They need authoritarian daddies to save them from the monsters they create – just as they aren’t mature enough to live in a society not governed by strick hierarchies… and can’t STAND that a woman is making a private, medical decision without sticking their authoritarian Repug big government noses into citizens private lives.  That’s because they’re so vile and inherently useless, they project their sicknesses on the world, rather than simply seeking help for their manias… as you clearly need to do.  

  • Anonymous

    Sure it’s nice when learning is fun. From babies to 1st grade we could do a lot better in educating our kids by making learning a part of the fun.
    Still, as kids get older they need to understand that life requires some effort, and discipline and there are consequences to choices. The discipline might be “no TV until all your homework is done”
    My kids had X amount of hours they could watch TV and had to choose which shows they wanted most. One summer we even did away with TV altogether just to see what happened.
    I understand the temptation but I think parents need to stop letting TV and video games be their babysitters.

  • Anonymous

    As much as my stomach and good sense can bear.

  • Anonymous

    This just shows me how stupid this report is …..  I saw a report from some group six months ago that polled and  said that average reading grade level for a Obama supporter was at third grade?  Why did that not get reported? 
    I guess the liberal media picks what they like and hides what they don’t like!

  • Anonymous

    Like a study was needed to prove social conservatives were on average less intelligent. 

  • Anonymous

    Your low IQ is showing.

  • Sean Smith

    What hope is there for actual dialogue with people who think like you? You’ve so caricatured people who disagree with you, why bother?

  • Anonymous

    This is Exhibit A of how the right plays the victim card, constantly blaming its own failings on “the left wing media.”

    This was a woman who simply was not up to the task and it was obvious to most voters early on. Katie Couric didn’t set her up to fail; she set herself up.

    It saddens me to see conservatives — who constantly preach about responsibility — take so little when they fail.

  • huffnnoccupyn

     Cite the report.

  • Anonymous

    So you went from being a liberal because of a religious centrist Democrat? Your ‘much research’ sounds like nonsense to me.

  • Anonymous

    “”That using the military to oust a murderous thug dictator in 2003 was criminal, and using the military to oust a murderous thug dictator in 2011 was noble.”

    Getting 5000 of your own people killed to remove a foreign dictator whom you supported during his worst crimes is NOT NOBLE in any form.

  • huffnnoccupyn

     You speak of the “purge” for evolution, and get shocked when conservatives are compared to totalitarian dictators.

  • Anonymous
  • huffnnoccupyn

     Conservatives love death metaphors. I wonder why that is? It’s a very primal, instinctual, reactive thing to do.

  • Ricci Dats Me

    If you want to put your POLITICS where your “mind” is, how about this.. lets have a national vote on a national test for those who CAN legally have children and those who cant. Lets just forget the window dressing and be truthful to our wannabe Socialist/Communistic nature. We LOVE our military -socialism at its best-; we dont want people to mess with our Medicaid -socialism amen-, and we want to tell everyone what to do, who to marry and how to bear children -socialistic communism in the least-. SO, if you arent afraid (black people are already trembling as are immigrants and hispanics), lets just do it. Create a simple test, like a driving exam, and if you pass you can have as many children as you please. IF you fail, temporary sterilization or implantation of a birth control device similar to the RING or IUDS. NO DOUBT there are way to many ugly reasons that this will never happen, but until it does, abortions are not mine to give or take away from the woman OR couple who decides it in their best interest. OBVIOUSLY we cant do any of this on our own so we NEED help from ABOVE -and I dont mean Allah, Zeus, God or whomever you kneel for. We enjoy discussing IQs, perhaps thats the first place to start. ALL DOUBLE DIGIT IQ folks are not allowed to be parents without proper support and aid. The good thing is most of the DDIQ folks will never know what happened and MOST will be happy to get the free birth control.

  • Anonymous

    There’s a difference between having a low IQ and not graduating from High School.  Maher uses the word “social conservative” and then conflates pieces of the studying having to do with the level of comfort integrating with those outside your race.  Of course, Maher is trying to connect the dot that does not exist which is 1. If you have a low IQ your a conservative and 2. A racist.

