A newbie has a question ...

[Scuba]

[gopiscrap]

1. yup...makes no sense, does it?

[kardonb]

42. no sense

Republicans are FOR : ruining this nation , and taking us back to the Middle Ages !

[ck4829]

2. The newbie is learning fast. K&R.

[yuiyoshida]

83. Agreed!!

[Phillyindy]

3. It's easier to...

...list what they are for.

Funneling all money and power to the owners. Period. You will never find a Republican cause that does not/would not accomplish this. Excluding social issues like gays and abortion of course meant to draw in the ignorant unwashed masses.

[BillStein]

4. He forgot the most important thing

They're also for getting guv'ment out of our lives

[hue]

13. You speak as a man. Women; "Except a probe up our vaginas."

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

63. Naw! They want government IN our lives when it comes to my vagina...

Or, profiling my black ass and putting it in jail, the military industrial complex, the prison industrial complex, the drug war, reducing regulations on carbon emissions, regulating what I watch on TV, what I read on the Internets, in libraries, in school textbooks, who I vote for, where I was born, etc.

They otherwise hate government except for when it comes to what THEY define as morality.

[jmowreader]

84. The most hilarious diametric opposition in history

is the right wing's belief that government should be smaller but abortion should be illegal.

We've got a good case study for an abortion ban: Ceaucescu's Romania. During the period when Decree 770 was in effect, the division of the Romanian state security service charged with enforcing the decree was the largest employer in Romania. There is no reason to doubt the US would be in the same situation if we tried that here.

[Fumesucker]

76. Nicely played, sir

[SummerSnow]

5. You are so correct.Welcome to DU!

[oberliner]

6. This is ridiculous and counter-productive

To say that Republicans are "against children eating" plays into the cartoonish stereotypes of Democrats played up by the RW.

[Scuba]

7. Nah. It's true.

[oberliner]

12. Come on now

Take out Republicans being against education, science, and children eating and then maybe the rest is OK.

Or change Republicans to a more specific sub-group.

Otherwise I think it's not helpful.

[Scuba]

17. Punishing the weak is Republican stock in trade. Their base loves that red meat.

Go to the Milwaukee Urinal / Sentinel blogs and look at the cheering for children being denied food stamps.

As for science and education, it's hard to believe you've been here long enough to post 23,000 times and not learned of the Republican disdain for these topics.

[oberliner]

21. They like charter schools

If it said they were against public education, then I would agree with that.

[truebluegreen]

25. They like charter schools better than public schools (funneling public $ into private pockets)

but what they really like is homeschoolin', and they positively hate science, which has an inconvenient liberal bias.

[bobduca]

33. They like charter schools because the "GOVT IS THE PROBLEM"

Saint Ronnie told em so!

[truebluegreen]

37. That too.

[Mr.Bill]

68. And Ronnie should know

because he was in charge of it.

[oberliner]

55. Do you have any Republicans in your family?

Or amongst your friends in real life?

[truebluegreen]

62. Yes I do.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

53. Not because it might be education. Becaue someone can profit from it, regardless of

the crappy job they do supposedly providing education.

[oberliner]

56. It seems like a cartoonish caricature

That's all I'm saying.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

58. And they are deserving of it.

[warrant46]

22. And Thugs like Charley Sikes

[hue]

18. Teaching that our planet is 6000 yrs old & no evolution is totally against science.

RW christians are against vaccinations. Their ministers are almost always men....

[oberliner]

23. Lots of Democrats believe those things too

Ditto for vaccinations.

[lunatica]

35. Please name some

[oberliner]

45. Democrats who are also believing Christians?

You really can't name any?

[lunatica]

47. Name Democrats who believe the same thing Republicans do

Nice try though.

[oberliner]

48. I said that there are Democrats who believe the world is 6000 years old

Also that some are against vaccinations.

Would you disagree with that?

[lunatica]

49. Yes I would disagree

Name one.

[oberliner]

50. Al Sharpton?

Watch this:

http://fora.tv/2007/05/07/Al_Sharpton_and_Christopher_Hitchens#fullprogram

[lunatica]

51. What does that have to do with creation being only 6000 years old?

Or Republicans hating on poor children to the point of taking food away from them. Or Climate Change?

But keep muddying the issue.

[oberliner]

54. He says he believes the Bible is the word of God

And that God is infallible.

[immoderate]

66. Sharpton is not a young earth creationist.

I mostly can't stand him, but I wouldn't libel him like that.

