I see people writing that the Republicans are the party of morals...?
964041
Morals! After Iraq a Republican is going to talk about morals! They have no morals! None! They pray to the money, and they don't care who has to die to get it!
951932
Because it plays in simple minds...\n\nThe Republicans are masters of simple, black and white thought and correlative, rather than causative logic!. \n\nCommunists are evil... social programs are associated with communism... democrats support social programs... democrats must be communists... thus Democrats are evil!\n\nDemocrats are evil...Republicans don't like Democrats... Republicans are good! \n\nAlso, all you have to do to be a good Republican is SAY what you are for/against. You don't really ever have to do it (or not do it). It makes life MUCH easier. \n\n"We don't have to debate what we should think about homosexual behavior. It's written in the Bible!" - Ted Haggard\n(we know how that ended up!) \n\nRepublicans - For Fiscal Responsibilty! - 1% INCREASE in National Debt annually under Bush\n\nDemocrats - Evil Spenders! - 4% DECREASE in National Debt annually under Clinton\n\nEnough... I think I have made my point. \n\nGo Lemmings, Go!
390776
ETHICS! OH BOY YOU HAVE BEEN OUT OF THE LOOP FOR SOME TIME IF YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT ETHICS, LET'S TALK ABOUT OUR FRIEND JACK ABRAHMHOFF! OOOOHHH BOY, DO I EVER, WHEW! I WAS WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO FORGET ABOUT THAT, IF YOU THINK WE'RE GOING TO LAY OFF YOUR PARTY BECAUSE A LITTLE 300, 000 DOLLARS WAS SPREAD AROUND TO NEARLY EVERY REPUBLICAN SENATOR THAN YOU HAVE GOT TO GET A REALITY CHECK.\n\nOH, LETS NOT FORGET MR ETHICS HIMSELF AKA "THE HAMMER" or more like "in the slammer" TOM DELAY! WHEWIE! IS HE IN FOR SOME JAIL TIME, THAT IDIOT THOUGHT HE WAS OFF THE HOOK REDISTRICTING THE ZONES AND THROWING IN CORPORATE DONATIONS TO THE RACES, JEEZE, NOBODY TALKS SHIT TO RONNY EARLY WITHOUT GETTING SLAPPED RIGHT BACK AND LOOKY HERE!'\n\nHE SAYS HE WON'T RUN AGAING...GOODBYE DELAY I WONT MISS YOU!\n\nBOO HOO! POOOR BABIES, THE REPUBLICAN PARTY THE "MORAL" MAJORITY IS SOMEHOW TURNING INTO THE PARTY OF KINGS, OF PIRATES MORE LIKE....OR HOW ABOUT YOUR MOST SACRED MORAL MORON: PAT ROBERTSON, IS IT REALLY ETHICAL TO TELL DOVER PENN. THAT BY NOT RE-ELECTING SCHOOL OFFICIALS BECAUSE OF THEIR CHOICE TO OVERIDE PARENTS TO INSTALL AN "INTELLIGENT DESIGN PACKAGE" TO GO TO HELL, AND NOT LOOK TO GOD FOR HELP! IM NOT VERY RELIGIOUS BUT I DO HAVE MY SENSES, AND THAT IS NOT VERY ETHICAL....\n\nIF YOU CALL RUMMY ETHICAL, SENDING MEN OVER TO IRAQ IN SHODDY OR IF ANY ARMOR AT ALL (OR LACK THEREOF) WELL YOU BETTER GROW UP SONNIE....\n\nthank you...have a nice night.
198503
Let's do. Funny,it seems the other way 'round to me.Our motives regarding war,abortion, prayer, smaller government,etc. -are villified,seems to me: in the media, particularly, but also 1 on 1 talks. But I'm a conservative,and a reg. Joe. The Rep. party is not,nor the Dems, either,of by and for the people any longer.It's the same machine, different masks.Live long,Peace.\n P.S.And never let them make you be politically correct, or one day demagog will mean democrat.
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The actions of the Republican party can be fully explained in one word:  "Posturing."  \n\nAs for the Democrats, you assume they are competent.  They are not.  They worship two fallacies:  1) Man can be perfected by his institutions (such as schools and government and civil law).  2) Equality and utopia can be accomplished by the establishment of classes of citizenship.\n\nThese crippling fallacies insure that the Democrats will not be able to fix much of the damage.  They are so conceited about these fallacies that they don't even understand that it was furious INDEPENDENT voters who put them in charge this time.  Independents like me.  What we gave this time we will take away unless they get over their ideological blinders.\n\nYou've been warned.
