Why are Republican Politicians so dishonest and corrupt?
401303
The same reason ALL big-time politicians are dishonest and corrupt..  because they HAVE to be in order to get elected by the CITIZENS of this country!\n\nAn honest person will NEVER make it out of local city politics because the first time they admit to ever being HUMAN and making MISTAKES like adultery, lying, using drugs in their youth, having an alcohol problem, ever needing psychotropic medication for depression... seeing a therapist, being late on bills, liking porn, masturbating, wanting to hit someone, picking their nose in public or changing their mind about anything... we, the people of the USA will jump on the *Hang them out to dry* media bandwagon and their careers will be over.\n\nSo ya... if we want honest politicians we are gonna have to stop picking them apart and stay the phuck out of their personal lives.  Otherwise we end up with what we have now.. which is lobby-wh*r*s and partisan puppets with no opinions that haven't been previously approved by DC pollsters.
251028
Its all about power to them and nothing else.  They always have their eye on a bigger prize and most wont stop at anything to get it.  Its sad but it is the way it is.  I dont know of a single politician who wasnt crooked in some way or another.
251776
I see the good in most common people. That said, I have met many in my professional life that are arrogant and dishonest to the bone.\nMost I have known in bussiness are dishonest. All in politics are crooks. Most I have had contact with in Local, State and the Federal Government are in do nothing jobs and are in fact a waste of tax payers money. That's not gloom, that's just fact.
983666
The Democrat party has come back with Conservative Democrats as I am. Corruption of the GOP has ruined their chances for quite some time with the immoral values and scandals that will have to be sorted out to bring back any trust in them. That is why the bi-partisanship vote came out November 7th, and Congress is now majority Democrat. Ultimate power corrupts, and those you have named are the victimizers of the corruption.
1010108
It does, if the party is implicit about it. If they are fully aware that one of their star politicians is corrupt, but let him get away with it anyway. Then the party is corrupt for helping him. But if the party really didn't know that their politician was corrupt, then it does not make the party corrupt.
254727
All parties have shown ineptness--government cannot be as efficient as private industry, for example, because we have a system of checks and balances that make decision-making a difficult process.\nThe Republican party takes hostility to government to an extreme. They support privatizing a significant part of the military effort; relief efforts; public education; social security; etc. This is based on a blind belief that the government can't do it well, and private industry will. \nHowever, when they hand over many functions to private side, they usually aren't interested in monitoring how things are run--hence many of the scandals. They simply trust too much in private industry doing the "right" thing, despite ample evidence that earning a profit (especial for management and stockholders) is what private industry does best. \nAt heart, I think the Republican problem is their unwillingness to identify and improve upon the legitimate functions of government, and to try to privatize too much in the belief that private markets will cure problems.
420446
both parties lie... and commit crimes... there are bad apples in both parties... and lip service is a trademark of the Republican party... I haven't seen a problem solved under Bush yet... maybe catching Saddam, but even that has created a power vaccum that doesn't look like it's going to turn out well...\n\nHow about stop whinning about the past and try to make a difference for once?
696880
The Repuiblicans exposed their true selves with their lies and spin!\n\nGet it right!\n\nMore blind right-wing ideologues bashing war heroes and voting for Republicans who cut veterans benefits.Only in America!
948483
I don't know about Democrats, or for that matter Republicans. I can tell you as an Independent that you cannot be taken seriously and your accusations cannot be trusted. Calling the election a fraud before it even occurs makes any points you try to make biased and questionable, just like the boy who cried wolf. You are trying to advance an agenda and lack any viable proof to support your claims. I will remind you that in the last 3 election cycles that the only people convicted of election fraud were Democrats, not Republicans.
984288
Republican planners, politicians, and pundits  spent years mastering certain tricks. Like accusing liberals of being soft on crime, accusing people who oppose a particular war of being weak kneed pacifists and finally accusing people who oppose any of their policies of being anti-American traitors. Rabid Republican shills repeatedly hurted these accusations in a way that made them stick. Democrat politicians were afraid they couldn't refute these characterizations, so they went along with   harebrained war and world domination plans.\n\nMany ordinary citizens were fooled by Republican rhetoric, especially because it satisfied certain ego and emotional needs that people have. The vast Republican message and slime machine kept hammering away until citizens could barely distinguish spin and slur from reality. \n\nThe bloody chaos in Iraq woke politicians and the public from their stupor in time for the November 2006 elections.
850748
Republicans are brainwashed, impulsive, and improvident and always have been. Republicans are the little political babies and democrats now need to walk them by the hand and fix all of the domestic and foreign republican MESSES!
856630
The nation said no to leaders who defy moral and ethical values with a culture of corruption. Leaders who get indicted for taking bribes from lobbyists like Jack Abamoff and leaders who have to resign for sending inappropriate e-mails to young boys were rejected. Chickenhawk GOP leaders are the ones who've turned their backs on those who fight and give their lives for freedom. On the quagmire in Iraq soon to be former Republican Majority Leader John Boehner blames the military: "Let's not blame what's happening in Iraq on Rumsfeld... the fact is, the generals on the ground are in charge." \nRumsfeld himself said,  "As you know, you have to go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you want..."\nAmerican patriots have voted and spoken!
353775
To be fair, the party in power (particularly when said party controls all three branches of government) tends toward corruption, irrespective of which party it is. That said, yes, the republicans are very much THE ultimate party of corruption. There has been a steady flow of this sort of nefarious wrongdoing since they assumed power and it will continue until the American people wake up and throw them out of office. I have high hopes for the 2006 elections but I also had high hopes in 2004...
30003
because Bush is a liar, a cheat, and he has enough rich powerful people backing him that he bought his way into office; TWICE! He has made enough rich people richer that he keeps getting away with such atrocities as opening up our roadless forests to mining and gas companies, giving away huge tax breaks to the Oil Industry giants, giving tax breaks to companies who move their base of operations out of the U.S. so hundreds of thousands of people lose their good paying jobs, close friends and working with top CEO's of Enron to give them tax breaks and let Enron run Pennsylvania's energy industry before that flopped, to lying to americans and congress about Iraq, war profiteering and the list just goes on and on. Does anyone wonder why Clinton was impeached for lying about sex? And no one questions why Bush has NOT been impeached for war crimes and illegaly wiretapping americans without a warrant? Hmm let's try to figure out which is more serious: sex or war? BIG difference! Please visit the sites below to find out more information and ways on how you can make a difference on removing the Bush Regime! It's time we remove this blood & oil thirsty dictator!
208821
Most of them are on the take, they are for sale to the highest bidder. Right now the GOP is raking in more campaign cash, but that is mostly because they are in power.\n\nBoth parties are equally corrupt. You just have to decide if you want to support the warmongering party or the welfare party. They both take your money and give it to their pals.
740440
You must read your newspaper very closely, you are right.  The reason is because the republican agenda is to put their self-aggrandizement over the common good.  This isn't to say that democrats are righteous and sagacious, but they seem to be much less corrupt and full of bologna than the republicans (have you seen Hastert lately? he looks like Humpty Dumpty).
842366
We need more honest people in politics who tell it like it is, even if that means insulting a bunch of ignorant repubes!