From: ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Political Peeves
Date: 19 Aug 92 22:42:09 GMT
Organization: NMSU Computer Science

<In article <Bt7M1v.2AF@acsu.buffalo.edu> v116kznd@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Dave Archer) writes:

<Peeve:  Republicans.  

	Ok, I can buy that. In fact, I'll raise you one:

ObPeeve: Politicians.

<I was going to say something about Buchanan being a Nazi, but I understand 
<there's some law against the 'N' word in PeeveTown, so I won't.  

	Ain't no law, sonny, it's just that some of us have a clue
	what a real Nazi looks like. Most of the "nazinazinazi"
	postings to the net are usually pointing to something
	which bears the same resemblance to a Nazi that 
	Cap'n Crunch does to Blackbeard the Pirate.....i.e. 
	essentially zilch.

<I'd punch 
<him in the nose if it wasn't for those pesky SS goons guarding him.  

	He might like that. Tell me, when you were in school, did
	you box much? Get in fights after school? Ever lose a fight?

	The wise person knows his enemy...but you don't know much
	about Pat Buchanan.

ObPeeve: now some lackwit will attempt to take me to task for
	 supporting Patrick, when I don't.
	 
<Somebody needs to tell him that if you go too far to the right, you'll fall 
<off the edge of the world.

	Only a flat-earther would say that......I've never thought
	of "liberals" as flat-earthers before, thanks for this one!

<I won't say anything bad about Reagan, after all, he's old enough to be my 
<grandfather's grandfather.  

	Lessee, that makes you about 8 years old, doesn't it?
	Mighty precocious, ain'tcha?

<It's a bit spooky to see those Reagan '96 and 
<Buchanan/Reagan '96 signs.  I like to believe those people are joking, but 
<I know some of them are serious.  

	Sure they are. Just as serious as those folks with the
	"Jesse Jackson For President" signs last year.

	Mere seriousness cuts no ice.

ObPeeve: seriousness cuts no ice. Man, it would have been mighty
	 handy a few times in my life if I could have gotten what
	 I wanted just by pitching a "serious" aura.


<   I'd also bitch some about those Young Republican types that get everything 
<   handed to them by their parents and have never worked an honest days work, 
<   but I won't.  

	You've met them and you know them that well? Or are you
	just generalizing?

ObPeeve: folks that whine about someone else's silver spoon being
	 "bigger than mine!"


<It's not my place to say anything nasty about these children 
<   that haven't lived in the Real World yet.  Many of them won't ever have to 
<   anyways.


	This, from an .edu address. Hey, sport, I know some folks
	in the real world who can't afford to go to college; they
	have to work to support their families....it's called 
	"working poor". One guy went to the local branch campus
	and got a welding certificate; he's the first member of
	his family to go to any schooling beyond high school, ever.

	Funny thing is, he's a reluctant Bush supporter; he wants
	to own a welding shop and is afraid that the Democrats
	will make it too expensive in taxes to run his own business.

<(To our non-US readers:  I may be joining you if Bush gets reelected.  Hey, 
< you never know.  Shit Happens.)

	Ah, talk is cheap. 

	I remember lots of people claiming in 1976 "If Reagan is ever
	president, I'm moving to Canada"....but there wasn't any
	mass migration in 1981.

ObPeeve: politics in alt.peeves with no punchline.....