Why are the republicans I know all in a panic lately?
956558
I am not in a panic.  I am not in defense.  I am a hair stylist.\n\nI have a house in San Francisco I'll let you have for 800,000!
867086
Oh God come on, you know why. FEAR. They let fear over any number of things control who they vote for.\n Fear and Lies is all the Republicans have to offer and time and time again people just swallow and say great I want some more.\n It is disgusting, how the people in this country just back the President for one idiotic reason or another. He will keep safe from terrorists blah blah blah
920683
Who cares. Alot of people are against who they are so who knows.\n\nThats all the republicans want to do. they worry about all the wrong things.
831400
I had not heard this but what makes you think it's republicans?\n\nThere are people who take any opportunity to harass. Could this be one?\n\nRegardless any republican has to be doing some serious soul searching right now. To give republicans control again will have far reaching consequences that you may not find out about until you retire. At that point you better have plenty of money.
1108661
It's "herd mentality"- think of a herd of sheep. It's the driving force that causes people to vote Republican. The inability to think for oneself so a person just follows the crowd without questioning anything.
1040507
Menifee huh?  Lovely area (snicker) Maybe all the meth fumes are getting to your head. Wow, I wish republicans were not so closed minded. Good looking out for the GOP my friend...show the world your true colors....idiot
703198
People are afraid of capitalism the way we used to be afraid of communism...evidenced by countries shunning legislation that opens their markets to free trade.  Republicans are the new 'red' scare...lol
705468
I think its a toss-up really.  They always endorse democrats.  We are always astonished by the lengths they will go to to do this.  Perhaps the passage of time makes us a little numb to the tactics of two years ago, or four or six or eight for that matter.  But I do not see any more anxiety this time around.
185412
Our Country is more divided that I have ever seen it. With the illegal immigration problem now, that divides us even more. The Republicans have instilled all the fear with their politics and methods. The people are growing farther apart everyday because of their party preferences. I am getting real sick of Republicans bashing and being cruel to Americans. It's way out of control, and they are teaching their children to hate people. I think it's really sick and dysfunctional behavior. It's pretty bad when you have a 12 year old saying your trash because you might have voted for President Clinton. It's happening on these pages, right here, everyday now.
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Quite frankly,its not an everyday Republican or a Democrat that is always in the headlines.Its people like Bible thumpers on the right and hippies so stoned out of their minds to know what they are protesting that get the headlines.I am a Republican.Not because I am ultra conservative,but I see them as a class of action and ideas.They are proclaimed as the group who listens to nobody but really all they do is listen and actually act upon it.I am a firm beleiver in the powers that be work for us,not us for them.So when something is wrong.It seems the right is more of the party not afraid to get some dirt on the hands to help while others sit there still trying to find something wrong with what my side is doing.Im not all for my side.Alot of bad people in it and I know that.The President is not one of them to my notion.It is his staff in which he trust too much and have got him into alot of thick water.All political areas have their own agendas,but it just seems the Republicans are actually more in line with what matters rather than what gets you the most face time on CNN or Fox news.
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the republicans are busted for not doing their job for- how long now? at this point they're just trying to save face.\n\ndemocrats suck too.\n\nWE NEED A NEW PARTY
30391
It's apparently taking a break until the 2008 presidential election... :-)\n\nI really wish I knew.  I'd like to blame the partisan climate in the US for it, but that would be too easy.  So much fear and uncertainty breeds the kind of behavior your question suggests.  Maybe THAT I can blame on those that make policy.
715043
The Dmeocrats are worried because all along they have been shooting down Republican plans, They have been using some bad news about a few Republicans to run their elections and the Americans were foolish enough to fall for it. They Distracted us (not me) from the actual topic to superficial topics. Now they are worried because they have to actually do something. And we are all watching and waiting. Of course we all know the Democrats will be portrayed as the best thing to happen becasue the media is a liberal media. CNN,ABC,NBC,CBS,MSNBC etc..
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It is most gratifying to read such an eloquent discourse and I whole heartedly agree with the thrust of your most erudite question. The thing is, bless'em they're a bit brain washed you know and believe that there is a worldwide conspiracy against them. Paranoia indeed! The extreme right wing proclivities of this nation are a great concern to me and it is causing the polarising, divisive and skewed nature of US politics today. Of course, the really worrying trend, is that those that are hurt most by this type of hysterical, disabling, right wing thinking are the ones that rush to it's defence when it's under threat! Presumably out of some misguided sense of loyalty or patriotism. No, I'm afraid you're right, America needs to learn to play nicely and have a bit of humility. Terrorism is in large part a result of this rigid, militaristic, right wing foreign policy she has dished out over the last 5 or 6 decades and I can't see it stopping anytime soon. Jules, lecturer. Australia.
931076
No, their normal state of mind is sour, really nasty, you read their comments in here. I have not met one repuglican with any credibility in yahoo answers since January.
752462
Republicans have a wonderful knack for making people feel good about them, even though they are genocidal and destructive anti-moral degenerates.\n\nThe best thing about Republicans is that they are causing many people of all stripes to pull together to kick them out and save democracy.  People are fearful of the dismantling of the US Constitution, of the upcoming laws which prevent people from traveling without permission from the government, of the wiretapping of phones and computers, of the 2007 National ID card which will have infra red tracking.\n\nCitizens worry about imminent domain and the 800 brand new concentration camps that the conservative right has complained are placed around the country and up and running with staff already.  The Republicans have painted a smiley face on all of this and now it's gone to far.  Join your fellow Americans, even the Neocon's Christian Conservative Base for vigils at the polls.  Monitor what happens when you vote in the hackable, glitch-filled Republican voting machines.  Help everyone take America back.\n\n(Social Conservatives Questioning Past Support for GOP as Evidence of Large Numbers of Gay Republican Leaders Grows):\nhttp://www.proudofwhoweare.org/story8.html
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You, my firend, must be a Republican. That is wonderful news. Don't let those hacks try to roll over you. Just remember that most of them are psuedo-intellectuals who couldn't make it in the REAL WORLD, so they hide out there at the Universities where they get free room and board, waiting to get tenure.\n\nPRINT IT !