Both Major Parties Can Bite My Freckled, White Butt!
By ParaTed2k
@ParaTed2k (22940)
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
February 14, 2008 11:27pm CST
When I was younger, someone taught me that anyone who asks me to lower my standards is no friend of mine. I admit, I've chosen to lower them a few times. Each time it led to disaster.
So, Republican and Democrat parties. I've joined the group of Americans who can't see "a dime's worth of difference" between you two. While there have always been a world of difference between a liberal democrat and a conservative republican, apparently, there is no room in the republican party for conservatives (or even moderates) anymore, so you tell me, what's the difference?We have two choices, a party that would put the U.S. Constitution through a shredder, or one that would just torch it... each feigning outrage at the other.
So, to the republican party, the party I've been in all my life. PISS OFF! You have become the beast we have been fighting for so long. To the democrat party. PISS OFF! You have proven through your actions that what the republican party has said about you was Understated.
Some would say that I owe McCain my vote, simply to keep anyone with a "D" after their name out of the White House. I ask you, why? McCain is just a democrat who spells it with an R.
Both parties have shown nothing but contempt for the issues I hold dear, so it's time I return the contempt and refuse to donate, support, help out or show any kind of respect to either.
Goodbye Republican Party. Die the slow, painful death you deserve... and take the donkey with you.
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6 responses
@4ftfingers (1310)
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15 Feb 08
Haha! I didn't know Americans said Piss off.
You have the same problem we have here in the UK. The Conservatives used to be right, Labour used to be left. Then they both started to realise that the only way to stay in power is to pretend to be 'the party for everyone' - become centralists. So now we have two parties with exactly the same policies, run by exactly the same white middle-aged men, exactly the same bullsh*t. Which all equates to an apathetic electorate who allow the Government to get away with murder.
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@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
15 Feb 08
Well, I don't know how many Americans say "piss off" to me "go away" either. Usually that term means "to make mad". That's ok though, I also say "Good On Ya", "Howdy", "y'all" and I call the TV "the Tele".
But anyway...
Yup, the "cult of inclusion" has infected the parties to the point where it doesn't mean a thing to be part of either.
Yes, I plan on voting, I just don't feel the need to pay attention to the little letter after a candidates' name. I will vote purely on issues. Who knows, I may even check out the "3rd" parties and see if there is a home for me in one of those.
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@4ftfingers (1310)
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15 Feb 08
PS are you going to vote? Who will you vote for if you're not voting Conservative?
@gewcew23 (8007)
• United States
15 Feb 08
This seem to be 76 all over agian, the Conservatives wanted Reagan, the Establishment wanted Ford. What did the country get Carter. The problem was not McCain, but the Conservative base. McCain was just being himself, going after liberal Republicans, Independants, and cross over Democrats. The big issue was that the conservative Republicans split their vote. Some went for Thompson, some for Huckabee, some for Romney, some for Rudy, and even Paul. We can blame the Evangelicals for McCains victory. Let me explain, Romney had the best chance to beat McCain, but he's a MORMON. Here comes Iowa, Romney has a huge led one month out, but Huckabee come in, and pays on their fear of Mormons. Huckabee wins in Iowa, has momentum goes to New Hampshire and take enough votes away from Romney to allow McCain to win. South Carolina the same thing, if Huckabee was nowhere to be founded Thompson would have won, giving him momentum in the Southern States. I do not know what to tell you ParaTed, but maybe we can learn from this one thing, we need to unite behide one candidate next time. Do not give up on the Grand Old Party. Yes we lost this battle but so did we lose in 1976, but I do remember something else that happen on a 76, the birth of a nation.
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@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
15 Feb 08
Why have a primary election if we just go to the polls to vote for the heir apparent. Primaries aren't the time to "unite", they are the time to discuss the issues within the party. It is the time for the people in the party who want to be president to make their case to the members of the party.
Yes, the Conservative vote was split this time, and two of the candidates pulled out way too early, but that was their choice.
