Reasons I cannot support the Republican Party.

[Crabtownboy]

Here is a pretty good list of why I cannot support the Republican Party.

Today's Republican Party has sold out to the wealthy elite, and only cares about helping the rich get richer.

They take millions of dollars in donations from lobbyists and mega-donors, all the while corrupting our democracy and electoral process.

Republicans today are in bed with the likes of Big Oil, ensuring that Big Oil can get even bigger, while our planet slowly gets destroyed.

Republicans today support policies that have destroyed a once flourishing working-class.

Like Scott Walker in Wisconsin, they want to rid the US of the labor unions that helped to build this country and make it great.

Today's Republicans go out of their way to sabotage a sitting president, and deliberately try to sabotage foreign policy and diplomatic efforts.

Today's Republicans don't care if millions of Americans can't get access to lifesaving and affordable health care, and they don't care if millions of Americans are struggling to put food on the table each and every night.

Today's Republicans don't care if our bridges are crumbling, our roads buckling, or our electrical grids failing.

They don't care if more Americans are in debt than ever before or if college education in our country is becoming a luxury that only the wealthy elite can afford.

While the Republican Party may have started out with some progressivism in its blood, today all that party cares about is money, big business and serving the needs of the wealthy elite.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/29620-is-it-time-to-disband-the-republican-party

 

[Zaac]

My list includes two :

1. Mitt Romney
2. Jesus Christ

I don't trust any party to do what's in the best interest of people when they nominate for the highest office in the land someone who readily rejects Jesus Christ.

It speaks to an undergirding of wickedness for me.

My Democrat list also includes two:

1. Harry Reid
2. Nancy Pelosi

Harry Reid for the same reason as Mitt Romney and Nancy Pelosi because she's just about the most wicked woman alive today.

They too speak of an undergirding of wickedness in the Democrat Party.

 

[carpro]

Here is a pretty good list of why I cannot support the Republican Party.

What a load of horse poop!

There is only one reason I can't support the Republican Party...the party leaders are all gutless cowards.

 

[Revmitchell]

Today's Republican Party has sold out to the wealthy elite, and only cares about helping the rich get richer.

Uh the Democrat party is as beholden to the rich as anyone else.

They take millions of dollars in donations from lobbyists and mega-donors, all the while corrupting our democracy and electoral process.

Ditto for the Democrats

Republicans today are in bed with the likes of Big Oil, ensuring that Big Oil can get even bigger, while our planet slowly gets destroyed.

This is just a flat out lie.

Republicans today support policies that have destroyed a once flourishing working-class.

Really? what are they? The Dems held the whitehouse and both houses of congress. What did they do during that tenure?

Like Scott Walker in Wisconsin, they want to rid the US of the labor unions that helped to build this country and make it great.

Nope. they want to get the grip from around the necks of the working class. Unions are no longer for the workers, they are a political tool for Democrat power.

Today's Republicans go out of their way to sabotage a sitting president, and deliberately try to sabotage foreign policy and diplomatic efforts.

When the sitting President is making a huge mistake that puts the world in jeopardy that is exactly what they should do.

Today's Republicans don't care if millions of Americans can't get access to lifesaving and affordable health care, and they don't care if millions of Americans are struggling to put food on the table each and every night.

This is a lie.

Today's Republicans don't care if our bridges are crumbling, our roads buckling, or our electrical grids failing.

Obama got all kinds of money for "shovel ready" projects. What happened to it. This is nothing but a ploy to pass more socialist garbage.

They don't care if more Americans are in debt than ever before or if college education in our country is becoming a luxury that only the wealthy elite can afford.

Debt? Uh the biggesst spender is Obama

While the Republican Party may have started out with some progressivism in its blood, today all that party cares about is money, big business and serving the needs of the wealthy elite.

Good, if the progressivism is weeded out then amen! That is in fact what this tirade is about. Republicans are not liberal enough. I say bon voyage. Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord spit ya.


Oh and take a long walk off a short pier while your at it.

 

[InTheLight]

Today's Republican Party has sold out to the wealthy elite, and only cares about helping the rich get richer.

They take millions of dollars in donations from lobbyists and mega-donors, all the while corrupting our democracy and electoral process.

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

Here is a pretty good list of why I cannot support the Republican Party.

so what is your alternative.....and please don't tell me its the Democrats.....not if your discerning as you imply you are.

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

What a load of horse poop!

