Have a take, DON'T SUCK!

My advice to everyone, on every subject is something I'm borrowing from Jim Rome the sports talk show host. What Mr. Rome tells his callers and what I'm telling you is this: "Have a take, don't suck!". Be it religion, politics, Bush, the economy, the environment, sports, cars or any other subject you decide to vent your opinion or feelings about, please..."HAVE A TAKE, DON'T SUCK!".
My college age daughter and her boyfriend were telling me recently about a friend of theirs that, despite his fairly conservative Catholic upbringing, had decided to become a Bush hating, war protesting, pseudo-environmentalist, atheist liberal though he could offer them no reasonable explaination of why that was the correct position to hold. The retelling of the discussion with him sounded much like the multitudes of conversations I've heard and had myself with his kind. Many, if not most, liberals have absolutely no basis for the opinions and beliefs they profess to hold. They offer little, if any, scientific or historical foundation to reinforce their arguments. I.e., "They don't have a take, they suck".
While I know there are intelligent, deep-thinking leftists out there, I believe that in many cases the pseudo liberals that make up most of the "left" are regurgitating what they have heard in the media or from their leftist friends (or professors in my daughter's friend's case). It is the modern way of fitting in, of going with the crowd. Many older liberals are leftover hippies that have had nothing to protest since the sixties and seek to relive their youth, to find a new cause to believe in. Many of the younger ones seek the passion that was that era to fill the void in their meaningless, materialistic little lives. They've never learned to believe passionately in anything.
I really have no problem with someone who legitimately disagrees with me if they can do it in a civilized, intelligent manner. I enjoy those thought-provoking, mind-expanding discussions. But don't offer up some half-baked mimic of a sound bite you've heard between Eminem songs. "Bush lied!" they always scream. Yea, yea and Limbaugh's fat. Think, dammit! Decide what you believe and why. Be able to support your argument.
In other words: Have a take, don't suck. Thanks Jim