Why would liberals be more prone to motivated
thinking than conservatives?
Of course, liberal - egalitarian - communitarian males are no less prone to cognitive biases and group -
think than conservative - hierarchical - individualistic ones.
Not exact matches
Baker is a little more
conservative on the next quarter — he
thinks Q2 EPS will come in at $ 0.86 — but he's more bullish
than Becker on EPS growth in Q3 and Q4.
«It is the first time the Libertarian ticket will have more government experience
than the Republican ticket, and that is astonishing,» says Stan Veuger, a resident scholar and economist at the American Enterprise Institute, a
conservative think tank in Washington, D.C.
Since the popular vote for the
Conservatives in 2011 was less
than that, Mossop doesn't
think Harper will pay any great political price for approving the pipeline.
I
think John Boehner genuinely wanted to get a deal done, but it was hard to do in part because his caucus is more
conservative probably
than most Republican leaders are, and partly because he is vulnerable to attack for compromising Republican principles and working with Obama.
Remember, the vast majority of the world
thinks it's impossible to consistently make more
than 10 - 20 % / year returns so everyone eats up boring,
conservative, diversified mutual funds and long - term investments, at their most speculative being in giant companies like Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG)... viewing inspirational stories like this turning $ 1,500 into $ 1 million and and this international trader and this teenager with skepticism...
«So within the spectrum of the
Conservative Party, I
think that James Moore is considered generally more friend
than foe.»
Josh Barro wrote that «Social
conservatives are more likely to signal openness to pro-middle class economic policies
than the «hardheaded business types» who fund the party.: I
think there is some truth to that, and I
think that Barro's next observation is interesting and....
Typically, liberals will attack her worse
than any
conservative would because of their extreme unquenchable hatred for anyone who
thinks differently
than they do.
Josh Barro wrote that «Social
conservatives are more likely to signal openness to pro-middle class economic policies
than the «hardheaded business types» who fund the party.: I
think there is some truth to that, and I
think that Barro's next observation is interesting and also has some truth:
I listened to two local
conservative radio talk shows today and Cruz was definitely the man of the hour, but I
think that Cruz's support among talk radio listeners, etc (if he can keep it) can form a floor rather
than a ceiling for his support.
Most of the «new» theological
thinking has been from the USA and seems to be in response to a more
conservative type of Christianity and culture
than we have here in the UK.
The Reformed tradition is much broader and more diverse
than many of us realize, and since we've already featured the more
conservative Justin Taylor for «Ask a Calvinist...» I
thought it was time to interview someone from the progressive end of the Reformed spectrum for our «Ask a...» series.
I mean, obviously, to support those who
think of the future usefulness of these bodies, and of their federative structures, in «gathered - church» more
than in «churchly» terms — at that juncture I agree with Dean Kelley (Why
Conservative Churches Are Growing [Harper & Row, 1972]-RRB- To put this concretely, let me offer just one example.
One must ask the question as to whether these newer systems of
thought and Islam as it got filtered through them perceived God - man; theology - anthropology poles differently
than did their
conservative antecedents living within the sterile Semitic environments.
I don't like him, but he's a better choice
than a guy who
thinks he should have dominion over a woman's body and his running mate who takes the award for being the world's only Catholic
conservative objectivist.
And Matt, though he comes from a different perspective
than I do, confirmed what I have always suspected: people who are not
conservative or Christian
think we're crazy.
For one thing, Francis has the temerity to take the science of climate change seriously, which is the sort of thing that can send a Wall Street Journal
conservative frantically groping for his smelling salts, but which I can not help
thinking is slightly saner
than clinging to the politically inflected obfuscations of the data that so many in the developed world use to calm their digestions and consciences.
I
think that most right wings religious
conservatives would hate Romney and consider him the antichrist if they only had someone other
than Obama to vote for.
I also
think that he finds it easier to do with Liberals
than Conservatives.
He says, «My read is that Bachmann supporters who are worried about
conservative authenticity
think of Perry as more authentic
than Romney, and Romney voters who are worried about governing competence
think that Perry is more competent....
It's certainly more in line with a lot of modern liberal
thought than modern
conservative thought.
I personally, & I concede that my viewpoint is to an extent learned from my
conservative Christian upbringing & influenced by my own sexuality, can not
think other
than gay sex between men is unnatural, that is, not as nature & therefore as God intended.
But the particular response of
conservative Protestantism may contain more creativity, justice and health
than the wider public has been led to
think.
Most people today categorize political divisions into the binary categories of liberal and
conservative (another one of those jejune, digital pigeonholes that function more to preclude
thought than to promote it).
So you could argue that compassionate conservatism was, as it were, more «
conservative» at heart
than many moderates
thought it was.
