tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393996338560944889.post8881030357438047381..comments2024-03-02T02:26:00.928-05:00Comments on bleakonomy: Why I am not a Republicantetracontadigonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04604381739383227553noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393996338560944889.post-82935149300043970642009-12-02T10:10:54.346-05:002009-12-02T10:10:54.346-05:00I agree with charo. The practice of frightening p...I agree with charo. The practice of frightening people into compliance is the policy of cowards and the morally bankrupt. Those evil Rethuglicans passed bills claiming, and I quote, <a href="http://www.democrats.org/a/2009/02/president_obama_4.php" rel="nofollow">The decisions no parent should ever have to make -- how long to put off that doctors appointment, whether to fill that prescription, whether to let a child play outside, knowing that all it takes is one accident, one injury, to send your family into financial ruin</a>, end quote. Oh, wait, sorry, my mistake, that was the Democratic party's position. Well, this was surely Republican scaremongering at its worst when the President claimed that the fiscal crisis would turn into a "catastrophe" if the stimulus wasn't passed immediately... oh, wait, my mistake, that was President Obama.<br /><br />Well, you get the idea. It's those Eeeevil Republicans who are the party of fearmongering. Vote Democratic (motto: This Time, For Sure")Gadfly Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393996338560944889.post-18489629044852957732009-12-02T09:00:23.896-05:002009-12-02T09:00:23.896-05:00Sorry for the couple of spelling errors. Guilty of...Sorry for the couple of spelling errors. Guilty of haste post.:)Uncle Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07992402926190259718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393996338560944889.post-67178689976674686092009-12-02T08:06:03.545-05:002009-12-02T08:06:03.545-05:00Elizabeth I agree with you 100% and as usual GJ is...Elizabeth I agree with you 100% and as usual GJ is out of touch with reality. However, I would like to add one more reason for not being a Republican and that is their approach to anything good for the middle calss and working persons in our country. The one point you omitted was health care and the Republican approach to defet anything that will cut corprate greed. They have pulled this shit before, Remember how the inheritance tax suddenly became the death tax? <br />How pro -choice became pro-abortion? How we had to "fight them over there, so that we would not have to fight them here"? And of course risk death. This is how the GOP always frightens people into compliance. By threatening their lives, or the lives of their loved ones. These are the tactics of cowards and the morally bankrupt. I cannot imagine how anybody can feel proud of a party that resorts to this sort of manipulation. Health care reform is necessary and has been put off for too long by a group of people who have access to the best health care available in this country. Too bad hypocrisy is not a life threatening condition.Uncle Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07992402926190259718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393996338560944889.post-56437907465585827092009-12-01T19:57:13.882-05:002009-12-01T19:57:13.882-05:00I cannot support a movement that would back a vice...<i>I cannot support a movement that would back a vice-presidential candidate manifestly unqualified and duplicitous because of identity politics and electoral cynicism.</i><br /><br />If you remove the 'vice-' from the above sentence, that would explain why I couldn't support the Democratic party in '08.<br /><br /><i>I cannot support a movement that regards gay people as threats to their own families.</i><br /><br />Much better to support a party that cynically exploits gays with promises they have no intention of fulfilling, isn't it?<br /><br /><i>I cannot support a movement that does not accept evolution as a fact...</i><br /><br />What's so special about evolution that it is a litmus test for you?<br /><br /><i>I cannot support a movement that refuses to distance itself from a demagogue like Rush Limbaugh or a nutjob like Glenn Beck.</i><br /><br />You misspelled the names of Al Sharpton and Keith Olbermann.Gadfly Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393996338560944889.post-5944705173759266622009-12-01T19:35:21.059-05:002009-12-01T19:35:21.059-05:00yeah, but in NJ the Republicans threw over the rig...yeah, but in NJ the Republicans threw over the rightwinger in the primaries for a moderate, and the moderate won. In Va. the Gov. likewise repudiated his past and ran full bore to the center. Meanwhile, where the wingnuts held sway, an uberRepublican seat in NY went to a Democrat. I used to live in Jersey, and though I am a registered Democrat would have voted for Christie over that thug Corzine, who ran a reprehensible campaign mocking Christies weight. The talking heads on Fox are not the true Republican party, at least not yet.<br /><br />CharoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com