delaying gratification, having a job+spouse+stability before making children, saving money, investing money, and loving our American culture and heritage?
2007-11-08 09:57:46 · 10 answers · asked by Yahoo Answer Angel 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
The answer to your question is yes.
As for Jay the Diver - you are so full of crap saying it is not a political attack that it is sad.
"Americans are instant gratification oriented. They do not like hard work, planning, self-sufficiency, or do they have good judgment" --- Americans are some of the hardest working people in the world. Their one true fault is in being gullible and electing self serving corrupt politicians.
"The majority of the support base of the democratic party is urban. Many vote democrat because of social welfare and social handouts." --- The GREAT REPUBLICAN SCARE TACTIC - those bad welfare Democrats wanting handouts.
-----Most of the welfare people you are degrading are white, middle and upper class former Republican housewives with kids, who's Republican husband has run out on them with his floozy secretary. Then they, with no job and years out of the work force, end up on welfare because the fell for the dream and thought their Republican man would actually honor all the lip service he gave at the country club parties, while he was degrading the Democrats about no moral values. Don't think it is true - look at the Republican front runners.
"The message you are asking is more in tune with Republican voters, specifically rural GOP'ers - farmers, middle class, etc. These people build their life on self sufficiency and hard work. They do NOT accept handouts because of a long tradition of pride and self sufficiency."
And yet they vote for the likes of George Bush, who never met a spending bill for kids he wouldn't veto, and never met a donor he wouldn't give a government job to, qualified or not. Who thinks we should have one giant North America, with no borders between Mexico and Canada. Who believes the way to help the middle class is to ship jobs overseas, cut aid to small farms, and use the money to give giant tax breaks to big oil and multi-millionaires.
Find me a Democrat, Republican or any other party that would run on - AND LIVE- the platform listed above and I will support him/her. I am a Republican - but I don't know what George Bush and his cronies are - they aren't Republican in any measure I was ever taught to believe in. They and the Neo-Con hacks have stolen the Republican party for their own personal gain. And it is time we take it back.
2007-11-08 10:47:30 · answer #1 · answered by Mcgoo 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No. Simply, no politician in this country can get elected on that platform. Americans are instant gratification oriented. They do not like hard work, planning, self-sufficiency, or do they have good judgement. This is especially true of Democrats. I don't mean this as a political or nasty statement, I mean it as a true one. The majority of the support base of the democratic party is urban. Many vote democrat because of social welfare and social handouts. The message you are asking is more in tune with Republican voters, specifically rural GOP'ers - farmers, middle class, etc. These people build their life on self sufficiency and hard work. They do NOT accept handouts because of a long tradition of pride and self sufficiency.
I'm a conservative libertarian, so no spin here. Good luck in your quest. You could have found a candidate for the Dems in 1945, but not 2007. FDR was the last, or maybe Harry Truman.
Jay
2007-11-08 10:21:34 · answer #2 · answered by Jay the Diver 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Sure, but not if they really mean it. They will all say those things to get elected. Except when speechifying in the lazy class parts of our cities. In those places they have to speak of victims and lack of opportunities and other socialist muck.
2007-11-08 12:09:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If a Dem endorsed these things, he wouldn't be a Dem. He would be a Republican and thus subject to ridicule and to being called an elitist. So, no he couldn't get elected. Not if the Dems and the media have anything to say about it, anyway.
2007-11-08 10:06:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
No way! They can prove me wrong though. I would be happy if they did promote responsibility and self sufficiency.
2007-11-08 12:33:32 · answer #5 · answered by Don't Know 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sure
If enough republicans vote for them as the dems wouldnt support someone with those views
2007-11-08 10:01:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yeah, maybe if there is such a thing as a "Good Politician!"
2007-11-08 10:02:52 · answer #7 · answered by Willie 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No they couldn't for it would be the greatest "unnatural act" a lib could do.
2007-11-08 10:44:43 · answer #8 · answered by infidel-louie 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Why Not ----- G. Bush lacks all of the above .
2007-11-08 10:15:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
have you seen George W. Bush's resume?
can you read?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WALIARHHLII
2007-11-08 10:43:14 · answer #10 · answered by leftypower 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