I’ll tell you why 80% of Republicans vote against their own interests...

[busterbrown]

They think Jesus has their back...On every issue, including the Hereafter..

[postulater]

1. My daughter asked me that the other day.

I said ignorance, habit, fear and bigotry. I forgot religion.

[Bigmack]

13. Ignorance, habit, fear, and bigotry IS religion for many people! nt

[hlthe2b]

2. Some yes, certainly...

But, I think a lot of it for Republican men, is thet machismo stereotype and the inexplicable way in which the RW (aid/abetted by clueless media) have painted the Democrats as "weak" or the opposite of the "machismo". --Especially effective, from my observations--in the South.

[BlueCaliDem]

5. The greatest myth perpetrated by U.S. Media on the American people

is to make them believe they're "clueless" instead of complicit in propagandizing for the GOP and their handlers, Big Business.

Let's not fool ourselves into believing that our media is that naive. They know what they're doing, and since Reagan, they've collectively made a concerted effort to pushing Republicans, Big Business, Big MIC, and the big Horatio Alders lie that everyone can go from rags to riches with hard work.

[Cirque du So-What]

3. I'm inclined to believe

it has more to do with suppression of minorities, who they see as a greater threat than the great transferrence of wealth into the pockets of those who own 'their' party.

[busterbrown]

8. But in the end..Their overt racism...

Is backed up by God...These people are just freaking ignorant when it comes to govt, and politics, so they look to their Pastors, Priests, Ministers etc. for guidance in such matters..

[kentuck]

4. They think Democrats have their backs..

Democrats will protect their SS, Medicare, veterans pensions, their civil service jobs, and their right to continue pretending that they oppose our government...

[Wellstone ruled]

6. There are areas were

Cult like religion and affinity will give the Rethugs a leg up until their group suffers from a total fininical collapse. Coin of the day is what holds these groups together much like the Stockholm Syndrome. We call it the ten percent crowd. What is sick is that the majority of these families live on food stamps and subsidized or free Health Care,while telling the rest of the world they despise any Government Programs. Group think at it's finest.

[busterbrown]

10. And believe me, their Ministers constantly remind them..

That this is the way God wants it.....

[C_U_L8R]

7. They think republicans are the party of the rich

and they want to be rich.

[napkinz]

9. ...

[madashelltoo]

12. These people refuse to believe that

After the Republicans finish screwing the minorities, gays and all immigrants with pigment in their skin, they are going to screw them too. That's what screwers do. They never tire of screwing. They will have earned the screwing they get when they wake up and realize they are the slaves who produce more slaves and soldiers for the rich. See how they feel about being water boarded for scratching their asses. They will think they're in a Mel Gibson movie.

[Cleita]

11. I just ran across a local website of a local church pastor who

actually listed whom to vote for on our local ballot, who "followed Christian values" including the judges. I found it to be valuable because every candidate he endorsed was a Republican. Since the judges were harder because their political parties are not listed, it gave me an insight to dig farther into their records. It took me two days to do my ballot but I believe I got it right. I used to ignore the judges but not anymore. Nowadays it seems the right wing judges are just as corrupt as the right wing politicians.

But this brings me to why I answered your post. It seems these players don't feel separation of Church and State is any longer relevant. We have to start making these Church leaders behave or we may end up with the Christian version Sharia law where all our elected officials are under the thumb of the religious leaders in matters of women's and LBGT rights. It used to be that the fervid, evangelical and conservative Christians didn't concern themselves with politics and a majority didn't even vote because they concerned themselves with the kingdom of heaven not of earth. We need to go back to that. They need to lose their tax free status or be fined if they meddle in government and elections.

[Basic LA]

14. Who to blame?

Who is to blame for the country's ills, greedy fat cats, or the lazy poor? That's how the voting decision is made.

[busterbrown]

15. Come on...OF COURSE

Lazy poor... Homosexuals, illegal aliens from Isis, Women who don’t know their place and Jews who own all the banks in the world...

[roamer65]

16. Like Benjamin Franklin said...

Read his quote below