What type of person could still vote Republican after the last 5 years?

After what our country has gone through and the degree that our nation has declined in just five years, what type of person could still cling to their partisan beliefs? After each daily ritual of watching the Chimp chew peanuts on national TV, smirking and lying every breath, what person would still have the stomach to ask for more? Yes, there will be many.

Nobody likes to admit they are stupid and that they have been used. But they have. They asked for this. And they got it. Rampant self-deception.

That was some strong Kool-Aid.....




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they don't know anything about get an abortion.

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They love W. They love their tax cuts and who cares if that results into cuts for the needy. They are bushbots and know their unChristian priorities.

a spoon before admitting that Dems are better . . .

Yes, that is what's wrong with me.

or those who passionately hate Democrats.

of too many Americans. I still see big SUVs and crappy old beat up barely operational junkers that have W04 or Chimp/Cheney stickers on them. How much of a "moran" would you have to be to advertise your devotion to a lying dumbass warmonger who is despised by every thinking person in the world? You'd have to be a brainless idiot.

"crappy old beat up barely operational junkers that have W04 or Chimp/Cheney stickers on them. "

I think it's just those who passionately hate in the first place.
They don't know how to laugh. They just know how to snarl.

and listening to certain mindless radio talk shows....

their brains were washed long ago....

(The girl in the background is a Democrat though....)

robots.

Maybe it is now. :rofl:

NEW YORK In a (perhaps) historic shift, more Americans now consider themselves Democrats than Republicans, the Gallup organization revealed today.

Republicans had gained the upper hand in recent years, but 33% of Americans, in the latest Gallup poll, now call themselves Democrats, with those favoring the GOP one point behind. But Gallup says this widens a bit more "once the leanings of Independents are taken into account."

Independents now make up 34% of the population. When asked if they lean in a certain direction, their answers pushed the Democrat numbers to 49% with Republicans at 42%. One year ago, the parties were dead even at 46% each.

This shift indicates, Gallup says, why its polls show Democrats leading in this year's congressional races.

The latest poll was taken from January to March 2006, with a national sample of about 1,000 adults.


Courtesy of E&P <http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002273782>

There's a certain segment of the population that is just piss-your-pants scared by everything, whether it's styled as terrorism, or the scourge of meth, or illegal immigrants, or what have you. The GOP exploits these fears, feeding and nurturing them right along, and portraying itself as the Daddy party that will make everything all better and keep us all safe.

about party loyalty than they do about good government. They have voted Republican their whole voting life and won't change because of a few bad years. Some vote Republican because they don't really pay much attention to the news, their lives aren't being personnaly affected by the mess in Washington, or it's just easier to believe the RW talking points rather than taking the time to think for themselves.

Mz Pip
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A lot of money and strategery has been thrown at creating polarization over the last couple of decades. It is no accident. People (in general) love to belong to and identify with a club or group that can, in their own minds, set themselves apart and above others.

How many different kinds of exclusive "communities" do we set ourselves up in? Race, religion, political parties, specific denominations (how many hundreds of years and thousands of beheadings did it take Catholics and Protestants to resolve whether or not communion was ACTUALLY the blood of Christ as opposed to just being a symbol of Christ?), college rivalries (although my UCLA bias is grounded in hard fact and truth), sports allegiances, nationalism, income classes, sexual orientation, etc. All of these may add to the spice of life, but can also be exploited by ruthless PR folks to divide us into less powerful blocks.

This is not unrelated to the polarization and conflict that Britain and US seek in Iraq.

The type they say they give us for being "immoral".

Maybe if we love the Republican, hate the ideology, they'll vote Democrat?

I'm serious. That's how a lot of their minds work (for those who are overly religious).

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Inland/14

Modifying my assessment of the Bush core supporter.
Posted by Inland in General Discussion: Politics
Thu Sep 08th 2005, 05:24 PM
I have previously said that Bush's core support is mostly religious conservatives who know full well that the man is a craven incompetent, see the war is a failure, can see the human suffering from Katrina, but still support Bush because they hope to see the social agenda pushed through a packed supreme court and republican national hegemony reversing abortion rights and gay rights and establishing a religiously oriented state, and moreover, will lie all day long about approving of Bush's policies in order to protect him.

However, I think there is another element of America that will never, ever admit Bush is anything but right every single time.

The people who would rather have an incompetent, deadly president who rips them off and sends their family and friends to die, than to admit that the peaceniks, gays, democrats, minorities, city folk and liberals have a point.

The people who are so alienated from America that they saw the best thing about Bush is that a) "those people" hated him to distraction and therefore just having Bush as president was huge fun and b) that being "for Bush" meant that you had an ideological and cultural basis for hating all "those people" for a reason other than their money, education, success, etc.

I think it comes out in Katrina responses. The backflipping to find reasons why they don't like the DPs, don't care and shouldn't care, and why Bush is the best-----so much hate. One post I saw said the hurricane refugees were "liberal welfare criminal democrats", and he had the sense to leave out "black", but it was all the same---he isn't going to give up his hate in order to let any of YOU people score a point against Bush.

2 presidential elections you will see the poorest states all went for bush. This I cannot understand....I guess one only has to tell poor folks they will be getting a tax cut and bring in religion and you got their vote.....Really, it is that simple....

kool-aid drinkers all. They all go into seizures if you say 'CLINTON'! My mother loves 2 make fun of 'It Takes A Village', all the while totally ignoring my sister and her 3 kids would have been homeless if my mom & dad had not offered their home as a shelter. It is the only 'home' those 3 kids have ever known; they grew up w/ my parents acting as the parents - soccer, little league, swim meets, you name it - my parents were the transportation, providers of food, clothing & shelter. My mother fails 2 see the hypocrisy when she makes fun of 'Village'.

and that is the most disturbing thing of all.

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about why most of the country prefer republican presidents,
the dems will continue to lose.

Fear & ignorance & apple pie is what most of the country
is about. They want low taxes, brutal military power,
McGriddle sandwiches, & NASCAR.

Unless the Dems wake up & put up more likable candidates
the GOP will keep winning. The 60's are over folks.
Wake up.

about why most of the country prefer republican presidents,
the dems will continue to lose.

Fear & ignorance & apple pie is what most of the country
is about. They want low taxes, brutal military power,
McGriddle sandwiches, & NASCAR.

Unless the Dems wake up & put up more likable candidates
the GOP will keep winning. The 60's are over folks.
Wake up.

A dumb ass, self centered, ignorant, bigoted mother fucker that's who!