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Originally posted by dig420
if being Republican had less to do with some macho self-image and more to do with reality you would realize that Republican administrations typically spend MORE than Dems, and they get around raising taxes by borrowing, which forces the NEXT President to raise taxes to pay it back. It happened to Bush I after Reagan, it'll happen to the next President after Bush II.
Any objective observer can see that the Republican Party is basically all about getting people elected regardless of the cost. They have no core issue, they'll expand their campaign to accomodate any disreputable group that will associate with them if they can bring some votes, hence you have the Religious Right and the southern vote, where all they care about is keeping the black man down.
Republicans don't lower taxes. They don't open new markets, they don't remove tariffs, but they can always count on the vote of the less sophisticated half of the country voting on their single issues or thinking that they have to be Republican because they want to be a cowboy just like George Bush.
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I'm not trying to make this personal at all, but if you don't think that the Democrats don't do EXACTLY what you are talking about...
getting people elected regardless of the cost...
no core issue, they'll expand their campaign to accomodate any disreputable group that will associate with them ....
etc, etc, etc....
and I could add to that, that the Dems actually have a vested interest in keeping people down and dependent on goverment hand-outs, since that will keep the people who are dependent voting them in over and over, as well as fostering race problems so that they can scream about them and get votes that way, etc, etc, etc....
If you don't see it, then I believe your view to be VERY myopic.
