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Originally Posted by GrantMercury
There are a few reasons:
1. They voted for McCain and Simple Sarah in 2008 and never got over losing - they're holding a grudge.
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2. They make well over $250,000 / year and care only about taxes - not the environment, impending war, equal rights for women, LGBT, SCOTUS appointments, etc.
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3. A steady diet of Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, and 100s of other conservatives in the "liberal" media.
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4. Stone racism.
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Love this picture of Bush... That's damn funny.
Re yours:
1- Losing in politics happens. Anyone that thought McCain was going to beat any Democrat challenger was delusional. After 8 years, it's tough to get the incumbent party back in, but Bush had major negatives occurring at that time. It would not have mattered who the GOP put up; they had about a 5% chance of actually winning.
2 - I do care about taxes... hell yeah I do. I want to pay as little as possible and want to earn as much as possible. That's the American way as far as I am concerned. I'm a proponent of fair taxation, not progressive taxation. WTF should the millionth dollar ever be any different than the first dollar earned? That's just legalized theft by the government in my opinion. I worked hard in school, I studied, I did all those things I needed to in order to succeed. Life sucks, but it doesn't work out for everyone. What a great incentive to the next generation to consider succeeding a worthy goal.... .but that's not the way it's currently structured. You get legally "raped" by the establishment in respect to the more money you earn.
re: the environment, equal rights for women, impending war, LGBT, SCOTUS, etc. It's always amazing to me that people are either "right" or "left". No one identifies in the middle, which is where I think 80% of Americans minds are on most things.
Environment - I was a Boy Scout; I probably care about the environment more than most, but I'm not going to be blackmailed into a new viewpoint because of scare tactics. There's ways to accomplish this without attacking everyone.
Equal rights for women - stop placating to groups. Stop women's rights, stop black equality, stop gay equality... blah blah blah. Be American, be equal. Stop thinking we can legislate decency and equality. Teach people to like each other and stop making/allowing groups to segregate. NAACP anyone? LGBT anyone? NOW? KKK? How bout all these groups are helping to perpetuate problems rather than solve them???
LGBT - I love em in porn. I don't think they deserve a political place any more than White Males do as a class. You notice that we can't/won't allow White Males a separate class, but everyone just assumes it's there. White Males are rapidly becoming a very oppressed class (IMO, but I'm sure plenty would disagree and say they deserve it).
SCOTUS - sorry, I feel more conservative appointments are better than liberal appointments. I'd prefer a conservative president have the ability to make those appointments.
3 - Conservative talking heads. Sometimes they say things that are very common sense, other times, it's party line talk. No different than Rachel Maddow, Keith Olberman, Chris Matthews on the other side.
4 - Stone cold racism? Please. Not every conservative wants Obama out of office because he's black. The overwhelming majority want him out of office because he's extremely Liberal. He just happens to have dark skin. If Hillary were President, would that make everyone sexist if they wanted her out? It would be the same thing, except she would happen to be a woman. Stop blaming something convenient. It's merely political and not racial.
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Originally Posted by DavieVegas
Yup, time for a new president. Anyone is better then OBAMA. In all honesty, our best president as far as I can remember has been clinton. BEST economic president In my lifetime. OBAMA, jas not done shit to better this country and he turned it into a socialistic country. Not what we as americans need.
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Clinton did plenty that fucked up the country as did Bush, as did Bush Sr. as did Reagan and Carter, etc. Too many special interests use the President and his powers... there's certainly got to be a better way than things have been happening.