    Maher doesn’t need to twist a Canadian social science study to say conservatives are stupid racist, he does every show. I say to my conservative friends like economic writer for the WSJ, Steven Moore, Andrew Brietbart, Ann Coulter, S.E. Cupp, Congressman Darryl Issa and so on – stop lending yourself to this pig and go on his show.  Conservatives out there, we need to let those who appear on Mahers show be aware that we will not support pundits and political who lend their good names to Mahers weekly denigration of the “right.” 

  • Anonymous

    Now lets see;

    Eugenics Record Office, founded by Charles Davenport in 1910 in Cold Spring Harbor, New York
    a Bastion of Democrat Power.

    1920 The Fernald School in Waltham, Mass, The Fernald School, and others like it, was part of a popular American movement in the early 20th century called the Eugenics movement. The idea was to separate people considered to be genetically inferior from the rest of society, to prevent them from reproducing. That sure isn’t in the south.

    And the patron saint of the Eugenics Movement and Liberals every where Margaret Sanger, Who in 1921, Sanger founded the American Birth Control League, which later became the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, from New York another bastion of Liberalism and Democrats…..

    Do I need to cite more?

  • Tucsonense

    Because it is bogus kind like your post!

  • Tucsonense

    This post by you gives credence to the report………………….Thanks!!

  • Anonymous

    You are confusing the Dixiecrats with Boll Weevil Democrats.

    Boll Weevil Democrats are the conservative from the south who came home to the Republican Party.

    It was the Dixiecrats who filibustered the Civil Rights Legislation, Blocked the School Doors, Turned the Dogs and fire hoses loose on the Civil Rights Marcher, and Murdered the Freedom Riders, Moved the Democrat Party to the extreme left, and are still voting Yellow Dog to this day.

    Learn Your History or be a Tool.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1572984371 Cindy Nowicki

     Here you go….

    I know liberals have a difficult time with facts and research…I did your work for you.

    From a favorite liberal source:

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/frenzy/biden.htm

    Joseph Biden’s Plagiarism; Michael Dukakis’s ‘Attack Video’ – 1988

    Democratic presidential candidate Joseph R. Biden Jr., a U.S. senator
    from Delaware, was driven from the nomination battle after delivering,
    without attribution, passages from a speech by British Labor party
    leader Neil Kinnock. A barrage of subsidiary revelations by the press
    also contributed to Biden’s withdrawal: a serious plagiarism incident
    involving Biden during his law school years; the senator’s boastful
    exaggerations of his academic record at a New Hampshire campaign event;
    and the discovery of other quotations in Biden’s speeches pilfered from
    past Democratic politicians.

    The controversy became two frenzies in one when it was disclosed that
    the campaign of Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis had earlier
    secretly distributed to several news media outlets an “attack video”
    juxtaposing the Biden and Kinnock speeches and revealing Biden’s word
    theft. The Dukakis campaign at first stonewalled and denied any part in
    the tape’s distribution, but when the truth emerged Dukakis was forced
    to fire his campaign manager, John Sasso, and political director, Paul
    Tully – the two who had orchestrated the maneuver. Dukakis himself
    insisted he had no prior knowledge of their actions, and though wounded,
    his candidacy survived the incident.

    Also on Slate….Another liberal “bible” of facts:

    http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history_lesson/2008/08/the_write_stuff.html

    EXCERPT:

    The Write Stuff?
    Why Biden’s plagiarism shouldn’t be forgotten.

    By David Greenberg|Updated Monday, Aug. 25, 2008, at 1:35 PM ET

    Also in Slate: Shmuel Rosner examined the “erratic pragmatism” of Biden’s Middle East policy. Jack Shafer called Biden “the unusually creepy kind” of plagiarist.

