Why do republicans hate poor people then don't believe in abortion?
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A few reasons:\n\n1. Republicans believe life is precious until you are born.\n\n2. They have successfully brainwashed the uneducated members of their party into believing only democrats are on welfare... the number of registered republicans on welfare is actually higher than democrats. There is a large concentration of white Republican welfare recipients in the Midwest states.\n\n3. They do not believe in the constitution that the Supreme Court based its ruling on in making abortion legal.
406798
Because our country is currently run by Republicans, who historically could care less about the plight of the poor and helpless.  The mindset is: "If I can be wealthy without government handouts, then everyone else can too."  They can't see that the American dream does NOT exist for a lot of people, especially minorities, and that some people have many more obstacles than White Anglo-Saxon Protestants.  It's really sad.  Hopefully we can get some Democrats in office who can help provide good legislation to help the poor and suffering.
874927
Republicans constantly use tactics such as these that appeal to the complete morons that vote for them.  The war in Iraq is costing the lives of Iraqis and American soldiers, and to compare it to abortion is disgusting and irresponsible.  Then again, these are republicans that we're talking about.
1055870
You ask a very good question, and I believe ignorance is your answer. I believe that many people do not spend the time to actually research who they vote for, and then when the president (or any elected official) turn out to be bad, they complain about it even though they voted for him/her. The other reason is that people, more often than they should, vote along party lines. "If you're a Christian, you should vote Republican because of their views on abortion." That's the backwards logic some people believe. You have to vote the issues you agree with most, not the party lines. That happened in the last election, too.\n\nI don't know if this really answered your question, but it's a little of what I think is wrong with people and politics.
452977
GOP supporters fall into 2 categories , one super rich and greedy who love more tax cuts and second are the ignorant bible readers , the funny thing is bible was about helping poor, elderly and the sick and under GOP all these 3 groups are worse off , only very wealthy are better off
1000280
Because they pick and choose areas of the republican agenda that they like. Such as religion. Remember, S.Carolina and Arkansas are in the bible belt. \n\nPraise God, and pass out the welfare!!\n\nThese are your basic morons who believes an invisible man in the sky wants Bush and company to lead the country into the rapture. They are also too lazy to work while waiting for the second coming, and too stupid to think for themselves, so since Bush says God told him to president, well then, "I'm is an apublican too, by golly."
1146148
Americans, generally, hate the poor and are CHEAP!!\n\nThey rather blame them than to help them. If they can say it is by some character flaw then they can sleep well at night knowing a kid is starving to death!
725563
Their arguments lack objectivity and facts.\n\nWhat's so special about life?  The way republicans treat life out of the womb, and care about people who are hungry and needy, or children with no homes or medical care...I'd say they don't think too much about life.\n\nYou just need to be devoid of all logic, have a simple narrow world model where no actions have any secondary consequences, be willing to think like a total hypocrite, and then it all makes perfect sense.
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Not at all. \n\nAnyone with any sense knows that Republicans are not "evil." They don't hate the poor and are not racists.  Republicans believe that people should try to better themselves through education and hard work.  Seems like all Democrats want is to keep the the down-trodden down.
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Many Republicans are Christians. Certain variations of Christianity are opposed to birth control because they feel that sex should only be used for reproduction (hence the song "Every sperm is sacred" from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life).\n\nFeelings against wellfare generally revolve around the idea that people should be responsibie for their own lives. In the US, people have a lot of freedom and opportunity available to them. With this freedom comes responsibility. People who spend most of their lives on wellfare usually are choosing not to do things to improve their lives (I know this firsthand. My mother was on wellfare until I was 16).\n\nThe other aspect of wellfare is individual rights. If you lost your job, do you have the right to go into someone's house, hold a gun to their head, and make them give you "unemployment compensation?" Obviously not. Wellfare recipients are paid with tax money. Tax money is obtained in the same manner. (Have you ever tried to NOT pay taxes?)\n\nThe death penalty is a little more complicated. There are plenty of non-republicans who are in favor of the death penalty. The thought is usually that the person "deserves" it and should not be a burden on society by consuming valuable prison resources.
