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hiimterry Wrote: Nov 08, 2012 1:11 PM
Your last sentence is very wrong. The culture of ME votes to take from others to enrich themselves (entitlements). The culture of ME votes on the basis of a single social issue to the exclusion of all other issues affecting the long term viability of the nation (gay marriage). The culture of ME votes to extend unfair labor preferences that end up destroying employers (unions). Republicans want freedom for all. Freedom to succeed, freedom to fail. You keep what's yours, I keep what's mine and we both pursue the American dream. That's as far from a culture of ME as one can get.
Steve146 Wrote: Nov 09, 2012 9:50 AM
Look, I have Republican and Libertarian views... and I don't give a hoot whether gays get married.
When you get to abortion, I simply don't believe any woman should get one on the government tab. Is that so hard to understand?
If you're going to be irresponsible, then do it on your own dime.
But I don't see how libs look at aborting a fetus the same way they look at blowing boogers out of their noses. You don't see what's wrong with that outlook?
The fed is not supposed to be what it is today.
Our United States should be just that, a group of sovereign states linked by an agreement called 'limited central government'.
What's happening now won't improve our future, it will take the US into the toilet that is Europe.
hiimterry Wrote: Nov 09, 2012 9:02 AM
Republicans and Democrats alike are going to send this whole country down a rat hole by clinging to those two issues. I know I'm going to be skewered by people on this site for saying it, but abortion and gay marriage are really the least of our worries at this point. When the economy collapses nobody is going to care anymore whether or not that gay couple down the street is "married" or not.
sdoonan Wrote: Nov 08, 2012 1:50 PM
Republicans _don't_ seem to want freedom for each individual to determine the issue of abortion for him- or herself without government intervention or mandate, and don't seem to want the freedom of everyone including gays to marry the person of their choice.

Increasingly, it's seeming like Republicans are "picking and choosing" which "freedom for all" they wish to support.
sdoonan Wrote: Nov 08, 2012 1:49 PM
Republicans _don't_ seem to want freedom for each individual to determine the issue of abortion for him- or herself without government intervention or mandate, and don't seem to want the freedom of everyone including gays to marry the person of their choice.

Increasingly, it's seeming like Republicans are "picking and choosing" which "freedom for all" they wish to support.

I am already reading so many pundits and other talking heads analyzing the disaster that was this year’s elections. I am adding my own ten cents. Here goes:

1. We are outnumbered

We accurately foresaw the enthusiasm, the passion, the commitment, the determination, and the turnout. Married women, men, independents, Catholics, evangelicals – they all went for Romney in percentages as high or higher than the groups which voted for McCain in 2008. It wasn’t enough. What we saw in the election on Tuesday was a tipping point: we are now at a place where there are legitimately fewer Americans who...

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