What is the Republican Party?

[bedub1]

Is it the tea-party that wants to shrink government?
Is it OWS that wants equality for the common man?
Is it the religious right that wants the bible to be the constitution?
Is it the bigots that wants to take away peoples rights?
Is it the ron pauls that want equal rights?
Is it the rmoney's that want to f*ck over the 99% to make the 1% richer?
Is it the angry/scared people that wants to take over the world with a larger army?
Is it the NSA peole that want to watch your every move?

Whatever happened to personal responsibility and compassion for your neighbor?

What do you think the Republican Party is today? What do you want it to be?

[Juan_Bottom]

The American Taliban.

[aad0906]

I don't know but they had some pretty damn good presidents in the past. Teddy Roosevelt was a strong supporter of segregation of state and religion, Eisenhower who greatly expanded social security and built the Interstate network and last but not least Lincoln.

[bedub1]

I don't know but they had some pretty damn good presidents in the past. Teddy Roosevelt was a strong supporter of segregation of state and religion, Eisenhower who greatly expanded social security and built the Interstate network and last but not least Lincoln.

Sounds like it USED to be a great party. But what is it now?

[Frigidus]

A miserable pile of tax cuts.

[Phatscotty]

What is it? Is it?

[thegreekdog]

Is it faith no more or epic? I choose the former.

[BigBallinStalin]

A miserable pile of tax cuts.

What percentage of Democrats voted against the 2004-ish tax cuts?

[patrickaa317]

Republicans are socialist-lights. They'll get us to the same socialist result as the democrats but just a couple terms later. [/thread]

[Juan_Bottom]

I don't know but they had some pretty damn good presidents in the past. Teddy Roosevelt was a strong supporter of segregation of state and religion, Eisenhower who greatly expanded social security and built the Interstate network and last but not least Lincoln.

Sounds like it USED to be a great party. But what is it now?

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25838

They used to be the Liberal party, but then the party members switched in the 1960s over the issue of ending Jim Crow.

[Army of GOD]

again with the fucking love of partisanship.

when will any of you morons realize political party means as much as the turd I just dropped ever so gracefully from my balloon knot?

[Phatscotty]

The answer to this very serious question can be represented best in this short 8 minute video clip

::lights dim::

[Juan_Bottom]

again with the fucking love of partisanship.

when will any of you morons realize political party means as much as the turd I just dropped ever so gracefully from my balloon knot?

You missed the point. When you look back at American History, every great idea or change came from Liberals. Conservatism means never change. You're always going to identify with one group better than the other.
Just because you don't care about politics or don't know anything about politics doesn't mean that it's all the same. Republicans and Democrats are not the same party. And there are sharp differences between Repubs and Dems on the national level. And there's a world of difference between our commentators.

[BigBallinStalin]

again with the fucking love of partisanship.

when will any of you morons realize political party means as much as the turd I just dropped ever so gracefully from my balloon knot?

If a person is told since birth that the bowels from your balloon knot smell good, and if that person constantly reinforces his opinion of its superior smell (via confirmation bias, etc.), then should we be surprised at such an person's acquired taste for balloon bowels?

If we're not surprised yet remain indignant, then how do we convince such a person that the balloon bowels smell terrible and should not be consumed?

[Phatscotty]

again with the fucking love of partisanship.

when will any of you morons realize political party means as much as the turd I just dropped ever so gracefully from my balloon knot?

You missed the point. When you look back at American History, every great idea or change came from Liberals. Conservatism means never change.

and how does that square with your BS argument about how Republicans "switched" in the 1960's?