What is the best argument to vote for Democrats?

[letterwriter]

I'm writing letters to the editor and looking for the best reasons to vote for Democrats this year. So let me define what I mean by the word "best". Best means that a person who is leaning towards voting Republican reads my letter and decides to vote for the Democrat instead. And - Best also means a letter that newspapers are likely to publish in the next week.

So - add your best reasons here.

[letterwriter]

1. Best also means

getting a disgusted voter who wasn't going to vote or otherwise unmotivated to get out and vote.

[Enrique]

2. to save Social Security n/t

[givemebackmycountry]

3. You want another Clarence Thomas? Alito? Roberts? Scalia?

Vote Repuke then.

[rug]

4. Not as embarassing.

[uppityperson]

5. Repubs style themselves a "pro-business" but that is pro-BIG-business.

IF you are a small business, voting repub will hurt you.

It makes fiscal sense to vote repub if you are a billionaire or win a huge lottery. Your changes of winning that huge lottery are less than being struck by lightening. It could happen, but why hurt yourself all those times you don't win?

The deficit grows under repubs, eventually shrinks under democrats.

Republicans hate kittens.

[BeFree]

6. ...

Remember when the Democrats had power in the '90's?

Remember how we were at peace, the economy was booming and we as a country were making progress?

Do you want more of that, or do you want more of the party of NO?

[gmoney]

7. "Clinton kept us safe from terrorists... Bush failed on 9/11."

Well, maybe not the best, but maybe it would resonate.

[BeFree]

9. Well, it is the truth.

Some people react real strange to such hard truths, so you have to be careful with such.

[Dan]

8. Republican

[kentuck]

10. Vote Democratic - At Least They Are Not Crazy !!

That's the first thing that comes to mind.

[alarimer]

11. I like Bill Maher's argument

The symbol for Democrat is D, which is a grade just good enough, while the symbol for Republicans is R, which is what pirates say before they feed you to the sharks.

Other than that I have no good, serious answers. I vote for Democrats when I have to, otherwise I vote third party whenever I can. None of the above really needs to be a choice on ballots.

[no_hypocrisy]

12. To save your future and your children's future.

It's that easy.

The Republicans will push the country off the cliff to have a few of them financially secure and in power. The next phase of The New Depression brought on by republican policies may be so severe that no administration will be able to salvage and save the economy for decades.

Do you want to spend the last decades of your life, separated from your family, living in a cardboard box that used to cover a refrigerator, dumpster-diving with the vestiges of strength you've saved from malnutrition?

Democrats are far from perfect, but they are a much better bet.

[Gabi Hayes]

13. WSMLTTR

''We suck marginally less than the republicans''

[Telly Savalas]

26. In all seriousness, this is the argument most likely to persuade a fence-sitter.

To elaborate on the point, a large chunk of the problems were facing as a nation are a direct consequence of Republican policies from the first 8 years of the decade. While the Democrats have been far from perfect in playing the hand they were dealt, they've been governing far more responsibly than the GOP did. It's irrational to put the people who caused the problems in charge again.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

14. They're funnier.

On purpose.

[Historic NY]

15. Just think if Republicans & Bush privatized SS like they wanted to...

What would people be doing today to survive?

[treestar]

16. To keep things moving forward

While Rs would take them backwards.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

17. Five words...

The United States Supreme Court...

[rucky]

18. The GOP supports everything that got us into this mess.

- they got us into 8 years of war that we've only started to get out of. The cost to our country and our economy is devastating.
- They initiated tax cuts that have been in-place. The economy tanked under them, and now that's what they're offering as a solution.
- They want to keep the tax cuts for the wealthy, and want to bring down the deficit, but can't explain how.
- The stimulus saved the loss of 3 million jobs.
- TARP was initiated under Bush, and under Obama's watch there is Wall Street reform.
- The Democrats have a plan to recover the economy through stimulus, small business aid, and green jobs funding. The Republicans fought tooth and nail against these things, but don't have a plan of their own (unless you count doing nothing as a solution).
- If you're frustrated about the slow recovery, do you blame the Dems for having to water down their plan, or the GOP who forced them to water it down?
- The GOP have said several times they want Obama to fail. He and the Democratic congress have been the only people with the power to fix the economy. So that means they're okay with the failing economy. It's been part of their plan to regain power. Just ask John Boehner and Mitch McConnell.

[name not needed]

19. They suck slightly less than the Republicans.

[madokie]

20. Republicons

emphasis on the CONs part

:puke: run in crowds taking their marching orders from the big moneyed interest

[Vickers]

21. "Democratic candidates don't wear diapers!!!"

(generally speaking...)

[lpbk2713]

22. Were you comatose between Y2K and 2008?

Or ... in the case of the Shittoheads ...

"Are you really that delusional?"

[B Calm]

23. If you want to see social security retirement age raised to 70 yrs

old, then you want to vote republican. If you want to see that the rich bastards that sent our manufactoring jobs overseas get another huge tax cut, then by all means vote republican.

[B Calm]

27. If you think Wall Street needs to be less regulated, vote republican.

[Greyhound]

24. Gerrymandering. n/t

[struggle4progress]

25. Give Ds a fair chance to undo the damage of the Bush years. Incumbent Rs are obstructionists,

who do nothing but vote "NO," and the Teabaggers are stark raving mad. Ds will stand up for ordinary folk; Rs promise only gridlock and crazy noise