Papantonio: Are Conservatives Too Stupid To Be Sad?

[GoLeft TV]

The following video is a sneak preview of this weekend's Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV, airing August 4th, 2013. A new study says that conservatives rate themselves as being happier than liberals. But there’s a lot happening inside the brain of a Tea Partier. Ring of Fire host Mike Papantonio talks about this with Cliff Schecter, the best-selling author of The Real McCain.

More at Ring of Fire.

[Scuba]

1. "... there’s a lot happening inside the brain of a Tea Partier."

C'mon. Really?

[OnyxCollie]

2. It takes a lot to link Benghazi, Fast & Furious, and the IRS.

George Soros is the key, dontcha know?

[Scuba]

3. And Hollywood, don't forget Hollywood.

And Oprah.

[OnyxCollie]

4. San Francisco values!

San Francisco is in Hollywood, right?

[Scuba]

5. Yes, those damn hippies and their free love.

[OnyxCollie]

6. Free love. Pfft.

Everyone knows that you have to pay for love.

[AAO]

7. These brain-dead people will be the end of us all.

And they'll be crying when JAY-SUS doesn't come to save then, Fucking morons.

[moblsv]

8. Lisa Simpson nailed it

As intelligence goes up, happiness goes down. See, I made a graph. I make lots of graphs.
— Lisa Simpson.

[20score]

9. I agree that many conservatives don't think past the first level of an idea. That goes for

political and religious conservatives alike. But it is not necessarily just republicans that don't think critically. Some democrats also suffer from ideological blockage. (Although the percentage is much higher on the right.) Think of all the people who have changed their positions on things like the insurance mandate (although what we have now is better than what we had, it's not good enough by a long shot) and wholesale spying. Their was no deep thought or a change in morality that brought them to change their beliefs, just rationalizations because of what their leader/leaders had decided to do. No different than what the right did under Bush.

But it is heartening to know the percentage of democrats that rationalized bad programs is smaller than the percentage of republicans. A lot smaller.

[A Simple Game]

10. Conservatives are happy? Where are these happy conservatives? I've never seen one! n/t

[AAO]

11. Yeah, they're perpetually pissed off, yelling and swearing at some poor old lady!