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What is your view of the Republican Party?
It always shocks me with this in party fighting inside my party. Far right tea party types think that the Republicans are Democrat lite. Liberals think that Republicans are radical extremist racists...
What is your view of the Republican Party?
Actual conservatism is not a bad thing, and I agree with much of the philosophical concepts of being conservative. The problem is the Republican Party is not conservative, nor are they rational. Republicans support many big government concepts and actively attempt to change laws to support big government. This is the opposite of conservatism. The Tea Party, as it currently exists in the national political landscape, tends to attract lunatics of the worst kind, who also want to change America, by basically gutting her of so many of the things which make her great.It always shocks me with this in party fighting inside my party. Far right tea party types think that the Republicans are Democrat lite. Liberals think that Republicans are radical extremist racists...
What is your view of the Republican Party?
What is your view of the Republican Party?
It always shocks me with this in party fighting inside my party. Far right tea party types think that the Republicans are Democrat lite. Liberals think that Republicans are radical extremist racists...
What is your view of the Republican Party?
I'd like to say they're the financially responsible party that attempts to push their religion into every facet of our lives and loves to discriminate every chance they get. But they aren't even financially responsible anymore so I can't say that.
True...however not ALL Republicans are like that. Just most. We need to stop talking about parties as a single entity. Saying all Republicans are religious(I am not) is like saying all Democrats are statists and irresponsible with money(I have a democratic friend who is a fiscal conservative but he is a social liberal).
I'm talking about the party, the platform, and the main bulk of the politicians. Just peruse through their official platform on the GOP website and it's all pretty clear.
It always shocks me with this in party fighting inside my party. Far right tea party types think that the Republicans are Democrat lite. Liberals think that Republicans are radical extremist racists...
What is your view of the Republican Party?
It always shocks me with this in party fighting inside my party. Far right tea party types think that the Republicans are Democrat lite. Liberals think that Republicans are radical extremist racists...
What is your view of the Republican Party?
I'm talking about the party, the platform, and the main bulk of the politicians. Just peruse through their official platform on the GOP website and it's all pretty clear.
Economy
We believe in the power and opportunity of America’s free-market economy. We believe in the importance of sensible business regulations that promote confidence in our economy among consumers, entrepreneurs and businesses alike. We oppose interventionist policies that put the federal government in control of industry and allow it to pick winners and losers in the marketplace.
National Defense
President Ronald Reagan’s approach to America’s national defense, which successfully confronted the Soviet Union and ended the Cold War, is as essential today as it was then: Peace through strength — an enduring peace, based on freedom and the will to defend it. Today, it requires defending America’s homeland, including remaining vigilant in confronting global terrorism, maintaining a robust defense against the threats arising from nuclear proliferation, including a strong ballistic missile defense for America and our allies, and promoting an effective, capable intelligence community. It requires a full commitment to America’s Armed Forces to ensure they are modern, agile and adaptable to the unpredictable range of challenges in the years ahead. And it requires a sustained international effort, which complements our military activities, to develop and maintain alliances and relationships that will lead to greater peace and stability. While the United States participates in various international organizations which can serve the cause of peace and posterity, they must never substitute for principled American leadership nor prevent America from joining other democracies to protect our vital national interests....
republican party is more liberal than the democratic party on most issues except wedge issues,of course in this world if you conservative on everything but support gay marriage you count as uber liberal,or if you support social programs but believe in god and thank him during a speach your ultra die hard conservative.
in reality,the republicans are very liberal,only being conservative on a few wedge issues to keep voters excited.in the last election,people kept claiming romney lost because he was too conservative,but in reality he was left of obama just by rviewing his history.as of 2013 conservatives still heavily outnumber liberals,and moderates are second place to conservatives barely,so to say republicans lose because they are too conservative is absurd,they lose because they try to run on wedge issues while trying to be as liberalas democrats,while at the same time losing the largest base in americas support.
It's mixed,because unlike the Democrats who are pretty much all the same in ideology,their are many differences. You have the "moderates"like McCain,Graham,Ayotte,Grassley,Hatch. Libertarians like Paul,Cruz and Mike Lee. Across the board Reagan conservatives like Johnson,Coburn,Sessions.
The fact that people see the party as a single entity is as false as it is communistic.
There are fundamentally two kinds of Republican voters I detest:
1. Southern conservatives who seek to force national conformity to their regional peculiarities. Mostly they are populist social conservatives who don't mind pork barrel spending (see: Haley Barbour or Mike Huckabee), but occasionally you'll find a pretend-libertarian thrown into the mix who just so happens to be Statist on social issues while his Friedmanite friends look the other way (Ted Cruz).
2. Northern ethnic social conservatives, usually of the Catholic persuasion (Rick Santorum) who are unabashedly Big Government on economic issues - see Saintly Rick's shepherding of Bush II's anti-Chinese steel tariffs through the Senate in 2006. These are "Reagan Democrats".
Give me a Gary Johnson or a Jon Huntsman - more in touch by far with classical Northern Republicanism - and I will vote for them in every election.
What is your view of the Republican Party?
The GOP is an extremely diverse party. You'll find true conservatives, moderate conservatives, moderates and even neoconservatives who are actually liberals. The problem is, no one has been in control of the GOP since 2008 after the neconservatives lost control of the GOP.
Unlike the Democrat Party that is made up of every radical loony special interest group there is, where everyone is in lockstep. The Democrat's rule is simple, that we will support your radical agenda as long as you support our radical agenda no matter how loony and un-American it is.
The GOP is an extremely diverse party. You'll find true conservatives, moderate conservatives, moderates and even neoconservatives who are actually liberals. The problem is, no one has been in control of the GOP since 2008 after the neconservatives lost control of the GOP.
Unlike the Democrat Party that is made up of every radical loony special interest group there is, where everyone is in lockstep. The Democrat's rule is simple, that we will support your radical agenda as long as you support our radical agenda no matter how loony and un-American it is.
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