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I've been assembling a consolidated list of reasons that I will not vote for a Republican, but the list needs to be updated. Is there anything that has happened in the past six months that should go on the list? It needs to be short and recognizable to work (for a bulletin board signature or footnote for a post). Thanks in advance for your help. Here is my list so far:

Plame, Libby, Gonzalez, Iraq WMD, Foley, Meyers nomination, Halliburton, Blackwater, Abu Ghraib, NSA wiretapping, Social Security privatization, Terry Schiavo exploit, heckofa job Katrina, Duke Cunningham, Tom Delay, secret prisons, Energy Committee members kept secret, Republican redistricting, jamming the Democratic Party phone bank, Jack Abramoff, Armstrong Williams, imitation news-reports, waterboarding isn't torture, legislate away civil liberties, yes we follow the Geneva Convention wink wink, suppress global warming data, Dubai port deal, No Child no funding, George "unprejudiced" Allen macaca slip, tax cuts for corporations so they can build factories overseas with the money trickles down nothing, explain to me how is it good for us to export jobs again, signing statements, voting machine manufacturer conflicts of interest...

Any inaccuracies here? More?

Thanks,
Martin


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Loons isn't a partisan term. A loon is a bird. You see, you take everything the wrong way.
 
Posts: 40 | Location: Salem, OR | Registered: 27 May 2005Report This Post
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Any inaccuracies here? More?


Inaccuracies? Plenty.

Plame and Libby was a witch hunt in which no crime was committed and LIbby got railroaded.

Iraq WMD was questionable intelligence, partly by the British. I personally believe that what was in Iraq is now in Syria.

Foley was a personal issue, not connected to politics.

Harriet Myers is a good woman who was raped politically.

Halliburton is a good company that is uniquely qualified to do what they do.

Blackwater isn't a conservative issue, and argument could be made that it's a Bush issue but he's not conservative.

Abu Ghraib is an issue that was overblown IMHO. I thought the pictures were funny and when the Americans left and Iraqi's took over the prison is when the real torture began.

NSA wiretapping was also done by Carter and Clinton but they got a pass on it.

SS privatization is a good idea.

Terri Schiavo was murdered by starvation. Strange thing to support.

Katrina was a failure by the initial responders.

Cunningham was a criminal and that is not supported by any political ideology.

The Hammer was railroaded because he was ruthless but effective.

How would you know about secret prisons. Think about it.

I could go through the rest of it but I'm losing interest.


A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
 
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Did you enjoy swallowing the Kool-aide?

Many reasons not to vote a conservative ticket will begin to unfold economically, ecologically, and sociologically as those events set in motion by their agenda continue to manifest themselves.

Stay out of debt, invest in Euro's like V.P. Cheney, buy a bit of gold, pray scientists are wrong about an impending ecological catastrophe.

Retired Monk
"Ideology is a disease"
 
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How about: if you vote conservative you support organized fascism.?
 
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