The Republican Party is like a rebellious teenage girl...

[kentuck]

She's in love and she won't listen to her parents or anyone else. They tell her that he's no good. He doesn't love her - he is only out for one person. She laughs in their faces and says he loves her and that they are going to get married and move away. She is blind to reason or rational thinking.

She ignores all his lies and faults because she loves him. He drinks behind her back and pretends to be a Christian when in front of her parents. It's just a matter of time before she is knocked up and kicked out on the street. Only then will she see the foolishness of her faded love.

[TwilightZone]

1. Hmm, it would seem that the Rep party is more like the boy in your example

Bush voters are the girl.

[kentuck]

2. Bush voters are the Republican Party??

:shrug:

[TwilightZone]

6. No.

Here's how you described the girl:
She's in love and she won't listen to her parents or anyone else. They tell her that he's no good.
She ignores all his lies and faults because she loves him.
It's just a matter of time before she is knocked up and kicked out on the street. Only then will she see the foolishness of her faded love.

Here's how you described the boy:
He doesn't love her - he is only out for one person.
He drinks behind her back and pretends to be a Christian

The boy represents Bush. He's out for himself and pretends to be religious.

The girl represents the people who blindly vote for "the boy" out of love, even though they should know better.

Your premise fits much better in the reverse.

Edit: my first response should have been more specific - the boy is more like Bush, though a lot of the Republican Party members pull the same kind of crap. They pretend to be religious, but they're only out for themselves. People who vote for them, but should know better, are the girl.

[kentuck]

8. If you think Bush represents the Repub Party

and the girl represents the "people", then your premise might fit. I happen to think the girl represents the people and the people make the party, not one person.

[TwilightZone]

9. Keep in mind that not all Bush voters are Republicans.

The girl represents the people who vote for Bush, even though they know better and/or it's not in their best interests.

Unfortunately, that includes a not-insignificant number of Democrats and Independents.

[Hugin]

5. I'm thinking "The Girl" is "The MSM/CRM"...

You're 100% about who and what "The Boy" is though...

:)

[TwilightZone]

7. Very true.

The media is certainly blind to his faults!!

[sui generis]

3. the republican party is like a sociopath

it has no conscience and no sense of consequence. While it intellectually understands what other people perceive to be right and wrong, it does not have a personal moral compass. Like a true sociopath, it can "pass" for normal until you do something to be in its way. Then it will kill you. After a sociopath has destroyed enough to get what it wants, eventually the peasants will round up some pitchforks and torches and go get the monster.

I've got extra pitchforks and torches whenever we're ready . . .

[PsN2Wind]

4. No it ain't

I used to really like "rebellious teen-age girls"

[DemBeans]

10. I honestly don't recognize the Republican party any longer -

Bush (although Reagan started it) has turned what used to be a fairly easy-to-identify party on its ear. Do they believe in Federalism? Smaller government? Fiscal responsibility? Personal responsibility?

They've always been the party of big business, but since they required the Christian right to maintain power it's become a walking contradiction. Now we're seeing a bizarre combination of the corporate/nanny state that this alliance has brought us - and it's dragging us down fast. All we can do is hope that the Republicans continue to fight each other, and the party will eventually split.

[Beetwasher]

11. No, They Are Like Abusive Hypocritical Step-Parents

Just DO IT because I SAID SO! I don't have to explain ANYTHING TO YOU!! It's for YOUR OWN GOOD!