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sounds good to me:

Ladies and gentlemen, Jimmy Carter:

I was teaching a Sunday school class two weeks ago," he recalls. "A girl, she was about 16 years old from Panama City [Fla.], asked me about the differences between Democrats and Republicans.

"I asked her, 'Are you for peace, or do you want more war?' Then I asked her, 'Do you favor government helping the rich, or should it seek to help the poorest members of society? Do you want to preserve the environment, or do you want to destroy it? Do you believe this nation should engage in torture, or should we condemn it? Do you think each child today should start life responsible for $28,000 in [federal government] debt, or do you think we should be fiscally responsible?'

"I told her that if she answered all of those questions, that she believed in peace, aiding the poor and weak, saving the environment, opposing torture . . . then I told her, 'You should be a Democrat.' "

Okay, so then to be a republican, you have to want war, want to help rich people and screw over the poor, destroy the environment, practice torture, and be pro-debt.

Actually, I prefer the version mistakenly attributed to Winston Churchill: "To be a conservative at 20, you have no heart. To be a liberal at 40, you have no mind."

I'm the first to admit I'm a heartless prick, and Jimmy Carter seems evidence of the second half of that statement.

via Neal Boortz, who has a good riposte of his own with a bonus libertarian slant.

Posted by Francis at April 9, 2006 06:27 PM | TrackBack