If the US was split in half and the liberals ran one half and the conservatives ran the other..?
88470
The liberals would become extinkt eventually..\nAbortion\nHomosexuality\nPolitical Correctness\nWelfare and Entitlements\nAssisted suicide
105176
Theodore Roosevelt's decision to run as a progressive party candidate had a major effect of splitting the Republican party vote and represents probably the only time in American History where a third party candidate has won a significant share of the vote. I think that there is a strong likelihood that if Roosevelt had not run, Taft would have won a second term.
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Here's a nice little letter as to what would happen if the blue and red states split:\n\nDear Red States,\n\nWe’ve decided we’re leaving. We intend to form our own country, and we’re taking the other Blue States with us. In case you aren’t aware, that includes Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast. We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to the people of the new country of New California.\n\nTo sum up briefly:\n\nYou get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states. We get stem cell research and the best beaches.\n\nWe get Elliot Spitzer. You get Ken Lay.\n\nWe get the Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood.\n\nWe get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom.\n\nWe get Harvard. You get Ole’ Miss.\n\nWe get 85 percent of America’s venture capital and entrepreneurs. You get Alabama.\n\nWe get two-thirds of the tax revenue, you get to make the red states pay their fair share.\n\nSince our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the Christian Coalition’s, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a bunch of single moms.\n\nPlease be aware that Nuevo California will be pro-choice and anti-war, and we’re going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at once. If you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have kids they’re apparently willing to send to their deaths for no purpose, and they don’t care if you don’t show pictures of their children’s caskets coming home. We do wish you success in Iraq, and hope that the WMDs turn up, but we’re not willing to spend our resources in Bush’s quagmire.\n\nWith the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80 percent of the country’s fresh water, more than 90 percent of the pineapple and lettuce, 92 percent of the nation’s fresh fruit, 95 percent of America’s quality wines (you can serve French wines at state dinners), 90 percent of all cheese, 90 percent of the high tech industry, most of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and condors, all the Ivy league schools, Seven Sister schools, plus Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT.\n\nWith the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to cope with 88 percent of all obese Americans (and their projected health care costs), 92 percent of all U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100 percent of the tornadoes, 90 percent of the hurricanes, 99 percent of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100 percent of all tele-evangelists, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia and the vast majority of illiterate Americans also known as Arkansas.\n\nWe get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you.\n\nAdditionally, 38 percent of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale, 62 percent believe life is sacred unless we’re discussing the death penalty or gun laws, 44 percent say that evolution is only a theory, 53 percent that Saddam was involved in 9/11 and 61 percent of you crazy b*****ds believe you are people with higher morals than we lefties.\n\nPeace out,\nBlue States
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I think BOTH parties should move to the center. This would put them in line with the beliefs of most Americans.
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I hope so. There are decent moderate people on both sides of the aisle. We've had to deal with the extremes (left and right) for too long. It'd be nice to have someone in the middle. Very few Americans are on the fringes like most of our choices have been lately.
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False.  Conservatives were successful in making "liberal" a dirty word.  Liberals did not fight back and let them get away with it.  Bush though has awakened a sleeping giant and liberals are starting to fight back.
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Well, let's see.\n\nA liberal wants to preserve the limited powers of the government, and conservatives want to have a strong central goverment that can protect the country against foreign aggression.\n\nNo wait, that's backwards ...\n\nLiberals want to stop Congress from deficit spending, and conservatives want to continue to fund military-related projects and spend far more than is in the Treasury.\n\nNo wait, that's backwards too ...\n\nLiberals want to protect a citizen's right to worship as he pleases without government interference, and conservatives want to set the Ten Commandments into Federal law.\n\nGee, now I'm really confused.  Seems liberals and conservatives are all mixed up these days ...\n\nI think you should go back to the sixties and seventies, when liberals were the party of affirmative action, school desegregation, and welfare, and conservatives were the party of fiscal responsibility and anti-Communism -- and the world made sense.\n\n(Sorry, I know I'm being a little sarcastic and you're probably just a kid who doesn't understand any of this stuff.  But government is a weird place these days)
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How about two modern American liberals. :-) J/K
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As a liberal married to a man who is half-Mexican, it sounds like an excellent plan to me!  Before we give the conservatives the boot, we should grab their money as they head over the border.  Many of them are crooked CEOs who obtained their wealth by stabbing everyone else (not just Mexicans) in the back.
1006393
I think this goes for both liberals and conservatives.  It's just more obvious to you when you are on the receiving end of it.
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sounds like a good plan to me. let's throw in the fundamentalists too. oops wait, i guess we already did seeing as how they're all conservative.
587465
Blame the liberals and Democrats for this one.
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steven colbert for president, things would get done and jon steward could be his vice president\nthe country would see big changes in the government quickly.....but they would all be big secrets until the last moment
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The newly elected Democratic majority, which is slim, tend towards conservatism, unlike the liberals on Y!A.\n\nThat is my good news for the day.
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Both were conservatives. Both were pro-life, against gay marriage, tough on illegal immigration, and favor tax cuts.
1050796
No, the left doesn't have any definable core. No, they can't cut loose the fringe because the "fringe" is the only part of the left that still supports the looney agenda of liberals.
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If the election was today, maybe.  It would probably be a pretty even split at this point, but the Democrats may have a slight edge today.  Politics, like the weather, changes every five minutes.  Republicans will reunite and place 100% of support behind their selection.  Democrats will fracture and split then end up with the "one that won, not the one we want" candidate.  We won't really know who is going to win until November 2008.  But this is gonna be a fun election.  There'll be more skeletons, scandals, mud slinging, and hate talk than any election before.  It's gonna be a wild ride and I plan on getting there early and getting a good seat.