The last 8 years have really embarassed the Republican party, in my opinion. George Bush was not the best choice for them.

I do however believe in many of their ideas.

I believe that...

- Marriage should only be between man and woman
- No abortions (unless being victim of rape or similar incidents)
- Lower taxes
- Less government involvement in business
- Religion should be allowed to be practiced freely
- Gun rights
- Death penalty, only for a crime so severe, though

I would really like to have seen Mitt Romney win in 08', had he stayed. Maybe, him and Huckabee...

I am an conservative but most admit, we deserved the butt kicking we got this past election. However, I still believe in the ideals. Moral issues are a big deal to me and I favor less government not more government. I believe in a strong military and I am not a fan of "distributing the wealth." I am sick of rewarding lazy people who refuse to work. You have women with eight children from eight different fathers, who refuse to get and education because a free check comes to them every month. They live in a bigger house and drive a nicer care than most of us do.

Following their brother the Democratic Party towards Totalitarianism

Lil' Bush and his team of trigger happies had many years to help prepare the americans for the real problems facing our world today. They took the money and they're still running.

Update: Some time in the wilderness is exactly what the GOP needs to get its act together, and I'm proud to be a part of booting them out.  They've become a party of big spending theocrats that is starting to look more like a regional party of the deep south, than any sort of national player. 

Maybe some time out of power will bring them back to their roots of small government, pragmatic foreign policy, and personal responsibility.  I will welcome them back to the national scene when they do this.  Let's leave the fringe lunatics to represent information challenged voters at the local level, and bring the adults back to represent this grand old party at the national level.

Original: ** The Republicans need a drubbing in the upcoming elections, I think. The American people gave Republicans control of the house, the senate, and the executive, and they have utterly failed us. Our reputation and moral standing around the world has been trashed, our spending is out of control, and the party of morals and family values is paralyzed by sex and corruption scandals. The combination of a Republican president and Republican congress has been a catastrophe. Wherever you stand on on the political spectrum (I voted Republican for governor of California and will likely vote Republican for President in 2008), it's time to hold politicians accountable for their failures. ** I have serious Republican tendencies, or at least I thought I did. I am a fanatical capitalist. I believe that there is no shame in being successful. I believe that everybody can make something of themselves through hard work and perseverance - I abhor the victim mentality. I think that the United States has traditionally been a force for good around the world, and even with all of our current shortcomings, that we continue, for the most part, to try and do the right thing. I'm proud to be an American. But I also believe that a good government is like a good referee in a sporting event - if they're doing their job well, you should barely notice them. All of these things being said, I disagree with, no I DESPISE, the current direction of the Republican party. I hate the bloated, intrusive, fiscally irresponsible behemoth government that George W. Bush has built. I hate the future tax burden he is placing on all of us, especially our children. I hate his belief that government knows best, and that federal government should be used to regulate our activities in our homes, our bedrooms, and our thoughts. And I'm terrified by the rising theocrat movement that seems bent on replacing reason with religious fundamentalism. The Republican Party of George W. Bush is almost unrecognizable from what it was under Ronald Reagan. Its principles of small government, fiscal responsibility, and pragmatism have been scrapped in order to broaden the Party's base - a tactic that has worked to decimate the Democrats. It's time for a third Party, as the current two don't make any sense to me.

Destroying everything

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JOE REPUBLICAN :

Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards.

With his first swallow of coffee, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought to insure their safety and that they work as advertised.

All but $10 of Joe's medications are paid for by his employer's medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance - now Joe gets it too. He prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs. Joe's bacon is safe to eat because some girly-man liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.

In the morning shower, Joe reaches for his shampoo. His bottle is properly labeled with each ingredient and its amount in the total contents because some crybaby liberal fought for his right to know what he was putting on his body and how much it contained.

Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. the air he breathes is clean because some environmentalist wacko liberal fought for laws to stop industries from polluting our air.

He walks to the subway station for his government-subsidized ride to work. It saves him considerable money in parking and transportation fees because some fancy-pants liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.

Joe begins his work day. He has a good job with excellent pay, medical benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some lazy liberal union members fought and died for these working standards.

