Ever notice how the word (con)servative has the root word of con in it?

[gopiscrap]

Just saying. Just about every conservative I have ever known has been a worthless, air sucking, shit stain, fraud

[PJMcK]

1. With all due respect...

...you have firm grip of the obvious. (wink)

Enjoy your Fourth!

[gopiscrap]

2. you too!

just venting, because every once in a while I get sick of the hypocrisy

[former9thward]

3. Is that your attitude towards (con)serve or (con)servtion?

[gopiscrap]

4. just conservative

[scscholar]

13. Which is also attacking conservation. Teddy would be disappointed

[Press Virginia]

5. In Latin, "Con" means together. The root word is sevare which is "keep"

I do get your point though

[gopiscrap]

6. I went to a Catholic school for 8 years

studied Latin with a nun standing over me with a thick wooden ruler. I know what it means, but was speaking tongue in cheek as to it's modern use in our political lexicon

[Press Virginia]

7. I know. I got your point

[gopiscrap]

8. I know you did

I was just being cheeky, haven't had my morning coffee yet

[hobbit709]

9. so does Congress

[gopiscrap]

11. under it's present popultation it sure does

[nolabear]

12. Jesus, seriously?

My entire family of origin is conservative. Mississippi conservative. I'm on the far left of every opinion just about all of them have. And they are also funny, smart, generous, caring, honest, creative, talented people who might think things that are unfathomable to me but honey, they ain't frauds. I'll work to oppose most of the things they think are great ideas, but I can go to them any time and they to me, as can many people, those they know and those they don't.

Sure, there are frauds among them. There are frauds among us, too, and everywhere in between. The "con" of conservative and the "con" of confidence man are polar opposites. That's the whole point of the term; a confidence man gains your sense of him being "with" you in order to take advantage of you.

This is the part of "liberal" that I find dangerous and just as unfathomable as I do conservatives. We looooooove people, we want the BEST for people, but lots of them are air sucking shit stained frauds, not "people."

[Igel]

14. Some would say the same thing about the con-stitution.

Or the very idea of con-fidence.

Of course, that's the origin of the clipped form "con". A con man was a "confidence man", who works by building up your confidence when there's no way he can keep or intends to keep what he's selling or getting you to buy.

Any politician who tells you he'll do something that he probably can't is conning you.