Why are you a Republican?

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So, I will preface this thread by mentioning that I am a Democrat who actually worked on the Obama campaign in Richmond, VA for the General Election. Yet, I was raised in East TN and have noticed that an overwhelming number of folks that post on this site are at minimum conservative thinkers and most, I imagine, consider themselves Republican.

Just for my own political curiosity, and I'm sure this question will get posed back on me, I am curious as to why each of you all are Republicans. I would especially appreciate responses that focus on why you ARE a Republican as opposed to why you are NOT a Democrat (which seems to be a common mistake from both sides). So, with that said, I look forward to hearing your responses and hope we can have an enjoyable and civilized discussion.
 
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I don't really like party affiliation but I lean to the Reps because they tend to represent the ideas of limited government and personal responsibility moreso than the alternative.
Pretty simple, don't you think?
 
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Mainly because I feel like handing as little as possible of my hard-earned money to the government.
 
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kptvol said:
Mainly because I feel like handing as little as possible of my hard-earned money to the government.
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Don't be so damned greedy. You're only making that money because someone else is broke.
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Liberal hippies piss me off.

I believe that the money I make should go where I want it to go. I'm fiscally conservative. I could give a rat's ass about gay marriage, abortions etc.
 
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WPAINE said:
So, I will preface this thread by mentioning that I am a Democrat who actually worked on the Obama campaign in Richmond, VA for the General Election. Yet, I was raised in East TN and have noticed that an overwhelming number of folks that post on this site are at minimum conservative thinkers and most, I imagine, consider themselves Republican.

Just for my own political curiosity, and I'm sure this question will get posed back on me, I am curious as to why each of you all are Republicans. I would especially appreciate responses that focus on why you ARE a Republican as opposed to why you are NOT a Democrat (which seems to be a common mistake from both sides). So, with that said, I look forward to hearing your responses and hope we can have an enjoyable and civilized discussion.
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I'm intelligent
 
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I'd like to take a sock full of quarters and beat the hell out of those on the extreme right and the extreme left side. That's just me.
 
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I would probably be considered socially liberal but fiscally conservative. Keeping my hard earned money trumps social liberalism.
 
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As a former Republican, I was a Republican because I hate,despise,loath government/politicians and cherish freedom!

Screw every one who hates liberty and believes in equality through government!

Government has never been the answer in any society in the history of the world.
 
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When you get the answer you seek.Will you please start a thread entitled why I am not a Republican or why am I a Democrat or even why is the Center the best place to be? :whistling:
 
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It doesn't bother them to hand over their hard earned children's money though, at least not enough to stop voting Republican after the Bush administration doubled the national debt in 8 yrs. Just keep voting Republican and expect a different result, that's their cree.

What I love is how you are expected to explain to them why you no longer support the party that lead us into the crisis we are in now. Instead of them explaining why they continue to support the party that lead us here. That is what is so bothersome.
 
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oklavol said:
It doesn't bother them to hand over their hard earned children's money though, at least not enough to stop voting Republican after the Bush administration doubled the national debt in 8 yrs. Just keep voting Republican and expect a different result, that's their cree.

What I love is how you are expected to explain to them why you no longer support the party that lead us into the crisis we are in now. Instead of them explaining why they continue to support the party that lead us here. That is what is so bothersome.
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Yeah, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton share zero of the blame for all this. And yeah, Obama really comes across as concerned about our national debt.
 
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kptvol said:
Yeah, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton share zero of the blame for all this. And yeah, Obama really comes across as concerned about our national debt.
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Bill Clinton had budget surpluses when he when he was in office. I guess you expect us to believe that most of the home foreclosures were on loans more then 8 years old? Hardly.....
 
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oklavol said:
Bill Clinton had budget surpluses when he when he was in office. I guess you expect us to believe that most of the home foreclosures were on loans more then 8 years old? Hardly.....
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Those guys were huge proponents of the legislation that allowed those loans to be issued. GWB, for all his faults, did manage to warn Congress about this issue more than once. Maybe if Obama, Dodd, and Frank weren't on the payroll of Freddie, Fannie, and AIG his warnings would have meant something. Don't act like this whole mess is solely W's fault.
 
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kptvol said:
Those guys were huge proponents of the legislation that allowed those loans to be issued. GWB, for all his faults, did manage to warn Congress about this issue more than once. Maybe if Obama, Dodd, and Frank weren't on the payroll of Freddie, Fannie, and AIG his warnings would have meant something. Don't act like this whole mess is solely W's fault.
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Bush fired the guy in his administration for speaking out publicly that Fannie and Freddie were near collapse. Thats a complete fabrication. Read this:

Eight years after arriving in Washington vowing to spread the dream of homeownership, Bush is leaving office, as he himself said recently, "faced with the prospect of a global meltdown" with roots in the housing sector he so ardently championed.

From his earliest days in office, Bush paired his belief that Americans do best when they own their own home with his conviction that markets do best when let alone.

He pushed hard to expand homeownership, especially among minorities, an initiative that dovetailed with his ambition to expand the Republican tent — and with the business interests of some of his biggest donors. But his housing policies and hands-off approach to regulation encouraged lax lending standards.

"The Bush administration took a lot of pride that homeownership had reached historic highs," Snow said in an interview. "But what we forgot in the process was that it has to be done in the context of people being able to afford their house. We now realize there was a high cost."
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White House philosophy stoked mortgage bonfire - International Herald Tribune
 
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Bush's own advisors admit they made mistakes, why cant you at least acknowledge it?
As early as 2006, top advisers to Bush dismissed warnings from people inside and outside the White House that housing prices were inflated and that a foreclosure crisis was looming. And when the economy deteriorated, Bush and his team misdiagnosed the reasons and scope of the downturn; as recently as February, for example, Bush was still calling it a "rough patch."
The result was a series of piecemeal policy prescriptions that lagged behind the escalating crisis.
"There is no question we did not recognize the severity of the problems," said Al Hubbard, Bush's former chief economics adviser, who left the White House in December 2007. "Had we, we would have attacked them."
Looking back, Keith Hennessey, Bush's current chief economics adviser, says he and his colleagues did the best they could "with the information we had at the time." But Hennessey did say he regretted that the administration did not pay more heed to the dangers of easy lending practices. And both Paulson and his predecessor, John Snow, say the housing push went too far.
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White House philosophy stoked mortgage bonfire - International Herald Tribune
 
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Bush did foresee the danger posed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored mortgage finance giants. The president spent years pushing a recalcitrant Congress to toughen regulation of the companies, but was unwilling to compromise when his former Treasury secretary wanted to cut a deal. And the regulator Bush chose to oversee them — an old prep school buddy — pronounced the companies sound even as they headed toward insolvency.
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White House philosophy stoked mortgage bonfire - International Herald Tribune
 
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oklavol said:
Bill Clinton had budget surpluses when he when he was in office. I guess you expect us to believe that most of the home foreclosures were on loans more then 8 years old? Hardly.....
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You still haven't told us why you're a Republican as the thread title asks.
 
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oklavol said:
It doesn't bother them to hand over their hard earned children's money though, at least not enough to stop voting Republican after the Bush administration doubled the national debt in 8 yrs. Just keep voting Republican and expect a different result, that's their cree.

What I love is how you are expected to explain to them why you no longer support the party that lead us into the crisis we are in now. Instead of them explaining why they continue to support the party that lead us here. That is what is so bothersome.
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What is bothersome is people deluding themselves into the conclusion that an economic downturn is a partisan issue.
 
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