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Republican Party of Death

Chappy said:
The thread really isn't about the death penalty; it's about the Republican debate audiences clearly relishing it, cheering the killing of 234 people by the state; affirming that the state should, "Let 'em die" if an uninsured person should ever need intensive care; booing a governor acting to protect women from preventable life threatening disease; and, now the latest outrage: booing an American soldier serving in Iraq. To me, these G.O.P. audiences are contemptible; I am ashamed to call them fellow Americans:

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Booing our soldiers - what a fantastic group.
 
zgoldsmith23 said:
Booing our soldiers - what a fantastic group.
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Obviously something liberals have never done, right? What a bunch of bs! Liberals the the biggest hypocrites in the world. Our soldiers have been abused by liberals, spit on, yelled at, verbally abused and you get upset over a few booing a soldier? You sure have your priorities screwed up.
 
Conservative said:
Obviously something liberals have never done, right? What a bunch of bs! Liberals the the biggest hypocrites in the world. Our soldiers have been abused by liberals, spit on, yelled at, verbally abused and you get upset over a few booing a soldier? You sure have your priorities screwed up.
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I didn't say Conservatives and nowhere did I imply that.
 
Conservative said:
Did you have a similar outrage when our soldiers were booed, spit upon in the past?
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Yes. I don't care if the people booing were Liberals. Not everything is hyperpartisan...
 
zgoldsmith23 said:
Yes. I don't care if the people booing were Liberals. Not everything is hyperpartisan...
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If that is the case that is great, just didn't see a lot of liberals with that attitude when the issues were more to their liking. Gay issues somehow seem to trump national security and defense issues with many liberals.
 
Conservative said:
Gay issues somehow seem to trump national security and defense issues with many liberals.
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Only to a Conservative do gay issues have anything to do with national security. :roll:
 
Conservatives don't relish death, that's silly.

However, I do think that since 2008 they have taken quite heartless positions on a wide variety of issues. I'm all for personal accountability and balance, but I don't think that means we have to completely abdicate all government efforts to safeguard and make life better for our neighbors. I would characterize it as an apathy toward the struggles and choices of others, not "relishing" death.
 
Cold Highway said:
Both parties have their hands soaked in blood as far as Im concerned.
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As far as many people are concerned and history shows that both parties are guilty....and that excludes abortion
 
Conservative said:
Did you have a similar outrage when our soldiers were booed, spit upon in the past?
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The Spitting Image - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Vietnam is a 1998 book by sociologist Jerry Lembcke. The book argues that the common claim that American soldiers were spat upon and insulted by anti-war protesters upon returning home from the Vietnam War is an urban legend intended to discredit the anti-war movement. Lembcke's book argues, further, that posttraumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, is a socially-constructed diagnostic category that disparages the image of Vietnam veterans and provided another way to discredit the many veterans in the anti-war movement. Lembcke writes that this discrediting of the anti-war movement was foreshadowed by Hermann Göring's fostering of the stab in the back myth, after Germany's defeat in Europe in 1918.

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Chappy said:
The thread really isn't about the death penalty; it's about the Republican debate audiences clearly relishing it, cheering the killing of 234 people by the state; affirming that the state should, "Let 'em die" if an uninsured person should ever need intensive care; booing a governor acting to protect women from preventable life threatening disease; and, now the latest outrage: booing an American soldier serving in Iraq. To me, these G.O.P. audiences are contemptible; I am ashamed to call them fellow Americans:

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It was an awful moment of the night, and I thought Santorum was wrong.
 
It's also wrong to broadstroke an entire political party because of the awful behavior of a very few.
 
I think I'd rather kill someone who has committed a heinous crime than be a baby killer, but I'm sure that's just me.
 
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