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Has anyone stop supporting the GOP lately or are considering it?
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2011 Sep 14, 11:34pm 35,303 views 115 comments
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marcus
2011 Sep 24, 2:41am
Not sure why this forum would be any different than America. Voters ejected 64 Dem congressman in 2010 and Dems just lost a seat in NY-09 they've held since the 20s. Obviously, a lot of people have stopped supporting the Dems lately, not the GOP.
Don't forget that the depression and the citizens united case and unprecedented money backing teabagger wackos in 2010 might have been a factor. Add to that the money behind Fox news and talk radio, and their influence and we have nearly a perfect storm set up for a fascist regime to take over or for them to try.
Most hard core or old time right wingers won't see it until it's too late.
YOu might want to try out objectivity rather than just looking for propaganda which says what you wish to be true. (referring to this absurdity: http://www.cnsnews.com/node/72404 )
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I am throwing this question out here because I am tired of the Republican Party. I have been a long time supporter except when I voted for Ross Perot for the 92’ election. This last decade I have been changing my mind. I see too much extremism in this party. Hell, Ronald Reagan couldn’t be a candidate for the GOP right now (raised taxes 11 times, tripled the national debt, pulled American troops out of Beirut after the attack, and passed the 86’ Immigration Bill).
This party has been taken over by religious zealots and has an all or nothing attitude. I am disgusted by the antics that went down over the budget debate. Never before has the debt ceiling been tied to the budget or debt. We have budgets that have been passed that need to be paid and were passed by congress. When George Bush doubled the national Debt from 5.7 to 11 trillion, where were the Republican's outcry then?
Historically speaking, how has this party changed from the days of Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Goldwater to now? I would say it has changed from warnings of the MIC by Eisenhower to a huge supporter of the MIC. It has changed from supporting equal rights for all citizens of the US from Lincoln to a disenfranchisement of the Latino population. It has not heeded the warnings from Goldwater on the penetration of the religious right into the party. Teddy was a big progressive and what we see today is a warped regressive movement in the Tea Party.
Why would I put my vote for the GOP now when all I see them doing is grandstanding and playing politics. This party has become radical in my opinion.
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