    Joe Biden announcing his withdrawal from the 1988 presidential race

    Teachers and scholars consider the unattributed use of someone
    else’s words and ideas to be a very serious offense, but the public
    doesn’t seem to mind much, at least when it comes to politics. The
    incidents of plagiarism and fabrication that forced Joe Biden to quit
    the 1988 presidential race have drawn little comment since his selection
    as Barack Obama’s vice presidential running mate—just as revelations of
    plagiarism by Stephen Ambrose and Doris Kearns Goodwin scarcely hurt
    their book sales. In 1987, before Biden quit the race, he called the
    incidents “a tempest in a teapot.” Although most reporters disagreed
    then, at least enough to pursue the story, they seem now—perhaps jaded
    by two decades of scandal-mongering—to have come around to Biden’s view.

    But Biden’s exit from the 1988 race is worth recalling in detail,
    because his transgressions far exceeded Obama’s own relatively innocent
    lifting of rhetorical set pieces from his friend Deval Patrick, which
    occasioned a brief flap last February. Biden’s misdeeds encompassed
    numerous self-aggrandizing thefts, misstatements, and exaggerations that
    seemed to point to a serious character defect. In some ways, the 1988
    campaign—in which scandal forced not just Biden but also Gary Hart from
    the race—marked a watershed in the absurd gotcha politics that have
    since marred our politics and punditry. But unlike Hart’s plight,
    Biden’s can’t be blamed on an overly intrusive or hectoring press corps.
    The press was right to dig into

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1572984371 Cindy Nowicki

    WRONG!

    In my 20′s, I ‘thought’ I had a heart.

    By the time I reached my 40′s, I realized I had a brain!

    Sound familiar? Winston Churchill ring a bell?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1572984371 Cindy Nowicki

     Not so….I went from being a liberal when I realized that Carter was destroying our country, the state of our economy  and his hatred for Israel.

    If you think “W” was dumb…… That man makes Bush look like a Rhodes Scholar!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1572984371 Cindy Nowicki

     Doesn’t matter if Carter was a “religious” democrat. I don’t judge a man by his religion, but his character, insight and intelligence!

    I would vote for an agnostic, if I believed he was honest and stood by his word.

    And yes, I do my homework. I watch all news sources, including Schultz and Maddow. Can’t stomach O’Donnell.

    I read The Nation, Daily Kos, Slate, Salon, Huff Post, NY Times, etc. etc.

    That is, of course, along with conservative sites/stations.

    I read the words and comments of all parties, political and otherwise. In their own words, not just the view of each journalist, reporter, or commentator.

    If not for foreign policy, Ron Paul would have my vote….HANDS DOWN!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1572984371 Cindy Nowicki

    According to your skewed logic:

    Fascists on one side……Must mean……Communists on the other!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1572984371 Cindy Nowicki

     Fascists on the right…Means….Communists on the left!

  • Anonymous

    What planet are you from??

  • Anonymous

    Two different committees, two different things. You usually give more balanced posts. 

  • Anonymous

    Pardon me – where and when was he “proven wrong time and again” – actually, if you look at the current (and past) statistics, it would indicate Krugman was right all along.

    p.s. seems like the austerity advocates are gradually acknowledging the stimulus
    http://www.economist.com/comment/1238350 

  • Anonymous

    Sounds more like you got bitter and angry as you got older, and wanted the simplest outlet for misguided rage: conservative republican mythology. 

  • Anonymous

    I’ve read Krauthammer for many years.  He used to make sense, but in the last few years he’s become more and more intolerant of the left and is more like an average TV Republican talking about standing on principle and no compromise whatsoever.  Ergo, he’s another voice that is just rooting for the Republican Party and is losing touch with reality.

    Congress can make progress in many ways if both parties work together.  They are not, and it’s mostly percent the Republicans’ fault.

    I still read Krauthammer in the Washington Post a couple times a week, but his articles are pretty disappointing.  Might as well just watch Hannity or Cavuto on Fox for a few minutes and get the same tone as Dr. K’s articles.