Joe's employer pays these standards because Joe's employer doesn't want his employees to call the union. If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed, he'll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some stupid liberal didn't think he should lose his home because of his temporary misfortune.

Its noontime and Joe needs to make a bank deposit so the can pay some bills. Joe's deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some godless liberal wanted to protect Joe's money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the GreatDepression.

Joe has to pay his Fannie Mae-underwritten mortgage and his below-market federal student loan because some elitist liberal decided that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his lifetime.

After work this evening, Joe plans to visit his father at his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive. His car is among the safest in the world because some America-hating liberal fought for car safety standards.

He arrives at his boyhood home. His was the third generation to live in the house financed by Farmers' Home Administration because bankers didn't want to make rural loans. The house didn't have electricity until some big-government liberal stuck his nose where it didn't belong and demanded rural electrification.

Joe is happy to see his father, who is now retired and lives on Social Security and a union pension because some wine-drinking, cheese-eating liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn't have to.

Joe gets back in his car for the ride home, and turns on a radio talk show. The radio host keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. He doesn't mention that the beloved Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day.

Joe agrees: "We don't need those big-government liberals ruining our lives! After all, I'm a self-made man who believes everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have."

UPDATE:

http://www.youtube.com/v/FiQJ9Xp0xxU

"A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so many others her age, she considered herself to be a very liberal Democrat, and among other liberal ideals, was very much in favor of higher taxes to support more government programs, in other words redistribution of wealth.


She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch Republican, a
feeling she openly expressed. Based on the lectures that she had
participated in, and the occasional chat with a professor, she felt that
her father had for years harbored an evil, selfish desire to keep what he
thought should be his.

One day she was challenging her father on his opposition to higher taxes on
the rich and the need for more government programs. The self-professed
objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be the truth and she
indicated so to her father. He responded by asking how she was doing in
school.

Taken aback, she answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA, and let
him know that it was tough to maintain, insisting that she was taking a
very difficult course load and was constantly studying, which left her no
time to go out and party like other people she knew. She didn't even have
time for a boyfriend, and didn't really have many college friends because
she spent all her time studying.

Her father listened and then asked, How is your friend Audrey doing?

She replied, Audrey is barely getting by. All she takes are easy classes,
she never studies, and she barely has a 2.0 GPA. She is so popular on
campus; college for her is a blast. She's always invited to all the
parties, and lots of times she doesn't e ven show up for classes because
she's too hung over.

Her wise father asked his daughter, Why don't you go to the Dean's office
and ask him to deduct a 1.0 off your GPA and give it to your friend who
only has a 2.0. That way you will both have a 3.0 GPA and certainly that
would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA.

The daughter, visibly shocked by her father's suggestion, angrily fired
back, "That's a crazy idea. How would that be fair? I've worked really hard
for my grades! I've invested a lot of time, and a lot of hard work!
Audrey has done next to nothing toward her degree. She played while I
worked my tail off!

The father slowly smiled, winked and said gently, "Welcome to the
Republican Party. "

Currently suffering the fallout from kind of overweening hubris that helped do in the Democrats.

Appear to be headed for a visit to the political woodshed.

Hacks for corporatist sociopaths, the psychotic plutocracy.  They just haven't figure out that we've outgrown the need to look up to and to rely on wealthy psychos...which is why they're trying so hard to marginalize and scare the shit out of us with their divisive party politics.

Prediction:  Having served his usefulness, since Rove isn't really one of "them" (sociopathic plutocracy), he's going to disappear mysteriously.  He has far too much dirt on all of their mouthpieces in and out of Congress.

They should rename themselves the Evangelical Party or the Corporate Puppet Party.

