Look, I hope you’re right, but I live in Brooklyn and work in Manhattan. I’m surrounded by knee-jerk moonbattery every day. I have yet to find a single bona-fide conservative here in almost six years, unless, like me, they’re pretty much keeping it to themselves…

I work in a lot of different offices throughout midtown, and I like to play a little game with myself called How Long Until Someone Says Something Moonbat. On average, it only takes a minute or two on any given day. It’s exhausting.

Kensington on May 23, 2007 at 10:40 AM

You’ve obviously had an entirely different experience than I have. I think you’re right about the conservatives keeping it to themselves for the past six years. But sometimes all it takes is for one person to speak the truth and others do chime in.

Day after day I sat in a visitor’s waiting room in a very busy hospital in the city post 9-11. The tv was always tuned to CNN and like you, I’d wait for the moonbats to start in. One day I got there before anyone else and I changed the channel to Fox News. At first no one noticed but as the lull in conversation set in the crowd began complaining about the channel having been changed (and surprisingly no one knew how to change it manually, hehe) Finally someone said, “Oh yeah, they’re ‘fair and balanced’, right.” And I said, “At least they aren’t bought and paid for like CNN!” Over the rumble I continued, “Do you realize that CNN has admitted that it played down Saddam’s atrocities in order to be able to maintain it’s bureau in Bagdad?” Much to my surprise and relief, the rest of the room, who had kept silent for days until that point, chimed in their support for FNC’s unbiased reporting. From that day forward for the remaining couple of weeks in that room (until my family member was released from that floor) I no longer had to suffer through hours of CNN’s skewed coverage and I made a few new friends in the process. Maybe part of the problem is that by our very nature we are conservative (read shy or understated) therefore quieter about speaking out. Some might call it apathetic. I believe in the power of attraction and it works for me – the CNN v FNC was just one example.

The way I see it there is a bully mentallity among the leftards (illustrated by Rosie’s loyal, if brain-dead fans)
We conservatives can’t afford to be the silent majority anymore, or heaven forbid, we will become the silent minority.

I would like to think there is a growing faction of conservatives that may some day be know as “The Loud, Pushy Conservatives“ Then we could have Leftards vs Oxymorons… ;o)

NightmareOnKStreet on May 23, 2007 at 1:37 PM