I don't mind saying it gave me the creeps. I don't find anything "christian" in denying the biological nature of homosexuality or in trying to teach the old testament in school. And I certainly don't think chrisitanity has anything to say about the relative merits of capitalism and socialism - even if the books were a real examination of that issue.

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if it gives you the creeps perhaps you should consider not frequenting that store.

Christian or not, do these viewpoints not deserve to be available ? are these titles at your B&N ?

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Of course they deserve to be available. I actually read conservative views on a regular basis. I just finsihed Posner's book about the crash and I've read books by bork and scalia and pj o'rourke for instance. And I just got through saying coulter and savage are prominently featured at my B&N. And the obama as godless socialist one is there too. I've never seen any of the others but they could be there too.

I never will go to the store again. My wife was looking for a crucifix but it turns out the store does not carry any catholic goods like a cross with christ on it. We must not be real christians. They did have jesus with an american flag behind him.

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We are marketing those books because they are going to be big sellers, and we like money. We don't care what political affiliation you have, as long as you are buying our books.

I'm curious Knute, are you capable of saying anything nice about RWers? Is there anything at all they do that you approve of? Anything at all, no matter how trivial? I'm not trying to be agrumentative here, and I'm not interested in a sarcastic answer, I'm really just interested to find out if someone as polarized as you can see any good in the otherside.

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.... are you suggesting that diehard rightwingers say 'nice things' about liberals? I haven't seen any 'nice things' said in the other direction on this forum in the ~6 months or so I've been here.

There was a time looong ago when I thought I was a RWer. The first guy I ever voted for was Barry Goldwater and I attended many Young Republican meetings , but stopped because they were extremely old. I then became educated , but I still did not hate Rwers and still even admired some such as Wm F Buckley . Richard Nixon came along and he was an evil crook , but he was not stupid. Bush Sr was lame , but not necessarily evil. Then the right went bugfuck batty over Bill Clinton . I suspect it was because he stole the one or two good ideas that they had and pre-empted them for himself. Such an outpouring of insane hatred that the right was willing to do such unmanly things as try to oust Bill with such mundane thing as having sex and with a woman at that. They accused him of doing things that they full well knew they had done worse. I lost all respect for the RW weinies then but did not yet hate them.
When the evil and stupid Bush II stole the country and drove it into the ditch with unjust wars and idiotic economic policies.is when I realized that there was no help for the RW morons some of which defend him still. Now that they FUBARed everything, they still act as if someone should treat them with respect when they certainly show no respect for anyone else.
You may think I am polarized, but I am not even close to the kooky, blind , lock stepped one-sidedness of the right.

No, he's not capable of saying anything nice about who disagrees with his politics because he's nothing more than a partisan troll who is totally lacking in maturity and character.

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Seriously, i think he just comes here to prove to himself that he actually knows how to read and write.

Comprehend unfortunately, he is not so good at doing.

Just ignore him, he's just a waste of space, and bandwidth.

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That's not too far from my own summary, except I started by not liking Carter and liking at least some key parts of Reagan's positions. I was alive during Goldwater, etc, but those old-school conservatives predate my political cognizance a bit.

I never cared for Clinton and certainly never voted for him, but the bugfuck battyness over Clinton by rightwingers was the big turnaround where it first became clear to me the right was inherently full of lies and hypocrisy.

Knute simply uses the EXACT SAME TACTICS that many of the less verbally restrained rightwingers use. He even admitted as much when I pointed it out. To complain about Knute's tactics is to complain about Glen Beck and all of his batty followers ... because they use the same tactics.

The difference is, Knute KNOWS he's using the tactics developed by loons. Its sort of a fight-fire-with-fire tactic as an analogy. The rightwingers think they're being original.

None of those folks you perceive to be equally loony (which i disupute), come on here and post, then fuck up the threads they post in by derailing them and then go ahead and continue to spread their disease across the entire board.

He does.

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You are a very smart person. I should be mad at you for unmasking me, but I have learned in my long life that even when you tell idiots exactly what you are doing to them they still don't get it.

I never liked Bill until the RW dickless wonders tried their coup. He was and is far to moderate for me. But the intelligence, courage and political skill he showed in defeating the RW crazies really impressed me. I am hoping that O has those characteristics without the moral failings.
Reagan was never right in his head , I am afraid. The only reason he did not fail as badly as Bush is that he had far better advisers. He let them run the show while he was napping.

I could name one who definitely does this repeatedly and almost never gets disparaged by other righties, but we're not supposed to attack other posters, we're supposed to discuss issues.

Its interesting though that when the tactics popularized by the right are used by the left, they are signs of a troll or thread derailer or loon. Its not much of an extension to figure out why I consider those that do it on the right as being looney.