What happened to the old GOP of Ford, Rockefeller, Goldwater and Archie Bunker? Bush and the White House really do want some sort of theoracracy in this country. This party has become anti-libertarian on social issues and warhawkish.

brother, can you spare a dime

  The Party of "conservatives" - that's what we call the people who have been consistantly and constantly and defiantly WRONG about EVERYTHING. Aside from believing that a rich Andover Prep School Male Cheerleader and a son of a former-President is a good ol' boy dirt-farmer oil-man cowboy and a brave war hero - and that Senator John Kerry was a draft-dodger, a liar and a traitor, they ALSO believe that women have abortions as a recreational activity, that dinosaur fossils were fakes carved out of rock, they still claim that biblical creation is the best literal explanation as to how the world came into existence, they argued AGAINST the round earth "theory".  They said that Tide soap was made by the devil at Proctor and Gamble, they claim that prayer is better and more efective than than medicine. They opposed child labor laws, women's sufferage, civil rights, ending Apartheid, freeing Nelson Mandela, they fought against fair voting laws, they wanted military troops to shoot and kill those who demanded the freedom of speech, they hate the idea of public schools, real science classes, seat belts, worker safety regulations, corporate oversight and accounting fudiciary regulations, they hate pollution laws, air bags, clean air and water laws and enforcement, they want the entire Federal government privatized and they deny the existence of the historical and legal concept known as the separation of church and state. They favored continued slavery, carried-out lynchings complete with hymn-singing and flag waving, they fought for continued segregation and they praised the church bombings in Bombingham, Alabama, they supported the KKK and the Nazi Party and the only reason that they PRETEND to like Rev. Martin Luther King NOW - is because he was THE ONLY BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST on that balcony that their boy James Earl Ray could hit with the rifle shot. In other words, Rev. Martin Luther King is just DEAD ENOUGH so that they can LIE about what he really stood for!

They constantly revise EVEN RECENT HISTORY on the fly, to make Adolph Hitler into a liberal atheist Jewish pro-abortion anti-gun homosexual, (morphing him into everything that he HATED and everyone that he SLAUGHTERED when he was alive) and they can EASILY convince their own illiterate wingnuts that Thomas Jeferson was REALLY one of their fellow PRO-THEOCRACY lunatics - even though he cut-up his own bible, taking out all the nutty "jesus-is-magic" stuff with a scalpel and razor, then passed it out to members of congress!

What the Republican Party REALLY WANTS is a dysfunctional, fiscally broke, physically broken, horribly corrupt federal government (just like Gee Dubya Bush, Cheney and Halliburton have made it) and they want the abortion clinic bomber, Eric Robert Rudolph, released from Federal Prison and put on the bench as a federal judge. The FReeperz sent rat poison-tainted cookies to members of the US Supreme Court after Ann Coulter and Michelle Malking called for them to do so - the anthrax mail envelopes went to Rush Limbaugh's personal hit-list and the Oklahoma City Bombing was hailed as a great thing by the gun-show and hand-grenade wing of the GOP. They still believe that Iraq is a ROARING SUCCESS and that George Dubya Bush is GREAT AMERICAN PRESIDENT!

Yes, they are UTTERLY and COMPLETELY delusional and SkEeRy-eYed, SALivATinG, BarKiNG Mo0nBaT INsaNe, and our BIGGEST threat from them is their continued political existence thru infiltration: We have to keep their right-wing religious rats from quietly swimming onto OUR Democratic Party BOAT as the Republican's "good shipwreck lolipop" slowly sinks beneathe the waves due to their clever navigation.

Everybody grab an oar, we're gonna play whack-a-nut!

  The Republican party is the only major party that is against abortion and gay marriage, these are issues that I will never support and I must say that I am disappointed that so many Republicans are becoming more and more accepting of this. Though I believe that the majority are still against it, the Repubilican party needs to get back to its conservative beliefs and religious morals.  Another reason for my support for this party is unlike many Democrats we republicans want to help and support the military and not destroy it as Clinton did. (Democrats=Communist)

The Republican party of T. Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Goldwater, and Reagan is currently spending 40 days and 40 nights in the wilderness, hoping to avoid extinction. Republicans have become a parody of former greatness since Bush 41 determined to return their power base to the Rockefeller/ blue blood days. Additionally, whatever happened to the so-called "contract with America"? I can't think of one pledge there that was kept- and that was not the fault of Democrats.

Ho hum. This group is heading back to the political wilderness compliments of Bush.  2006 was just a start.  2008 will be worse as the "Surge" in Iraq guarantees that the war will go on past the next general election.  Bush must not have read the returns.  The electorate didn't vote for anything, they voted against Bush and Bush's war.