  • Anonymous

    DEefinitely the case.  All one need do is observe the species.

  • Anonymous

    Conservitards !!!

    *drink*

  • Anonymous

    Manifesto Alert !!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1572984371 Cindy Nowicki

     Conservative?……The simplest outlet?

    I’m retired, living on a fixed income….”Simple,” would have been to stay a democrat and let the government, i.e taxpayer, fund my health care, welfare, housing, food, etc.

    It IS more difficult to be a conservative, knowing I have to support myself. The difference is, I value my freedoms, my work ethic, the Constitution and my” God” given rights!

  • http://twitter.com/MyPetGloat Gloatessa

    Start_War_With_Iran_Now walks into a bar.  The bartender says “hey you murdering piece of slime, get out of here”.  Get it?

  • Anonymous

    Cindy…..I’m retired…..live on a fixed income…..I’m a Democrat…..I pay taxes, I fund my own healthcare…..don’t need welfare as I live within my means…..own my own home and buy my own food and live by the principles of God. America needs Godly men like Carter to lead this nation.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_34VQ3NDNOFFUF6R7ALXY6O33S4 Cal

    There’s nothing truthful about “The Undefeated”. Not even the title, given that Palin got clobbered when she ran for VP.

    And there’s no such thing as a “mainstream liberal media”. The mainstream media is conservative.

  • Anonymous

    AND ALSO THE SEXUAL CHILD ABUSING CATHOLICS LEADER KNOWN AS THE POPE SHOULD ALSO BE IN THE COMMENTER BAR JOKE AND TRUE STORY TOO!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    WHICH YOU FAILED  AT …..WITH A MUCH LOWER G.P.A. THAN THAT LOSER REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIALCANDIDATE AND CORPORATE CRONYISM WELFARE CAPITALIST GOVERNOR OF TEXAS RICK PERRY 2.0 G.P.A……

  • Douglas W. Rodrigues

    Judging from the left-wing whacko comments made on this subject, I’d say that it was demonstrated proof that the article made a mistake and should have listed the Liberals as having a lower IQ.  In fact, not too long ago there was an article that did make the claim that Liberals have lower IQ’s.  I suppose that if Liberals want to claim that Conservatives have lower IQ’s, all one has to do is write a false article.  That’s the Liberal way of doing things.

  • Anonymous

    Krugman is a lunatic……….

  • shonangreg

    As a society of laws, we have no accepted demarcation of the beginning of life except birth. That is when you get your birth certificate and the rights of society. If you want to extend these rights back to fetuses, you’re going to have to come up with some way of registering all those fetuses. Talk about BIG GOVERNMENT engaged in futile missions. It just can’t be done. So, legally we start at birth as a matter of practicality.

    Then there is also no consensus that fetuses need protecting. Abortions happen. Women will try to perform them themselves if you try to restrict them. Point 2 for practicality.

    Then there is the privacy and control of one’s own body, something conservatives should be fully supportive of. A woman simply does not need the government to monitor her fetus.

    This is why societies do not consider abortion to be murder. American Christian extremists have been taught to, but that is just one religious viewpoint.

    If you want to reduce abortions, then fund family planning and sex ed. Those have been demonstrated to lower teen pregnancy rates (and out-of-wedlock rates too, I’d guess). Also, keep preaching. Getting an abortion is already undesirable. No one likes getting abortions. This reality gets lost in all the hype the far right throws up trying to get their religious views imposed on everyone else.

  • Anonymous

    When you say that teachers are the bedrock of the nation, you must be speaking of the teachers of yesteryear, when teachers considered their job not just a profession, but a vocation, in contrast with the “teachers” of today, who sold their souls to the unions.

  • Anonymous

    The ultimate “victim card” is what Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Ben Jealous and Maxine Waters (just mention a few) play about the plight of blacks, racism and slavery, more that 140 years after the Civil War, and a black President, who could not have been elected without those horrible racist white crackers.