There is only one reason I can't support the Republican Party...the party leaders are all gutless cowards.

:laugh: brother, you know its a business right?!?

 

[OldRegular]

so what is your alternative.....and please don't tell me its the Democrats.....not if your discerning as you imply you are.

Insisting for years that he is pro-life CTB still supports the democrat party which celebrates, I mean celebrates. the continued slaughter of the unborn. Nothing but sheer hypocrisy!

Furthermore, do you think so highly of yourself that you think any one on this BB cares whether or not you support the Republican Party.

 

[OldRegular]

My list includes two :

1. Mitt Romney
2. Jesus Christ

I don't trust any party to do what's in the best interest of people when they nominate for the highest office in the land someone who readily rejects Jesus Christ.

Romney doesn't reject Jesus Christ, he just does not have an adequate understanding of who Jesus Christ is!

THE DOCTRINE OF JESUS CHRIST:

-- Historic Christianity

Jesus Christ was the virgin born God incarnate who existed in all time with the Father and Holy Spirit in the eternal Trinity. As a man He possessed two natures -- human and divine. He lived a sinless life and willingly died on the cross as a sacrifice for the sin of all humanity. (see John 1:1-18; 8:56-59; Phil. 2:6-11; Col. 1:13-22; Heb.1:3; 13:8)


-- Mormonism

Jesus was the spiritual "first born" Son of God in the preexistence. "Every person who was ever born on earth was our spirit brother or sister in heaven. The first spirit born to our heavenly parents was Jesus Christ, so he is literally our elder brother" (Gospel Principles [GP], p. 11)."And now, verily I say unto you, I was in the beginning with the Father, and am the Firstborn" (D&C 93:21). He is also the "only begotten" physical offspring of God by procreation on earth. "Jesus is the only person on earth to be born of a mortal mother and an immortal father. That is why he is called the Only Begotten Son" (GP, p. 64). His atonement (death and resurrection) provides immortality for all people regardless of their faith. "Christ thus overcame physical death. Because of his atonement, everyone born on this earth will be resurrected ... This condition is called immortality. All people who ever lived will be resurrected, 'both old and young, both bond and free, both male and female, both the wicked and the righteous' (The Book of Mormon [BOM], Alma 11:44)" (GP, p. 74). (See GP, pp. 11, 17-19, 61-77.)

Posted on Dec 6, 2007 on Baptist Press | by Tal Davis
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following information is adapted from the North American Mission Board's www.4truth.net apolgetics website.

 

[OldRegular]

Uh the Democrat party is as beholden to the rich as anyone else.



Ditto for the Democrats



This is just a flat out lie.



Really? what are they? The Dems held the whitehouse and both houses of congress. What did they do during that tenure?



Nope. they want to get the grip from around the necks of the working class. Unions are no longer for the workers, they are a political tool for Democrat power.



When the sitting President is making a huge mistake that puts the world in jeopardy that is exactly what they should do.



This is a lie.



Obama got all kinds of money for "shovel ready" projects. What happened to it. This is nothing but a ploy to pass more socialist garbage.



Debt? Uh the biggesst spender is Obama



Good, if the progressivism is weeded out then amen! That is in fact what this tirade is about. Republicans are not liberal enough. I say bon voyage. Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord spit ya.


Oh and take a long walk off a short pier while your at it.

Very good response to poor Crabbies obsession!

 

[robustheologian]

Here is a pretty good list of why I cannot support the Republican Party.

:thumbs: Yeah choosing between Republican and Democrat is a choice between two evils. The Republican party is just a smidgen too evil for me to support.

 

[church mouse guy]

:thumbs: Yeah choosing between Republican and Democrat is a choice between two evils. The Republican party is just a smidgen too evil for me to support.

Well, you can vote for the squeaky clean Hillary unless you are for the rerun of Gary Johnson? Or do you favor Cherokee Woman?

 

[robustheologian]

Well, you can vote for the squeaky clean Hillary unless you are for the rerun of Gary Johnson?

Is anyone really squeaky clean?

 

[righteousdude2]

Here is a pretty good list of why I cannot support the Republican Party.

Lucky for you we don't need a list for not wanting you in the GOP, ctb. Sorry, Charlie, er, I mean crabby ... GOP wants only the best.

 

[OldRegular]

Lucky for you we don't need a list for not wanting you in the GOP, ctb. Sorry, Charlie, er, I mean crabby ... GOP wants only the best.