The problem for the GOP is going to be long term.  After getting thumped in 2008, the Democratic state legislators elected in that year, assuming many of them are four year terms, will merrily be reapportioning and gerrymandering Congressional and legislative seats after the 2010 census, and that will lock in the Democratic majorities until some seismic shift, such as the GOP landslide in 1994 comes along again in the next generation to shift the balance.

I find it difficult to rate political parties. For me, it depends: the moderate libertarian wing of the party gets four stars from me, but the neo-conservative wing gets only 2 stars. And of course it depends on the candidate who runs. I'm sure you can define your rating of each political party based on their positions on the social issues, but even then, a brief examination of judicial appointments shows that the Republican Party has contributed their own fair share of liberal jurists to the bench, for example David Souter, John Paul Stevens, or Earl Warren; likewise the Democrats have contributed conservatives like Hugo Black to the court as well. There's no way you can really know how a justice will vote, so the issue of judges shouldn't be at issue when it comes to political parties. The social issues like abortion don't motivate me that much. Even though I am generally pro-life on that issue, it is not a deal-breaker for me. Those issues like gay right and abortion are controlled by the federal courts, and even when theyre not, it is usually a local issue. I vote on fiscal issues and foreign policy. Generally in the past I've supported the Republican Party because of their realist foreign policy and their balanced and prudent approach to budgetary matters. This is a tradition that has dominated the party since the last century, going to the current Presidents own father. The son has been influenced by the neo-conservatives too much. Many from this wing of the party were former Democrats who advocated an aggressive approach to the Soviet Union during the 1970s. That included ending detente, which I've argued before on this site actually set the stage for the end of the Cold War. That wing of the party is big government and highly corporatist (direct subsidies to large corporations) when it comes to fiscal policy and almost imperialist on foreign policy questions.

The party over the past 6 years has been very highly disciplined, with a strongly honed-in ideological message. Now this works when you can define the debate, but when events intervene, you need to bend with political reality. That is why the neo-conservative agenda was repudiated in the 2006 election. Truth is that many of their policies have been far too rigid, too far right of center to build a strong working majority. Many of their policies like privatizing social security, although innovative, is simply the wrong solution to the problem. The country certainly hasn't moved left, but they are not happy with the current state of events in the GOP either.

Mixing corporatist economic policy with an imperialist foreign policy together has many perils, some of which has become evident. Luckily the party is beginning to come around on these things, as many of the neo-conservatives favorite programs, like direct intervention in the Middle East, have been largely discredited. The person who wins the nomination in 2008 will almost certainly distance themselves at least somewhat from that wing of the party. Doing so will increase their chances of retaining the White House in the long term.

The continuing implosion of this party is a fascinating study in how not to govern, legislate or run an evangelical church. They have taken over as the corruption party from Democrats who used to have a fairly strong indentification with that attribute. They have co-opted things that they used to and still do demonize Democrats for. Undisciplined spending, lax immigration policies and the enormous expansion of government. They have also let lobbying of Congress get way out of control. Here's an article to explain. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/21/AR2005062101632.html It is also interesting to listen to many Republicans sell out Chuck Hagel for supporting the symbolic vote against the President's plan to add a "surge" of troops into Iraq. I heard people on C-SPAN calling him "disgusting" and "a Republican in name only" and another caller actually said "I think it is good to have liberal Republicans in Congress" and then he went on to explain why he disagreed with Hagel. Name only? Liberal? Lincoln Chafee he's not. Check his voting record. http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members /h001028/key-votes/ The other current event that could create some damage for the party is the Scooter Libby trial. I will reserve judgment on that until it is resolved, but at least as far as public perception of the party goes, there is no doubt that great harm could be done. A presidential pardon after a conviction is going to do nothing for the party's supposed "tough on crime" rhetoric. We'll see. Bush has changed this party, perhaps permanently. Ideology holds sway over realism much to the party's detriment.

They love oil, global warming, and more. This political group is so full of non-sense its not even funny. Trickle down economics? Favoring big companies is nothing to be proud of. They are non-American as well.

