A question about the differences between conservatives and liberals

[SpencerH]

I was scanning the news titles and saw one entitled "I'll be thrilled to see you go, Dick Cheney" by Mike Lupica.

In the first paragraph he makes this statement:

"The problem is that Cheney's character now sounds as weird and unhinged as Jack Nicholson's in "A Few Good Men."

That brought to mind a question I'd been meaning to ask here. The answer to this tends to seperate conservatives from liberals since in my experience liberals dont "get it".

In the movie "A few good men", what was the most important thing that Colonel Nathan R. Jessup did that was wrong?

[Imran Siddiqui]

He ordered the Code Red!

(though, really, that's the only thing I really remember from that movie anymore... well aside from Nicholson's great monologue about sitting 100 yards from a bunch of Cubans who want to kill him, etc)

[Rufus T. Firefly]

He did many things wrong, but the big one was that he appeared in a movie with Tom Cruise and Demi Moore.

[Arrian]

My stab at what Spencer's looking for:

Liberal: ordering the code red.

Conservative: admitting her ordered the code red to the liberal weenie in the faggity white uniform.

-Arrian

[SpencerH]

A good start and I hope we'll get more responses. Dont try to anticipate the trend I'm expecting though, you'll skew the distribution of the results of this highly scientific survey. Post what you thought he did wrong.

[SpencerH]

PS it wont hurt if you post a concise view of your liberal/conservative leanings else I'll count all here at poly as liberal (bleeding heart) except for the two or three others I know are not

[Imran Siddiqui]

I voted for McCain

[Arrian]

Liberal on social issues, moderate on economics/fiscal policy. Foreign policy... realist with occasional lapses into liberalism. Anti-Kosovo, pro-Afganistan, anti-Iraq. Never really did understand wtf we thought we were doing in Somalia, either.

Jessup's biggest moral failure: ordering the code red.

Other thoughts:

- failing to find a way to get the guy transferred w/o the use of such a measure
- hanging the guys who executed the code red out to dry

-Arrian

[notyoueither]

Didn't protect his soldier, contributed to his harm.

Conservative.

[molly bloom]

Conservative: Don't break the law, you Pinko/Suffragette/homo/hippies!

(Subtext- break the law, but only if you can definitely get away with it, or afford lawyers expert enough to get you off. See Kennedys, Ernest Saunders/Guinness case, et cetera)


Liberal: Break the law if it's wrong!

(Subtext: this applies to votes for women, equal rights for minorities, the natural (and occasionally the built)environment. It does not apply to 'The Man' lying under oath)

[Imran Siddiqui]

molly's back

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
molly's back

It's really the molly Front For The Liberation Of The People's Commonwealth of Oilackistan.



A very happy Festivus to you (I'm too late for Qurbani, sorry).

[chequita guevara]

yay! Molly's back! and Molly's front, too!

[Imran Siddiqui]

Festivus (which, of course, is tomorrow )

We need to have an annual airing of grievances.

[chequita guevara]

what about feats of strength?