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Old 02-15-2016, 11:07 PM
 
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Republicans are not smart to realize that "fiscally conservative, socially moderate" would win every election . . .

Shame.

Mick








Meanwhile Dems vote fiscally irresponsible, morally corrupt.
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Old 02-15-2016, 11:08 PM
 
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I guess Republicans and conservatives want you to forget about the US from 1932 until 1952.
Parties have changed a TON since the 30s-50s. Truman and especially FDR would be Republicans by today's standards, and quite conservative ones at that. Today's sissy, liberal Democrats would be scared to death of real men and leaders like FDR and Truman and chastise them for wanting to go to war etc...
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Old 02-15-2016, 11:13 PM
 
Location: Buckeye, AZ
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Parties have changed a TON since the 30s-50s. Truman and especially FDR would be Republicans by today's standards, and quite conservative ones at that. Today's sissy, liberal Democrats would be scared to death of real men and leaders like FDR and Truman and chastise them for wanting to go to war etc...
I find that laughable. If anything I see Sanders as the FDR. FDR didn't want war but he also wanted social policies to put people to work. Sanders wants that too. Name one Republican that wants to not get into war unless provoked and is willing to enact social programs including Social Security.
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Old 02-15-2016, 11:13 PM
 
Location: Dothan AL
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Parties have changed a TON since the 30s-50s. Truman and especially FDR would be Republicans by today's standards, and quite conservative ones at that. Today's sissy, liberal Democrats would be scared to death of real men and leaders like FDR and Truman and chastise them for wanting to go to war etc...
I gave to points because this is funny. "sissy, liberal Democrats would be scared to death of real men and leaders like FDR and Truman"
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Old 02-15-2016, 11:16 PM
 
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I find that laughable. If anything I see Sanders as the FDR. FDR didn't want war but he also wanted social policies to put people to work. Sanders wants that too. Name one Republican that wants to not get into war unless provoked and is willing to enact social programs including Social Security.
Did you really just compare a crazy socialist lunatic to one of the greatest Presidents in US history?! LOL!!!! wait....let me catch my breath...LOL!!!!
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Old 02-15-2016, 11:17 PM
 
Location: Dothan AL
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I find that laughable. If anything I see Sanders as the FDR. FDR didn't want war but he also wanted social policies to put people to work. Sanders wants that too. Name one Republican that wants to not get into war unless provoked and is willing to enact social programs including Social Security.
I was very conservative in the 50s through the 80s. Now I guess I am just an old sissy
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Old 02-15-2016, 11:23 PM
 
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I find that laughable. If anything I see Sanders as the FDR. FDR didn't want war but he also wanted social policies to put people to work. Sanders wants that too. Name one Republican that wants to not get into war unless provoked and is willing to enact social programs including Social Security.
In all seriousness though, here is a good read or two for you...

How FDR created today’s Republican Party - Salon.com
https://www.quora.com/Why-was-FDR-a-Democrat
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Old 02-16-2016, 02:28 AM
 
Location: Pasadena, CA
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In all seriousness though, here is a good read or two for you...

How FDR created today’s Republican Party - Salon.com
https://www.quora.com/Why-was-FDR-a-Democrat
Now I've seen it all. FDR, a man who succeeded in doing something that Republicans detest from the bottom of their hearts, which is using government as a tool to better the lives of middle-class and poor Americans...was actually a conservative icon!

I guess it's starting to dawn on right-wingers that GOP Presidents throughout history have been mostly garbage (and the few that weren't were big government progressives, like Lincoln and TR). They've been reduced to claiming liberal giants like FDR as their own.

Republicans even accused FDR of being a communist during WWII. Sound like a conservative to you?
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Old 02-16-2016, 04:13 AM
 
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...As it is, we're hanging on by a thread, because of a majority that thought it fashionable to vote for the "first black president" (twice!), though he had no qualifications, had a radical past as an advocate for the overthrow of the U.S. government, said our Constitution was flawed, and believes that the founders and framers were white racists. He is probably the most un-vetted President in our history, certainly the most unpatriotic, disloyal, and a man with a visceral hatred for America.
Exactly.

And that's being very generous to Obama.

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Hahahaha! Preach it, grandpa! Yeah, y'all were a bunch of moral racists/misogynists/homophobes. Fear not, the light is receding and the end is nigh ...
There is much more homophobia in the black and Latino communities than in the white community.

In California, gay marriage would have passed on the ballot if it hadn't been for Latinos and blacks.

