Whiny Insecure Kids Tend to Grow Up to be Whiny Conservative Adults

Mon, 03/20/2006 - 5:47pm — MJS

Via Huffington Post there is some research that suggests Whiny Ass Titty Babies have traveled a long and predictable road to WATB Adulthood.

It could be that whom we vote for has less to do with our judgments about tax policy or free trade or health care, and more with the personalities we've been stuck with since we were kids.

Yeah, I was a smart-ass a long time before I knew I was a smart-ass.

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