Republicans are mean people.

[BurtWorm]

Look at the laws they proudly pass: one that punishes people for seeming too Mexican in Arizona, and one that punishes women exercising their right to choose and their doctors in Oklahoma. Republicans don't want people speaking any language other than English, not because they love English (look at how those mean assholes mangle every sentence they try), but because it's the only language they know. They don't want anyone to be given any breaks, or be cut any slack for not having any breaks. They don't want to acknowledge any religious or (heaven forbid!) intellectual heritage in America beside their own. The only freedom they'd die defending is the right to kill anyone trying to grab their guns. Republicans enable mean old sourpusses to boss around people whose freedoms they hate and mean young barracudas who prey on people with few resources.

Republicans are just plain old, mean old motherfuckers.

Mean people suck, therefore Republicans *SUCK!*

[Morning Dew]

1. K&R

But you're far too kind.

[NNN0LHI]

2. Are you sure they are people and not the aliens Stephen Hawking has been warning us about?

They don't seem to have the human traits I am accustomed to.

Don

[AnArmyVeteran]

10. They ARE a life form, but not sure what kind. Certainly not far up the evolutionary ladder.

But that's probably why they don't believe in evolution. It would be admitting they could possibly be a less-than-advanced member of the primate family. They aren't smart enough to be aliens.

BTW, I've searched for Hawking's program but couldn't find it. Anyone know the dates/times it's on?

[csziggy]

14. It's called "Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking"

So could be listed as simply "Into the Universe". Looks like Discovery is airing it Sundays at 9 PM Eastern.

Video of last Sunday's show is online is at http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/stephen-hawkings-universe-fear-the-aliens.html

[ladjf]

3. The apparent "meanness" of Republican thought is a byproduct

of having lived a lives that included almost no enlightenment with regard to their relationships with everything. Their thought processes appear to only include a paucity of variables, a deficiency that causes them to be totally self-centered, a grave error of logic.

[Echo In Light]

4. A key trait seems to be the unabashed glee they take in mocking & trivializing the plight of others

[Forkboy]

5. That was honestly my first political thought ever.

I remember watching the news with my father one night and I asked him why Republicans seem so mean? Even at 10 it was obvious that they were fucksticks.

[Ernesto]

9. Grew up in California....

At about age 10 I spotted Nixon for what he was when he was "holding hands" with Joe McCarthy.

[Hawaii Hiker]

19. I think under Reagan is when the right REALLY turned vile

In the RR era, the religious right was ushered in, and with that came an absolute hatred of poor people, gays (Reagan ignored the AIDS crisis for about 6 years), minorities, & just about anyone who didn't share their views...

[underseasurveyor]

6. Not only are they mean

But they're selfish and greedy and they're chicken-shit winey-ass liars to boot!

[rasputin1952]

26. Toss in Chickenhawks as well...

For all of their neo-con squealing about the military...very few have served.

Some of those from yesteryear that did:

Nixon Lt Cdr in the Navy during WWII

Ike General of the Armies

Reagan Cpt Army Signal Corps (never left Hollywood during service)

Daddy bush Navy (questions about his ditching his crew)

McCain (terrible pilot, POW)

Dole (wounded in action)

Recents:

bush (AWOL from Air National Guard after they instituted drug screening)

(damn, can't think of any others off hand).



Some D's through the years:

JFK Navy

Johnson Navy

Carter Navy

Inoyue Army (Medal of Honor)

J Kerry

Bob Kerry (Medal of Honor)

Truman Army



There are many more, but those that seem to be military hawks, are generally those that never served.

"Celebrities" that love war, but never served:

Limbaugh

Beck

Hannity

O'Reilly

Coulter

Buchanan

Scarborough



Anyone on FOX...especially those airheads on "FOX and Friends"

[havbrush]

33. Rethugs that served in the military

You included Ike (Eisenhower) in there who if around today would probably be a centrist to lib Democrat. Remember he is the one who warned us about the power of the military/industrial complex which is another way of warning us about approaching fascism, the fascism that the Bushes and Rove tried to install. The present rethugs are still trying but they've been marginalized by Dem victories in '06 and '08 and the stark desolation that their policies over the last 30 years, save for the 8 Clinton years, have wrought in the country. We as a country are in sad shape what with all the unemployment, the hugh amounts spent on the wars, the trillions lost during the housing crisis and the billions raked in by the banks from the housing mees who then were then bailed out with taxpayer billions and now refuse to lend it out to help the economy recover, and all the tax cuts for the rich which is one reason we can't have a single-payer health care system like other western democracies. But the sick don't count with the rethugs. The tax rate on the rich during Ike's time, by the way, was 90%, not to your typical present-day rethug liking. Just saying . . .

[Manifestor_of_Light]

35. Eisenhower would be a liberal now.

He called out the military industrial comlex.

He taxed the rich at 92%, and he also said "We have no business getting involved in a land war in Southeast Asia" after the French finally left what was then French Indo-China, now Vietnam.

Quite a prophet.

