How to Win a Fight With a Conservative

by Kurtzman, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9781402208805
• ISBN10: 1402208804
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-01
• Publisher: Hysteria Pubns

Summary

Partisan warfare has never been so much fun. How to Win a Fight With a Conservativeis the ultimate survival guide to arguing politics, filled with all the cunning strategies, damning facts, and merciless ridicule liberals need to give their conservative "friends, neighbors and countrymen" the verbal smackdown of a lifetime. With the presidential election approaching, this irreverent yet practical guide is essential reading for unpracticed neophytes and seasoned politicos alikethe perfect primer for anyone who's ever fantasized about smacking sense into a misguided right-wing adversary. Includes: The 7 Habits of Highly Ineffective Partisans The Conservative Hall of Shame How to Detect Lies, Propaganda, and General BS Kick-Ass Arguments: A Step-by-Step Guide ...and much, much more! This roadmap to success will help you size up, knock down, and win over your conservative rivalswithout making yourself the target of the local militia. PRAISE FOR DANIEL KURTZMAN "You should pick up this book before your next dinner party." Gayle King, editor-at-large of O, The Oprah Magazineand host of "The Gayle King Show" on Oprah and Friends "Daniel Kurtzman doesn't have a political axe to grind. He has two axes to grind. And he does it with the sharpest wit seen in these bipartisan parts for quite some time. Crisscrossing the aisle with wicked glee; no matter which book you finish first, you'll immediately want to run out and get the other one to discover what he said about your side. Just remember to wear a disguise." Will Durst, political satirist and author of The All-American Sport of Bipartisan Bashing "No one knows political satire like Daniel Kurtzman." Andy Borowitz, creator of The Borowitz Report and author of The Republican Playbook "When the folks over at JibJab are looking for a fair and balanced laugh, Daniel Kurtzman's our guy. His How to Win a Fight with a Liberal / Conservativewill have you in stitches regardless of your political affiliation!" Gregg Spiridellis, co-founder of JibJab.com

Excerpts

No one can pinpoint the exact moment it happened, but sometime in the last quarter century, between Ronald Reagan's withering ridicule of all things liberal and George W. Bush's bullying crusade to stamp out political dissent, conservatives gave liberalism a giant wedgie.<br><br>Liberalism didn't see it coming. It was busy navel-gazing and admiring itself in the mirror when conservatives snuck up from behind, grabbed it by its tighty-whities, and hung it up on the flagpole, where it kicked and flailed as conservatives pointed and taunted and called it a pantywaist and a loser.<br><br>Democrats, even some Republicans, used to wear the liberal label with pride. Time was, liberalism was a word that conjured such core American principles as social justice, national compassion, and human freedom. But then conservatives had an idea. What if liberalism could be turned into an embarrassing perversion, like pedophilia, or a disease, like leprosy? And so they told anyone who would listen that liberals were sick, weak, deranged, traitorous perverts.<br><br>The problem is, liberals stood there and took the abuse. They let conservatives bullyrag them, beat them down, and get inside their heads until they ran away with their hands over their ears, screaming, "I'm not a liberal!" And thus a proud ideology was thrown under the bus.