You Can Generally Discern a Person's Politics From Their Appearance

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no, but after one sentence (any sentence)

It becomes obvious as soon as they open their mouth, on just about any subject.

No RINOs in '08

I agree. The answer is not

I agree. The answer is no, based on appearances. Conservatives and liberals come in all shapes and sizes (Of course, the brain size of conservatives is much larger but you can't see through a person's forehead so that wouldn't count as appearance!).

 

BEAT THE SHE-DEVIL IN 2008!

9 times out of 10

I think you can tell. Liberals generally want to make an anti-establishment statement; and, they want to appear soooooo intellectual. For example, check these tattoos. The probability of these appearing on a conservative female is, maybe, 10% or less. I peg her as liberal, if I was forced to chose.

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that's a tough one

i've been fooled a few times on that one, i know i myself have fooled some ignorant but knows everything at the age of 20 college students a few times, but that's as easy as hitting the ground while pissing straight down, because most college students today are idiots raised to be the new myrmidons in the public school system.

it 's the older culture that has fooled me several times. that's where i've been thrown a curve more than a few times. the most common are the ultra rich liberals in scottsdale and cave creek az.

lunaticcringeradio

but let me add

whenever you pass some nut job liberal with every socialist bumpersticker plastered on the back and wrapping around the sides of their car(i'm not kidding at all here, see that many many times) and you get a look at the driver, you would say that you could spot them walking in a crowd cause they always look weird in any setting, even at a dnc ralley.

lunaticcringeradio

Hey, I take offense to that

Hey, I take offense to that college students comment! Now where's my lawyer? [/sarcasm]

Anyway, I'd say you can usually tell the hippy-esque and code pinkos are leftists just by appearance, but the majority have the "light travels faster than sound" quip going for them. One person I would defy anyone to judge by appearance is my old, high school, physics teacher; around mid 50s, a pony-tail down his back, thick glasses, and cowboy boots. It became pretty clear to me which way he leaned when he threw another kid out of his class for disrespecting the Pledge of Allegiance.

"With your mind as high as Mt. Fuji you can see all things clearly. And
you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things
happening near to you.”
- Miyamoto Musashi

lunaticcringeradio, it

lunaticcringeradio,


it 's the older culture that has fooled me several times

I think it's easer to tell with younger folks (early twenties or younger) since they are still at that age will they feel a need to express who they are to everyone around them.

Once you get older, you give that up (maybe because you realize that no one really cares) and then it becomes tougher to tell.

Generally speaking, of course.

i have yet to see a hippy

i have yet to see a hippy that is conservative.

C

hippy conservatives?

Well this certainly appears to look like one.

 how bout this one?

Sorry Oblio

You're confused.  Those aren't "hippy conservatives".

They're musicians.  Hence the long hair, etc.

FYI...Ted Nugent doesn't even drink...and hasn't in years. 

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

 

blonde

Your right they are not hippie, but this
thread deals with if someone can tell someone is a liberal by looking
at them. Do the people in the pics I posted look conservative?

 

1.) When Nugent is home he

1.) When Nugent is home he is usually well armed. That is one way to tell....

2.)  When he is in the field hunting he wears camoflage.  that is another way.

You can't tell by the hair.

You can't tell by the hair. You have to wait for them to open their mouths. Then its a dead giveaway. Liberals have only five subjects that they can talk about, Sex, Drugs, Nature, Music, and Death; or any combination thereof.

I know a guy (a lawyer by

I know a guy (a lawyer by occupation) that has hundreds of guns--you name it, he's got it...even fully automatic weapons. He's a gun nut...but he's a flaming liberal. If I hadn't had political conversations with him I wouldn't believe it myself.

"There are millions of people in Iraq who have sacrificed in the hope that the United States will finish its work here. We should never forget that." -- Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno, Commander U.S. III Corps

Sounds like he may be a

Sounds like he may be a schizophrenic with a large arsenal. Beware!

Jimbo says - "There is a fine line between freedom of speech and treason"

Schizophrenic or not, if

Schizophrenic or not, if anarchy swept the U.S., I'd be holed up at his house in about 3 minutes flat. (He has a helicopter and helipad at his house too!)

"There are millions of people in Iraq who have sacrificed in the hope that the United States will finish its work here. We should never forget that." -- Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno, Commander U.S. III Corps

Depends on what a hippy is?

I personally know a few "long hair's" that are conservative, not sure what they think of the hippy label?

PK, You could make the

PK,

You could make the argument that Ann Coulter is a part-time hippie.

