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I have not supported Republicans in a long time (not since 1996). I supported them then because unlike the Democrats they were not anti-Americans actively seeking to destroy the nation. Now, today, I am not so sure they are any different from the anti-American liberal freak Democrats. The Republican Party today has become the Democratic Party of the 1960s, while the Democratic Party has become al Qaeda's greatest ally and America's worst enemy.
I support the Republican party for a myriad of reasons. I still won't vote for the GOP in its current reincarnation, mostly based on their stances on social policy, which I often find somewhere between utterly outdated to being scarily outrageous and out-of-touch with reality.
I didn't find any of your options to be reflective of my assessment of the GOP and thus, I abstained from voting in your poll. I suppose, if pressed, I could have chosen the self-sufficiency/welfare state option.
I understand this may not be a cut and dry answer but what is the strongest reason why one would support the Republican party?
I tend more toward the Republicans because they give my generation the most hope for a fiscally sound future. The short-sightedness of the Democrat's fiscal policies is absolute suicide. I admit that in the past, the GOP has been as guilty as the Democrats. Now it seems the GOP has turned the corner in the spending department.
The six choices in the poll are fantasy. None of them hold true today. Democrats and Republicans are two sides of the same coin. I won't vote for a candidate from either party.
They are the lesser of two evils, against the Constitution, but it has gotten to the point, both parties are against the Constitution, in their own ways.
The Progressive Republicans are slower at it.
Then you have a Constitutionalist party, within a party, that is slowly taking over the majority, in the Republican party. Who showed the leadership yesterday, all day.
Interesting, so far the driver seems to be overspending by the Democrats. I will admit that the funding required by some of Obama's plans do concern me. But historically, spending and debt loads have increased under both Bushes and Reagan. Do Republicans really deserve the reputation of doing a better job in keeping the books in order?
Which would you prefer? big business or big government having more power?
Big government may make things fairer, but there will be vastly more bureaucracy and cash-wasting. My city judges property values arbitrarily. Every year an architect I know goes down to City hall, and says "My property taxes are too high. Here's why." They lower them every year.
Big business is much more efficient than government bureaucrats...but it's also greedier. The government will mess up everything it touches, but its under greater control by the people so it's fairer.
There are advantages and disadvantages to both sides.
I believe in self-sufficiency and smaller government, and not in a welfare-type state
Then you shouldn't support republicans since they don't believe in either and they do support a welfare state. Just look at the Bush and Reagan years and tell me what happened.
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