by Robert Mckinley

Created on: May 18, 2007   Last Updated: January 08, 2008

While it won't come as a surprise to those who have been paying attention, liberals will inevitably try to spin the facts when confronted with the most recent evidence that conservatives are considerably more charitable than liberals. Still, they will not find it easy to refute the numbers and the fact that conservatives are as a group indeed more compassionate than they are.

For decades, liberals have lectured that they are the most compassionate among us. Their political bag of talking points is stuffed with "We-take-care-of-the-underdogs." and "Conservatives-are-uncaring-selfish-rich people." rhetoric. But now, their persistent self-righteous sermonizing is shown to be nothing more than the class warfare propaganda of dishonorable demagogues it has always been. Someone has opened their bag of rhetorical lies and found it filled with nauseating hot airso much it is finally drifting into the crowded upper atmosphere of liberal political myth.

Conservatives give a lot more

Not only do conservatives give more to charity than do liberals, they give much more: a whopping 30% moreand this while conservative's income is less as a whole than liberal's, which dispels yet another myth so revered by all liberalsthat Republicans are wealthier than Democrats. So is it then fair to say that "Liberals are uncaring, selfish rich people?" and that "Conservatives take care of the underdogs?" Using "Liberal Logic" of course it is. And unlike liberal political myth, it is fact-based on hard evidence.

Arthur C. Brooks
Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth about Compassionate Conservatism, by Arthur C. Brooks

Mr. Brooks is a professor at Syracuse University. He studied economics at the prestigious Rand Graduate School. After exhaustive nonpartisan research into the charitable behavior of liberals and conservatives he found that the average conservative-headed household gives 30% more to charity than the average liberal-headed household. He also learned that among the same households conservatives earn 6% less annually than do liberals. Simply put: Conservatives earn less but give much more money to charity than do liberals. His study also revealed that of the 25 states where charitable giving was above average, George W. Bush won 24 of them in the 2004 presidential election. Yes, 24 of the 25 most charitable states are red states.

But the deception runs much deeper

John Edwards, who was the vice-presidential nominee for the Democrats in 2004 and is now running for president in 2008,

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