If This Is Liberalism, I Don't Want It!

From Democratic Underground:

I was on my home and was on the ramp getting off the highway. I saw a mini-van on the side of the road. There was a lady standing next to the van and in her arms she held her child. I can only assume her mini-van had broken down. I don't know, perhaps with so many gas stations being out of gas, she had also run out. I slowed down and started to pull over to offer her a ride. At the very last second I noticed a "W" sticker on the back of her vehicle and I sped up and drove off. 

What a self-serving prig! 

If I have to stoop that low, if I have to hate that much, I don't want to be a liberal.  It wouldn't matter what political bumper sticker was on the car, I'm an American first and a Conservative second.  I would stop and see what I could do.  This kind of just blows me away.

VW

 

Comments

[Francis W. Porretto]

There are political liberals who are fine and decent people, just as there are conservatives who are, ah, not. Unfortunately, it's in the nature of our perceptions that we tend to take elevated notice of those who are not fine and decent people. If they adhere to a political philosophy other than ours, we mark an extra demerit against their names. That might not be perfectly fair, though it does come naturally.

I yearn for the day when liberals and conservatives will concede one another's decency and good intentions, and talk strictly about efficacy and efficiency when they discuss their policy differences. But then, I also yearn for 20-cent-a-gallon gasoline and the return of the Witchblade series on TBS.

[Kevin]

Wow... very well said, Francis!

[Michael]

WOW, I can not go into that pitt without getting pissed.

[Saije]

I'm a human being first, an American second. But then I voted for Bush.