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THINGS YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE TO BE A REPUBLICAN TODAY

Vic Sage
Apr 20 2006 10:33 AM

here's something emailed to me today that i thought i'd share with you:


17 THINGS YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE TO BE A REPUBLICAN TODAY...

1) Jesus loves you, and shares your hatred of homosexuals and
Hillary Clinton.

2) Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when
Bush's daddy made war on him, a good guy when Cheney did business with him,
and a bad guy when Bush needed a "we can't find Bin Laden" diversion.

3) Trade with Cuba is wrong because the country is Communist,
but trade with China and Vietnam is vital to a spirit of international
harmony.

4) The United States should get out of the United Nations,
and our highest national priority is enforcing U.N. resolutions against Iraq.

5) A woman can't be trusted with decisions about her own body,
but multi-national corporations can make decisions affecting all mankind
without regulation.

6) The best way to improve military morale is to praise the
troops in speeches, while slashing veterans' benefits and combat pay.

7) If condoms are kept out of schools, adolescents won't have
sex.

8) A good way to fight terrorism is to belittle our long-time allies,
then demand their cooperation and money.

9) Providing health care to all Iraqis is sound policy,
but providing health care to all Americans is socialism.

10) HMOs and insurance companies have the best interests of the
public at heart.

11) Global warming and tobacco's link to cancer are junk science,
but creationism should be taught in schools.

12) A president lying about an extramarital affair is an impeachable offense,
but a president lying to enlist support for a war in which thousands die is solid defense policy.

13) Government should limit itself to the powers named in the Constitution,
which include banning gay marriages and censoring the Internet.

14) The public has a right to know about Hillary's cattle trades,
but George Bush's driving record is none of our business.

15) Being a drug addict is a moral failing and a crime,
unless you're a conservative radio host.
Then it's an illness and you need our prayers for your recovery.

16) You support states' rights, but Attorney General John
Ashcroft can tell states what local voter initiatives they have the right to adopt.

17) What Bill Clinton did in the 1960s is of vital national interest,
but what Bush did in the '80s is irrelevant.

Willets Point
Apr 20 2006 10:35 AM

Sadly many of those beliefs (or the twisted logic behind them) are not exclusive to Republicans.

cooby
Apr 24 2006 10:01 PM

Wow, he finally noticed...

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1885561

soupcan
Apr 24 2006 10:12 PM
Re: THINGS YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE TO BE A REPUBLICAN TODAY

="Vic Sage"]11) Global warming and tobacco's link to cancer are junk science, but creationism should be taught in schools.


Please Vic - 'intelligent design'.

Centerfield
Apr 25 2006 11:03 AM

KC
Apr 25 2006 12:39 PM

I stopped at number one, being a christian doesn't require hatred of homosexuals
and all christians certainly are repubs.

That's just nasty.

Edgy DC
Apr 25 2006 01:42 PM

Nor are Republicans all Christians.

KC
Apr 25 2006 01:59 PM

I was going to ask where the RJC stood on jesus and gays, but everytime
I open my mouth lately I turn someone else off and it's not necessarily my
intention.

I don't care what context it's taken out of, starting a thread with jesus loves
you and hates homos is kinda nasty.

Sandgnat
Apr 25 2006 02:24 PM
The response

Drug addiction is a disease that should be treated with compassion and understanding...unless the addict is a Conservative talk show host.


The United States should be subservient to the United Nations. Our highest authority is not God and the U.S. Constitution, but a collective of tinpot dictators (and their appeasers) and the U.N. charter.


Government should relax drug laws regardless of the potential for abuse, but should pass new and unConstitutional anti-gun laws because of the potential for abuse.


Calls for increased security after a terrorist attack are "political opportunism," but calls for more gun control after a criminal's spree killing is "a logical solution."


"It Takes a Village" means everything you want it to mean...except creeping socialist government involvement in the nuclear family.


Disarming innocent, law-abiding citizens helps protect them from evil, lawless terrorists and other thugs.


Slowly killing an unborn innocent by tearing it apart limb from limb is good. Slowly killing an innocent disabled woman by starving her to death is good. Quickly killing terrorists, convicted murderers and rapists is BAD.


Every religion should be respected and promoted in public schools the name of diversity, so long as that religion isn't Christianity.


The best way to support our troops is to criticize their every move. This will let them know they're thought of often.


Sexual harassment, groping and drug use are degenerate if you're the governor of California, but it's okay if you're the President of the United States.