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That's like saying that democrats kill babies but protect criminals.  It's simplistic and ignorant.\nRepublicans believe that fetuses are living humans and should be protected from being killed by mothers who use abortion as a way to have a sexually promiscuous life-style.  They also believe that murderers have given up their right to life by taking the life of another unlawfully, and deserve to die.\n\nDemocrats see the fetus not as a human, but part of the human body until it can live on it's own.  They see adult humans, even murderers as fully formed humans who have potential that can never be met if they die. Even if they did kill others unlawfully, they deserve to have that potential met.\n\nI get so tired of the ignorant, one-sided propaganda wars I see here, but unless you ask the question, you'll never get any answers, so I don't want to discourage you.  But if you don't learn from this, and continue to present nonsense even knowing the facts, then the heck with you.  You deserve the kind of life you'll end up living.
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The social debate about abortion is not about the preciousness of life.  Fifty percent of all pregnancies end in abortion, spontaneous abortion, commonly called "miscarriage".  Half of all those babies can be saved through proper prenatal care.  If those opposed to abortion were truly concerned about the preciousness of life, why did they fight so hard to reduce all of the federal funding for free prenatal care to America's poor women?  The very same groups that advocate against a women's right of choice in abortion are the very same groups that oppose free prenatal care.  Spontaneous abortion is a woman's body saying that conditions are not right for a fetus to survive.  There seems to be no outrage about that.  But, if a woman uses her MIND to determine that conditions are not right for a fetus to survive, there is outrage.  The abortion debate is not about the preciousness of life.  It is about who has the right to decide when a life should end.  Traditionally, only men have had that right ( war, capital punishment).  The abortion debate is about keeping women in their place.  That being said, women have only recently, after thousands of years of oppression, had the right to vote and determine the course of their own lives.  How unfortunate that abortion has become their rallying cry because abortion is to good health practice, as bankruptcy is to business.  Abortion is a dangerous, graceless, ugly procedure.  Women are capable of more responsible reproductive health practices.  RN
972799
I suppose about the same time Republicans realize not all Democrats favor abortion rights.  That's the problem with labels.  They are almost always wrong.
57325
Republicans get votes from two main groups: rich greedy people and 'racist closed minded ignorant liars.  Rich people have complete apathy for everyone else.  As long as they pay low taxes and the poor people don't bother them, they will vote Republican.  However, the second major group of republicans need a basis for voting.  So, the republicans have to show racists tendencies.  However, I believe that most elected republicans are of the apathetic greedy group as opposed to the racist group.
725137
Get them to stop the hate... Jesus spent 98% percent of the time talking about the least among us....Conservatives have seemingly abandoned the least among us...Example: Pro Life: Great idea but instead of being prolife they should be called pro-fetus...Once the baby is born..they abandon it and it's poor mother...Now is that really prolife...
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Abortion is being used. Conservative Republicans get much of their support from abortion and gay marriage issues, so they will do anything to keep the argument up. The Republicans in power now will not propose a solution because they cannot or will not attempt to find one. They feed on the issue, the division it causes, because due to massive propaganda efforts the majority of people think abortion is evil. They are right in a way in that life should not be taken, but before we simply abolish it without thinking we should find a solution.\n\nSo what is that solution? For a single individual it is probably a combination, and as it turns out it is nearly impossible in the average teen--Intelligence, abstinence until marriage, condoms and other birth control methods during sexual activity, and wisdom enough to know the consequences for their own actions. Basically you need to be smart and responsible.\n\nBut you know what, my friend? Everything, EVERYTHING in teenage culture today says intelligence and responsibility isn't cool. The average teenage boy today wishes he was a gangster and could participate in drive-by shootings with a bunch of black people just like the rappers they idolize say you should do. The average teenage girl is obsessed with a pop music band, has a bunch of snotty friends and wishes she looked like Jessica Simpson. Traits universally shared among average teenagers is a hatred of their parents and their family values, a hatred of gay people, an obsession with doing what everyone else in their age group is doing, a disregard for love, law, and reason, and an unquenchable thirst for attention.\n\nDo the above traits sound like they make intelligent, wise and responsible people? They don't. In order to put the problem of teenage pregnancies and the abortion issue to rest, we must change the way the average young person in America thinks right now. This is a possible solution to the problem as a whole.\n\nSo now, how to change the way America thinks? Right now, no one knows the solution.
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Because they are hypocritical.  They supposedly believe in states rights except when it doesn't suit their conquest of the political structure of America.  They'll fly this subject around to solidify their base, the uneducated conservative, evangelical, redneck so they vote for them, then do nothing about it until they bring it up again in the 2008 election..   Their base is played for fools every two years on God, guns, and gays, and they still don't realize they're being played for fools.  The abortion issue is another one.  What have the Republicans done about any of these topics except bring them up every two years to rally the ignorant base?