T Lott: "If you're 60 and liberal, there's something wrong with your mind"

[Stinky The Clown]

On Hairballz, Trent sez: "If you're young and conservative, there's something wrong with your heart. If your 60 and liberal, there's something wrong with your mind."

Whaaaaaaa?

If that's true, then we need to get rid of every ossified old fart in office.

And, at 59 plus, I am VERY offended by this. Or, if its true, than I'm one sick son of a bitch. I'm waaaaaaay more liberal now than in my youth. I see liberalism as the result of wisdom. Conservatism is the result of selfishness.

No wonder I hate these bastards.

[Downtown Hound]

1. Winston Churchill requoted

The man has no originality.

[Stinky The Clown]

6. i didn't know that .....

.... I'd never heard the quote before.

To be fair to ol' Trent, he *did* seem like he was fishing for someone to whom to make attribution, but Tweety stepped on him.

[blm]

7. Probably talking about real conservatism - not the theocratic fascism

and imperialism that hides behind the word conservatism today. Churchill had more brains than that.

[Downtown Hound]

11. Indeed. n/t

[Supersedeas]

56. Theocratic fascism is in vogue with the 29%ers

[Burma Jones]

2. Did he attribute Churchill

'cause that's who is commonly thought of as first saying that......

[Dr Fate]

3. So I guess Churchill was calling FDR & Truman idiots then.

The quote was as wrong-headed then as it is now.

[Burma Jones]

31. yep, agreed

especially considering what the term Conservative has come to mean in the USA.

[raccoon]

53. Self delete after reading message 4. nt

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

4. That's a version of a bullsh*t quote FALSELY attributed to Churchill

I heard that lunatic Ann Coulter even use Churchill's name before spewing it.

The official Churchill website debunks this quote and even says Churchill was more liberal later in life.

"Conservative by the time you're 35"
"If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain." There is no record of anyone hearing Churchill say this. Paul Addison of Edinburgh University makes this comment: "Surely Churchill can't have used the words attributed to him. He'd been a Conservative at 15 and a Liberal at 35! And would he have talked so disrespectfully of Clemmie, who is generally thought to have been a lifelong Liberal?"

http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=112

[SnohoDem]

33. Thanks, Burger

I was about to debunk that.

:thumbsup:

[ShortnFiery]

5. That saying is so old and tired ...

I fell off of my dinosaur the first time I heard it, i.e. it's over 30+ years old. :thumbsdown:

The rabid right wingers think it's so cute because it seemingly explains their selfish nature as "objective" instead of "depraved." :puke:

[acmejack]

22. Oh no! I remember when it WAS funny!

I wanted to say something snarky cause of that & then I thought about that picture! I like my teeth:)

edit:just to clarify FLAG!

[Minnesota Libra]

8. I always knew I was a bit odd - never did follow the political crowd nt

[RebelOne]

9. He is a real dumbass. I am over 60 and a liberal.

Not a raging liberal, but a liberal nonetheless.

[izzie]

16. Gee I am over 70 and I am a liberal.

I sort of thought I had learned to think for my self and got over doing what the local Bible thumper told me to think.

[JuniperLea]

19. Yay for izzie!

When I grow up I want to be just like you!

:hug:

[izzie]

51. MY big prob len as I am really very young at heart. Childlike

That is childlike not childish. I have a firm belief that we can really make things better for people.

[saskatoon]

20. Liberal

I'm 88 and I am a Liberal and goddamn proud of it and screw you Lott you asshole.

[Bolo Boffin]

10. I thought that was GK Chesterson

But then again, I'm not sure of that.

[tsuki]

12. OH, GOTT SEI DANK! I'm 59, so I am still sane. But, what do

I do next year?

[Laf.La.Dem.]

13. Put me down as "something wrong with my mind"

I am 60 plus and VERY liberal:thumbsup:

[Ringo84]

14. Re:

Yep. I'm a moonbat! And I'm damn proud of it!

Hope you choke on your own bile, right-wing freaks!
Ringo

[rzemanfl]

15. Less than a year and a half left before I am officially nuts. Can

I get disability then, for being crazy?

[JuniperLea]

17. "Liberalism as the result of wisdom"

Oh yeah!

That's why so many RWNuts hate college kids and college professors... and why BushCo leaves every child behind... I could go on and on...