So don't pretend that whites are responsible for all the ills of the world.

The fact is, whites put an end to slavery throughout the world (when they had their colonies) and created the very democracy that is the basis for increasing acceptance of others.

It is only white-dominated societies that have embraced multiculturalism and racial and religious tolerance.

It follows that you are just riding on the coat tails of the very people you scorn.

And your ageism against older people and sexism against males reveal your own hypocrisy.

I suggest you find a nice non-white civilization to feel more at home in.

Oh, there are so many: China, North Korea, Mexico, Saudi Arabia....beacons of freedom and respect for human rights!

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Im only 41, but the WWII generation is the greatest in American history and I'll take that America ANY day over the rotten, liberal, communist sh*t hole this America has become under Obama. Most the people in this country under 40 are nothing but a bunch of victim mentality, waste of space, feeling of entitlement, self absorbed pricks who do NOTHING to make this country a better place.
Well said.

Spoiled, rotten brats!

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Well I'm done on Rubio. All Republicans are pro-life, I don't want part of that. I'm voting blue especially if it is Trump, Cruz or Carson out of dissatisfaction to the Republican party.
Indeed, how dare anyone be pro-life!

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I guess Republicans and conservatives want you to forget about the US from 1932 until 1952.
I didn't know you were that old....

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I find that laughable. If anything I see Sanders as the FDR. FDR didn't want war but he also wanted social policies to put people to work. Sanders wants that too. Name one Republican that wants to not get into war unless provoked and is willing to enact social programs including Social Security.
That would be Trump.

He's against our involvement in the Middle East beyond doing the absolute minimum.

He's for raising social security payments.

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Now I've seen it all. FDR, a man who succeeded in doing something that Republicans detest from the bottom of their hearts, which is using government as a tool to better the lives of middle-class and poor Americans...was actually a conservative icon!

I guess it's starting to dawn on right-wingers that GOP Presidents throughout history have been mostly garbage (and the few that weren't were big government progressives, like Lincoln and TR). They've been reduced to claiming liberal giants like FDR as their own.

Republicans even accused FDR of being a communist during WWII. Sound like a conservative to you?
FDR wouldn't have put up with the racialist, lazing-about-on-welfare nonsense that liberals have been advocating for the last forty years.

Republicans want to better the lives of middle class and poor Americans -- but not by creating a welfare underclass as the Democrats have done.

I don't notice any Democrats (who have a choice) going and living in the ghetto on welfare like it's so great to do that -- do you?

It seems that the "brotherhood of man" thing doesn't really extend to doing anything like that!
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Old 02-16-2016, 04:39 AM
 
Location: NE Ohio
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Im only 41, but the WWII generation is the greatest in American history and I'll take that America ANY day over the rotten, liberal, communist sh*t hole this America has become under Obama. Most the people in this country under 40 are nothing but a bunch of victim mentality, waste of space, feeling of entitlement, self absorbed pricks who do NOTHING to make this country a better place.
I agree with you.

The founders of this country, and framers of our Constitution, were Christians. The Left will never admit that. With faith in God and Jesus Christ, and with His help, they built this great country, and this nation was blessed. He was with us in battle, and we were victorious in that Great War. God was not shut out, but was welcome in our schools, and in our politics and public gatherings.

America has been in decline ever since the 1947 court case that determined the First Amendment meant that God had to be kicked out of public life, out of our schools, and could not be mentioned in political gatherings.

The Godless Left has destroyed the America that was once great, for your children and mine, and for our grand children.

This election is going to decide which way we will go from here. Restoration, or continue the path to our destruction, with a dictatorial government, a Constitution that is irrelevant in the eyes of our leaders, misinterpreted to conform to their twisted views ("living document"), but largely ignored altogether.

Scalia's death is suspicious. He was a kingpin; an "originalist." We learn now that the resort owner was an Obama award winner, and a mega donor. He claims to have found Scalia with a pillow over his head. Did Scalia place the pillow over his head after he died? How did the pillow get over his head? Suspicious. No autopsy? Suspicious. The person who declared him dead of "natural causes" and said there would be no autopsy ordered, a Democrat.

Recent court decisions went against the Obama administration. I suspect foul play. I suspect Obama may have ordered his death. With no autopsy, and the above facts, it's highly suspicious. If Scalia were a Democrat and had made decisions against a Republican President, you can bet there would have been demands for an autopsy and a full investigation.
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