Tuesday, April 14, 2009

extremists

update 2: I spoke too soon. Rick Perry is backing down already.

update 1: We're in good company. Texas governor Rick Perry supports HCR50, which reaffirms the Tenth Amendment.

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via Nuke's (slightly edited)

"You might be a right wing extremist" if you:
  • Were born in the South
  • Believe that 9/11 was more serious than Watergate
  • Think Clinton's impeachment was not about sex
  • Wear an American flag in your lapel
  • Speak and write perfect English, but no Spanish
  • Own more than one Bible
  • Believe that Jesus Christ means eternal life
  • Support the rule of law and maintenance of law and order
  • Want America’s borders secured
  • Believe that Mexico is a foreign nation and Spanish a foreign language
  • Thank God that the U.S. won both world wars
  • Oppose affirmative action, abortion, same-sex marriage, and gun control
  • Believe that fighting higher taxes is more patriotic than paying them
  • Prefer “Patriot’s Tea” to Obama Kool-aid
  • Doubt that Islam is really a “Religion of Peace”
  • Believe that a baby Jew born to a virgin 2009 years ago saved mankind from sin
  • Send out Christmas cards
  • Attend a Christian church on occasions other than Christmas and Easter
  • Sing the National Anthem with your hand over your heart
  • Fly Old Glory on Flag Day and Independence Day
  • Believe that preventing voter fraud is more important than empowering illegal aliens, felons, and the deceased with the vote
  • Own a gun and ammunition
  • Favor the death penalty for brutal killers, but oppose abortion of innocent fetuses
  • Miss WF Buckley, Ronald Reagan, and Richard Nixon
  • Have voluntarily read the Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, and U.S. Constitution
  • Believe that labor unions should be subjected to anti-trust laws
  • Have never committed adultery or had gay sex
  • Drive a car built by an American car company in America
  • Dispute the belief that the economic meltdown was worth it in order to open home ownership to more people of color
  • Believe that the U.S. should spend more money on national defense than on foreign aid
  • Suspect that Nancy Pelosi is dumber than a pound of recycled botox, and that Barney Frank is a heterophobe
  • Wonder why Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Jeremiah Wright are referred to as "Reverend"
  • Mourn the 50 million fetuses that have been slaughtered since the Roe V. Wade ruling
  • Are less concerned about trees and cows than the humans who work harvesting them
  • Pay a tithe or make a donation to any organized religion
  • Have never applied for food stamps or welfare
  • Read the Wall Street Journal, George Will, Pat Buchanan, and Ann Coulter
  • Listen to FOX News or Rush Limbaugh
  • Dislike Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez and other communist dictators
  • Know the words to “God Bless America” by heart
  • Like George Washington better than George Soros
  • Argue that global warming is little more than hot air circulated by liberals for “green” profit
  • Want the UN out of America and America out of the UN

4 comments:

Wry Mouth said...

uh oh. I only scored a "-4." I guess that means I'm in.

TO THE EXTREEEEEEME!!!1!

Nuke said...

it's a tough job being an extremist. But somebody's gotta do it!

The Local Malcontent said...

Please accept my application to your fine club~!

Would any of the Founding Fathers or early Federalists NOT be considered extremeists themselves?

Hatless in Hattiesburg said...

-4?!? is that a golf score?

;)