Wednesday, February 03, 2010

POLITICS - From a Fellow Blogger, GOP

"Are you Republicans serious?" by Loyd Ericson, Project Mayhem

I often get accused of grossly over-exaggerating and over-generalizing my stereotypes of Republicans. After seeing this recent poll by the Daily Kos, I feel rather justified.

Here are some of the wonderful results from polled Republicans:

  • If 2012 elections were today, Palin would receive the most support with 16% of Republicans. Romney comes in second with 11%. Cheney--yes, that DICK Cheney--is third with 10%

  • 39% believe Obama should be impeached. Why? I'm not sure. I'm guessing it has to do with a combination of him being a black, Kenyan, Soviet, Nazi democrat. Or something like that

  • 36% believe Obama was not born in the US. That's right. More than one out of three Republicans are Birthers

  • 63% believe that Obama is a socialist--though I'm not sure they know what that means

  • 24% believe Obama wants the terrorists to win

  • 21% believe ACORN somehow managed to steal the 2008 elections and give Obama his overwhelming win

  • 53% believe that Sarah Palin is more qualified to be president that Obama--yes, that's right. at least 53%--MORE THAN HALF--of Republicans believe Palin is qualified to be president

  • 31% believe Obama is a racist who hates white people

  • 23% believe their state should secede from the US

  • 73% believe that openly gay men or women should not be allowed to teach public school

  • 77% believe public school students should be taught that the book of Genesis in the Bible explains how God created the world

  • 31% believe contraceptions should be outlawed

  • 91% support the death penalty

HIGHLY suggest readers look at the actual numbers via the link in my article above.

As to the "socialist" issue, socialism has been given a bad wrap for a very long time (a hangover from the '50s). As in socialism = communism = dictatorship, etc. But in reality this ignores that many of our international democratic friends have socialistic policies, such as national healthcare (that works by the way).

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