arisbe: (Default)
[personal profile] arisbe
“Dad?!” my teenage daughter’s face reflected a queasy mixture of surprise and instinctive revulsion. “Is it true? Are you really a . . . Republican?”

She uttered the word as if it were a deadly disease that she could catch just by naming it. “I’m a conservative,” I corrected her.

A confessed Neocon, I regret to say, but -- seemingly -- more of a mensch than most of that sect, and, who knows, he might become even more daring later.

Date: 2004-08-26 01:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] indianarhino.livejournal.com
I knew you were a "conservative", whatever that term actually means today, but I thought you shyed away from the neocon title.

Date: 2004-08-26 02:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arisbe.livejournal.com
Yes. I am a Paleocon. Mr. Bellow admits to being a Neo, but I hope he gets over it.

Date: 2004-08-26 03:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sparkle-shortz.livejournal.com
Nice subject line...

Date: 2004-08-26 05:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nandan.livejournal.com
So a neocon is someone who doesn't think The Color Purple belongs in the literary canon, and who thinks the US should agressively use covert actions to fight communist or other totalitarian and anti-Captialist movements?

I wonder, what is Mr. Bellow for domestically? Or does he just not like to be told what to think?

Date: 2004-08-26 09:43 pm (UTC)
siderea: (Default)
From: [personal profile] siderea
That's what I was wondering. I confess I thought the whole thing sounded, well, childish and vacuous: "I don't like you so I'm joining the other side. Mnah!" I wonder what his principles are.

Date: 2004-08-27 02:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nandan.livejournal.com
That's the tone I caught too. It's not that I can't sympathize with some of those feelings, but it seems highly irresponsible to base your politics on it.

Mnah!

Date: 2004-08-27 06:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rawmr.livejournal.com
Yes, a pretentious lot of mental masturbation, amounting to, "the green party poofs make me sick."

Date: 2004-08-27 06:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kali-ma.livejournal.com
Parents exist to embarass their teenagers (I suppose I have 4.5 years to experience this in person :P)

Profile

arisbe: (Default)
arisbe

March 2011

S M T W T F S
  12345
6789101112
13141516171819
202122232425 26
2728293031  

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jul. 18th, 2025 03:42 am
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios