Republican or Democrat???Why???

Question

...tom science

Answer 1

Democrat

Answer 2

I have been a Democrat because I am a teacher and Republicans are horrible on education issues and blame teachers for all things wrong with schools. However, with the left wing dominance that is taking over in the Democratic party with a strong - anti-Israel bias and the attacks on my boy Joe Liberman I am definately moving over the Republicans for the election of the next President if Rudy G. runs.

Answer 3

I'm registered Republican, but I don't agree with them all the time. My civics teacher once said, If you're not a Democrat when you're young, you don't have a heart. If you're not a Republican when you get older, you don't have a brain." I was a Dem at the time, so I thought he was full of it, but over time, I gotta say, I tend to favor the Republican line more often. Not the Christian Right stuff--though I'm not TOTALLY turned off by their values--more the small government fiscal management (which admittedly, the current administration has little to do with except on tax cuts) and emphasis on Individual Responsibility.

Democrats always claim to be out for those who can't help themselves...the poor, the minorities, the children, the animals, the earth, etc. So they appeal to the voting constituents (ie, the poor and the minorities) about the rest. It behooves them to portray minorities as downtrodden so that they can offer to lift them up through government initiatives.

Thing is, if most poor people and minorities grasped that the opportunities in this country really are what they make of them, and that skin color, gender, religion and sexual orientation have little if nothing to do with it, there would go the Democrats' voting base.

Republicans are in favor of helping those in need--they just choose to do it through private charities, so that individuals can give to the cause they feel they most need to give to, rather than have the contributions automatically deducted from their families' tables because some government mouthpiece feels that they're not giving "what they should" to a particular cause.

It helps the Dems to foment class envy with the lower and middle classes so that the they can look like the Robin Hood, riding in to steal from the evil republican rich to give to the unappreciated and downtrodden poor. Yet the evil tax cuts that the Dems opposed wound up generating a 20% overall increase in the US economy over the last three years. Why isn't everyone happy about that? Isn't it great that despite 9/11, the downturned tech industry, a war, a tsunami (which americans contributed relief aid to), and two hella big hurricanes (and a buncha not as big ones in years past) that the US is still showing a profit, and that unemployment is and has been lower for the past four years than at any time during the Clinton presidency? Why wouldn't ANY american, even the Dems, be happy about that, unless it didn't serve their purpose?

They like to paint the environmental situation exponentially worse than it is so that voters will be scared and guilted into voting for the "environmentally conscious" party, which usually just winds up screwing up the economy with unnecessarily restrictive policies. Look into why wildfires always happen in Southern California, but not Northern Mexico...it's the same ecology...do the fires just not like to cross international boundaries, or are there some bad environmental custodianship policies in effect?). Republicans don't like dirty air or water, but they also don't like a broken economy, and spending billions each year in fire fighting that could have been avoided by allowing moderated clearing of forest undergrowth in national forests doesn't make any economic sense.

Democrats also tend to be very anti-war, because we all love peace, right? And who wants to send their sons and daughters off to die? And can't we just all pluck daisies and sit in a field loving each other? Sure. If there wasn't an entire fundamentalist mindset set on destroying us. When negotiations have clearly failed and someone's coming after you, you either load up like Rambo, or you prepare to be slaughtered. I like that Republicans don't sit around waiting to be mowed like so much grass.

Dems tend to go for the emotion, the sound bite, the 20 second analysis that gets your blood boiling to get their voters. I tend to vote Republican because the answer is more logical to me, even though it takes a little longer to sit down and see the analysis. I was raised Democrat, so I understand where the Democrat voters are coming from. They're good-hearted people who just want to make right and make the world a better place.

Republicans are also very good-hearted people who want to make the world right, it's just that the way the two groups go about it are polarly opposite.

Sorry for the novel. You asked.

Answer 4

I am about 75% Republican and 25% Democrat...

The problem is that the Republicans don't always follow the expectations of their party, nor do the Democrats.

For example, I am disappointed by the amount of pork-barrel spending by the Republicans.

On the other hand, I don't understand how the Democrats can ignore civil right violations in countries like Iraq and WANT us to leave leaders like Saddam in power....

I like Lieberman and hate to see him being treated so badly by those in his own party.

Answer 5

A republic is a representational form of government. A democracy is where the people decide. We live in a republic.

Democrats tend to be liberal and republicans tend to be conservative.

I'm a republican, but I don't always vote the way of the republican party.

Republicans like a stronger local government and a smaller central government.

Democrats usually like stuff like government health care, Minimum wage and a bunch of other stuff that makes our taxes go up and weaken our economy. In california our taxes are way too high as it is and it does drive buisiness away. Thats one reason I'm not a democrat.
Minimum wage causes inflation.

Answer 6

Democrat. I find the republicans trying to take away my rights too much and helping the wealthy more than the middle class. Plus I agree on more issues with the democrats.

Answer 7

I was a Democrat for many years, but have recently switched to Republican. I feel the Democrats say nothing but Anti-Bush sounds bites. They don't seem to want to discuss the situation as it is and what to do about it, they just want to complain about how we got here. It's a very shallow platform. Hopefully, this will turn around by 2008, but from the Lieberman debacle it look unlikely.

Answer 8

I'm a black man for God sake

For us as black people this is how we see it!!!
The republicans are doing the stick up, and the democrats are behind the wheel for the get away

Non of them are doing anything for black people

I'm a democrat I will not vote until those con artist can solve my problems

Answer 9

Republican! I honestly think Democrats are a wee bit dishonest, and George Bush Senior and Jr. & Abe Lincoln were rocking presidents!

Answer 10

Republican, because Democrats think they invented the Internet.