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Sunday, May 08, 2011

What Are You Good At and Why?

Starting today, I'm going to ask two questions. These questions will continue to be asked for quite some time I imagine because I'm fairly certain the responses will be childishly dishonest.

For those of you who are Republican, what exactly are you good at and why are you a Republican? As the clip below demonstrates, I think the people of America deserve an answer. Now, I know that some of my regular readers are not Republicans and loathe them as much as they loathe Democrats (although they still vote Republican which makes me question their integrity). I'm not necessarily asking you. I'm asking the card carrying members of the GOP. If your two main strengths are fiscal responsibility and national security and you have demonstrated incompetence in both, why should people vote Republican?

My initial thought was abortion but the GOP had the presidency and both houses of Congress from 2003-2007 and did nothing except pass a law protecting Teri Schiavo. I suppose the GOP is doing a great job of restraining us from moving forward on alternative forms of energy so, if you are a big oil person, that would be a reason. And, as Bill says below, paranoia, greed and racism are all fun so there's that...

But really, I don't get it. Seriously. I'm not trying to be obnoxious. In looking at what the GOP has done for the last ten years, can one truly say that they even been competent? Bill Clinton left office with a budget surplus. The spending and tax cuts of the Bush years coupled with the lack of attention to Wall Street nearly brought us to fiscal ruin. It's the reason why our debt is so high today. Related to that is their failure on issues of national security which not only cost us trillions of dollars but ultimately didn't really do the job.

So, watch this clip and try to help me understand what Republicans are good at and why people are still Republicans.


7 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm still trying to understand why you persist in the two-sided political facade. R's with trillions in deficit? D's starting a third war? Why are you so easily led into an 'us vs them' mentality?

But to answer your question... I can't. But I'm not a Republican. So you weren't asking me anyway.

juris imprudent said...

This should be interesting, I think iowa kid is the only non-Dem that identifies as Repub.

juris imprudent said...

(although they still vote Republican which makes me question their integrity)

You won't catch me voting for Republicans until they actually live up to their talk about smaller govt. I'm not exactly holding my breath. After all, you don't want to act like the liberal wing of the Dem party - constantly loyal even when you are getting pissed on.

Larry said...

Damdifiknow, Mark. I'm no watercarrier for the GOP. On some important issues, they come closer to what I believe than the Demonrats, so in an important, close election, I might hold my nose and vote R for some candidates. I might go ahead and write in 'Cthullhu' next time, though. I'm tired of voting for the lesser evil, so I might as well get all I can. I guess that's an indirect way of voting D, though, so take it as you will. You will anyway.

juris imprudent said...

Learned anything yet M?

Anonymous said...

I don't vote Republican. But I often do vote against Democrats.

Why? Because once they've spent years or decades consistently showing you that they consider integrity to be a bad thing that must be stamped out wherever found, why does it matter anymore what they claim to be trying to do?

Anonymous said...

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