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I havent really decided If I'm a republican or a democrat...so I guess that makes me neutral right now. But  you said 'morals' and when I vote, I vote morally, and My morals usually tend to lead me to vote more republican than anything else. I am okay with stem cell research, but NOT okay with embryonic stem cell research. I dont think its okay to grow babies just to kill them. So obviously I'm also against abortion (which is usually my main issue when I vote). Feminists like to say its not okay for anyone to decide what we do with our bodies...but I say its not okay for us to decide that its okay to murder unborn children because we dont want to be bothered with them and we didnt take the proper precautions to ensure we wouldnt become pregnant in the first place. I am against the death penalty without some SERIOUS evidence. ie- That person has to have DNA all over the crime scene, be on video, confess to doing it, etc. If you're *almost* sure that the person is guilty, but not completely sure, that's not good enough. Innocent people have been put to death for crimes that people were sure they commited at the time.....and are now sure that they didnt commit them. Im against guns and owning guns. 'guns dont kill people, people kill people' is a bunch of BS. "people with guns, kill people." Ive heard people say that if guns were illegal then only criminals would have them. If that were the case then we'd be able to prosicute them for owning the gun, instead of having to wait til they did something with it. As far as the war goes...I dont know how I feel about that. Im kind of for it, kind of against it. Alot of good things came from it, but also alot of innocent people died because of it.  As far as the gay marriage thing goes...I'm suppose to be against it based on my religion and beliefs..But once again I'm not sure how i feel about that either. I have nothing against gay people, I live my life, they live theirs. So..theres a general idea of my morals for you. Im a moral republican (for the most part).
404648
Republicans disgust me. They are liars and manipulators. Dividers. Fear mongers. Smiling when they talk about war and grinning when they tell their lies and distort their record. Trying to impose their hateful morals on the rest of the world, they're nothing but the Taliban reborn. Have you seen their platform? Have you listened to their speeches? These warmongers?
624943
Conservatives have that as a platform, if you just read between the lines. Like Bush's " tax cuts across the board" is translated into tax cuts for the very rich. So they are the party of cooperate welfare and take more bribes then anyone.
241375
Well, thanks for the references to Rush and Drudge and Fox. Now I realize that it's really a lie that people of color tend to support democrats more than republicans. \nSo, you must be mistaken in your assumption. There really are lots of people of color at the conventions (well, maybe not as delegates, but they're around). You certainly can't believe your eyes, and you can't believe the polls.\nSo thanks, Rush and Sean and partners for setting me straight. It's really the Democrats who are bigoted, racist, and homophobic. The Republicans don't care if you are black, hispanic, gay, lesbian, atheist, muslim, rich, or poor. They welcome everyone to their fold!\nAnd to think I used to believe that Republican policies were hazardous to gays, non-Christians, minorities, and the poor. They really do want gays to marry each other, non-Christians to have as many rights as Christians, taxes that favor the poor, etc.
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While I am a Republican, I know many Democrats who have a decent moral compass. The majority of them seem to care quite a bit about the issues you mentioned. I think you answered your own question correctly when you mentioned the Golden Rule. That is a moral code that is easy to understand and apply to real life, yet does not require God (although yes, there are religious Democrats). \n\nHowever, to be honest I know many Democrats (and even people too far *left* to be Democrats) who fail to comprehend morality, and have a morally relativistic "everything goes" code of ethics, and who cannot tell the difference between the minor sins of the US during the Cold War or the War on Terror versus the horrific people who oppose us. (For example, the Abu Graib prison scandal: Yes, clearly it shouldn't have happened, but the people on the other side of this conflict do *much* worse, and never even acknowledge that what they did was wrong--and yet many on the left treat hacking someone's head off with a knife as the equivelent of what happened in Abu Graib... That's pretty good evidence of a lack of a moral compass.) \n\nThe greatest difficulty in answering this question is that, with only (effectively) two political parties in the US, and most people in one or the other, there is no way to answer for such a large portion of the populace. Democrats are perhaps 40% of the population; no doubt with so many in that group there are a whole slew of different moral codes and reasoning among them. This is true for Repubicans too.
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hmmm.....don't they have a choice of more then two parties in the u.s,that's called real democracy u know,it does not matter which of the two evils wins both apply the same form of politics.i would agree with you though that the republicans do stand for the rich. (money talks  in a capitalist world)
601453
Republicans can only handle one belief about every topic, and usually they don't even use their own brain.  Someone tells Republicans what to believe and they all say "YES SIR".  This is retarded, and it is not freedom.
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Becuase many of our lawmakers are right-wing Republicans who believe that gay people aren't moral.  But these are the same men who are cheating on their wives.  I don't know why some people in this country think it is "okay" to write discrimination into the Constituition of the United States.  That erases everything our forefathers stood for.  There was this thing... many years back, called "Separation of Church & State" but yet Politicians seem to forget that.
510754
Absolutely.  It's just that the Democrats want you to believe that if you're republican, you want to rape and pillage the land.  That couldn't be further from the truth.
785565
Yes, Humanist.  \n\nYou were wrong.\n\nOnce upon a time, the Republican Party had a good direction, a good vision for America. \n\nThey have betrayed their own vision and betrayed America by thinking that the end justifies the means.
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I think it shows an independence of character.  Today's republican party has changed significantly in the last few years. For example, they used to strongly "conserve" money and hold the Gov't accountable for spending (other than militarily). The reckless spending in Iraq is a polar opposite of careful spending and accountability.\n\nI had to be true to my own ideas and switched parties as the times changed. \nEmerson said "It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."\n\nIt's important regardless of party to hold true to our character. So my answer is yes I would still have respect for them if I believed in their character.
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I honestly don't think they're very compassionate.  As far as being conservatives,  I really don't think they are all that conservative either.  They want votes, and there are a lot of liberal ideas on the table right now.  Basically, they're full of crap