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2006-10-05 14:55:08 · 10 answers · asked by Rania 1 in Politics & Government Government

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A Republican is a conservative. Conservatives do not care for anyone but themselves. That is their platform. They would have the rest of us put down like animals if they could get away with it. They are not believers in the common good. They plunder. They plunder from the weak. They do not care about their own neighbors or their own communities. They prefer to live in gated communities and build massive fences and walls. They relentlessly strive to disenfranchise as many people from the American Dream as possible. They fought against Americans who wanted slavery abolished. They fought against black Americans who wanted to vote. They fought against female Americans who wanted to vote. They fought against Americans who wanted to keep church and state separate. They fought against older and disabled Americans who wanted American public restrooms and sidewalks to accomodate wheelchairs. They fought against American workers who wanted a decent minimum wage and a forty-hour work week. They fought against American children and forced them to work like slaves in factories and mines. They fought against working American mothers who needed equal pay and decent childcare. They fought against hungry American babies and slashed preschool nutrional programs for the poor. They fought against American healthcare professionals who were trying to stop the spread of AIDS and they blocked the distribution of condoms that would have saved millions of American lives. They fought against American homosexuals who wanted the right to rent a house or an apartment and live in peace. They fought against American police organizations that pleaded for a ban on the guns that slaughter police officers and over 40,000 Americans every year. They fought against Americans who tried to protect the environment and people from pollution and poisons that are being put in the air and water, by conservatives. They fight against Americans who want the Internet to remain free. They fight against Americans who want peace and they fight to protect their right to profit from war. Conservatives do not care about anyone but themselves and their greedy, short-sided personal desires. Republicans and conservatives are disciples of the Bohemian Grove beasts.

2006-10-05 15:45:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

A republican is an American who registers to vote as a member of the Republican Party

2006-10-05 21:56:46 · answer #2 · answered by Eric 2 · 1 1

Politically is a Conservative. but the republic is base in the Roman - French principles.
read the history of the creation of the republic in France and you'll find out what Republic is

2006-10-05 22:01:07 · answer #3 · answered by Pink Panther 5 · 0 0

Mark Foley is a great example of a republican.

2006-10-05 22:09:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

To understand the Republican party you must first understand the Whig Party...

Whig Party (United States), one of the two dominant political parties in power in the U.S. from the mid-1830s to the mid-1850s. The party was formed about 1834 by members of the defunct National Republican party and others opposed to the policies of President Andrew Jackson. It was composed of many factions, united only in their opposition to the Democratic party.

The Whig party nominated three unsuccessful candidates for president in the election of 1836. In 1840 the Whig ticket consisted of William H. Harrison for president and John Tyler for vice president. The Whigs triumphed, but Harrison died after one month in office, and Vice President Tyler, who had been a Jacksonian Democrat, acceded to the presidency. Tyler embittered the Whigs by vetoing the bills with which they had meant to restore the Bank of the United States, abolished by Jackson, and by opposing their plan to redistribute the proceeds from the sale of public lands. Most of Tyler's cabinet immediately resigned in protest, and his membership in the party was withdrawn.

In 1844 the Whig party, whose leaders were the statesmen Daniel Webster and Henry Clay, nominated Clay for president. In the ensuing campaign Clay refused to take a definite stand on the Texas annexation issue. This provoked northern abolitionists, who opposed the admission of Texas to the Union as a slave state, to support the Liberty party candidate. The Whig split ensured victory for the Democratic candidate, James K. Polk.

Once the Mexican War had been declared, controversy over admitting or excluding slavery from territory gained in the war further splintered the party. Antislavery Whigs, known as Conscience Whigs, in Massachusetts opposed the so-called Cotton Whigs in the proslavery states.

Despite the dissension, the Whig party, with the popular general Zachary Taylor as its candidate, was successful in the presidential election of 1848. The divisions resurfaced, however, when Taylor declared his opposition to Clay's proposal to end the deadlock over the admission of California to statehood. Before the stalemate could be resolved, Taylor died. His successor, Millard Fillmore, helped push Clay's compromise through Congress in 1850. The Compromise Measures of 1850 intensified the divisions within the party. Southerners and conservative northerners who supported the measures refused to cooperate with the northerners who opposed it. Consequently, the election of 1852 resulted in the overwhelming defeat of the Whig candidate, General Winfield Scott.

Southern Whig support for the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 convinced most northern Whigs to abandon the party, and by the end of that year it had essentially disbanded. Many voters who abandoned the Whig organization initially joined the so-called Know-Nothing party. Most northern Whigs, however, eventually joined the newly formed Republican party. In the South, most of the Whigs were soon absorbed by the Democratic party.

For the meaning of the term during the American Revolution, see Whig.

2006-10-05 22:06:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

A greedy black-hearted malevolent force who goes to church every Sunday for appearances but would gleefully exterminate every liberal minded person in America (along with gays, hippies and poor people) if they thought they could get away with it.

2006-10-05 22:05:41 · answer #6 · answered by eggman 7 · 2 0

wat exactly is a democrat or a libertarian or a Canadian liberal or a Canadian conservative or NDP or Bloc Quebecois. There is no simple definition. There are many different individuals with many different beliefs in each individual party.

2006-10-05 21:58:14 · answer #7 · answered by bumpocooper 5 · 0 0

Might have to look up Ernesto LaClau on that one, he has a good hold on it.

2006-10-05 21:56:54 · answer #8 · answered by Lobster Dinosaur 3 · 0 0

Gay Old Perverts?

2006-10-05 22:17:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

not for the poor

2006-10-05 21:56:59 · answer #10 · answered by mrsp27 2 · 0 0

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