Why should we ever vote to put someone who openly hates government in charge of government???

[librechik]

This seems to me like either a big dead end or a big hypocritical lie--

If government goes away, their jobs go away! Does that make sense?

They obviously WANT to have government to control it themselves and send all the (additional and unnecessary) profits to their cronies. This lie about how bad government is is just to drive the prices down. And drive the people away from public solutions.

How do they sell this to the American People? Shouldn't we elect people who actually believe in the public sector and want to improve services instead of deadbeats who want to trash the budget?

Seriously, how do they put that one over without everyone just laughing them out of the room?

I guess they just worked on it and worked on it telling lie after lie until enough people believed the lies.

That's Not Right. How can they defend their behavior (especially after Citizens United) and even call it patriotic? What gall!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. why would we appoint industry people as regulators of the same industry they just left?

Oh, wait, we do that, too.

[canoeist52]

2. And that's the question I can't get conservative voters to answer.

[JoePhilly]

3. I ask my Republican friends that question all the time.

I sometimes phrase it this way ...

"Why would you hire some one to do a job when the person comes straight out and tells you that the job can not be done well, or that the job shouldn't exist at all, or that the job should be made irrelevant?"

As they stutter, I point out that "Republicans claim that the government can't function effectively, and then when they get elected to office, the do absolutely everything in their power to prove it."

[samsingh]

4. that's a very logical question

[JaneQPublic]

5. P.J. O'Rourke quotation

"The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it."

[Initech]

6. I have been pondering that question for a while. Ironic punishment maybe?

[sadbear]

7. For example, Bush made John Bolton U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.

And that worked out swimmingly.

[kctim]

8. Who openly "hates" government?

Other than a few sites catering to right-wing loons and left-wing weasel anarchists, I've never heard a candidate say such a thing.

[librechik]

9. Reagan: Govt isn't the solution. it's the Problem!

and downhill from there, since Reagan set such a low bar. It's the motto of the Repubs--shrink govt down small enough so you can drown it in a bathtub. Kill it, in other words. If you want to be a stickler for the actual "hate" word--learn how to speak dogwhistle. Hatred of government is everywhere in the campaigns. For decades--for example:

"We're on to this gangster government."
-- Minnesota Republican Rep.
Michele Bachmann


"[Barack Obama] has no place in any station of government, and we need to realize that he's an enemy of humanity."
-- Arizona Republican Rep.
Trent Franks

but whatever.

[kctim]

10. Ah

the ol "disagreement with MY opinion equals hate," false argument.

I thought you had facts of someone saying they "hated government," I didn't know you were just talking about differing personal opinions on the size or function of government.

My bad. I should have known this was about exaggerated hysterics in order to stereotype for political points.

but, you know, um, like whatever