being a right-wing, reactionary, xenophobic, homophobic, anti-education, anti-choice, pro-gun, Leave it to Beaver trip back to the '50s,' we cowered in the corner and said, 'Please don't hurt me.' type of party
2007-01-26 01:12:48 · 20 answers · asked by suesam37 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Well, I'm still registered as a Republican (at the moment) so lets go through your list as it applies to me:
1. right wing - sorta
2. reactionary - not in my opinion
3. xenophobic - I love other cultures. I love ours as well, and as do others with their own culture, I would like ours to be respected and to change at a comfortable rate. However, since pro-illegals have started using this word to mean people who don't want their children's education funds used primarily to educate children who aren't legally here, under that definition I would be xenophobic. The dictionary wouldn't recognize that definition, however.
4. homophobic - no, wrong address.
5. anti-education - hardly! Our education system is the main reason I am a strong proponant of border security and am against mass immigration of poor people above limits which would protect our schools.
6. anti-choice - actually, I don't feel comfortable making that decision for someone else because there are two sets of rights involved.
7. pro-gun- what's wrong with guns? Plenty is wrong with crime, but bad guys can get their guns in any event, and why should they be the only ones to have them? I guess that's a yes.
8. I have no problem with leave it to Beaver. Could you imagine letting a child that age ride their own bike around on a paper route these days?
9. 'cowered in the corner' - huh? I don't even get this one.
So, what are your own views, and do you think they are typical of Democrats? And would other Democrats agree?
Me, I think the Republican / Democrat dichotemy is barely useful because so many issues don't break allong party lines.
2007-01-26 01:26:04 · answer #1 · answered by DAR 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Right wing yes
reactionary - when people attack America we react
Xenophobic- We elected more Blacks into higher offeces than the dems
Homophobic- which party made a point of destroying a mans career for writing letters to interns?
Anti education- Most of us complete College and become leaders of industry
Anti choice- some are, some are not just like the Dems
Pro Gun -Yes indeed! we like the constitution too!
Leave it to beaver was liberal propaganda in the 50's
Republicans Are not Don't hurt me types as most of the American Armed service people are republicans......
2007-01-26 01:23:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
Right wing- yes.
Reactionary- no. Decisive- yes.
Homophobic- no. Some people have the option not to like gay people. It's personal.
Anti-education- are you serious? They just don't like the liberal influence over education that has wrecked most curriculums across the country.
Anti-choice- are you serious? Republican's want to keep America free, which would translate into people having the ability to make their choices without interference from government telling them what, when, and how to think.
Pro-gun- ABSOLUTELY.
Leave it to Beaver- hmmm. I never took any acid that good.
Cowered- in case you haven't noticed, Republicans have balls. We stand for what we believe in and accept the reality that some people cannot be reasoned with. Want proof? I'll take on your sorry azz anyday. And I'll win. Guaranteed.
2007-01-26 01:30:50 · answer #3 · answered by kitty fresh & hissin' crew 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well, some of them.
I am for education, I like LEGAL foreigners who don't try to blow us up, I am not afraid of homosexuals, I just don't like them.
However, I am pro-choice if pro-choice meant the choice to not have sex until you want a child. I think, if you opened your legs, you should be responsible for the result. Your child shouldn't suffer because you couldn't close your legs.
And yes, I do think 99% of things were better in the 1950's. But I don't think ANY Republican is the "cower in the corner", because we like to kick some a**.
Who wants to leave Iraq again? Oh, that's right.
2007-01-26 01:17:24 · answer #4 · answered by I STILL hate hippies 2 · 7⤊ 0⤋
No ... it's a low-taxes, smaller government, pro personal freedom/responsiblity type of party.
Not that it's always stayed to that ideal, but that what the party I joined and I believe in is.
2007-01-26 02:16:00 · answer #5 · answered by DQW 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, Being a Republican, is saying that you dont want this:
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l309/Ithanphotography/dsd.jpg
Or this: http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l309/Ithanphotography/abortionpic-22weeks.jpg
to happen to alot of babies. That second baby is 22 weeks old, do you think that poor thing, looks like it didn't know what was going on? They burned her with ACID, to kill her.
You want to have the right to bere arms, because if you take that right away, then everyone is just going to get guns illegally.
It means taking responsibility for your actions.
May I ask YOU if being a Democrat, means: You never have another plan, you just know you don't like what the Republicans are doing.
You have to get people out of mental hospitals, and old peoples homes, to go and protest for you, in there slippers, even though they dont know what the heck there doing (Yes I saw this during the 2001 elections! In front of the VP's House. I swear on my life)
Does it mean you want to murder innocent babies, who have already developed emotions, and can hear and feel what is going on?
How about you answer that.
2007-01-26 01:22:47 · answer #6 · answered by Fiona M 3 · 4⤊ 2⤋
No. My mom is none of those, except she is against abortion (though she agrees with me that it should be restricted rather than illegalized). Other than that...not even close.
Not all conservatives are Republican, and not all Republicans are conservative. I'm socially conservative, and fiscally moderate. Not a Republican, or a Democrat.
2007-01-26 01:26:54 · answer #7 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If you use these stereotypical "labels", you start a bad habit of misunderstanding people. I would say most Republicans are not as you see them. By the way, I'm a Democrat,
2007-01-26 01:24:24 · answer #8 · answered by Mr Smart 4 · 6⤊ 1⤋
HI SUESAM-- strange i tried to answer earlier and it said your question has been deleted .... The answer is no..the republican party has been hijacked....true republicans have switch parties temporarily until the Bushmen have been tried and convicted
in court of law in conspiring with bin laden !
2007-01-26 01:36:17 · answer #9 · answered by dadacoolone 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
there is nothing wrong about being a republican , it's when you vote for one is the down fall. you praise BUSH for what he is doing over seas, i say put him on the front lines. maybe then he'll stop a war that he started in the first place to only put money in his own pocket.
2007-01-26 01:35:45 · answer #10 · answered by RANDY W 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