democrat or republican?

[Lyka]

I just wanna see if I'm right soooooooo.... a poll seems like it would answer my question

[James]

[color=#507AAC]I hope there can actually be some [i]discussion[/i] here, rather than just one word answers. Though I'm sure there will be. ~_^[/color]

[Guest Matt]

[color=red][b]I happen to be republican. The less the government controls my life, the better. :)[/b][/color]

[Spikey]

[COLOR=darkblue]I'm a democrat. My grandma is invloved in everything that has to do with the goverment. She is my town's trustee.[/color]

[Foredaddy]

republican by trade. republican by life.;)

[GinnyLyn]

[color=crimson]Yes, let's keep this as a DISCUSSION, and not a FLAME FEST, heh.

Republican. The less the government is telling me how to do stuff, the better. I need to live the way I do. That's what life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is all about, IMO.
I always saw the government as being the "person" that can do stuff citizens couldn't or shouldn't be allowed to--like punish wrong doers, negotiate with foreign countries, etc. [/color]

[Deedlit]

[color=009966]Republican. The less the government tells me, the better. :p:cross:[/color]

[Valen]

... Communistic Rabbits will invide the earth one day! Er... I mean, yeah... Republican for me too... same reasons, and plus my grandpa doesn't want us to be anything else (Long story a to why we're living with him...), SO I'M stuck as a republican... I was going for Al Gore the whole way anyway....

[Sui Generis]

Personally I'm neither. I'm not into the whole classifying thing. When I vote I'm gonna vote for the best man regardless of what political party they represent. I don't even thing there should be political parties, but thats for another discussion, another time.

Anyways yeah I'm neither, and proud of it!

[Juu]

[color=deeppink] [size=1]I'm with 'other', because I'm not any of them. I'm happy making my own decisions on who's doing well, and who's not, without sterotyping with the parties. ^_^

Although for some reason... I think I'm a little more democrat, even if I've lived in Texas for nearly half my life...[/color] [/size]

[Chaos]

'Communist Rabbits' nothing! YOU WILL AWAIT THE COMING OF THE COMMUNIST FLAMINGOS!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

O_o;;;

In all honesty, I'm a semi-Communist at heart. I don't know why, but the part about the government proving everything I need/want sounds like a great idea. Too bad it doesn't work that way. But I vote Republican.

[Genkai]

neither really, but democratic i guess... i mean, it's more reasonable, imho. I've read about Jefferson and the "Democratic Republicans", etc... *shrugs*

but neil, yah. Socialism is a good idea that never worked.

[Schrat]

juu, I totally agree with you. I go with what i feel is right, and what is best for the country

[Transtic Nerve]

I'm a registered Democrat, however that doesn't mean I vote straictly democratic when it comes to issues. I'm liberal when it comes to domestic issues; ie: Minority rights, women's choice, pro gun control, etc etc (however it doesn't apply to every single issue) and republican when it comes to fiscal issues. I like the way the republicans run the money, even if we're in an economic slump. They tend to give more money back, but it tends to cost more in the end. It really all depends. I would register myself as independent, but I would like to vote in the primaries.

However, as far as I see politics, I only think of two things....

Republicans don't know when to shut their mouths and Democrats don't know when to keep their pants on.

[Kent]

My god...

I am truely in awww. No words can descibe the shock on my face to see how many people are republicans.

I totally thought this entire board was full of democrates.

I have found my home.

Do I really even need to say where I fall?

Well just to make my place even more clear, I wanna say exactly how I feel.

I am a liberal republican.

I am very individual in all of my beliefs.

I believe that the rights of legal regestered gun owners should be preserved. (we need to go after criminals)

I believe that many "crimes" are a big waste of time for the gov. to enforce. Namely MARIJUANA. Its not worth breaking up a family, even though I must admit I dont smoke it any more.

I believe in the right to have an abortion in cases of incest and rape. But not as a last ditch effort for birth control.

I believe homosexuals should be left alone to do as they wish, I just hate have crap waved in my face when I never tried to suppress something in the first place.

I believe the military is an absolutely nessacary element of any nation. With out one, you are weak, flat out. I also believe in being judicious about using that force.

