How can anyone still support the repub party after all this?

Iraq, Katrina, horrible deficit and so on. What more does a person need to know about the repub party?

Someone on a list told me they voted for bush twice and regretted their vote, but they'd still vote for a repuke over a dem.

:shrug: Boggles the mind.

People who hate "liberals" more than they hate they hate corruption and corporate theft. For some that means gays, for others it's minorities, or the poor, etc. They always seem to say as much- as the person you quoted did. They always say things like, "but both sides do it" and "I hate the Democrats even more", etc.

Only the hateful can still vote Republican. That's why they always seem to be such assholes.

You really have to be hateful to support these monsters. Maybe it's overreacting, but I almost feel that people who vote for Rethugs are worse than the Rethug candidates themselves. At least the politicians are driven by greed or lust for power (or just plain lust), but the voters seem to be doing it out of pure spite and nastiness.

it seemed like she was supporting repukes just because she doesn't like dems. I thought it was strange.

At least some of them vote in line with their beliefs.

It's like comparing Captain AWOL (complete coward) to Clinton, (conscientious objector). Motive speaks volumes to character.

Just make a personal conscientious commitment to remain biased, ignorant, and most importantly, void yourself of any true sense of reality.

half of them are WAY below average

It's like Bill Clinton said, when people feel threatened they would rather support someone who's strong and wrong, then someone who is perceived as weak and right. For the first time, people have seen that being "strong" in the conventional sense has actually made us less safe. So this may change. However, you can't replace something with nothing; even if that something isn't desirable. If we can get some legislative accomplishments (which will be hard in the Senate and w/Bush's veto), then voters can make a fair comparison. Given that Reid/Pelosi, etc. are going to continue this war, the differences blur yet again.

Maybe people are just no damn good.

49.3% of them, anyway.

a word that is used way to much on this board IMO. My republican friends stayed home in November, to PUNISH the republicans in office. According to them, if it were a presidental election and Hilliary was running for us, they would be out voting in droves to keep her out of office, no matter who the republican nominee was. Do not think that the last election was a total abandonment of the republican party.

The rich white repukes love their hoards of money and they plan on keeping it that way (i.e. they hate welfare and other government programs to help the poor--which most dems support). The middle-class to poor white repukes have their warped sense of "family values" (i.e. no gays and abortions) and are willing to vote against their own economic interests to "preserve" their "values". Some (not all) are still bitter over the democrats support of civil rights in the 1960s and vote Republican because most blacks vote Democratic (i.e. they don't want to vote for the same people that their black neighbors are voting for).

Note. Mississippi/Alabama would be blue states (there are more poor whites/minorities than there are rich folks. So if everyone voted with their own economic interests, these states would turn blue. FYI, i'm using the typical Southern republican demographic in my explanation above, which explains my exclusion of minorities, for they do not typically vote republican.

Just my 0.02 cents...