Does this sum up the rational thinking of the party?
2006-09-16 07:57:32 · 11 answers · asked by The Angry Stick Man 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Chredon.............brilliant.
2006-09-16 08:31:20 · update #1
Well I'm a Republican that's pretty far to the right and I know that's not the party motto, and not the thinking of the whole party. It's just the few crazies that the news outlets give airtime. You probably believe that because the news doesn't want to show anything good or rational, only the most extreme of everything. Nancy Pelosi said that Dick Cheney's ACCIDENTAL shooting of his friend summed up his thinking and policies in Iraq as "shoot first and ask later". So the dems have their share of stupid crazy people as well. The neo cons and liberal extremists are the ones who get airtime, don't be so ignorant as to believe everything you hear.
False, is what I'm trying to say.
2006-09-16 09:16:51 · answer #1 · answered by A Train 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
False: it's not their motto, it's just their psychology.
The rhetoric coming out of the GOP since the 1994 takeover has been strongly slanted towards equating any non-GOP ideas with socialism, terrorism, and criminality. If you don't support the war in Iraq, then you're offering aid and comfort to the enemy. If you don't support the tax cuts, then you're a socialist. If you don't stand behind the President no matter what he's doing, then you're not patriotic. If you want the Gitmo prisoners to be treated fairly under the Geneva Conventions, then you're shaming the memory of everyone who died on 9/11.
These are the Republican tactics of fear and hatred. If someone disagrees with you, don't try to convince everyone that you're right, instead, just brand the other guy with a negative label so that people will associate his ideas with anti-Americanism.
It's not about ideas, it's not about policy, and it's not about debate. It's about name-calling.
2006-09-16 08:24:31 · answer #2 · answered by Chredon 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
George Bush did not say that meaning the republican party. He said that meaning this country, and our allies. I saw some of the answers to this question. Was George Bush wrong, To stand up for America? Bush was talking about Enemy, or friendly countries. This is a typical liberal distortion. Why did millions of liberals listen to the same thing republicans did, and come away with that idiotic idea? The same reason they cannot answer a question on talk radio, without avoiding the question, or slandering .
2006-09-16 08:51:48 · answer #3 · answered by zzz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You hear a lot of that from the neoconservative wing of the party, but it would be unwise to label all of us that way. I'm a Republican and I don't believe that. You wouldn't want to be lumped in with whack-jobs like De Genova ("a million Mogadishus"), Ward Churchill ("little Eichmanns"), or the like, would you?
Both parties have moderate and extreme elements. Demonizing your opponents by lumping them in with the extremists on their side of the fence is a common tactic of both sides. Don't fall into the same trap.
g: Point conceded. The past few years have taught me how important voting in the primary is. Here's hoping we can nominate a better candidate next time around, and that Dems do too.
2006-09-16 08:12:11 · answer #4 · answered by Chris S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not the Republican Party Motto. It is the Motto of any entity who has no other grounds to justify their "politic" or actions than "loyalty to the cause". Even if the "cause" is the total destructon of the opposition, whomever or whatever that may be.
This "motto" has been used to justify most of the worlds wars, religious conquests and "searches for weapons of mass destruction" throught human history.
2006-09-16 08:16:10 · answer #5 · answered by bpflyguy1990 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've heard this a lot too... and granted Chris S is correct... it's far from all Republicans... the only thing that worries me Chris...this seems to be what your leaders are saying... I think Bush said something like this at one point even... perhaps not to that degree, but still it worries me...
the dems aren't nominating ward churchill for anything... and I don't think we ever will...
I just fear that it's more the norm in the Republican party right now, but I think it's moving away from that slowly though...
2006-09-16 08:19:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's what I keep hearing spouted, continuously,.
So, either it's the party motto -- or the refrain to some religious chant that they hope will save their party through prayer.
2006-09-16 08:04:31 · answer #7 · answered by coragryph 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
That's true
2006-09-19 11:28:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
True
2006-09-16 07:59:05 · answer #9 · answered by RHD100 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
false...to nations who side with terrorists...you are either with us or against us....get it correct.
2006-09-16 10:06:21 · answer #10 · answered by bushfan88 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