I believe in giving to charity, but not being forced to give. I wanna keep my money for my family and I, then after that I will consider helping the less fortunate.

I believe the enviroment should be cherished. But putting legislation on every new car does nothing if you dont bother the 18 wheelers doing all the enviro-terrorism. (we need to use hydrogen)

I believe that people should have all their civil rights preserved, but I dont like the aclu sticking up for nambla all the while ignoring the middle class white kids being suspended for putting patriotic posters on their lockers.

Most of all, I side with republicans because all I hear all day long is how democrates want to help out minorities, yet they never really do.

first black secretary of state. Black national security advisor. Those positions weren't given out under any (d) administrations.
Yet the current adm. doesnt even bother to point out what they have done, nor does anyone acknowledge it.Also a black sec. of education. And bush 41 put in the first black joint chief of staff.

Plus that chessy lie about rep. wanting the rich to get richer and the poor to be poorer. or taking seniors medicine away. Thats all crap. rep. just dont sling enough mud, like that snake handling carvell.

Plus, when eisinhower tried to integrate public schools, the distenguished gentlemen from tenn. (d) voted against it. coincedentally this fella had the last name...Gore. (father to you know who, and sad thing is that its true)

Of course, there are actually many other reasons I consider myself a republican voter.

But there are even more for why I am in the middle of the road.

[James]

[color=#507AAC]In Australia, we have two major parties; Liberal (Republican) and Labor (Democrat).

Generally I vote Liberal, because I am happy with the way they run our economy. The Liberal party is the reason why Australia was unaffected by the Asian economic crisis and they are pretty much the sole reason why we continue to be one of the world's highest performing economies.

Having said that, I prefer Labor's social policy. That is, equal rights for [i]all[/i] citizens, gun control (although the Liberal party is now moving in that direction, for various reasons...which is great), a woman's right to choose (whether or not I would personally support abortion is another matter -- but I don't like the idea of the Government stepping in and taking control of something like that) and welfare.

So, generally I vote differently at nearly every election. Sometimes I vote Labor...but mostly I vote Liberal. In Federal elections I voted Democrat, though (Democrats are one of the smaller parties...they are somewhat like Labor, only much smaller).

So yeah, that's my political ideology in a nutshell. I would never box in myself in as either conservative or liberal, because I believe that each ideology is only half of the equation. It is actually ideal to take a little of BOTH schools of politics when running a country. You know, get the best of both worlds. If you choose only one path and refuse to consider other ideas, you're only operating in an inefficient and ineffective manner.[/color]

[Kinetic]

[color=darkblue]
I myself am a republican, but that's only because I was born into a republican family. I have never really known the differences between the two parties, and I have never really cared.

Politics are necessary, but I'd rather stay out of them. Some day I will look in to it, but until then, I'd rather not worry about it.
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[Kent]

Thats interesting, I never knew much about australlia and politics there, besides one thing. Although almost everyone hates america, australlia is full of descent people who have always supported my country. For that I say thank you.

But I though I would mention, does anyone remember britians economy going to hell after the big labor party take over and then margaret thatcher bringing it back to life?

Or what about asia's economy, specifically japan. I mean damn, selling all those cars in america and still in an economic slump for the last, what, 15 years?

jeez.

Sorry, didnt mean to get up and change the subject.

I much preffer the democrate/republican discussion.

And so... lets get back to that, my bad.

Just a reminder.

Im the big liberal republican. Yea, you heard me right! just go read my justification on the first page.

[Manic Webb]

I'm a member of the Pharaohist Party. You see, I own this floating island that flies over Egypt where I preside as the island's god-decendant Pharoah. :)

Ok, seriously, I'm undeclared. I'm 18 and I didn't register to vote in the US election last month because I wasn't paying attention to the pliticians. I'm not going to vote for someone because of their party. I'd rather vote for someone because of what they stand for, and I just didn't hear any of that last month (mostly because I don't watch the news enough). There are some Democrats I agree with and some Republicans I agree with and I even liked Ralph Nader of the Green Party in the last presidential election.

