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Democrats vs Republicans

enchanted_one1975

Resident Lycanthrope
I am seeing a trend here. Apparently it is okay for Democrats to point out every little problem within the Republican party. If there is an issue with one person within the party, you like to label the whole party. You also like calling Sarah Palin names.

On the other hand, if I oppose the Democratic party in any way I am suddenly a hypocrite or something. When Republicans point out problems within the Democratic party we are somehow picking on you. I am also constantly accused for singling you, as RF members out, when I oppose Democratic views.

What gives? Democrats can throw stones at my glass house, but if I toss a few back at theirs I am in the wrong? If Democrats think they are going to get us to walk on eggshells around them they are seriously mistaken.
 
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Buttercup

Veteran Member
I'm an Independent and don't agree with your views (on health reform) but still think you're a cool cat. ;)
 

enchanted_one1975

Resident Lycanthrope
I'm an Independent and don't agree with your views (on health reform) but still think you're a cool cat. ;)
Well thank you. I do return the mutual respect. It takes an adult to realize that there can be a difference of opinion without having to hate those who oppose you.

Still, I can't figure out why the bias. Why can Democrats take all kinds of cheap shots at the Republican party but if a Republican points out one problem within the Democratic party we are all bigots and such?
 

MysticSang'ha

Big Squishy Hugger
Premium Member
I am seeing a trend here. Apparently it is okay for Democrats to point out every little problem within the Republican party. If there is an issue with one person within the party, you like to label the whole party. You also like calling Sarah Palin names.

On the other hand, if I oppose the Democratic party in any way I am suddenly a hypocrite or something. When Republicans point out problems within the Democratic party we are somehow picking on you. I am also constantly accused for singling you, as RF members out, when I oppose Democratic views.

What gives? Democrats can throw stones at my glass house, but if I toss a few back at theirs I am in the wrong? If Democrats thing they are going to get us to walk on eggshells around them they are seriously mistaken.

I don't identify with either party. That being said, I see a trend in both parties (and this is merely my personal view, so it's merely colored by my own experience and perspectives):

Democratic party platforms tend to be idiotic, wasteful, unconstitutional, anti-business-and-free-market, authoritarian, and wishful thinking.

Republican party platforms tend to be idiotic, wasteful, heartless, hateful, anti-equality, anti-feminist, anti-anything-non-Christian, overtly-imperialistic and militaristic, authoritarian, unconstitutional, and wishful thinking.

Of the two evils, I distance myself further from the Republican party than the Democratic party, albeit I distance myself pretty dang far from the Nancy Pelosi's of the world. ;)
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
My view on the Republicans vs Democrats is there are too many political ideologies that are dividing the two parties down to every last trivial and petty issue under the sun. One party is wrong, just because it is that party, and it works with the other party.
If law makers actually looked at policies rather than just face value politics, then we might actually be able to achieve something in America.
 

Wandered Off

Sporadic Driveby Member
My view on the Republicans vs Democrats is there are too many political ideologies that are dividing the two parties down to every last trivial and petty issue under the sun.
I think the US has long since passed the point where two parties are sufficient to represent the diversity of the electorate. The main barrier now seems to be the unwillingness of voters to consider other parties.
 
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angellous_evangellous

Guest
Democrats win again!

It's funny how the Republicans cry, weep, and moan about the health care reform being against the people, but the Democrats represent the majority view of Americans. The American people want reform. And we got it.

Go Dems!
 

Mr Cheese

Well-Known Member
I am seeing a trend here. Apparently it is okay for Democrats to point out every little problem within the Republican party. If there is an issue with one person within the party, you like to label the whole party. You also like calling Sarah Palin names.

On the other hand, if I oppose the Democratic party in any way I am suddenly a hypocrite or something. When Republicans point out problems within the Democratic party we are somehow picking on you. I am also constantly accused for singling you, as RF members out, when I oppose Democratic views.

What gives? Democrats can throw stones at my glass house, but if I toss a few back at theirs I am in the wrong? If Democrats think they are going to get us to walk on eggshells around them they are seriously mistaken.

Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)(President of the United States)
"For the first time ever, everything is in place for the Battle of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ."
Sarah Palin:

"As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where– where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border." --Sarah Palin, explaining why Alaska's proximity to Russia gives her foreign policy experience, interview with CBS's Katie Couric, Sept. 24, 2008

"All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years." --Sarah Palin, unable to name a single newspaper or magazine she reads, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008

"Well, let's see. There's ― of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that there's never going to be absolute consensus by every American, and there are those issues, again, like Roe v. Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So, you know, going through the history of America, there would be others but ―" --Sarah Palin, unable to name a Supreme Court decision she disagreed with other than Roe vs. Wade, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008

"[T]hey're in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom." --Sarah Palin, getting the vice president's constitutional role wrong after being asked by a third grader what the vice president does, interview with NBC affiliate KUSA in Colorado, Oct. 21, 2008 (Watch video clip)

Sarah Palin, on writing notes on her hand during her Tea Party convention speech: "I didn't really had a good answer, as so often -- is me. But then somebody sent me the other day, Isaiah 49:16, and you need to go home and look it up. Before you look it up, I'll tell you what it says though. It says, hey, if it was good enough for God, scribbling on the palm of his hand, it's good enough for me, for us. He says, in that passage, 'I wrote your name on the palm of my hand to remember you,' and I'm like, 'Okay, I'm in good company.'" (March 5, 2010)

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GW Bush

"You work three jobs? ... Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." --to a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005 (Listen to audio clip)

"Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?" --Florence, South Carolina, Jan. 11, 2000

"This is an impressive crowd -- the haves and the have mores. Some people call you the elite -- I call you my base." --at the 2000 Al Smith dinner

"I wish you'd have given me this written question ahead of time so I could plan for it...I'm sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with answer, but it hadn't yet...I don't want to sound like I have made no mistakes. I'm confident I have. I just haven't -- you just put me under the spot here, and maybe I'm not as quick on my feet as I should be in coming up with one." --after being asked to name the biggest mistake he had made, Washington, D.C., April 3, 2004

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“Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?”
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--Rush Limbaugh

"I don't really like to think of it as a murder. It was terminating Tiller in the 203rd trimester. ... I am personally opposed to shooting abortionists, but I don't want to impose my moral values on others." --on the murder of Kansas abortion doctor George Tiller, FOX News interview, June 22, 2009 (Ann Coulter)


"If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president. It's kind of a pipe dream, it's a personal fantasy of mine, but I don't think it's going to happen. And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women. It also makes the point, it is kind of embarrassing, the Democratic Party ought to be hanging its head in shame, that it has so much difficulty getting men to vote for it. I mean, you do see it's the party of women and 'We'll pay for health care and tuition and day care -- and here, what else can we give you, soccer moms?'" --Ann Coulter

"I don't think that witchcraft is a religion. I wish the military would rethink this decision."* --GW BUSH

The American Taliban

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Aquitaine

Well-Known Member
I honestly don't see the point in people trying to argue which "side" is better. Republicrat, Demoblican, it's all the same - big business and banks are what really run the show anyways.

Same here in the UK with Lib/Lab/Con. Makes no difference except the puppet has a different appearence and slightly different rhetoric.
 

Mr Cheese

Well-Known Member
I honestly don't see the point in people trying to argue which "side" is better. Republicrat, Demoblican, it's all the same - big business and banks are what really run the show anyways.

Same here in the UK with Lib/Lab/Con. Makes no difference except the puppet has a different appearence and slightly different rhetoric.

While Democrats and the labour party are arguably centerist parties currently

There is a fundamental difference bwetween left and right

Bush explains the right's views and core values well:

"This is an impressive crowd -- the haves and the have mores. Some people call you the elite -- I call you my base."

--at the 2000 Al Smith dinner

This at their hearts is the difference between the tories, labor democrat and republican....

though with the left parties shifting to the right to become centerist in the 90's the differences are lesser. But that is the fundamental difference and what makes right right and left left.......

Sadly I don't think many voters, especially in America, are even aware of this.

It is interesting that the right party in England, the conservatives are effectionatly known as the Tory party, which is of course a Scottish word meaning thief.
 

Mr Cheese

Well-Known Member
"The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life ... A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors... Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same."---George Orwell
 

KatNotKathy

Well-Known Member
To put it simply, the Democrats are stupid and spineless while the Republicans are stupid and evil.

Both are terrible, but since one isn't actively trying to deny me civil rights (only passively) I know which I'd prefer. Lesser of two evils and all that jazz.
 

Rio Sabinas

Old Geezer
Republicans...Democrats...finger pointing, this one did this, this one did that...
If the issues were not so serious, it would remind me of a bunch of 3rd. graders
arguing over a playground game. :facepalm:
 

Sunstone

De Diablo Del Fora
Premium Member
I think the US has long since passed the point where two parties are sufficient to represent the diversity of the electorate. The main barrier now seems to be the unwillingness of voters to consider other parties.

There are plenty of state and local laws making it difficult for a third party to get on the ballot.
 
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