--imm

[oberliner]

70. No one said he is

There is no libeling going on. Everything I claimed, he has actually said. Namely that he believes the Bible is the word of God.

I put a question mark after his name with respect to what he might believe about when the earth was created.

Do you have evidence that demonstrates he does not believe the events described in the Bible are not true?

[immoderate]

80. OK, I see what you did there.

Was it worth it?

--imm

[tavalon]

74. One of these things is not like the other

At all, really.

[annabanana]

65. Ummm, by "believing Christians"

Who are you talking about?... literalist fundamentalists? I believe those Christians are extremely gullible if not completely out of their minds.

[oberliner]

89. Those who believe the Bible to be the word of God

Is that not compatible with being a Democrat? I think that it is.

[PeaceNikki]

19. Right. They're against PUBLIC education, ACTUAL science and, again, POOR children eating.

[PatrynXX]

28. I'd remove the evolution part

but everything else. Evolution is anti religion. and I don't believe in it. whether it's scientifically proven or not. thats what faith is about. whatever your religion. It's possible there is some truth behind it. I just find if your teaching that in schools you'd have to teach about other religions too

[green917]

30. you hit part of the nail on the head

when you refer to science that is supported by reams of recorded, peer reviewed data going back for centuries as " another religion", you will lose every rational thinking person in the discussion! evolutionary science does not have to be taken on faith because we can see its effects in the world around us, as opposed to your religion (1 of many) that has no verifiable evidence that the protagonist of said religion even exists much less needing to accept all of the centuries of dogma and misogyny. put more simply, science is not religion and religion is not science and, forgive me, but I don't want religion taught in my science classes any more than you probably want evolutionary science taught in your church on Sunday!

[LondonReign2]

44. "I just find if your teaching that in schools you'd have to teach about other religions too"

Um, no.

Evolution is part of science. Religion is religion.

Why does teaching science mean you also have to teach religion?

[Kermitt Gribble]

64. “The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

[Enthusiast]

85. Plus one................nt

[Curmudgeoness]

71. (Eyebrows rising so high I have no forehead)

I am having trouble keeping my chin from hitting the floor. Either you forgot the smilie, or I am just blown away with the line "whether it's scientifically proven or not". If it is proven, how can you not believe it?

And evolution is the farthest thing from a religion as you can get.

Of course it is possible that there is truth behind it.....and almost every person I know who does not believe in evolution doesn't have a problem with super-bugs (microbes that keep changing to be drug resistant or more virulent). Well, that is evolution.

[Fla Dem]

41. As long as moderate Republicans vote for those extreme RWer's that do support all

those positions, they can be lumped into the group. Extreme Republicans are voted into state legislatures, governorships, congress and the senate by all Republicans.

after 10 years, my 3000th post.

[LondonReign2]

43. You don't think Republicans are against education and science?

Really?

[oberliner]

46. I don't think all of them are

I'm not sure what it means to be "against science" but I know people who are Republicans who are pretty aok with science.

And Republicans are against public education for the most part, but not education as a general concept.

[Enthusiast]

86. They are against core science, like evolution and climate science.

They. Are. Pathetic.

Evolution is the very foundation of the modern biological sciences, including medicine.

[PeaceNikki]

8. You're right... it should say "Republicans are against POOR children eating"

[FailureToCommunicate]

14. +1

[Gidney N Cloyd]

15. They're fine with children eating, just not with assisting them to eat. Let Ken Blackwell clarify:

There’s “nothing more Christian” than the massive food stamp cuts passed last week by House Republicans, said a conservative activist.

Ken Blackwell, a senior fellow for the Family Research Council, told the Christian Post on Saturday that welfare programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program bred dependency.

The former Ohio secretary of state and failed 2006 gubernatorial candidate said he favored empowering the poor and working poor to become self-sufficient, although the story does not quote any specific plans suggested by Blackwell for doing this.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/24/family-research-council-nothing-more-christian-than-food-stamp-cuts/

[Jackpine Radical]

26. Silly--you empower people by starving them.

"empowering the poor and working poor to become self-sufficient, although the story does not quote any specific plans suggested by Blackwell for doing this."

[7962]

16. Agreed. Theres plenty of it already out there. Not that the gop doesnt have their own versions.nt

[oberliner]

57. Thanks!

I appreciate this comment very much.

[brush]

27. Not so fast. Against eating children is the only thing they've got going for them. nt

[lastlib]

39. I'm not sure they don't FAVOR eating children.......!

virtually every evil I can think of can probably be linked to Repuglycanism..

