What have the Republicans ever been right about?

As I look back upon everything said by Republicans and the laws they have passed I can find none that have turned out to be the correct positions. When every single Republican stood up and said the Clinton budget of 1993 would totally destroy the American economy and yet after Clinton's budget was passed America went on to experience the greatest economic expansion in America's history. Republicans took control in 2001 and said look how it is done and America experienced the greatest economic turn around in it's history. They said only we can protect America and yet the greatest terroist attack came on their watch, while they worked on building super duper missle defense we were attacked with box cutters, especially after Clinton and Gore told them exactly that would happen...Why is it that so many Americans believe them when they say things that always turn out to be false? How exactly did they develop such a cult following?

Oh, you mean what have they been done right in the last 100 years or so? Umm... let me get back to you on that one...

1. that the rich worked really hard for their money (leaving out the fact that the majority were born rich and profited off their fore fathers hard work).
2. that through hard work they too will be one of the rich and famous.
They never explained how those born poor are supposed to actualy do this, they keep saying if theres a will theres a way. Most who do find that way seldom do it legally, but after all Reagan told them it doesn't matter how they got the money, its about having the money and not getting caught that matters.

1. that the rich worked really hard for their money (leaving out the fact that the majority were born rich and profited off their fore fathers PIRACY AND SLAVE-DRIVING.)

I think a lot of it was by creating booger men to scare the shit out of stupido-Americans. Clinton was going to raise taxes and give your money to black welfare moms, Hillary was going to make you dependent on the guvmint for health care, "liberals" wanna take yer guns, close your church and turn your kids into queers, towel heads are all trying to kill you all the time.

Republicans wanted the highways dealt with/ built by private industry. Roosevelt saw the federal building of roads as part of his new deal...most of the groundwork for interstate highways was laid during Roosevelt and built during Eisenhower

Worst thing that ever happened to this country.

highways. Cars create pollution, and yes, that sucks but the interstate highway sytem was a work of brilliance and a herculean task that kept millions of poor people fed and employed.

"If you bought it, a truck brought it." - An old trucker slogan.

It was never intended to cut through cities or to be the thoroughfare of choice for travel within cities or from suburb to suburb.

Now urban residents deal with the air pollution, noise, and ugliness of the interstates cutting through their neighborhoods for the convenience of suburban commuters.

By the way, goods got transported just fine before there were interstates. You're right about there being no big box stores, but somehow, we didn't miss them before we had them.

on a train. Or a canal boat. For less cost. So what's your point?

on edit: A Republican in a bar once told me I had to support the oil war in Iraq because I was enjoying a cold beer. Do you agree with him?

Before there were thousands of local breweries.

It was a beer that was brewed in the bar where I was drinking. I think he was referring to the refrigeration, of all things.

Big difference.

The interstate highway system has as many minuses as plusses.

One can't ignore the bad it has wrought.

At best it is a mixed result.

... that they can be corraled & lead by fear tactics and mass groupaganda.

I have long been an advocate of a balanced budget. Only for short term periods of recession should we deficit spend. That is the one policy Pubs promoted 10-20 years ago with which I agreed.

Clinton made the balanced budget a reality, and the prosperity of the country soared. Bush ended that, and since then, the PUBS have run from balancing the budget.

America should be a meritocracy.

then maybe we can talk about meritocracy. Exactly how far we are from any sort of meritocracy is blatantly illustrated by that life-long failure, GWB, ending up in the WH.

had strong totalitarian aspects to their governing ideologies. Where Republicans went with the implications of that often jumped the tracks, but they were right about it. Most, though not all, Democrats fully agreed, though Democrats did not always give that position as much emphasis as Republicans did. It was never fully partisan, but Republicans were non wavering on it.

... into bankruptcy.

Is it a good thing? I don't know, but destroying the USSR was their intent.

Did we become better off when Kazakhistan became the worlds 3rd largest nuclear superpower?

the USSR spent the same % of their GDP in the 70's as they did in the 80's. Star Wars wasted our money, not theirs.

Furthermore, the life expectancy in the former Soviet states has steadily dropped since the collapse of the USSR. The unrestricted and rampant capitalism has made a mess in much of the region.

Republicans supported terrible, TERRIBLE governments and movements in MANY countries, and that's an understatement. We have A TON of authoritarianism on our hands during the Cold War.

One funny thing I recall is that Reagan denounced China for shooting down a Korean airliner full of civilians...but when the US did the same thing to an Iranian airliner full of civilians, what did Bush I say? "I don't apologize for the actions of the US military. I don't care what the facts are."

....:puke:....

Sure, they were called something authoritarian, but they acted in the exact same way (arguably worse).

(Subject line quoted from Sage Francis)

to quote Michael Moore "Doesn't it piss you off that the last liberal in the Whitehouse was Nixon"

Clinton was a lot of things but Liberal was not one of them... He was more Liberal than who he ran against both times though...:shrug: Nixon did a lot of funny things for a Republican.. Clean Air and Affirmative Action...

Of course there wasn't anyone half-way sane even on the planet who disagreed with that.

right about.

No other meaning was implied.

;)

Didn't mean to imply that other meaning was implied.
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Again no further meaning implied, only that he was bad and Repugs like everyone believed that.

no mention of invasion.

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and they were big promoters of such things like cutting pork and other waste, balancing the budget, and term limits for congresscritters? funny how all that changed once they became the majority

They have a low opinion of other human beings...which derives from accurate observation of each other.

They tell people their prejudices and unsustainable beliefs are truth. Stupid people fall for that, by definition.

The cultish following...that's the Americans who feel or know themselves made obsolete, socially or economically, in the global economy and/or Modern society due to lack of relevant education or maladaptive views/bad ideology (i.e. medieval Christianity).

The Republican leadership is both superior to that and at the same time also part/victim of that maladaptiveness ('conservative'). It makes for grandiosity, delusion, and terrible mental anguish and a sense of mental inferiority all at the same time.

You have an interesting theory that Republicans pass laws because they are concerned about the future. It's more that the here and now pains them in its possibilities and realities- they always grasp at what feels most psychotherapeutic here and now. That's why they attract all the nutcases. Reality is too hard to really deal with, they hate the future and never actually understand the Past (bizarrely enough). They relive the Past a second time, refighting old fights and settling old scores, when they're in power. It's what they do. Dealing with the future is only done in the direst of emergencies.