Update:
Calling Democrats names? Here's a few Republican names

1. On oil: Drill and pump conservatives.
2. On the enviornment: Pollute and ignore Conservatives
3. On the issues: Ignore and don't care conservatives
4. On defense: Ignore and lie

Update:
Welcome Jim Webb, Bob Casey, and others to the U.S. Senate after this 2006 mid-term elections.

This Republican party is not even republican party, they are un-american dictators who don't care about nobody but their lame selves.

Makes me sad that people support them.

There seems to be only conservatives and moderates in this party, but since the moderates are to the left of Ted Kennedy and Dingy Harry, I'm glad they don't have any liberals. We don't need any Joe Stalins or other left wing despots to run for office here. Republicans seem to campaign on the right and then rule on the left. I liked Ike, but he was the last Republican that Democrats tolerated. I would like to ban the Democrat Party altogether, but that would only drive more kooks to join them, but that's another topic. Republicans say they are against abortion, but none dare call it murder (which it is). Roman men could throw a newborn child out of the house if he didn't like it, so I guess we catching up to them slowly.

Their attempts to ban Internet poker will mean fewer dumb rednecks for me to take money from when I play on PokerStars. :-( It'll be harder when most of the players are European...It's funny that both the besst and the most pathetic poker players are American... Oh...And neo-conservatism and theocracy suck too.

If you ignore the poor and enjoy making a fool out of yourself then by all means choose this party. Most reps I know say things like OH YEAH and NASCAR IS A SPORT YEE HAW!!

This is my ideological home.It is the party of Lincoln and Reagan.This party also numbers as its members:Teddy Roosevelt(you know,the Roosevelt with a clue),John mcCain and Rudolph Giuliani. So why am I giving this ship of fools only 3 stars?It seems to me that this bunch became what they despised.During the gingrich Revolution of 1994,they came into power with good ideas to shrink government,to play by the same rules you and I must observe and to discuss ideas.This sad group has instead presided over a balloning of the deficit,record amounts of earmarks,Jack Abramoff,Coziness to big energy and oil interest and a major expansion of the size and scope of the government.As Burke said,absolute power corrupts absolutely.And that is what is happening to these people.Considering the alternative,this is the lesser of the 2 evils.However,they have been a disappointing group,so because of that..3 stars.

A group of deluded individuals.

The differnce between Democrats and Republicans: Democrats: Strong military Clean enviornment Good, clean schools More quallity jobs Love for America Republicans: The opposite

On the surface, Republicans are a decent enough party. They believe in issues most of us can get behind - Family values, a strong military, hard work, personal responsibility, The importance of religion, the ability of people to earn a living and make the most out of what they have and then enjoy the rewards of their hard work and earning. It's a message that plays well across their economic and social constituancy, explaining why blue collar workers as well as high level white collar and wealthy individuals get behind the basic message they have. Problem is , for all the upfront ideals ,there are hypocritical, misguided ideals that pervert the core of what they are. Republicans are stubborn in their ideals. They either dont want to or cannot understand the complex problems and issues that face the nation. These are things they just dont want to deal with and are hard to compromise on. Issues like poverty, the environment, affirmative action, gay marraige, abortion, are Black-and-White issues that they take a firm stance on without trying to understand the complexity of the issue. They also have little tolerance for those who are different than themselves - Minorities, gays, women , the younger generation , are groups they do little to court outside of those who are clearly aligned with their politics. Republicans love to blame these groups for each groups' own problems , citing reasons that are ony semi-true. They'd rather cast blame and use scapegoat adversaries as excuses for what ails America - ei. Liberal Media Bias is why people think the way they do when it doesnt jibe with their party line. Republicans at the higher end of the economic spectrum are also a real problem. They dont want to see the value of goverment agencies and taxes. They do not see the value of social services and do not think some services are necessary, instead blaming the victim or knee-jerk Liberals who somehow are "soft" and feel like they must help others. At the same time this end of the Party will pay to get tax shelters, get tax write-offs and lie, cheat and steal to make an extra buck. Greed is good for them. They also are hardly examples of what they preach socially and with "family values". Staunch Segregationalist Strom Thurmond had a black daughter out of wedlock for example. The Party has also been subverted by the Religious Right. A wealthy and influential aspect of the party that wields way too much power and influence over their members. Right wing religious-types fund Republicans for their own selfish agenda in an attempt to impose their values on mainstream America, So far only half the country is buying it - hence Red States ( Mostly Southern and Midwest states where religion is huge ) vs Blue States ( mostly Norhtern and Western states ) and urban areas where more diversity and sophistication exist. The party is slowly headed downward under the current administration, as poor a Republican party representation as we've seen in generations. Reagan, even a Democrat could grudgingly get behind, but Bush is a disaster. In his second term we're seeing all the flaws and negative aspects of the Party at work. 2008 cant come soon enough.

