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I'll do the first 20

1) You call yourself pro-life but you support the death penalty.

Unborn children are not the same thing as convicted criminals.

2) You have to believe that businesses deserve tax breaks and poor and middle class Americans should pay more.

I believe everyone should pay less. Since I can do math, I am also aware that a tax cut will have the most numerical effect on those who pay the most taxes now.

3) You have to believe that the wealthiest among us deserve the largest tax breaks

The wealthiest pay almost all the taxes. Math again.

4) You have to believe that the rights of outdoorsmen and hunters are at risk because of limited proposals to take cop-killer bullets which splinter upon impact are having their legitimacy as a tool for hunting is being questioned.

Facts.

5) You have to believe that you're a protector of wildlife because you kill wildlife.

Hunting and wildlife preservation

6) You believe you're a protector of the environment yet you support draining marshes and wetlands to make way for businesses.

History of drainage movement in America. Note the main players.

7) You believe that the 2nd amendment to the constitution says only "the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed" but conveniently forget that the first part of that same sentence says, "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state"

Supreme Court has handled this already.

8) You believe that Ronald Reagan who slashed student grants and fired air traffic controllers deserves to have a library and an airport named after him.

Yeah, that was all Reagan ever did.

9) You believe that North Korea's 2006 test of nuclear weapons was a result of a blunder made by former President Bill Clinton who left office in 2000.

On the other hand, you have to believe that North Korea went from zero to a nuclear detonation in five years.

10) You have to believe that global warming has more to do with normal changes in the worlds atmosphere than pollution, destruction of the ozone layer and emissions caused by the burning of fossil fuels.

A lot of scientists believe this, too. Not all conservatives.

11) You believe that drug use is bad except when it comes to drug abuse by high profile conservative talk radio show hosts.

Nobody said Rush's drug use was okay. Not even Rush. You, on the other hand, think there's nothing wrong with Bill Ayers' background.

12) You believe that outlawing gay marriage will keep heterosexual marriage strong.

On the other hand, I don't equate gays not being able to marry with blacks not being able to sit at lunch counters.

13) You believe that gays are immoral yet adulterous talk radio show hosts are well within their rights to preach morality.

Morality is not gauged by who speaks about it. It either stands on its own, or it doesn't.

14) You believe that teachers who sometimes work 14+ hour days for less than $50K a year are overpaid while CEO's who receive millions are receiving fair compensation.

I have yet to meet anyone, liberal or conservative, who thinks teachers are overpaid. Wherever the money's going in education, it isn't getting to teachers. I've seen the numbers.

15) You have to believe that a 4 cell zygote deserves more rights than a person waiting to stand trial for a crime they have not been convicted of.

I'm not even sure where this one comes from. Is somebody aborting prisoners?

16) You have to believe the ACLU, whose exclusive reason for being is to protect against abuses of the Bill of Rights, is bad but the NRA whose goals include legalizing assault rifles, cop killer bullets and explosives is good.

Not sure where to start with this one. The ACLU seems to be as selective in what rights they're defending as the NRA is.

17) You believe that fiscal responsibility means borrowing money which future generations will have to pay to give you and businesses a tax break now.

But it's okay if you're going to buy votes with it using massive spending programs.

Governments don't "pay" for tax cuts. A tax cut is allowing someone to keep their own money. Government spending is money taken from someone to give to someone else.

These things are not equivalent, and liberals consistently try to make them equivalent. Not taxing money from me can only be the same as spending government money if I am considered the property of the State.

18) You believe a fee is not a tax.

Odd. Most conservatives believe a fee certainly is a tax. If you're talking Arnold, we're not talking conservative.

19) You support unmitigated expansion of casino gaming when Republicans are in office but you decry gambling as a moral outrage when Democrats are in power.

Not sure where this one came from either. Is this an issue?

20) You believe that Rush Limbaugh is more important to our history than the forefathers of our country and the makers of the Constitution of the United States.

I wish to hell Thomas Jefferson had a radio show instead of Rush. We take what we can get. It isn't my party that elects talk show hosts to the Senate.

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