I knew this 90 year old man at the time Raygun was prez. I was

[happydreams]

living in the DC area doing odd jobs when not on the road homeless shaking off the hauntings of military service during the Vietnam Era. He said very little then one day he looked me squarely in the eye across the fence and said. "Republicans have never done anything for the working man".

Since then I have never found anything to refute that statement. Reagan was just getting started and we now have his legacy to reflect on. It is true Repukes have never done anything for working people, they are by and for big business and any of them who try to say otherwise are liars. The neo-con is a more virulent strain of Republican that means to enslave people body and soul.

[Lex]

1. It's true. And they've never moved the country forward at all.

All of their "ideas" run the country right into the ditch, every time.

[firedupdem]

2. They don't care about people at all...bigoted, nasty, liars, war mongers,

race baiter's. I don't understand why anybody would even consider voting them back in office. Look at the convention? Was that group a true representation of the United States?

[nichomachus]

3. I have a friend

who is a millionaire. He made the money the old fashioned way -- he started a company and worked his ass off. Because he wanted tax breaks, etc., he joined the GOP. One day, I was talking to him and he mentioned working for a Democrat. I told him that was strange because I thought he was a Republican.

"I was," he said, "but then one day it just dawned on me that, based on what I've seen, Republicans in general just aren't very nice people." So, he quit the party.

[bean fidhleir]

4. That was approximately Arianna Huffington's experience, too

Being a religious person and believing GOP pious cant about being "good Christians", she went around trying to collect for charity. But -amazingly- she found the wealthy, big donors to the GOP were completely uninterested in donating to charity or anything else not of benefit to them them them.

That's when the penny dropped for her and she bailed.

[happydreams]

5. Sorry I couldn't get back to this topic