what is a republican?
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A Republican is very sad tonight.
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Right now with the Republicans it is a Republic. When the Democrats are in power it is a Democracy. That is the difference. One is for the people, and the other for wealth.
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Republican. If it were a Democrat voicing his/her opinion, it would read something along the lines of "We support your moral values but they are only relative to each person so we won't act on them"
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Grand Old Party:\n\nThe Republican Party (often referred to as the GOP, for Grand Old Party) is one of the two major political organizations in the United States' two party system; the Democratic Party is the other. Since 1856 Republicans have won 23 of the 38 presidential elections which they've contested, including 7 of the last 10; eighteen of the twenty-eight U.S. Presidents since 1857 have been Republicans.
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I'm a republican.\n1. GOP pushes non-issues like abortion and gay marriage to energize and get out the vote of the religious ...it works.\n2. Democrats criticize everything the GOP does to energize and get out the vote of the uninformed....it works.\n3. Both parties will be united WHEN we are attacked again. But it will be temporary. \n4. I think ONE term limits and NO compensation of ANY kind (no free golf etc.) would be a good start. Then only patriots would apply.
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Democrats are people who like to help all people, especially the working class and poor.  Republicans like to cater to big business and extremely wealthy people and drop programs to help the needy.
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well there is not much differance/ Dems are for welfare for the poor and starving and the middleclass working man. Repulicans are for welfare for the RIch and not paying taxes even if they have to put all the dept on to there childrens back. \nIt used to be republicans were for fiscal responsibility they just want to elimate the bill of rights establish a state relgion and bring back slavery. I say this because that is what they say they want to do listen to them.
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Republican conrolled government.
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The Republican party is known as the GOP. According to the Oxford English Dictionary the first known reference to the Republican party as the "grand old party" came in 1876. The first use of the abbreviation G.O.P. is dated 1884
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GOP = Grand Old Party = Republicans
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To be a Republican  is to be a member of the Republican Party which means they may belong to one of many  different groups that tend to be in the Republican Party.  I think it is easier to say what the Republican party has been against and then you will begin to understand it.  Under Theodore Roosevelt it was an environmental party, but for over one hundred years now, and especially in the last forty years it has fought against most laws established to protect the environment and people.  It fought against Social Security in the thirties and for the past forty years has attacked it and even tody would destroy it if it could.  It has fought against every minimum wage law that has been passed.  It fought against the Medi-Care bill in 1965 that gave senior citizens health care coverage.  It has fought against the Medi-caid program that pays for nursing home care for seniors.  It fought against most civil rights legislation in the 1960's including the Civil Rithts Act and the Voting Rights Act.  It caused legislation to be passed to restrict the rights of Unions after the Supreme Court gave them the right to organize.  It fought against the establishemnt of the National Labor Relations Board  regulating employer employee relations.\n\nBut what does it stand for?  \n1.Under President Bush: the  Reduction of taxes for the richest Americans and shifting more tax burden on to the middle class.\n2.Attempted destruction of Social Security.\n3.Protection of large corporations with special tax breaks and favorable legislation:  i.e., tax breaks to the oil industry (as if they need it) and making it a crime to buy a prescription (with a prescription) from a pharmacy in Canada or other foreign country.\n3. Reducing automobile emission standards and air and water standards in the country.\n4. making it a crime to legally possess medicinal marijuana in states where it is legal for pain relief.\n5.Creating the largest deficit spending in the history of our nation after calling the Democratic party the "party of taxing and spending".
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Republican. Remember... Republicans big business, Democrats big society.
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It's normal if you are a Republican
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Logic, which means Republican
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Here is how you can tell if you are a Democrat or a Republican:\n\nIf you think rich people need more money and poor people need less, you are a Republican.  If you think the opposite, you are a Democrat.
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That depends.  Are AZNS's Republicans?
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You have basically described the Republicon party.