She was/is a huge grateful dead fan (or at least she claims she is)

Spot a liberal

Not all liberals are over-aged hippies, some of them look, dress and act just like normal people :o) I have quite a few middle-aged gal-pals. You cannot tell the liberal ones from the conservative ones by just looking at them, we all dress and wear our hair in ordinary ways. That is, until they start pontificating on some political matter. THEN, they're easy to spot, they're the ones that want me to pay for all their social engineering schemes.

"Our people have shed more blood for the liberty and freedom of other peoples...than all the other countries put together. And I don't feel any need to apologize for the United States of America" - Fred Thompson

Respectfully

In your answer you make it appear you are a lady, perhaps you can not tell being friends with these women..........but put a guy within one block of your friends and they can tell in one look if you were all dressed the same which ones are the problems and which one is the babe like you:)

There are always tells and like Jed Clampet running from Elvira Bradshaw men always know a liberal woman on the prowl.

 

*HIC IACET ARTORIVS REX QVONDAM REXQVE FVTVRVS

Thanks, LC

It's been a loooong time since this Grandma was called a "babe." It made my day :o)

 

"Our people have shed more blood for the liberty and freedom of other peoples...than all the other countries put together. And I don't feel any need to apologize for the United States of America" - Fred Thompson

It's easy to spot one

walking down the street. They all seem to be dejected and sorrowful. Everything is wrong, and the world sucks, and that was when the disgraced-disbarred-ex president clinton was in office.

General Rule......Yupper

As a general rule you can always pick out people by their body language, facial expressions and appearance.

I have great fun in looking like a liberal. It is always an interesting conversation to see people light up as it dawns on them they are talking to someone who looks like they came out of Californication and instead have someone who is more right wing than John Wayne and Ronald Reagan.

 

 

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Thats right

Your right, I work on a project that has multible university cooperation, so I am ussaly working with folks from all over the coutry and world. Lets just say, I have seen the reddest faces you can imagine. I also pretty much go out of my way to particapate in political discussions, and have managed to changed a few minds I think.

Che Guevara T-Shirt

If someone is wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt, that is pretty much an indication that they are not exactly conservative.

*snif* When I hear that...

I still miss NB's t-shirt model ad! ;)
JMR

Rally online with fans of Dr. Ron Paul.

I still miss NB's t-shirt

I still miss NB's t-shirt model ad!

I don't.

 

Wife: What are you doing?

Me: Reading the comments on Newsbusters.

Wife: Who is THAT? (angrily pointing to pretty girl lifting shirt in ad)

Me: Uh, honey . . . that's an advertisement.

Wife: &%$#@!

You should have she was a

You should have she was a liberated woman exercising her right to free speech.

Time to change

Time to change wives.

Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.

Definitely not

I was at the Boise State University bookstore, and some granola chick was ragging on Bush/Iraq War supporters, saying things like "what, are they just brainwashed, or racist... etc. etc." and this little guy about 22-23 yrs. old with about five piercings in his face and dyed-black hair, black clothes and a wallet chain said "yeah, well, we're in Iraq now, and we need to finish the mission." I couldn't believe it, and I don't judge people's politics by their dress anymore.

If someone is dressed like

If someone is dressed like a hippie or a drug dealer or like a thug, they are Democrats. If they have long, stringy hair, unkempt facial hair, or using the American Flag for a F***ING BANDANA, they are Democrats. The ones that you don't see marching for our defeat in the War On Terror or spitting on soldiers, holding up signs on the off-ramp, or going to die-ins, those are the Republicans. The ones going to work each day: those are the Republicans.

Actually...

Actually, I think a better question is how can you identify a RINO.

Well, at one time, my image

Well, at one time, my image of the stereotypical Republican was Richard Nixon...looking like [in the words of Gary Wills] "he was born carrying a briefcase".

I think there was even a photo of Nixon strolling on the beach, wearing a suit and tie.

But, I don't stereotype anymore.

Jer

Jer

Hi Jer, congratulations. I see your one of the more liberal people that has been accepted. Your a great poster and I have never once seen you use a cheap shot.

I believe many Republicans image of the Democratic party is this.
Can' say I blame them either.

Thanks, Shawn.  As the

Thanks, Shawn.  As the saying goes...its a tough job [keeping all these NewsBusters in line] but somebody's got to do it.  And there ain't that many of us.

Jer

Someone said once, "There

Someone said once, "There aren't any liberal men, just liberal women and the men who want to sleep with them."

I believe that was me who

I believe that was me who said that, Britcom.  I was trying out every line I could think of.