  • Anonymous

    Well, they gave the Nobel Peace Prize to someone, at a time when that someone had not accomplished anything towards world peace, and since then accelerated war efforts which he had previously mocked and derided.

  • Anonymous

    Agreed! No people are as dangerous as the Democrats who see every person through the false prism of racism. 

  • Tan

    Did you know that many pregnancies (no one knows how many as it’s impossible to measure but up to half of ALL pregnancies is possible) end within the first month or so and self-terminate? The mother then menstruates as normal (the fetus being eliminated at this point and unnoticed due to size) and is generally never the wiser about her loss?

    Are these women and indeed all women that have miscarriages, for whatever reason, be it a big night on the drink, a fall, a virus…are these women manslaughterers? Should they be tried for their crimes? Their negligence in failing to provide a safe place for the baby to develop? Because by your logic they should stand trial just as if they neglected a five year old child in their care. So presumably you think it okay for these women to go to jail and have their futures ruined due to their own miscarriages. If an abortion of a fetus that does not have a functioning brain yet is murder then miscarriages are either manslaughter or an accidental death for which their needs to be an investigation. If the mother is found culpable I.e. She could have prevented it by avoiding the virus, not consuming this or that or whatnot then she’d go to prison. Nice person you must be!

  • Anonymous

    With the door left open in February

  • Tan

    Cindy with all due respect, you sound very lost and sound like you don’t understand nuance and that your world is very very black and white. Do you know what I mean? I mean that you have been black and white to the extreme of each where at each end you despise the other and think what fools they are, without realising that about 80% or more are in the grey, mostly just living our lives and not seeing other grey people as epically stupid or evil or whatnot.

    There’s a vast chasm of difference between listening to those lying right wing talkers and the militancy of the panthers. Most liberals just want a world where we all pay our fair share of tax, enjoy safe working environments, and have equal rights for all. Most conservatives don’t get caught up in Glenn Becks ridiculous conspiracies and lies. Step back and open your eyes to it.

  • Tan

    Actually; unless there’s a secret men have kept from women for eternity (faking their own orgasms) you’ll find that as a man you don’t suffer here. The study found that lefties have more sex but less orgasms which is really only bad news for the women lefties like myself lol. The righties have more orgasms but less sex which is good for women I suppose and not so much for men!

    So there you go; you get it both ways!

  • Tan

    I was more thinking along the lines of that they have nothing on their minds but the sex itself as it’s happening since they lack conscience. The lefties are too distracted thinking of all the suffering in the world and stressing that soon they’ll have President Gingrich and Vice President Palin (the latter of whom will promptly illustrate my first assertion by dispatching of Gingrich with a healthy dose of ricin in his very first White House meal). Seriously, it’s a hypothesis worth a thought! It’s much easier to sleep and relax when nothing troubles you isn’t it?

  • Anonymous

    What is a ” social Conservative”?

  • http://twitter.com/ZackyBeatz %Zackyatz%Music

    except Conservatives believe in religion, and they are anti science,
    once a Conservative GOP senator said that god would put more oil if it runs out.
    they dont really believe in climate change, they are afraid of Muslims.
     and does not know anything about physics, about the atoms, and if i said the double slit experiment they would look at me as if they just have seen a ghost.
    so yes being open minded and being pro science is probably a key to having high intelligence.

    all though Stephen Colbert once said that “Reality has a well-known liberal bias.”

  • Anonymous

    And yet she still manages to sound like a complete imbecile.
    How DOES she do it?
    Oh yeah, she quit.
    I’m impressed.

  • Anonymous

    “Mentally challenged”. You might want to look that up.

  • Anonymous

    All caps, is a sign of retardation & screaming. You might want to rectify that if you wish to be paid attention too.

