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Annces Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-01-06 08:13 PM
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I am an American. I am Not a Republican - Larry Johnson
I once considered myself a Republican. In light of the record of the Bush Administration and the Republican controlled congress, I can no longer claim to be a Republican. Now we have George “AWOL” Bush and his sidekick, Dick “Five-Deferment” Cheney calling Democrats who question their failed Iraq strategy, “cut and runners”.

Ask yourself the following questions and decide, “Are you a Republican?”

If you enjoy shoplifting while working at the White House, you might be a Republican.

If you enjoy soliciting teenagers and children for sex over the internet, you might be a Republican:

If you enjoy sending other people’s children to war while your kids go to college and hang out in bars, you might be a Republican

If you start a war in Iraq while lying to the American people that Saddam was tied to Osama Bin Laden, you might be a Republican.

If you failed to complete your own National Guard service and your Vice President received five deferments to avoid service in Vietnam, but accuse political opponents who challenge your failed foreign policy in Iraq of being cowards, you might be a Republican.

If you call dark skinned people Macacas and Niggers, you might be a Republican.

If you ignore intelligence community warnings that Bin Laden is determined to strike inside the United States, you might be a Republican.

If you follow policies that squander a budget surplus and create an $8.5 trillion dollar budget deficit, you might be a Republican.

If you expose the identity of an undercover CIA officer in charge of tracking down Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, you might be a Republican.

If you believe the President should be entitled to jail, without recourse to Habeus Corpus, anyone he decides is a threat, you might be a Republican.

After careful consideration, I realize that I lack the moral bankruptcy, cowardice, and fiscal recklessness to call my self a Republican. I've decided, I am an American.

http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/09/are_you_a_repub.html



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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-01-06 08:19 PM
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1. How to become a republican:
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nicknameless Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-01-06 09:06 PM
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6. Love that animation :o)
"Magically Religious"

:D
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-01-06 08:34 PM
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2. Ouch, Mr. Johnson!
Just as I can't paint all Muslims as terraists, I can't paint all repugs like this.
However, there's total truth in this that applies to a certain bunch of criminals.
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Spazito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-01-06 08:39 PM
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3. Wow! There was NO holding back on that punch!
Good for you, Mr. Johnson, you nailed it.
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Pachamama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-01-06 09:24 PM
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7. Yes, he did nail it and every Republican needs to ask themselves what
being a Republican means to them and whether they are that or an American.

Hey Spazito! :hi: Hope you Canadians are ready for us immigrants...can we seek political asylum because we live in a nation that tortures???
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Spazito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-01-06 10:09 PM
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8. Hey Pachamama!
Hold off until we get rid of our neocons temporarily installed in government, should happen sometime early next year. Until then, our turd of a Prime Minister is more likely to try and get the same thing here, he is working really hard to become Blair's replacement as bush's poodle.

The good news is he and his neocon party are not gaining support at all and he has ticked off the two provinces he needs to even stay in government!
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-01-06 08:46 PM
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4. Mr. Johnson, you're a true American patriot!
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Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-01-06 08:56 PM
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5. Seriously, why would anyone want to ID with the Republican Party?
Great statement Larry.
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Rocknrule Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-01-06 10:15 PM
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9. Let me add some:
If you think 401K is your mom's bra size, you might be a Republican.
If you learned to put your underwear on yellow in front, brown in back, you might be a Republican.
If you think Jesus was white and American, you might be a Republican.
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