The smarter you are, the more informed you are, the harder it is to control you!

[EST]

18. Two great minds...

I can certainly identify with you. I started out as a self sure (cocksure?) conservative, more than half convinced that welfare mothers should be sterilized, that a straight ten percent income tax was right for everybody and, since the Viet Nam war was the first thing I had to face right out of high school, democrats sucked, big time.
As time progressed, over the last 40 years, or so, I had to come up against humanness-and can see how it was that I arranged it so.
My own take is, if these limp brained politicians really do believe in the hereafter, they really ought to get a handle on the lying, torture, disenfranchisement and other sins against god's prize creation and try to act a little more like Jesus!
After all, they're they are gonna be pleading their own cases with him, pretty quick!

[acmejack]

21. I was conservative from being brought up in a military family.

I became a liberal through life experiences and education, if one has a soul, a conscience,a sense of morality, whatever you choose to call it, I can't see how you can grow to be anyone else.

[jrw14125]

23. I tell you what....

When I'm 60:

- I'll want my social security check
- I'll want that check to be enough to live on comfortably
- I'll want universal health care coverage
- I'll want my prescription drugs covered
- I'll want my dentistry covered
- I'll want to keep my tax dollars and the young adults of my country out of countries where they don't belong
- I'll want science and medical advancements to prolong my life, and make it more comfortable, safe, and healthy
- I'll want so-called Christians to stay out of my nursing home bed
- I'll want to live in a crime-free neighborhood
- I'll want to really be safe from terrorism, not just pay it lip service
- I'll want to be able to hang out with, speak with, and learn from, people of different ethnic groups, cultures, and theological beliefs without fearing for my or their safety
- I'll want global warming to have been curbed, reversed, or completely eliminated
- I'll want to smoke all the grass my old lungs can take
- I'll want to be able to go to a public library, and read as many books as my old eyes can take
- and I'll want those confounded cronies, crooks, and faux-conservatives out of my Government!

And I could've had it all, if it wasn't for those meddling Republicans...

[lyonn]

24. Those two old fools discussing abortions, ugh

Neither had to ever worry about having a child alone with no financial help. There are so many other reasons a woman does not want a child that are very important to her. I imagine that most women were not real happy about having an abortion but the alternative was terrible. Those stuffy, superior, know all, pious old men make me ill.

[jbnow]

27. The strange thing was

Lott didn't even hear what Chris was saying. Chris was disturbed that younger people were not as pro-choice as people his age are. He was wondering why they were more conservative about it.

Lott heard it wrong and thought Chris was saying the younger people are MORE liberal and for abortion and then made that quote and they didn't get back to the point.

Chris goes to a lot of campus meetings...maybe more conservatives show up? I agree with him that if younger people are less pro-choice, that's a problem.

[lyonn]

30. Having just changed channels I only heard a part of the

conversation but did hear the bit about young = dem and older and wiser = repub. and some more blather about it was unbelievable that anyone with any smarts would be for abortion. They were smiling and smirking and being oh so superior. We have no doubt where Prissy Crissy is coming from now days. It would be fun to know which stocks he has put him money into since he is married to the corps.

[jbnow]

50. I just listened again

Chris was all friendly with what Lott was saying...but after saying youth were more for gay marriage he did say he found it odd that college people are so much more against abortion than people his age.

So before he laughed along with Lott, who he likes too much, he didn't sound against abortion, he sounded perplexed that as many kids seemed to be.

[rniel]

25. One of those stupid old farts tales

That assholes like to tell their children. Once you young farts get older and wiser your all going to turn into conservatives.

yeah right

I'll be sure to tell all my grandchildren to shoot me if I start to display the telltale signs.

[glitch]

26. If your IQ is above 90, there is something wrong with your mind. - Trent

Lott didn't say, but would've if he were able.

[roguevalley]

28. I'm 53 and I could punch his flabby gut back to November.

[Warpy]

29. Every birthday I have sees me get a little more radicalized

and this is from somebody who was SDS in the 60s.

I think the problem may be with Vacant Lott's definition of "conservative." It's clear that prig doesn't want to conserve anything but his own personal fortune.

We on the left, on the other hand, work to conserve civil liberties and economic justice, while calling the radical reactionaries on the right who are trashing everything that made this country great to account.

