Do you want a president who fights like hell for the 99%?

[DanTex]

125. I disagree with this.

Republicans don't primarily vote for their interests. They for vote their ideology.

OK, some Republicans vote for their interests -- the Koch Brothers, for example -- but there is plenty of idiocy of the great unwashed.

In many instances, Republicans are simply factually wrong. E.g.
--global warming is a hoax
--the need for Keynsian stimulus
--whether loose monetary policy is going to cause hyperinflation
--whether Obama was born in Kenya (you may laugh, but at one point this was about 50% of Republicans in polls)
--etc.
I guess you could argue that Republicans who believe that global warming is a hoax are voting in their perceived interests, but in fact they are harming themselves along with the rest of the world.

There are some issues where Republicans vote in their own interest, but these are mainly social issues. Republicans feel threatened by gay marriage, and feel that abortion is murder. They feel that there should be more religion in the private sphere.

But on economic issues, they mostly don't, except for the wealthiest among them. It's pretty hard to make a case that it is in the interest of most Republicans to relax regulations on large investment banks. Or to allow hedge fund managers to recognize their income as capital gains, thus effectively putting them in a lower-middle-class tax brackets. Or, for that matter, to invade Iraq.