[SammyWinstonJack]

31. And self-righteous hypocrites too.

:puke:

[Bonhomme Richard]

7. Their leaders are mean. The rank and file are afraid of

their own shadow and their leaders know it. So easy to control.

[Echo In Light]

8. +1

[BlooInBloo]

13. Their rank and file have the benefit of private balloting, and can vote for whomever they want....

They freely and knowing and deliberately choose to vote as they do. Their politicians are nothing more than reflections of them.

[Bonhomme Richard]

24. I understand the rich republican voters because I.....

understand their motivation..pure greed because it puts money in their pockets. The average Joe republicans that consistently votes against his own interest is a very, very paranoid people. I am convinced there is a mental incapacity to filter information and they can be easily manipulated. All you have to do is tell them that someone is trying to take what little they have.

[Sugarcoated]

15. I'm starting to believe

some are mentally ill along with the mean . . . and I'm no joking. The higher up Repub bullies.

[Brewman_Jax]

11. I've yet to meet a nice one

they're just varying levels of mean.

They should eat more fiber.

[OnionPatch]

12. That's always been my main impression of them.

They're just downright mean-spirited. They hate the whole world and everyone in it.

[Sugarcoated]

17. Add intolerant to that list.

Lacking empathy . . . Conservatives Without Conscience

http://www.amazon.com/Conservatives-Without-Conscience-John-Dean/dp/0670037745

[bridgit]

16. Yup. They're pissy & toxic too - plain old mean, pissy, toxic motherfuckers suck!

[Mojeoux]

18. When mean people try to push you around, " stick your courage to the sticking place!"

And don't let them make you lose YOUR temper.:mad:
Nothing pisses off a loud mouth bully like a cool head. :smoke:

With a lost temper
You will lose the argument
Even when correct


Thats why a lot of the RW mean talk is just so much "bla Bla Bla" to us.:puke:

:rofl: :popcorn: :woohoo:

[glinda]

25. They employ the "bully in the playground" tactics and mentality. I suspect that most crimes

of high order such as murder and wife beating are committed by registered Republicans. Couldn't find any research on it though but think that someone should take a look at it.

[caty]

20. The Democrats

are the builders of our country and the rethugs are the spoilers.

[checks-n-balances]

21. And BITTER!

They act like I thought we were taught as children NOT to act: hateful, bully-ish, negative, making life less bearable for those less fortunate...

[jmondine]

22. Of course they're mean. Mean is Macho. Can't let folks think they have a gentle, feminine side.

[Carnage251]

23. K&R

[ShortnFiery]

27. But as some of us can note here, not all *mean people* are republicans.

Sometimes, otherwise nice people can behave mean spirited when figuratively backed into a corner. :shrug:

It's not that easy to over-generalize. But I concur, most people who claim to be republican have this air about them that would indicate they made it where they are ALL BY THEMSELVES. There are also a few conservative democrats who give off similar VIBES.

It's not so simple.

Bummer man. ;) :smoke:

[Echo In Light]

28. Perhaps some conservative types struggle w/self awareness/acknowledgment re overall ideology

Many of the more belligerent, exemplary-of-conservative/rightward-characteristics-and-traits type people I've encountered online, NEVER in person, always insist they're not conservatives/repubs.

Strange, eh?

[ShortnFiery]

30. My whole extended family is mostly a collection of "pull myself up by the bootstraps"

born leaders. Almost 30 years ago - after we were first married, my husband said that I was somewhat of a pushy-broad control freak ... then he met the rest of my family and noted that everyone was either in-charge or attempting to take-over. After that, he has dubbed me, "The DIPLOMAT of our family." Hint: that's not saying much. :silly:

I don't know about religious right wingers, but my experience with secular right wingers is extensive. Believe it or not, when you interact one-on-one, there are many laudatory traits to someone who prides themselves at being "ruggedly individualistic." If you forego the screwed up stereotypes they spew ad nausea, their BEHAVIORS often do not match their rhetoric.

That is, I know some republicans who when it comes down with helping others (those less blessed), their behavior betrays their party affiliation. :shrug:

[raccoon]

29. ITA. They're the kind who always thinks if something bad happened to somebody else, they deserved

it, but if something happened to them or someone close to them, of course that's a horse's ass of a different color.

And they're greedy assholes.

[MrScorpio]

32. Damn Skippy nt

[Ganja Ninja]

34. Yup.

I really don't get the obsession with "english only". Why is someone else speaking a different language such a problem for them? I think it's just another opportunity for them to express their racism. It's just hate hate hate all the time with these people.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

36. This is news to you???

They have hated every immigrant wave whether Chinese, Irish, Italian, Mexican, Jewish, etc.

My folks told me about a couple of Repukes with four names:

"That bastard Richard Nixon" and "That bastard Joe McCarthy".


They lie, cheat and steal and would sell their grandmother for a campaign buck.

This is news?

[greencharlie]

37. How about "people are mean people"?

I see sickening displays of inhumanity from every corner, geographically and politically of this country...

I prefer "mean people suck."