[cui bono]

52. Well I've never heard a Republican advocate eating children.

I mean really, that's taking it too far!

[randr]

61. As a tree hugger--

the beloved title cartoonishly bestowed upon me--- I think Republicans would be proud to seen as deniers of food to children. Someone needs to be responsible for showing children that we all work for our money. It is because Democrats fail to point out the obvious stereotypes that are so fitting to Republicans that the Republicans still hide behind their curtains and have such uncertainty to who they really are.

[baldguy]

75. And who do you think are the single biggest beneficiaries of food stamps?

Children.

And can you guess who wants to cut $40 billion from the program?

[NewJeffCT]

92. Not too far off, though

[Hayabusa]

9. Answer: Pretty much, yeah.

[NealK]

10. Yup.

[eggplant]

11. Who would be for eating children? n/t

[bobduca]

34. Big Bad Wolf

[DCBob]

20. A bit over the top but basically correct..

especially regarding hard core conservatives.

[lpbk2713]

24. They don't always win at the ballot box.

Some times the dysfunctional courts give it to them and
some times they just outright steal the election. As was
the case of the Y2K selection in Florida.

[DGeorge]

29. Yep. He got it right.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

31. Do the math yourself....

First time voters in the next election will have been born during Clinton's SECOND term.

They spent their childhood hearing about Dubya and how crooked Republicans are and saw the clown show that is the Tea Party and the resurgence of racism.

Some of them know full well that the ONLY reason America has fallen behind is because of idiots wanting to keep the 20th century alive.

Those who remember the 50's as a teen are dropping like flies. It won't be too long until we hear about the last surviving veteran of WWII.

[Enthusiast]

87. Sheeeeit.

They are striving to revive the 19th Century.

[Cryptoad]

32. The GOP is defined by what it is against!

Not what it is for!
nice post

[tofuandbeer]

36. I think this is great! Thanks for posting!

[Jenoch]

38. Uhm, I could be mistaken, but I don't think Republicans are against global warming.

[nxylas]

40. Good catch

It should probably read "admitting the existence of global warming" or something to that effect.

[SomethingFishy]

77. Yeah and they aren't "against" global warming either

the bottom few were poorly worded...


But.. unlike some on here I think every one fits the republicans to a "T".

[Enthusiast]

88. They say, "Global warming is a hoax, but

if it actually does exist, it will be a good thing."

[judesedit]

59. I'm proud of you, Scuba. You caught on early. Stay with it. Educate others. Run for office. VOTE!

[randr]

60. Yep--and thats just the short list

[TxDemChem]

67. Yep!

That sums it up.

[SaveAmerica]

69. I think they are "for" Global Warming based on tax incentives

for purchase of gas guzzlers and other laws, rules and things they've done that increases Global Warming.

[Tigress DEM]

72. Yes, and "Hands off my GUN, What are you doing with your vagina?" nt

[tavalon]

73. I'm not new to politics and I don't understand the answer to your question.

Low information voters is the best I can come up with, but 47% who voted for President, voted for Romney. We must live in a country of political imbeciles.

[Scurrilous]

78. K & R

[RKP5637]

79. Yep, the republicans want you to live a wretched life, be miserable, sick, unemployed

and uneducated, live a bunch of falsehoods and to hurry up and die as painfully as possible.

[Iliyah]

82. And thats how they can control the masses

Keep the masses less and or/not educated with facts, instill fear, unhealthy with no means of help except religion, crumbs given to them by the 1%ers and there you have it, control.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

81. Not only do "people still vote for them," but Obama likes having some in high-level positions.

This is very puzzling for those of us who voted for Obama and other Democrats because we wanted to have Democrats instead of Republicans.

What course should we take?

If Obama favors high-level Republicans, shouldn't we follow our leader and do so as well?

Or are we not supposed to notice?

[B Calm]

90. People vote republican to entertain the rich.

[Rain Mcloud]

91. I do not understand either

but then i never,ever had a silver spoon.
I tried to understand but then i deluded myself.
Now,i wonder why i ever wanted to understand that for which there can never be a rational let alone humanitarian answer.
I eventually came to the conclusion after wandering the metaphorical wasteland of moral bankruptcy and moral cowardice that the kindest solution would be to have these people(i use the term lightly for the definition does not strictly apply)locked away until the proper medicine can be developed which would cure them of their hatred for humanity.