Frankly I think his feelings are hurt because he doesn't get an invitation!

 

[church mouse guy]

We can't just let anyone in the GOP. We have to keep up appearances. We already have exceeded our quota of Republicans who belong in the other party, who are on the wrong ticket. For example, all gays belong in the Democrat Party.

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

Insisting for years that he is pro-life CTB still supports the democrat party which celebrates, I mean celebrates. the continued slaughter of the unborn. Nothing but sheer hypocrisy!

Furthermore, do you think so highly of yourself that you think any one on this BB cares whether or not you support the Republican Party.

doubly noted and mourned over:tear: But I'm not endorsing neocons either....the Dick Chenieys of the world we can do without.

 

[Salty]

We can't just let anyone in the GOP. We have to keep up appearances. We already have exceeded our quota of Republicans who belong in the other party, who are on the wrong ticket. For example, all homosesuals belong in the Democrat Party.

(Edited to conform to L.E.F.T.)

And that is a problem with Open primaries.

 

[PreachTony]

Here is a pretty good list of why I cannot support the Republican Party.

Today's Republican Party has sold out to the wealthy elite, and only cares about helping the rich get richer.
They take millions of dollars in donations from lobbyists and mega-donors, all the while corrupting our democracy and electoral process.

Riiiight, because the Democrats never take money from donors, eh? Never mind that most of Hollywood and the news media is liberal.

Republicans today are in bed with the likes of Big Oil, ensuring that Big Oil can get even bigger, while our planet slowly gets destroyed.

And your proof is what? The planet has been warming and cooling for thousands of years, yet suddenly it has to be the fault of humanity?

Republicans today support policies that have destroyed a once flourishing working-class.

And which policies are those? You mean like the policy that says if you cannot afford insurance we will require you to purchase insurance, and then fine you for not being able to afford insurance? That policy?

Like Scott Walker in Wisconsin, they want to rid the US of the labor unions that helped to build this country and make it great.

There was a time when labor unions were a big help, but that time is passed. Unions now are, by and large, myrmidons to the Democrats. They don't like it when someone can work without being forced by law to give part of their wages to the union in order to support political candidates they might not agree with. (As an aside, for all the talk about Democrats being the party of choice, they sure don't want people to choose whether they join a union, or what school their kids go to, or whether or not to own a gun...they only want women to choose whether or not to kill their unborn child.)

Today's Republicans go out of their way to sabotage a sitting president, and deliberately try to sabotage foreign policy and diplomatic efforts.

Because the Democrats were the shining example of friendship and peace and love during the 8 years George W Bush was in office, right? By the way, your much vaunted "sitting president" just took to the airwaves to say that ISIS is...you guessed it...George Bush's fault.

Today's Republicans don't care if millions of Americans can't get access to lifesaving and affordable health care, and they don't care if millions of Americans are struggling to put food on the table each and every night.

You mean like the policy that says if you cannot afford insurance we will require you to purchase insurance, and then fine you for not being able to afford insurance?

Today's Republicans don't care if our bridges are crumbling, our roads buckling, or our electrical grids failing.

And, to quote Kanye West: George Bush just doesn't like black people.
Stop playing semantics and rhetoric games. All you're doing is throwing accusations at a wall to see what will stick.

They don't care if more Americans are in debt than ever before or if college education in our country is becoming a luxury that only the wealthy elite can afford.

When George W. Bush took office in 2001, the national debt was $5.7 trillion. In 8 years of Bush Presidency, the national debt went up $4.9 trillion, to $10.6 trillion. Now, in the 6 years Obama has been in office, the debt has gone from $10.6T to $18.1 trillion. That means that in 6 years Obama has added $7.5 trillion to the national debt...but it's those evil Republicans who are to blame, right?

While the Republican Party may have started out with some progressivism in its blood, today all that party cares about is money, big business and serving the needs of the wealthy elite.

The Democrats do the same thing. They cater to the whims of their masters...err...donors. The only thing is, when a Democrat waffles on a topic trying to cater to those donors, the media protects them. When Mitt Romney changed his mind on a topic, he was accused of flip-flopping. When Barack Obama changed his mind, he was touted as having an "evolving opinion."

 

[OldRegular]

(Edited to conform to L.E.F.T.)

And that is a problem with Open primaries.

I agree. In SC you can only vote in one primary! So they are open in a way!