  • Anonymous

    A neighbor, who is a repub, has in the last year, lost her job. The neighbors husband lost his job as well.  Both are in their 60s, owe on mortgage, & credit cards, with next to nothing in savings.  Both are looking for work while most people their age are thinking about retirement.
     Yet both, will argue till thier dying days it seems, that the rich, the bankers, the whomevers, should not pay more taxes, should still get obscene bonuses, should not have any kind of cap on thier salaries, because if they do, so will they & every one else.

    That unfortunately, is a prime example of how the majority of repubs think.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LR3I4X656U47FEK4XYRP6VHJ5U Marie

    I had an exchange with a certain “conservative hater” about this over at Fox News today.  It was pure gold.  Of course, the racecard was tossed out at me.  It was deliciously absurd.  

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LR3I4X656U47FEK4XYRP6VHJ5U Marie

    I recommend reading the study.  It’s pure comedy.

  • Anonymous

     Good god, you really believe that? I can only think you’re a 3rd –  6th grader.

  • Anonymous

    Someone who would ask that question.

  • Anonymous

     

    Not really. While he is a conservative commentator,
    he is not in the same low class as Cavuto (a complete moron) and Hannity,
    someone who is a total tool for the Republican Party. Krauthammer had the balls
    to call out Rush when all others were kissing his ring, that alone would be enought to set him
    aside from the rest.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/XVOR56LHNIAD6Q6JCE4RAZWDYI DC

    haha, I don’t buy into that Republican talking point.

  • Anonymous

    What do you think the Conservatives have been doing? It isn’t enough to ask the question, Conservatives must have the answers. We have done that by taking back the House. We will complete the answer by taking back the Senate and the presidency.

  • Anonymous

    Scrambled chicken and bacon – yummy!

  • Anonymous

    Consider the similarity of a fetus up to about six months and a brain dead patient being kept on a resuscitator.  There are no brain waves in either. The fetus, of course, will go on to have them but in the early stages of pregnancy it is still brain-dead.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    They don’t have any trouble figuring out the Congressional Black Caucus is an actual racist group and the Tea Party isn’t. On the perception-challenged Left, it’s the opposite. They’re colorblind, but not in the good sense. Also Conservatives don’t have any trouble figuring out that when black folks vote for Obama to the tune of 96%, that’s racist. They know that cuz 96% of white folks didn’t vote for McCain and the Left still thinks white folks are racists. Goose, gander, the liberal Gordian Knot.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    Plus they think all people should sleep in trees at night to avoid assassination.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    Thinking entertainers who pander to an audience as a career are ideologues is a mistake. Limbaugh is no more a Conservative than Fred Flintstone. How much money do you think Limbaugh would earn if he presented a non-partisan take on America? If he can’t talk Liberal, that doesn’t make him a Conservative.

  • Anonymous

    The dotor was the bartender.

  • Anonymous

    Your sick cousin’s are every where. You could be one as far as we know, hide’in behind an P.E. teacher’s whistle or  maybe even  hide’in the shadow’s of an ‘Boy Scout’s camp fire.

  • http://www.facebook.com/briandriscoll1 Brian Driscoll

    Go back to school

  • Anonymous

    I’M IN HOME SCHOOL IN WHICH YOUR MOTHER IS MY TEACHER AND YOUR WIFE IS MY EXTRA CREDIT BEDROOM ASSIGNMENT SO FAR MY GRADE IS A TRIPLE AAAPLUS!!!!

  • Anonymous

    DON’T FORGET TO PROTECT YOUR JIMMY FROM YOUR OVERSEX WIFE WHO JUST GOT A TRAIN RAN ON HER FROM MY COUSINS,WHILE  LINING UP IN P.E.TO BLOW THE DUST OUT OF YOUR MOTHER WHISTLE STREET CORNER ASS WHILE HIDING  OUT IN THE  SHADOWS OF YOUR SISTER’S DAUGHTERS TOM BOY GIRL SCOUT’S GIVING US A WELL DESERVE SLOPPY BLOWJOB  AROUND THE CAMPFIRE….

  • Anonymous

    STILL NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO YOU GIVING THE POPE SPECIAL K SERVICE….

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