An Honest question here, Why do rank and file repubs continually

[SammyWinstonJack]

vote against themselves? Really, I want to know! God Abortion Guns and Gays" Give me a break! How does any of these agendas put food on their families' tables? Why don't they ever get the disconnect between what their Leaders say to get elected and what they do once elected? Why don't they see that Democrats, feel and see their needs and get it done? I am lost here!

[lvx35]

1. I really think pride is a big part of it.

They trust their gut, and the republicans are masters at creating a sellable product that feels good in their gut. Then they just stick with it, because they feel like its their home team, they chose it and they should stick with it.

[SammyWinstonJack]

2. Pride goeth(sp) before a fall?

Is that an accurate quote? Geez, what it wrong with admitting you are wrong? Well obviously their gut is wrong and their home team sucks! :rofl: Vanity, much? :shrug:

[mseang]

3. They do not think outside of the Box

I am going to apologize to all women on this forum before I continue. This is sort of tongue and cheek, so please bare with me...

Republicans and democrats are sort of like a stereotypical marriage as seen by men. The republicans are the wives and the democrats are the husbands. The republicans never admit mistakes, never say they are sorry, are fiercely loyal to their birth family (GOP) and find it easier to ask forgiveness than permission. The refusal to admit mistakes in the major reason rank and file republicans continually vote against themselves. My oldest brother is one of these.

The husbands, or democrats, are concerned with everyones well being and strongly committed to progress and ensuring that everyone gets a fair deal. They are loyal, but also free thinking, willing to separate from the main party line or birth family to help their family/constituents or to ensure that the legislation is in the best interest of the people involved. They are also willing to admit mistakes and often take blame for things they did not do or ignore certain transgressions in order to shield other members of their family from harm.

[blonndee]

4. Funny, I see it the other way around, often in marriages!

LOL

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. LOL same here

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. Geez by your definition, I am a repub! Yet I am a wife and a Democrat!

:shrug: I don't get your "tongue and cheek" analogy. :shrug:

[mseang]

19. Sorry

I apologize profusely. I meant only as a stereotypical marriage from the husband's point of view. I myself do not fit this mold either. I am a stay-at-home dad and have been for 10 years. This situation could also be seen in exactly the opposite point of view. Maybe I should have replaced husband and wife with spouse and made it more general. Naturally, this works both ways in marriages.

:)

[leftofthedial]

5. they are trained from the cradle to root for the "home team"

even when the home team has zip nada nothing to do with "home"

Go team!

[SammyWinstonJack]

8. So, drones? LOL

[leftofthedial]

17. fans

look at the bozos who paint their faces with the colors of a professional sports team.

Probably no one on that team is from the "home" town. Probably no one from that team will still be playing there in two or three years. If that team could make one nickel more by moving to another city, they'd be firing up the buses and trucks at midnight and stadium leases and season ticket holders be damned. Probably half that team uses illegal drugs, fucks their way through half the female population of the "home" city and uses their celebrity to get away with things that would land Joe Public in the pokey. Plus, they make more money in a season than Joe or his beer-fetcher, Jane, will see in their lifetimes.

But there is no shortage of morons who'll spend a huge chunk of their income on season tickets or spend all night in line hoping for a "playoff" ticket (never mind that virtually every team makes the "playoffs" now) or painting their faces and dying their hair in the teams colors or getting in fights with the idiot who chose the wrong color of face paint.

Same deal with repukes. They root for their "home" team. Oxycontin Rush's show or a bushturd "press conference" are just pep rallies. An argument with a "liberal" is like a shouting match with a fan of the other team.

[sandnsea]

9. Why don't people support the NYC strike?

Why does NYC keep voting in Republicans? Why does Massachusetts have a Republican governor?

There's a core group who vote for religion. Others for tradition like guns, family and local control. Others for security. Others for tax cuts. Others for some notion of self-reliance and keeping what you earned. And others against Democrats because they see Democrats as the polar opposite of everything I just said.

[SammyWinstonJack]

10. I support the NYC strike! I support all Unions!

So some people are one issue voters? Well that is just wrong on its face! Humanity is as humanity does!

[orleans]

11. because they're stupid as hell! or so self-righteous and

holier than thou.

and assholes!

[SammyWinstonJack]

13. Hell Yeah!

:yourock:

[EFerrari]

12. Magical thinking and racism.

It can't be because they value fiscal responsibility and small government because the Republican Party doesn't really support those things.

That leaves magical thinking and for some, naked raciscm. Magical thinking because they think that by voting Thug maybe the wealth will rub off. Racism because the Thuggery has spoken racism in pretty obvious code at least since the Civil Rights Act was being debated.

It's not pretty. :(

[SammyWinstonJack]

14. LOL, ..."maybe the wealth will rub off...." LOL

In a nutshell, that is it! :rofl:

[izzie]

15. I think it is lack of really watching what is going on

I grew up in a GOP family so just voted that way for years. I had many children to keep my mind off who was in Office also. Yet I still know people who stayed with the party as they had always been republicans. So I would say most is just lack of interesting in finding our what is really going on. Heck the President lies left and right so what do you think people are going to do when they hardly tune in?

[SammyWinstonJack]

16. I never really paid much attention to politics until the 2000 election

yet I knew it was so important. I guess I was lucky growing up in a democratic family, I knew right from wrong. Still, isn't a humane thing to be aware of the suffering of mankind? Maybe it's inherent?: shrug: And some of are lackingf that gene?

[yurbud]

18. In Mississippi burning, Gene Hackman's character nailed it

He said the poor white trash Southern racist would rather see his family starve than be fed and know that the black family next door was being fed too.

The same dynamic works with hating gays, atheists, and whoever it is you want o shoot with that gun.