This is the party I chose to register with. I believe in almost all of their views. In contrast to the Democrats, they don't complain, point fingers, and give bogus advice to solving problems. Rather they get things done, solve problems, and put up with endless criticism. Update: not all republicans are rich white people. I am a good example. They are very inclusive. The vast majority of the south is Republican (see 2004 election map) and they are on the lower end of the economic per capita spectrum. Tax cuts help everyone. They were the political party that advocated equality and abolition. We're called the Grand Old Party for a reason. :-)

Blah...Blah...Blah...Blah (yawn). Wipe the spittle from your chin, people, take a deep breath and understand we are all Americans here. You like Republicans...fine. You like Democrats...fine. If your rich and ignorant...run for office. If your educated and intelligent...run a corporation... ...Umm, just make sure the Republicans are in power...they'll give you the biggest tax break. (Damn it, I started it all over again)

My party since I was old enough to vote, and even before that actually. The reality, unfortunately, is that the GOP is a mess. It just doesn't seem that way because the main opposition is somewhat worse. After all, how accomplished do you have to be to be the preferred alternative to Teddy Kennedy, Howard Dean and Al Sharpton? Every time the Republicans sink to a new level (unlimited detention for terrorist suspects who have no access to counsel, Intelligent Design, Terry Schiavo, etc.) the Democrats always seem to one up them (Fahrenheit 911, Government set asides for pre-natal care for illegal aliens, Affirmative Action, etc.). The bottom line is that my party will not improve (i.e. toss out the religious nuts) until the Democrats clean their own house (i.e. farewell to the race baiters). Why should it? The status quo has the Republicans winning ... again and again. In the 21st century (to date, anyway) the GOP is considered the lesser of two evils by a narrow majority. And I think that's a reasonable conclusion to draw. Both parties largely want a large interventionist government, little enforcement of our immigration laws, and to perpetuate their own importance. The major difference is in the rhetoric ... but that's about it.

ya, I use to belong to the Republican Party, because I did'nt know any better. I'm just glad I found a real Christian Party. I found the Contitution Party just in time (that is just before the 2004 elections). Stop voting for someone who says they are a christian but then goes in a shine in Japan and bows down in front of an idol, ya thats someting you won't hear on CBN will you. wake up and realize the republican party is NOT a party that hold christian values.

This party does not respect the freedom of speech or the freedom of religion. If you speak your mind and become a potential threat to this party, you will be silenced. Those protesters at his ranch on thanksgiving were arrested because Bush came up with a county law that prohibits camping on roadsides in Crawford Texas after Sheehan left. If this is the case, then what is the point in having the freedom speech if you are not allowed to make a difference, simply because you will be shutdown if you oppose them. I hope people dont let this party dictate what this country stands for. It should be decided by the people. Do people actually think that the freedom of religion exist. I think its more like freedom of "our" religion. I guess people don't understand what the seperation of religion and state. I know Bush doesn't. Religion has no place in politics. I am sick of hearing "god Bless" this and that. Its complete ignorance. I personally think that christians are the most ignorant people on the planet. This party is full of them. If they hear anything that they dont want to hear, then they wont hear it. They would rather look away and take a vacation then look at the facts. I just can't belive that people support this administration. They are stupid and ignorant.

Bought and paid for toadys of the parasitic rich who wrap themselves in Churchianity and nationalism to be marketable.

Republicans rule the House, Senate, White house, and have more court appointments than the Dems. It has been this way for a while. Look around you. We are failing at an accelerating rate. We are looking more and more like idiots to rest of the world. How much money are we borrowing every day from the Saudis, the Chinese, and the Japanese? A country as great as we used to be needs the Chinese to finance the day to day running of our nation. Wake up Sheeple!

