Why aren't manners a conservative value?

[gulliver]

Think of Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Tom DeLay, Glenn Beck, and Sean Hannity. These are top names in conservative opinion. Is it a coincidence that they are all rude?

Respectfulness. It's liberal too.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Two words:

Ayn Rand. Three other words: Their True God.

[Joe Bacon]

11. Precisely, their true god is Ayn (as in Mine) Rand

They bullshit about Jesus, but they follow Ayn Rand and her "Look Out For #1 And Fuck Everyone Else" philosophy!

[EST]

2. Respect for others, the environment, families, churches,

life, animals, property, values, hmmmmm...
Definitely liberal.

About the only things we don't respect are berserkers, haters, destroyers of all types...etc.
Gives one a warm feeling about being liberal/progressive, huh?

[NYC Liberal]

20. That's what Michael Moore talked about in Dude Where's My Country

He said MOST people support those things (respecting the environment, families, churches, life, property, etc.), and that they don't consider those to be "liberal" - they consider them to be just common sense. So they won't identify themselves as liberal, even though liberals are the ones actively trying to protect those things.

[baldguy]

3. Treating enemies with courtesy is a sign of weakness.

[Telly Savalas]

16. It's a sign of strength.

Somebody who is comfortable with where they stand has no need to act like a petty vindictive little prick.

[tabasco]

22. That's exactly how I feel.

Meanness is a symptom of weakness.

[KingFlorez]

4. Glenn Beck was number 6 on the list of most well mannered people

I have no clue how he ever got on that list. I agree that manners are a liberal value, but conservative standards respecting people and being polite is considered too PC.

[hlthe2b]

5. Authoritarian personalities... no apologies, no respect...

[sweetheart]

6. what conservatives?

Those arn't conservatives. They are radical corporatist facsists intent on destroying
the middle classes and taking a denuded nation in to a permanent downward spiral
so that all non-useful (to them) non-elites are safely imprisoned or killed off.

They are not conservatives, but criminals, accomplices to organized crime, and
generally evil persons who came to the evil party after they appointed one of
satan's reps to lead.

The only ettiquette in hell is suffering and torture....

... conservative my tukus.

[Telly Savalas]

17. Yes, they're conservatives.

Just like Bush, Reagan, Joseph McCarthy, Herbert Hoover, etc.

Conservatism is a bankrupt ideology.

[sweetheart]

23. Honey, itzzzzzzzzz more than bankrupt

Kkkconservatism is just shit... Its unearthed a mummy unwrapped in
the neocon storm chambre, unveiled magnificent of war... divine
objective...subjective...

versailles.... no not again...

only different.

[kenny blankenship]

7. Because bigotry is a right...of the privileged.

Having manners towards the objects of one's bigotry would take all the joy out of membership in the privileged class.

[SoFlaJet]

8. It's straight out of the playbook

somewhere, someone must have written as a tactic to ALWAYS talk over the liberal-I KNOW it,I'm sure somebody here knows of a memo mapping out this strategy

[Bitwit1234]

9. I am shocked!!!!

Don't the republics belong to the religious party...thought Christians were caring and loved thy neighbors.

[EST]

21. Some of them are-I've known a few.

The rest are false flag patriots, nothing more than political expediency. When one encounters them in a setting where they feel comfortable, the real snake comes crawling out.

We respect them because that's whe we are; they deserve no respect but respect and good manners are a free gift and a reward to the giver.

[Peace Patriot]

10. Because they are not conservatives.

I agree with Sweetheart.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

12. Politeness doesn't cost anything

and to me, at least, is a mark of someone who is respectful of others. Since the conservatives mentioned don't appear to have any respect for anyone, I guess you can't expect them to be polite.

[The Deacon]

13. Because Manners Are Based Upon Respect

Which is based upon Empathy, which resides in the Mammalian Brain - and all the Rethugs you mention long ago ripped out their frontal lobes to allow the Reptilian Brain to guide their behavior.

[jwirr]

14. Oh, they are as long as they are talking to another pug. In their

world we are the essence of evil so we do not deserve manners.

[rucky]

15. Where's the money in that? n/t

[spooky3]

18. oh, they have manners

they trot them out when they are in the presence of someone more rich or powerful or sexy, or who otherwise has something they want.

Why waste manners on anyone else?

edited to add:

:sarcasm:

[NMMNG]

19. What's ironic is they're rude and crude,

While decrying the "decline" in manners and morality in America and pining away for the days of Leave it to Beaver. :silly:

[Riddler]

24. Because good manners dictates that you be kind, truthful and repsectfull....

all traits that you would NEVER find in a conservative right wing asshole.