You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

When Winston Churchill was defeated in the election of 1945, his wife remarked to him that it might be a blessing in disguise. His reply: then it is very well disguised indeed.

re: #5 austin_blue

Just for shits and grins, I’ll toss this post from the last thread up here to be bashed from both sides:

Good night all! Good discussions tonight. The give and take of positions was thoughtful and by and large sane. This is what a discussion board should be. This place is so much more sane than when it was when I finally had the chance to get on board. I got absolutely hammered when I started posting as a rational liberal voice.

I’m no Moonbat, I’m more of a Skip Jackson Dem. (For the Newbies, check out the Wiki page). I don’t post on any other political boards. I like it here. Sanity reigns. And thank you, Charles, for making it thus.

And I’m not ass-kissing. Two years ago there were long-time Lizards who were actively advocating the blatant racism we are seeing about the Cordoba Mosque. They have shuffled off.

If you disagree, let’s have a discussion tomorrow. That’s why this Board is important.

Ah, but it’s not so easy trying to be a rational conservative here these days. It’s not good enough to recognize the reality of evolution, the reality of global warming, and the necessity of granting to all the freedoms that most conveniently would be granted just to one’s own.

These days, Milton Friedman and Adam Smith are lumped with the KKK.