Jer

Posture Folks, and pride in personal appearance.

Back straight, shoulders back, chest up, Head up, Eyes on the horizon (unless hard at work and on the task at hand)

Steady pace, and a firm handshake, not a limp mush - not a "crusher" either.

With some, a crush on the toes of the shoes and slight shine on the knees - you KNOW they pray.

I can wear blue jeans, my "birkies" because after all those years of boots, birkies are comfort to my feet. My hair long ('cause my husband likes it so), and sometimes a buttoned shirt, other times a t-shirt supporting our troops, or pride in U.S., not a protest or slogan t-shirt. Only the "Moonbats" dare think I "might be one of them."

At the last GOE last week in D.C., I'm in with a group of "Rolling Thunder guys (one I was stationed with eons ago) and some code Pink-wacko thinks I belong with her group...

Or I forgot, my hair IS combed and brushed and no tangles or rats.

As to the "paid" actors. That's what Pelosi and the rest of the hoity-toity elite are. Watch their posture when there is no camera crew. And their "handlers and staff are otherwise not around."

you are exactly right

Back straight, shoulders back, chest up, Head up, Eyes on the horizon (unless hard at work and on the task at hand)

Steady pace, and a firm handshake, not a limp mush - not a "crusher" either.

i can't tell you how many times i've been told that i walk with a purpose and determination in my stride. basically that respect and confidence in yourself that everyone should have. i can't always assure my personal appearance though, too many times i'm in the middle of doing something and i'm dirty from head to toe, but then a lot of people who are shopping at home depot are there to get things done, not for a fashion show.

as for a tshirt, i like to wear my old sqadron combat search and rescue shirt, KILLING BAD GUYS IS GOOD, SAVING GOOD GUYS IS BETTER.(that also is on the tire cover of my jeep with two jolly green foot prints. i have never had one person ever say a word to me in protest.

lunaticcringeradio

Not always, by any means.

Not always, by any means. But "generally"? I'd say yes. I live in the liberal college town of Ithaca, NY [home to Cornell and Ithaca College]. Odds that young woman with a long hippyesque dress, Birkenstocks and sporting "smart" glasses is a Republican? Approximately love-minus-zero, no limit.

At my window with a broken wing

It's not often that I run into a fellow Dylan fan these days.  Good to know you are out there.  More sugar!

There's just been too many

There's just been too many times in my life when people who seemed like they might lean left or right threw me a curveball by revealing they were the opposite politically as what it appeared.

Here's a thought I just had. How about our elected politicians? Can we discern whether they're liberal or conservative by how they look? Probably even harder to do than with the general public. But perhaps the fact that all of them are neatly dressed and groomed, both while campaigning and while serving in office (well, not counting when with interns, pages, etc.) has something to do with that.

BEAT THE SHE-DEVIL IN 2008!

birkenstock, e.g.

This is not true all the time, but it is true most of the time.  However, scary as it is, the most lethal liberals often look like normal people.  It is fun, though, to attend a liberal gathering and check out the dress code.  At a Howard Dean rally in Florida in 2004 I noticed a lot of liberals wearing Birkenstock? sandals.  Their toenails were dirty.  Also, many beards, gotees, wild hair, halter tops, and political tshirts.  I sat near the top of the arena and just watched for about an hour while we waited for the gov to show.  He gave a ridiculous and hard to understand speech while his weird-looking supporters mooed like cattle and sang give peace a chance.  It was revolting.

Hey Jolly Green Guy!

10 toes or no? ; )

 

I worked with BOTH active duty squadrons over in Kuwait during Operation Southern Watch. Those guys and gals are awesome.

I was gifted one of those t-shirts, again many thanks. Airpower!

Yep, you CAN tell off the bat with many of us; a RINO, they are much harder to spot, check for them dropping kick-backs and bribes, and maybe bulging pockets.

I said false. Although in

I said false. Although in many cases it is quite easy to discern one's political views from their appearance especially if they are rabid lefties.

"There are millions of people in Iraq who have sacrificed in the hope that the United States will finish its work here. We should never forget that." -- Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno, Commander U.S. III Corps

I think the important word

I think the important word here is “generally”.

Many times you can see a liberal a city block away and be correct 99.9% of the time. Those seem to be the exceptions however. More commonly, liberals and conservatives are indiscernible based on appearance alone. Once they open their mouth however, all bets are off.

Jimbo says - "There is a fine line between freedom of speech and treason"

A dead give away on a guy

A dead give away on a guy is an ear ring. Bingo! liberal!!

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