I come from a Democratic family, but I'm not ready to claim a party. I'm just gonna vote for the lesser of however many evils decide to run for whatever office whichever year. :cross:

[Red]

[b]In England we actually have a lot of the smaller parties catching up with the biggest 3, which are the Liberal Democrats, Conservatives and Labour. The Liberal Democrats are the smallest out of the 3.

The smaller parties are groups like the Green Party, who are all big on environmentalism.

Labour are currently in power and have taken 6 years to even start getting themselves sorted, which is forgiveable because the Conservatives were in power for something like 16 years.. making some things hard to change.

Labour are swinging more towards a pro-European approach, considering a referendum (might have spelt it wrong, but it means a public vote) to decide if we change our currency to the Euro or not. Both parties are in support of most American actions such as Iraq and so forth, but that doesn't really come into this decision.

The Liberal Democrats managed a surprising vote number in the last election, and seem to be catching up with the two larger parties. This is mainly due to the fact that both parties made a mess of our public health service (NHS) and have both failed during their terms to deliver promises they made during election times. The Liberal Democrats do have some far out things they want to introduce though, like a £250,000 tax on people earning more than 1 million every year.

After explaining all that (lol) I just say I'm not pro-government, but not anti-government. I think we need leaders, but at the same time I see no point to 400 men and women deciding if we go to war or not. If I was [i]able[/i] to vote now, I would vote Liberal Democrat, because they need to show us what they can do.. if anything. :)[/b]

[Solo Tremaine]

I don't want to join the Euro yet- I'd only think about it when it's fully stabilised. A lot of countries are unhappy about it.

I dislike politics, generally. I saw the last general election posters and it really shocked me at how they tried to win votes- the campaign posters for Labour and the Tories were just slagging each other off, but the Liberal Democrats one actually showed a poignant message about education systems. The smallest party showed the best message about what they were actually going to do, rather than try and beat down the opposition by insulting them.

When I'm able to vote (which'll be next year), I'd vote for the Lib Demos, as I don't like Labour's policies on spin and the Conservatives don't really know which way they're going at the moment. They aren't a strong opposition to Labour, who seem to be disorganised and dishonest. I try and stay out of these things as much as possible, as it depresses me the way the country's being ruled by people who tell the public what they want, and they really screwed up the health, education (AS-Levels are, bluntly put, stupid) and social security of the country.

[Sandy]

Hey, I'm neither either! (funny words, teh!)

I, too, celebrated my 18th birthday last summer, so according to the Finnish laws, I get to vote on next spring's parliamental elections.

We have three main parties as well: social-democrats (right), center party and the conservatist ("bourgeois lefties" :P). The center has been in the opposition since forever, but now it seems it will rise as the BIGGEST party, past social-democrats, which my whole family is supporting.

I, personally, don't support any of the three, but the green-party, which is the fourth biggest party. Then there are the communists, christian-democrats and Finland's Swedes party (the biggest minority in my country -that's why we are bi-lingual!), but practically nothing else in the current parliament. Let's just see how things work next spring...

But basically this kind of diversity in political parties is only a good thing. It gives space, and you don't have to choose only between two. But each country will go with their own customs, I guess...

[Dan L]

ummm... I vote labour?... heh.. I dunno what that relates to in the US.. politics just one of a few things I don't really pay attention to that often..

[Avalon]

I was born a democrat and was raised to vote for all democrats but that's not really fair, and plus, I have friends that are republican, so I really don't want to argue about politics. And I would rather make my own decisions...so I go with "other"

[BabyGirl]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by gokents [/i]
[B]My god...

I am truely in awww. No words can descibe the shock on my face to see how many people are republicans.

I totally thought this entire board was full of democrates.[/B][/QUOTE]

[color=deeppink]So did I. The way most of you defend the rights of others in [i]countless[/i] other threads, I would have deemed you all Democrats! Then again, I suppose it just upholds my theory of most members just trying to sound holier than thou :p

::cough::

Anyway, I'm a Democrat. There are several issuses that are categorized as "Democratic" traits that I don't agree with, but most other Democratic views I am highly supportive of.[/color]