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Can someone explain what these "Republican" voters want? (Original Post) johnnyrocket Nov 2014 OP
To win. That's it. Nothing else seems to matter. Ed Suspicious Nov 2014 #1
And to hate. AleksS Nov 2014 #4
Adoration of the wealthy, and eternal torment for those who are not. n/t DebJ Nov 2014 #2
I can think of a few maryellen99 Nov 2014 #3
They want fantasy, lies and delusion. Dont call me Shirley Nov 2014 #5
I thought they already had that. kentauros Nov 2014 #9
The party of more. Dont call me Shirley Nov 2014 #14
And even more kentauros Nov 2014 #17
yip, the 1950s the existed only in the movies Johonny Nov 2014 #20
Bend over America Dont call me Shirley Nov 2014 #22
Whiteamerica Tom Ripley Nov 2014 #6
This in a nutshell,it is the only thing that makes any sort of sense. libtodeath Nov 2014 #21
what the tv tells them they want..... nt think Nov 2014 #7
and don't forget their pastor nt maryellen99 Nov 2014 #15
Whiny, low-information protest vote. BayouBengal07 Nov 2014 #8
Theocracy, and they want it now. nt longship Nov 2014 #10
My guess Man from Pickens Nov 2014 #11
Guns, Benghazi, Ebola freak outs, and the freedom to be slaves to corporations Bjorn Against Nov 2014 #12
They want minorities, single moms, pregnant women, the homeless, veterans, etc.... ScreamingMeemie Nov 2014 #13
I was thinking on the part about it "happening to them" kentauros Nov 2014 #19
They want more deregulation so we can have another financial meltdown. Dumb shits still_one Nov 2014 #16
Oh I don't know KittyKat13 Nov 2014 #18
More minimum wage jobs, and no raising of the minimum wage. lovemydog Nov 2014 #23
Every Republican I have know votes on taxes. gvstn Nov 2014 #24
They want their guns and no gays and women to be "in their place" Marrah_G Nov 2014 #25
But no one ever takes their precious guns, gay people marry other gay nc4bo Nov 2014 #28
They want OxyRush to be proud of them. lpbk2713 Nov 2014 #26
No bills or taxes, guns, big trucks that bellow smoke Rex Nov 2014 #27

maryellen99

(3,788 posts)
3. I can think of a few
Tue Nov 4, 2014, 11:55 PM
Nov 2014

Impeachment,fear of ISIS and Ebola.and they want Obamacare,Soc Security,and Medicare ended.

Johonny

(20,841 posts)
20. yip, the 1950s the existed only in the movies
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 12:25 AM
Nov 2014

and on TV shows. Eisenhower's American where white man was king and woman and blacks knew their place. That's what they think they'll get. All they'll really get is * by their Republican candidates that don't give a shit about them, but it never seems to stop them from voting for them over and over. You'd laugh at them, but they're really a cry.

BayouBengal07

(1,486 posts)
8. Whiny, low-information protest vote.
Tue Nov 4, 2014, 11:57 PM
Nov 2014

"We gave the president six years and even though the economy is improving and we got out of Iraq like we voted for, the media told me to be afraid of ISIS and ebola and the fact that Putin makes Obama look like a pansy and my basic lack of economics knowledge means the economy is crappy and it must be because Democrats raised taxes on businesses thanks to Obamacare, and all the illegals he let in to take the jobs."

ScreamingMeemie

(68,918 posts)
13. They want minorities, single moms, pregnant women, the homeless, veterans, etc....
Tue Nov 4, 2014, 11:59 PM
Nov 2014

to SUFFER! Until it happens to them.

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
19. I was thinking on the part about it "happening to them"
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 12:03 AM
Nov 2014

and realized that no matter how much it may happen to them, their party people will do their best to squirm out of being responsible, even when the voting record shows what legislation was put into place by the GOP and against their willfully ignorant constituents.

And then those some constituents will believe every word that blames the very existence of Dems around them as the reason why the legislation worked against them and their interests.

Or, that's how I figured they'd reason it

 

KittyKat13

(19 posts)
18. Oh I don't know
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 12:01 AM
Nov 2014

Maybe to take away our right to choose. Put African Americans in chains. Deport all brown skinned people. Let the NRA sell guns in schools. Take rights from people and give them corporations. To ruin our environment and to rape mother earth. Take away healthcare except for the wealthiest 1%.

I just don't believe there are that many of them. I'll bet there is voter fraud in this.

gvstn

(2,805 posts)
24. Every Republican I have know votes on taxes.
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 12:34 AM
Nov 2014

No matter what they say, they think Dems will raise taxes and if they can keep $1 more in their bank account at the end of the year then they will always vote against Dems. The abortion, guns and religious ideas are to rile up the poor people who might not vote Repub without them.

Nuclear waste being dumped a mile down the road--Fuck that!--if I elect a Dem. they will raise my taxes to clean it up. Better to keep my money and move out if necessary. It really is as simple as that from what I read between the lines. No forward thinking about ways to avoid the problems in the first place.

Marrah_G

(28,581 posts)
25. They want their guns and no gays and women to be "in their place"
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 01:05 AM
Nov 2014

They are so fucking stupid they buy the propaganda and vote against their best interests time and time again.

nc4bo

(17,651 posts)
28. But no one ever takes their precious guns, gay people marry other gay
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 01:17 AM
Nov 2014

people big woo! and I'll be doggone if I have to kiss a man's tookus simply because he says so and there are plenty of gals who think the same way.

So what gives?! Has any Dem that you can recall actually said.....No one has ever taken away your guns, now have they? Or, no one is forcing you to have a relationship, marry and raise a family with a gay man or woman, are they? Or, would you want your daughter to be subservient to her husband, even if she risks death by not obliging?

No, we don't talk like that. Maybe it's time we did, especially where the 'CON message is the loudest, the strongest and most preposterous.



I don't even think we can call these people stupid anymore, more like braindead.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
27. No bills or taxes, guns, big trucks that bellow smoke
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 01:09 AM
Nov 2014

no government or if they do have one - that hates itself, they hate government intrusion but spy on their neighbors. They want to split the nation up and declare the Civil War - the War of Northern Aggression, some of them want to bring slavery back, they want to do away with welfare, medicare, everything that saves their asses in a pinch. They say they want to be left alone, but leave them alone and they blow up Federal buildings. They say they want to get Back To the Way it was - 1950s and segregated races.

Basically they want the Rapture and the South to rise again.

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