The party is uniting. They are uniting around a candidate who is asking us all to show him the very loyalty he has spent his entire career refusing to show the party.
Nope, I didn't leave the republican party because McCain is the nominee. I left it because the party has proven that being a republican means nothing more than mindlessly backing anyone with an R after their name.
I simply don't want to associate with an empty organization.
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@bsidemyself (160)
• United States
15 Feb 08
You don't seem to be any better than the parties you are complaining about. Does this mean you are not going to vote? Just asking.
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@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
15 Feb 08
Yes, I do plan on voting, the Republicrat/Demoblican Mafia can't stop me from exercising my rights. It just means that I don't owe any allegiences to either of the anti Constitution groups.
I will vote for people based on the issues, not party. I will also not hesitate to trash any politician whose stances run contrary to the U.S. Constitution.
I'll have to see who the 3rd party candidates will be, or maybe I'll leave the presidential section blank and vote in the House, state and local elections.
Either way, I will be at the polls to make my voice heard... and I will fight against any politician who seeks to move us further into the cesspool of socialism or communism. The cesspool both major parties are dragging us into now.
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@Smith2028 (797)
• United States
15 Feb 08
Our two party system has become archaic. Neither party is fulfilling it's duty, therefore, a majority of people can not see a difference.
The problem I have with the major parties is that they do not believe in independence. A third party need to emerge and quickly.
I think Ron Paul may make a huge difference in this election if he runs 3rd party.
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@Qaeyious (2357)
• United States
16 Feb 08
I haven't voted Repubocrat since 1980, except for 2004 where I voted for Kerry to prevent a certain person from continuing his occupation of the white house. Everyone knows how well that turned out.
I must have cried when Ross Perot dropped out of the race in the 1992 election. I was so sure we had a chance then. He did join back in, and I still voted for him but I knew the Repubocrats will continue their hold on power.
And it is everyone else's fault. You keep voting for the same kind of people and you really expect change? That's the definition of insanity - continuing doing the same thing over and over and over and over again, and expecting things to change - And still I hear whining and complaining from people who vote for these people
There is a choice. There has always been a choice. If you don't make it, it is no one else's fault but your own.
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@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
16 Feb 08
I have always voted for the person I thought was best for the job, out of those running. I have never voted a straight party ticket.
So far in my life, that has meant voting Republican in presidential elections (though I have voted many parties in local and state elections). I didn't vote Republican just for the sake of voting Republican, it's just how it has turned out.
This year, the republican nominee isn't the best one for the job. Neither are the two front runners for the democrat ticket.
I'm looking forward to hearing from the "3rd" parties this year. Maybe someone will picque my interest.
@Qaeyious (2357)
• United States
16 Feb 08
Ah, I see now how some of my earlier posts were misinterpreted - So, ParaTed2k, the above post was directed at society as a whole, not to you personally - the "you" in the last half is you PLURAL, not singular. It sounds like you (singular) are on your (singular) way to political enlightenment, the "you" in my post points to society in general.
I will be more strident in my efforts to communicate that in future posts, though that is my default mode ....
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@betsyraeduke (2669)
• United States
19 Feb 08
Hmmm...given that I do not know, or rather don't understand a whole lot about politics anyway, this might be a stupid statement, but I don't understand this whole concept of a citizen, who is not a politician themselves, declaring themself either Democrat or Republican and then only voting for members of that party to begin with. It seems to me, that if a person is going to vote for anyone, they should vote according to the issues, and which canidate shares the most common views as they do on those issues, regardless of which political party that canidate belongs to....but maybe that's just me.
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@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
19 Feb 08
I guess that depends on how you look at why people join any organization.
I wasn't a republican for the sake of being one. I was a republican because up until now, the republican party was the home of the issues I believe in most.
I have never been a "straight party ticket" voter, but I've also never voted for a presidential or congressional candidate who wasn't republican. I've voted for many candidates of other parties in local and state elections.
So now I'm left without a home. Not because I changed but because the republican party has become something I can't associate myself with anymore (at least not as a member).