Right - leaning non-whites and non-evangelical working class whites are closer to each other on economics
than they are to either the business lobbies of the GOP establishment or to populist
conservatives who
think America has been morally lost ever since the FDR first became president.
Though Jenson is often
thought of as an ecclesiastical
conservative — and with good reason — this aspect of his appropriation of Barth's theology is nothing less
than radical.
More
than a few women in Chile, France and elsewhere told her that wives need to boost men's egos and be softer, if not quite submissive — a message American women hear a lot from
conservative writers (I'm
thinking of you, Suzanne Venker) and that's overwhelmingly upsetting to feminists.
We
think it took that long because of his parents being to
conservative and weary of very early morning (5 am ish) feeds so we held onto the 3:00 am feed longer
than we should have.
Well I'd say I'm more
conservative than liberal, but use my common sense and
think this is bullcrap!
And it's hard to
think of a more establishment figure
than Dick Armey, a former House leader now in charge of an organization that's been pushing the economic
conservative message for over 25 years, a point Jon Stewart hit repeatedly when Armey recently appeared on his show.
«I
think it's very interesting that one of the comments that was made yesterday by a senior Hungarian
Conservative MP, he said that watching the migrants come into Hungary, seeing the cellphones they had and some of the clothes they were wearing and knowing how much money they had paid to the traffickers to get them there, he made the observation that actually they were better off
than the people living in rural Hungary and that is an interesting point.»
I knew that Republican politicians are very much in favor of big government (arguably more
than Democrats) but I didn't
think that was a particularly
conservative stance.
Incidentally you can check the figures in your new chum Peter Oborne's book the Rise of Political Lying in which he charts the addiction of New \ Labour to systematic misinformation and explains why it is they are so much worse
than the
Conservative s Party I
think you will find you lame - ass weak sheeeet over in the cocked hat into which I have knocked it bitch (Just watched the wire....)
I
think that Danny Alexander, Cable AND a majority of Lib Dems would
think long and hard about teaming up with them — especially as all polls show the public having less confidence in Labour's ability to manage the economy
than the
Conservatives»
We also have more Tory MPs who are interested in policy
than ever before and there are more
think tanks producing policies consistent with
Conservative philosophy.
Those who considered voting Lib Dem but decided not to were more likely to
think the party did the right thing by entering a coalition with the
Conservatives (55 %)
than those who did vote Lib Dem (49 %).
And influential
think - tanks such as the Resolution Foundation and the Social Market Foundation are now giving credence to the idea that the Liberal Democrats and the Labour Party may have more credible post-2015 deficit reduction strategies
than a majority
Conservative government.
The
Conservatives, though, were
thought likely to be the bigger losers, having done well in 2011 and therefore defending far more seats
than Labour, and having also been more damaged by UKIP's dramatic rise.
If they
thought they were living in a constituency in which the
Conservatives were challenging the SNP they are almost as likely to say that they would switch to the SNP (30 %)
than they are to the
Conservatives (31 %).
Now I
think I am perfectly entitled to spend 50 days arguing why that's good, why a
Conservative majority government would be better
than coalition, and I
think actually if we are talking about people getting a fair choice, my argument is that if you elect a majority government you have got a manifesto, you can hold us to our promises.
We similarly use the proportion of poll respondents who
think that there will be a
Conservative landslide / the
Conservatives will win more
than 100 seats, for the probability of a
Conservative landslide.
We have the Liberal Democrats in government with us and they have fewer women ministers and MPs
than we do, but I
think 50 % would be difficult to get to by 2020 but if you look at the candidates we're selecting, including candidates in replacement seats,
Conservative - held seats, I
think over 33 % are women candidates.
The Kaminski focus reflects the fact that he is the leader of the group, rather
than any member of it; but also, around Jewadbne, I
think the particular nature of the language used about needing Jewish apologies first (and here I
think I am somewhat generous to the
Conservatives: they have stated that they disagree with Kaminski on Jewadbne, but have called it a position of that people of «goodwill» took.
Conservative MP Robin Walker is mistaken to
think that voting systems other
than first - past - the - post all give a leg - up to extremist parties (electoral system debate, TP, Nov).
(CNN)- Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican governor from the blue state of New Jersey, argued Wednesday that he's more
conservative than people from the South may
think.
On the other hand, enthusiastic
Conservatives are having none of it — to them Labour is far more left - wing
than its own enthusiastic supporters
think.
Indeed, Tories
think Labour (which they place at 1.98) is more left - wing
than those Labour supporters
think the
Conservative Party is right - wing; they even see Labour as more left - wing
than the Greens — perhaps not unreasonably given where our «objective» score places them.