Sex education should be required so that teens can make informed choices about sex, but gun education should be banned because it will turn those same teens into maniacal mass-murderers.


Minorities are blameless for the hatred of the racist; women are blameless for the hatred of the rapist; but America is entirely at fault for the hatred of Islamofascists.


Poverty is the cause of all terrorism...which is why the leaders of al Qaeda are typically U.S.-educated and were raised in wealth and luxury.


The Patriot Act is a horrific compromise of Constitutional rights, but anti-Second Amendment laws and Franklin Roosevelt's Presidential Order 9066 must be regarded "reasonable precautions."


We should unquestioningly honor the wishes of our age-old allies, even when said allies no longer act like our allies and have vested economic interests in propping up our enemies.


Socialized medicine is the ideal. Nevermind all those people who spend every dime they have to get to the United States so they can get quality medical care...that their nation's socialized medical community can't provide.


Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky and Natalie Maines are perfectly qualified to criticize our leadership, but Arnold Schwarzenegger, Charlton Heston, and Dennis Miller are just ignorant political hacks.


John Lott's research on how gun ownership reduces crime is junk science, but Michael Bellesiles is still an authority on why gun control is good (even though he was forced to resign from Emory due to research misconduct over his book "Arming America").


Bush's toppling the Saddam regime was a "diversion," but Clinton's lobbing a couple of cruise missiles at Iraq in the thick of the Lewinsky sex scandal was "sending a message."


A president who lies under oath is okay, but a president who references sixteen words from an allies' intelligence report should be dragged through the streets naked.


Government should limit itself to the powers named in the Constitution, which include banning Second Amendment rights and shopping the courts for judges sympathetic to causes that wouldn't pass in any legislature.


"The People" in the First Amendment means The People; "the People" in the Fourth Amendment means The People; "the People" in the Ninth Amendment means The People; "the People" in the Tenth Amendment means The People; but "the People" in the Second Amendment (ratified in 1791) means the National Guard (created by an Act of Congress in 1903).


You support a woman's "right to choose" to kill her unborn child, but don't believe that same woman is competent enough to homeschool the children she bears.


Proven draft-dodging is irrelevant, but baseless claims of AWOL status is crucial to national security.


Threatening to boycott Dr. Laura's and Rush Limbaugh's advertisers is exercising Freedom of Speech, but threatening to boycott CBS's "The Reagans" and Liberal actors over their asinine anti-American remarks is censorship and McCarthyist blacklisting.

sharpie
Apr 25 2006 02:52 PM

]John Lott's research on how gun ownership reduces crime is junk science, but Michael Bellesiles is still an authority on why gun control is good (even though he was forced to resign from Emory due to research misconduct over his book "Arming America").


Getting into some kind of obscure turf here (and very tortured sentence structure).

metsmarathon
Apr 25 2006 02:53 PM

its amazing how many of the points in both posts are equally damning, or illustrative of hypocrasy, if they are turned around.

its also disappointing to me that "republicans" would think "democrats" to be awful, and vice versa, as political discourse in this country has essentially devolved into hate- and fear-based ranting.

no "conservatives" have good ideas, or even good motives, as do not "liberals", depending on who you ask.

each side is viewed by the other as having no motive further than teh absolute destruction of american values as "we" see them.

it sickens me that thoughtful and meaningful debate, with the goal of arriving at a consensus or shared position, is largely dead in national politics.

or at the very least on teh talk radio shows that drive it.

sharpie
Apr 25 2006 02:59 PM

what marathon said.

Hillbilly
Apr 25 2006 03:00 PM

metsmarathon wrote:
its amazing how many of the points in both posts are equally damning, or illustrative of hypocrasy, if they are turned around.

its also disappointing to me that "republicans" would think "democrats" to be awful, and vice versa, as political discourse in this country has essentially devolved into hate- and fear-based ranting.

no "conservatives" have good ideas, or even good motives, as do not "liberals", depending on who you ask.

each side is viewed by the other as having no motive further than teh absolute destruction of american values as "we" see them.

it sickens me that thoughtful and meaningful debate, with the goal of arriving at a consensus or shared position, is largely dead in national politics.

or at the very least on teh talk radio shows that drive it.


mm gets standing O for that one.

TheOldMole
Apr 27 2006 08:19 AM

"Hypocrisy" is one of the terms most widely used by both sides -- maybe slightly more by conservs -- and it always means the same thing. "I believe A but not B. You believe B but not A. Therefore you're a hypocrite and I'm not."