If the Republican party stuck to it's true economic values and were actually socially liberal on social issues maybe I would vote for them, but unfortunately. I care too much about social issues to vote for the Republicans.

It's funny, the answer for some people as to why they are a republican ("they don't spend my taxes") has become a fallacy, at best.

The party continues to drift closer and closer to governing like the democrats. Spending billions of dollars of other peoples' money proves to be too much temptation for either party in the majority, and the concept of federalism continues to dissipate before our very eyes. The republicans used to stand for smaller, less intrusive government through lower taxes and a reduction in the scope of the federal government by deregulating nationalized industries, pushing responsibility toward the state governments, allowing decision-making to be done on a more decentralized basis. But the lure of a stronger, behemoth, centralized government is too tempting. We get it when we ask for it and when we don't. Disaster relief will now become a federal responsibility as George Bush has acknowledged the cacophonous criticism (spouted by the absolute whiniest and most shrill of his dedicated opponents, people who hate Bush so much, they'll characterize the complete breakdown of disaster relief at all levels, as the racism of one man) and has said, "OK, I took the hit. Let's federalize it now. Let's assign responsibility for every FEMA situation now to the Pentagon. " That's what the democrats want and by golly that's what they're gonna get. So, now when your area endures an earthquake, tornado, hurricane, major fire or explosion, terrorist attack, any declaration of a federal disaster area, get ready to cede ground control over to federal troops. It's particularly ironic that several staunch liberals would invoke federalism and states' rights as their CRITICISM of George Bush. It was just a handy tool, a handy weapon the size of a tomato to be thrown at Bush. This is what happens when the opposition party has no soul. No direction. No cause, except hatred and obstruction. They're no longer democrats. They're not even liberals. They're simply the party of "I hate Bush. "

The Republican party is one of the few institutions in America that respects our heritage as a conservative Christian nation.

This parody of a political party makes me laugh. I'm waiting for the motley bunch of self-serving individuals to self-combust. Ha Ha. I've noticed this party has been hijacked by wackjobs with despotic social tendencies. Yes please control me, I really want that! The public needs to stop with the delusions that Republican politicians have morals, morals + politics is an oxymoron. They tickle the middle-class demographic right to the polls and ditch them after election day for their corporate buddies. Don't get huffy about my rating, I'm rating the PARTY, not you. If you're a Republican and feel indignant, such is life. Don't be so aligned to a political party anyway.

If they cut spending to offset tax cuts I would give them a higher rating. Bush's war also decreases this rating. Plus the religious wackos (formerly the william jennings bryant wing of the democratic party) have no business in a serious political party. I like the more liberatarian branch of the party.

I have an uncle who's a Republican.....Yeah, he's a real A-Hole!!( I'm not saying he's an A-Hole because he's a Republican, I'm saying he's a Republican BECAUSE he's an A-Hole. Again, I would NEVER generalize.)

As a former Republican and a lifelong resident of a solid red state, I am officially tendering my resignation. George W. Bush is an embarrasment to our great nation, all we have left is fond memories of the Reagan years. This party has alienated me with it's increasing push toward theocracy and destruction of our natural environment. That is not to say i've become a Democrat, but I am done with the GOP

As a life-long republican, I don't believe the party is the best it can be, but certainly better than the alternatives. BTW, metal666, thanks for the compliments!

A dangerous joke of a party

controlled by near extremists on the right now. not good short or long term for America.

They don't give my money away to jobless deadbeats. I had better equipment in the U.S.M.C. with one in office than with Bubba. Hmmm. UPDATE: geog84 is making me tear up. (sniff)

They have made great strides in recent years to become more of a party of inclusion, something the Democrats still like to consider themselves. It is still the only major party that still takes tradition into consideration, and that is very appealing to most people. They aren't perfect, but seem to be much more open minded than they were years ago, as well as more open minded than their reputation.

THESE CRAZY CAPITALIST POIG DON'T KNOW ANYTHING. THEY WILL BE SENT TO LABOR CAMPS IN SIBERIA!

Name needs to be changed to: The Christian Oil party.