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Originally Posted by Antitrust32
So I dont know if I can be a republican anymore.
I was just reading the fox forum about Pelosi... and I just dont know if I can be associated with those type of people.
It was all hate speech directed at gays, hispanics, blacks, etc.. they called Obama a primate. Basically the people on that forum are the people who believe if you are not white and very much Christian, then you are not a "real" american.. but a psycho libtard.
What happened to the republican party? What happened to small goverment, strong military, low taxes & staying out of peoples lives?? The whole party is know being represented by people who preach hate instead of tolerence! What makes a white person better than an hispanic person... or a gay person worse than a straight person. NOTHING DOES.
The republican party will NEVER be of significance again if they do not change that perception. I know that the entire party is not like that, but the ones in the news give a the rep's a real bad name. The majority of this country has grown up and is way past prejudice and bigotry. This party needs a lot more John McCains and a lot less Sarah Palins.
I'm still going to believe in core conservative principles, but I'm going to stay far away from the fox forum.
Just venting.
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It's a good vent...and not because of the party affiliations. I would probably be willing to bend on the lesser of my "Liberal" leanings if the far right didn't freak me out so much. I think there are a lot of middle grounds on a lot of very sensitive issues that both sides are afraid to give any ground on. Would I like all guns to be eliminated from the face of the Earth...sure..Do I think it's realistic or reasonable, no. But if the gun control advocates are faced with the NRA's unbending message, the vision of Charlton Heston doing the "cold, dead hands" thing, etc how can I respect SOREHOOF and his feelings that guns are a right of ownership? Being called a Communist or a Dumbocrat just makes me that much more driven to shove the far right's ideas of how this World should be run up their ass. And I'm not talking about Conservatives...I'm talking about the lunatic fringe emboldened and encouraged by Coulter, Limbaugh, etc
Neither side will ever get everything they want, but I've always thought it pretty obvious which side preaches fear and which doesn't.