Perhaps if we had a legitimate press, we might get this debate into print or on the air. As it is, we're shut out and the anti Americans have stolen the name conservative as they've stolen the name Christian and there is little we can do about it save talk to people one at a time, changing hearts and minds where we can.

[meow2u3]

32. Vacant Lott!!

:rofl: :rofl: :spray: :spray: :rofl: :rofl: :spray: :spray: :rofl: :rofl: :spray: :spray: :rofl: :rofl:

[Skittles]

34. if you're Trent Lott there is something wrong with you, PERIOD

YES

[Eurobabe]

35. I was young and conservative, thank GOD I got a brain

in my 30s. LOL. Who the fuck says you have to get conservative as you age?? Most people just mellow. Trent is flippin' helmet head.

[BeachBuckeye]

36. I agree

The older I get the more Liberal I become.

[kineneb]

37. grandpa will arise yet from his grave

He died a liberal at age 87, still writing LTTEs that needed asbestos gloves well into his old age. Can we stuff Lott into a burlap sack with large rocks and "accidently" loose him somewhere wet?

[realisticphish]

38. There's something wrong with your heart

if you're OLD and conservative. Witness Dick Cheney.

[sandnsea]

39. If you see the Bush mess and vote Republican

there's something wrong with your heart and mind.

Get Katrina money Trent, otherwise shut up.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

40. "T Lott."

The Urban Senator.

[chieftain]

41. Being dissed by someone who lost his post to Bill "Catkiller"

"Inside Trader", "FlipFlopper" Frist is hardly worth reacting to. I wish him many an evening with fellow ninny, George W, wondering how they got their fat asses handed to them by an enraged electorate and a fighting Democratic Party.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

42. He should tell it to Studs Terkel

How old is Studs now, 93, 94? I know he just had another birthday and he's still going strong...had a richer, more rewarding, more eventful life that has had a positive impact on more people than Lott has ever even ripped off (and that's a bunch!).

Trent will never even live that long. He'll retire to his veranda and calcify into a petrified piece of shit. They won't even know he passed on till the breeze knocks him out of his rocker and he shatters in a thousand pieces.

Republicans. Pah. *spits*

[midnight]

43. Nice way to distinguish the difference between

being conservative-selfish, and being liberal-wise.

[TankLV]

44. Tanklv: If you're a REPUKE you're probaly a NAZI.

I think mine is factual, I KNOW his is only true in his head!

[sandyd921]

45. I was liberal when I was 20

and now that I'm 58 I'm........

EVEN MORE LIBERAL!!!! :woohoo:

[unkachuck]

46. generally speaking....

....speaking as a male that is, 'if you're 60 and conservative, there's something wrong with your dick'....

....if you're 60 and walking around with a properly functioning hardon, you've got better things to do with your time than concentrating on wealth and conservatism....

....hey Trent, liberalism will set you free....

[newspeak]

47. I'm trying to remember the poet

who said I was conservative when I was young, that is why I am liberal today. Chapman?

[TheDonkey]

48. That's sort of a famous old quote people say

don't know why he's spouting it.

[spuddonna]

49. I'll let my parents know they're insane right away...

Trent should scrape some of that axle grease out of his hairbrush. I think some of it leaked into his ear and overlubed his reptilian brain... x(

[The Anti-Neo Con]

52. I'm only 30, but I'll still be liberal in 30 years.

I'm sure of it b/c I abhor everything most "conservatives" stand for. I see a lot of people around my age group changing from liberal to conservative & it's disheartening. Usually they are young, liberal, and once they get out of college & get a job, they get sucked into the conservative corporate mindset. Not me, I'm a union man.

[kentuck]

54. What they're really saying...

We admit we have no heart, but we are rationalizing it in such a way to permit us to believe we are doing the things we do because we are selfish and greedy but that is the rational and sensible way to be.

[Doctor_J]

55. If you're 60 and wear a vinyl rug on your head,

there's something very wrong.

[Rocknrule]

57. If you're black, gay, female, poor, or non-Christian and conservative

there's something wrong with your mind

[LynneSin]

58. This coming from a man who wanted Strom Thurmond as president

Yeah, nothing like having a Segrationist running our country - whoops, my bad we currently do