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Originally Posted by California Tanker
I'm surprised by the use of the term 'Hollywood Liberal' though I'm not sure such a thing doesn't exist.
Otherwise, what's wrong with it?
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Glad you asked that question, I feel like a rant. I could go on for quite a while on this, so I'll try to keep it short.
First of all, I think the idea that rich, self-serving fundamentalists are "grassroots" is totally removed from reality. I could give a lot of generalities about moral-superiority and fear-mongering, instead let me address the questions one-at-a-time.
1.) Why can I only select three things that are important to me? And I love the order of their list, it puts "Moral and ethics in government" at the very bottom. Go down the list and ask yourself "What have the Republicans done for this issue".
Keeping taxes low: This is the only one of the answers that you could possibly argue that the Republicans have accomplished. However, most of the tax breaks were for rich people, and even if my taxes are less my, bottom line has been significantly reduced during this administration, due to out of control health care and fuel costs.
Immigration & border security: Illegal immigration is at an all time high, and it has been recently proven that radioactive material can easily pass border securty.
Winning the War On Terror: Notice they didn't say "Fighting the War on Terror". IMO this administration has done more to strengthen and further the cause of the terrorists. Bin Laden is still at large, Iraq is plunging into civil war, we have isolated ourselves from a large portion of the world. If that's "winning", monkey's are going to start flying out of my ass.
Growing Our Economy: Please, don't even get me started.
Improving Education: And how are they doing that? By introducing religion into the classroom, and removing science?
Increasing access to affordable health care: I was just reading today that the number of uninsured Americans has nearly doubled in the last five years. My insuance premiums have gone up 600% in the same amount of time.
Protecting Social Security: Uhhh.... didn't Bush want to privatize this? Not exactly protecting it.
Energy independence: We've made giant leaps forward in this area. Wait... no we haven't, we're more dependent than ever. Gas has gone up 300% in the last five years, but I'm sure that Bush being an oil man has nothing to do with it.
Appointing qualified judges: Like Bushes neo-con, sycophant personal lawyer?
Strengthening marriage and the family: C'mon. We know exactly what is being said here. "Let's keep them gays from gettin hitched".
Morals and ethics in government:
This obviously hasn't been a very high priority so far.
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To insure America continues to stand united and strong in fighting the War on Terror. (why is War on Terror capitalized?)
United and strong, hmmm.... I guess we are united as long as you ignore half the people in this country (probably more than half by now). And I guess we are strong as long as you forget about all our weaknesses.
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To help President Bush enact his reform agenda for America.
Here's a clip from a progress report:
"I am happy to report that an enormous amount of rapid progress on this reform agenda has been made, especially in the last year and a half. The key reforms that have been implemented are:
• collective action clauses in external sovereign bonds;
• creation of clear limits and criteria for exceptional borrowing from the IMF;
• use of grants in partial replacement of loans from the World Bank;
• introduction of a system for measuring results at the World Bank;
• a focus on core expertise at the IMF and World Bank with division of labor."
This is stuff that "grassroots" people are going to be happy as hell about.
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To keep Democrat leaders like Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Howard Dean from pushing through their extreme left-wing agenda.
This is as opposed to their extreme right-wing agenda. Nothing but divisive fear-mongering.
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To make President Bush's tax cuts permanent and keep our economy growing.
Tax cuts and pork barrell spending are not going to keep our economy growing.
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To uphold our nation's bedrock values.
This is my absolute favorite, moral superiority at it's finest. We all know this means Christian values.
3.) What are you most afraid of? Damn, they cut right to the chase.
Democrats will try to censure or impeach President Bush.
We can only dream! Also very interesting that that answer came first.
Democrats would raise your taxes.
Those damn tax and spend liberals! Isn't this rhetoric a little old?
Democrats would cut and run from the central front in the War on Terror.
Of course, this means Iraq. I guess "cut and run" means anyone with an exit strategy.
Democrats would sell out American values to Hollywood liberals
I don't even know what that means. I guess they think it's far better to sell us out to the Chinese, or to the oil cartel.
Democrats would impose government-run health care
The good Lord only meant health care for rich people who can afford it.
There is more to the survey, but I think these questions were the real "meat" of it. I guess my overall point is that all of this is tired old rhetoric, that is has no basis in reality, and shows how these people think that only certain kinds of people count (namely rich, white, heterosexual, protestant Christians). When they say "united", they mean "people doing it our way, without question". When they say "bedrock values", they mean "my values".
I could ramble on for quite a while at this point, but I'll spare you... for now.
The Republicans sent me a letter
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