Originally Posted by bornright

It has often been said that it is as big a shame when a young person is a conservative as it is when a older person is liberal. One would have to agree that as a person gains knowledge and experiences in life he becomes more and more conservative.

I thought I would start my first post off with hard love.

Originally Posted by wayside

My favorite atmostphere.

Originally Posted by bornright

It has often been said that it is as big a shame when a young person is a conservative as it is when a older person is liberal. One would have to agree that as a person gains knowledge and experiences in life he becomes more and more conservative.

I thought I would start my first post off with hard love.

Originally Posted by cheapseats

Originally Posted by wayside
Cash must be pretty loose then.,

Originally Posted by cheapseats
Flowing freely, I'd say.



Flowing like oil, the money is. Get in the flow.

You, I sense, know perfectly goddamn well where you stand on just about everything...to me, it is perhaps the most obvious upside of Age...and could, therefore, be a good Fake Not-Good.

A Secret Sweetheart Deal for you, then...undisclosed boucoup bucks including a Platinum Parachute.

Where shall you be, roughly, on the Fiscally-Conservative-But-Socially-Not-Weird to NeoNazi spectrum?

You will naturally want the Republicans to hold the White House, yes? Which Republican?

Originally Posted by wayside

Are you speaking of the "real me" or the "me-who-is-devil's-advocate" me? Are they one in the same? Nope.

Originally Posted by cheapseats

Originally Posted by wayside
Cash must be pretty loose then.,

Originally Posted by cheapseats
Flowing freely, I'd say.



Flowing like oil, the money is. Get in the flow.

You, I sense, know perfectly goddamn well where you stand on just about everything...to me, it is perhaps the most obvious upside of Age...and could, therefore, be a good Fake Not-Good.

A Secret Sweetheart Deal for you, then...undisclosed boucoup bucks including a Platinum Parachute.

Where shall you be, roughly, on the Fiscally-Conservative-But-Socially-Not-Weird to NeoNazi spectrum?

You will naturally want the Republicans to hold the White House, yes? Which Republican?

Originally Posted by cheapseats

Does anyone really know the real wayside, I wonder? I will say, I expect it is a worthwhile but most elusive objective.

Originally Posted by cheapseats

Of course, I know that You, Yourself, and You do not fall on the Fiscally-Conservative-But-Socially-Not-Weird to NeoNazi spectrum.

Originally Posted by cheapseats

But DEVIL'S advocate? You assign yourself inherent disadvantage from jump street? To be a convincing standard bearer for Heartless Conservativism, you will want to assign yourself inherent ADVANTAGES...like Right. And white.

Originally Posted by wayside

Oh, you're plenty real, I wouldn't give that another thought. I think there are just so MANY of us, you know? Multiple personalities, I mean, not lots of friends. Because we keep running into undiscovered aspects of ourselves, it always feels as though we haven't landed on the Real McCoy. Which we probably haven't. If we had, I expect we'd be dead.


Hmmm. Okay. For purposes of the charade, that would make you a politician who spends money he doesn't really have to spare, who then solicits funds that aren't really due him. Here's where it gets tricky...you know, nitpicky.

In real life, you buy the house a round of drinks because you enjoy the company of your fellows and it is your pleasure to boost the general conviviality...as a hearty "Bartender, a round for the house" unfailingly does.

You mean well...not only enjoying the moment, but enjoying everyone else's enjoyment of it...yet possibly you lack awareness of the true relationship between the size of your wallet and the size of the house. More likely, once the house is drinking rounds, everyone loses awareness of all kinds of stuff and all manner of revised circumstances come to pass before the night is through.

As a Modern Conservative, you can play this one of two ways. You can either take from the very people you profess to help, the money that you use to help them. Or, you put a pipeline between the public trough and the moneyed interests that get you elected and re-elected, and that otherwise underwrite your hifalutin life style, continually replenishing the trough with money from people you never helped but also never professed to service.



You surely wouldn't want that...might make people think of Drawn & Quartered which, since torture's back in vogue, is perhaps a little close to home for certain of the people, certain Republican senators in particular, who have called themselves conservative under the Bush Administration. Neo-Nazi is out.

But I can't see you doing the navy-blue-suit-with-assortment-of-brighter-is-in-ties thing, either. Your economics aren't as brutal as we'd like but, if you will approach this with more of a "The Most Important Person In The World Is Me And The Most Important Thing In The World Is Money" attitude, we can cast you as one of the faux relaxed Republicans.

I believe it is as important to know if a person looks weird/off/uncomfortable/goofy when they dress down as it is to know if they look weird/off/uncomfortable/goofy when they dress up...do you agree?

Originally Posted by cheapseats

I completely screwed up the quote thing, sorry.

Cast as a conservative, you will want to avoid issue of any apology, by the way...it is unmanly.

Originally Posted by wayside

Oh no! Am I experiencing shrinkage????