How dumb would a red-state voter have to be to think the GOP really cares about banning gay marriage?

Question

Or flag-burning for that matter? They trot these dead horse issues out every election year, have a token debate about them on the Senate floor, never pass a resolution on them, and then campaign on them in the fall, like it is their top priority.

As soon as the election is over, they stick the issues back in the closet, make no attempt to keep their promises, and then pull them out 2 years later to repeat the whole process over all over again.

Are GOP voters really so stupid that they actually buy into this charade?

Answer 1

I wouldn't point it to GOP voters as much as the Religious Right who are overwhelmingly GOP. They're trying to win over the people they lost by the simplest tactical means. Problem is, many GOP are smart enough to realize they're being dooped.

Answer 2

Oh God yes. I live in Texas, which ughhhh, is pretty Conservative. The Conservatives that run here act all bad, and act like they will do everything for Texas, when they really do NOTHING.

The city I live in is ery Liberal however, so I'm not even the person that gets to see it first hand. Austin, Texas has always been known as the "Most liberal city east of San Fransisco" lol, which is true. It's wierd because outside of the Austin Metro, there are Red wing, blue collar idiots.

Conservatives believe anything and everything that comes out of Bush's mouth. They believe that "they are so godly" and that "they were sent by God. They wouldn't lie." Like hell they were sent by God. They lie like crazy. Would God want 2400 of our troops dead, and thousands of Iraqis? NO.

Conservatives are homophobic, racist, no giving second chance idiots, and I seriously hope they can change.

Answer 3

Pretty damn dumb,apparently!

Red staters will believe ANY tripe the Govt throws at them.They are so malleble they will waste they're lives working for a rich Right that cares not a minute for them.It's"Hate Liberals-or else",and that's what the little mice do.

This Government needs a cleanout.

Answer 4

When it comes to Congress, we don't have much belief in those re-election whores. They are totally self-serving bloated egotistical gasbags, especially the Senate. No, I don't believe much of what most congresswhores say - their record of lack of integrity speaks for itself.

My senators are Dems, and whores to the core, too.

The only congressman I think highly of is my GOP Representative.

But even as bad as the GOPers are, their opponents espouse outright socialism that would kill the concept of America. So, as bad as that is, the Dems are even worse. Much worse.

Answer 5

I am in Ohio, land of the Pasty Oatmeal People who go into Walmart and then straight into a coma. They come out as though they have seen the rising of the messiah himself. That and a bargain on a 3 dollar clock. Oh save me St. Lucky Boy!!!

It's a VERY RED STATE ~ AND I AM SINGINGTHE BLUES!!!!!!!
*wink*

Answer 6

They are a stupid to believe that as blacks are that the democrat party represents them and their interests.

Answer 7

Go read my latest question agian.

Answer 8

Simply put, yes.

Answer 9

First off Go Democrats~!


Articles of Impeachment

of

President George W. Bush

and

Vice President Richard B. Cheney,
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice,
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. - - ARTICLE II, SECTION 4 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard B. Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have committed violations and subversions of the Constitution of the United States of America in an attempt to carry out with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes and deprivations of the civil rights of the people of the United States and other nations, by assuming powers of an imperial executive unaccountable to law and usurping powers of the Congress, the Judiciary and those reserved to the people of the United States, by the following acts:

1) Seizing power to wage wars of aggression in defiance of the U.S. Constitution, the U.N. Charter and the rule of law; carrying out a massive assault on and occupation of Iraq, a country that was not threatening the United States, resulting in the death and maiming of over one hundred thousand Iraqis, and thousands of U.S. G.I.s.

2) Lying to the people of the U.S., to Congress, and to the U.N., providing false and deceptive rationales for war.

3) Authorizing, ordering and condoning direct attacks on civilians, civilian facilities and locations where civilian casualties were unavoidable.

4) Instituting a secret and illegal wiretapping and spying operation against the people of the United States through the National Security Agency.

5) Threatening the independence and sovereignty of Iraq by belligerently changing its government by force and assaulting Iraq in a war of aggression.

6) Authorizing, ordering and condoning assassinations, summary executions, kidnappings, secret and other illegal detentions of individuals, torture and physical and psychological coercion of prisoners to obtain false statements concerning acts and intentions of governments and individuals and violating within the United States, and by authorizing U.S. forces and agents elsewhere, the rights of individuals under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

7) Making, ordering and condoning false statements and propaganda about the conduct of foreign governments and individuals and acts by U.S. government personnel; manipulating the media and foreign governments with false information; concealing information vital to public discussion and informed judgment concerning acts, intentions and possession, or efforts to obtain weapons of mass destruction in order to falsely create a climate of fear and destroy opposition to U.S. wars of aggression and first strike attacks.

8) Violations and subversions of the Charter of the United Nations and international law, both a part of the "Supreme Law of the land" under Article VI, paragraph 2, of the Constitution, in an attempt to commit with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes in wars and threats of aggression against Afghanistan, Iraq and others and usurping powers of the United Nations and the peoples of its nations by bribery, coercion and other corrupt acts and by rejecting treaties, committing treaty violations, and frustrating compliance with treaties in order to destroy any means by which international law and institutions can prevent, affect, or adjudicate the exercise of U.S. military and economic power against the international community.

9) Acting to strip United States citizens of their constitutional and human rights, ordering indefinite detention of citizens, without access to counsel, without charge, and without opportunity to appear before a civil judicial officer to challenge the detention, based solely on the discretionary designation by the Executive of a citizen as an "enemy combatant."

10) Ordering indefinite detention of non-citizens in the United States and elsewhere, and without charge, at the discretionary designation of the Attorney General or the Secretary of Defense.

11) Ordering and authorizing the Attorney General to override judicial orders of release of detainees under INS jurisdiction, even where the judicial officer after full hearing determines a detainee is wrongfully held by the government.

12) Authorizing secret military tribunals and summary execution of persons who are not citizens who are designated solely at the discretion of the Executive who acts as indicting official, prosecutor and as the only avenue of appellate relief.

13) Refusing to provide public disclosure of the identities and locations of persons who have been arrested, detained and imprisoned by the U.S. government in the United States, including in response to Congressional inquiry.

14) Use of secret arrests of persons within the United States and elsewhere and denial of the right to public trials.

15) Authorizing the monitoring of confidential attorney-client privileged communications by the government, even in the absence of a court order and even where an incarcerated person has not been charged with a crime.

16) Ordering and authorizing the seizure of assets of persons in the United States, prior to hearing or trial, for lawful or innocent association with any entity that at the discretionary designation of the Executive has been deemed "terrorist."

17) Engaging in criminal neglect in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, depriving thousands of people in Louisiana, Mississippi and other Gulf States of urgently needed support, causing mass suffering and unnecessary loss of life.

18) Institutionalization of racial and religious profiling and authorization of domestic spying by federal law enforcement on persons based on their engagement in noncriminal religious and political activity.

19) Refusal to provide information and records necessary and appropriate for the constitutional right of legislative oversight of executive functions.

20) Rejecting treaties protective of peace and human rights and abrogation of the obligations of the United States under, and withdrawal from, international treaties and obligations without consent of the legislative branch, and including termination of the ABM treaty between the United States and Russia, and rescission of the authorizing signature from the Treaty of Rome which served as the basis for the International Criminal Court.