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What has been really upsetting to me this election cycle has been the overt insults from the white right toward everyone else. The dependent classes, the takers vs. the makers, the 47%, government aparach etc. I don't recall Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, George W. Bush or Reagan or Bush I being so divisive, and showing such transparent contempt for large swaths of the population. Despite what I thought of his flawed foreign and economic policies, I never felt that W was racist or sexist. He seemed to like most people.
This election cycle, it is as if there are supposedly the good Americans and the bad Americans. I recall Sarah Palin playing this game in 2008, and I did not like it then. I am a hardworking, rural, white, christian, straight guy, but I really don't see myself as more American than a gay, Vietnamese, urban woman. I just don't care for this view of America, but judging by the Romney vs. Obama voters, it is as if the Repubs are very, very white, and the Dems are everyone else. I am having hard time seeing how the GOP has embraced a John Birch Society type platform in 2012.
Where did this new narrative come from, and whose idea was it? I cannot see it being a smart or very civil strategy over the long term.
LOl i thought there was a forum for joke for material like this.Thanks for the great joke
If you are a moderate, at this time it would be easier to get the Democratic party to move to your position then the GOP position. Truth be told both have dug in very hard to their extreme positions, but the GOP has been very dedicated to their current extreme shift of late, taking the top prize.
If you are a moderate Republican you are no longer welcome in your party. Many of them will be voting for Obama--we've seen that reflected on this board.
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I don't see the GOP shift as sustainable and within a decade will self-correct.
It won't take that long. Shifting demographics will doom the Republican party if it remains in the control of the far right, probably by the next presidential election cycle. That said, if Romney loses, I don't think the coalition that is today's GOP will hold. It will be interesting to watch what kind of party emerges from the wreckage.
It was Obama who attacked business owners. It was Obama who attacked people who are successful. It was Obama who spend millions to demonize the Romney with false BS. And really, using the kids to make a video to "blame it on the parents"... that is low. Comparing your first time (sex) to voting for Obama. The campaign from the left is sick.
Now that the right, the people who already pay tons in taxes and don't want a government takeover, people who don't want to pay your way are fighting back. If you want a better life, don't depend on the government to steal money from other people to give to you. How about depending and taking responsibility for yourself.
Sarah Palin started it? Is that the new mantra? It's not Bush's fault any longer?
OK, then.
Nobody in my lifetime has shown as much divisiveness as 0bama Hussein 0bama.
I won't blame this attitude on Sarah, though she did have the wink and and smile to say, she was a real American, and those other folks...are not. She just portrayed the part so well. It is not really the feelings towards Obama that I find troubling. That comes with the territory, but the contempt for large swaths of our society by the new right. For instance, scientists, civil servants, educators, minorities, women, young people,etc. seem to be insulted daily here as liars and miscreants. It is not like we have ever been without government employees, technocrats, intellectuals, minorities, and the infirm and indigent. Yet, the white businessmen is apparently the only real American these days, and the wealthy "job creators" should be counted on to run society with minimum interference. This seems like a throwback to the 1870s.
If you are a moderate Republican you are no longer welcome in your party. Many of them will be voting for Obama--we've seen that reflected on this board.
You're hallucinating. I've seen several say they voted for 0bama but will now vote for Romney. I don't believe I've seen a single Republican say they're voting for 0bama. Maybe I just missed it.
You're hallucinating. I've seen several say they voted for 0bama but will now vote for Romney. I don't believe I've seen a single Republican say they're voting for 0bama. Maybe I just missed it.
Either that or you ignored it because it didn't fit your narrative.
Get your fingers out of other peoples pockets, now because he couldn't do his job "everyone" will pay higher taxes. People who work pay enough taxes, stop putting your hands in other peoples pockets and we might listen to what he has to say. Nuff said.
Speaking of, Obama missed 60% of all his intel briefings, see what happens when the prez does not do his job. Maybe Obama should have stayed in Washington and went to his intel briefing after the Benghazi attack.
You could say, yes, I want a real president.
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