can anyone answer this for me?

[riona]

if you know someone who agrees that environmental laws need to be strengthened, women should have the right to choose, has no issues with hand gun control, believes that politicians are controlled by big money, whose stock portfolio hasn't benefited from the current administration, who would like americans to have affordable health care, never liked bush, and yet this person ALWAYS votes republican and always will. (actually, i know several people like this).

seriously, what is this about??

:shrug:

[RufusEarl]

1. Blind allegiance to a political party,

and no allegiance to ones country.

[sutz12]

2. Denial....not just a river in Egypt. nt

[DUHandle]

3. Simple

because they are Republicans.

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. Or MePublicans as I like to call them.

[JackBeck]

4. Sounds like you're talking about my sister. n/t

[sam sarrha]

5. that is the GOP's Party platform for the next election..they are desperate

[Joe Fields]

6. Strict party loyalty.

[Nickster]

8. My honest opinion. Piss poor branding by the Democratic Party.

If you don't know what the options are....what do you do?

[riona]

19. i've noticed a couple of labels -

tax and spend and bleeding heart

[Nickster]

22. My point exactly. If that's the label people hear repeatedly with no

significant retort, well....guess what sticks?

[teenagebambam]

9. It's my mother

77 years old. Always votes Republican because "my daddy told me to".

[RandomKoolzip]

10. They want to be on the "winning team."

Never mind that the victory the GOP has in mind will fuck all those things up and make life a lot harder for everyone else, as long as they're hitching their wagon the the fastest-moving car on the track they think everything will be okay...for themselves.

[sam sarrha]

11. HELP ME !!! I'm a Republican and i cant quit lying..!!

[dchill]

12. They are more concerned...

about gays getting married and those horrible I-rocky terriss coming to get them. Fear - the Number 1 motivator.

[riona]

16. surprise

most of them think gays should be able to marry!

[dchill]

32. You are right...

and getting righter all the time. But in 2004, a CBS poll showed 59% of Americans favored a ban on gay marriage:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/02/24/national/main601828.shtml

But as time goes by, more and more favor the right of gays to marry, while Bush's numbers tumble. The scales are tipping, and I was only referring to those confused Bush-backers referred to in the OP.

;)

[BlueEyedSon]

13. self destruction?

[sadiesworld]

14. Does she buy into the whole terror thing lock, stock and barrel?

:shrug:

[riona]

17. most of them do not support the iraq war

[TallahasseeGrannie]

15. I eat lunch with one of them and so

I asked her. She told me Democrats are wimps.

I'm just quoting her. Don't flame the messenger. I was about to mention how skewed the "who has served and who hasn't" chart is but the bell rang. Another day. Maybe I'll find it and print it out.

[coalition_unwilling]

18. "Democrats are wimps" -- and did you ask her what she

meant by that? In my opinion (taking Randi Rhodes' line out a little), this is basically an expression of misogyny. "Wimp" is a code word for soft, empathetic values historically associated with females. Those happen to be values I embrace, btw. But what's really weird is that this female friend of yours is expressing a coded misogyny without realizing it.

Randi Rhodes yesterday said "liberal" became a bad word with the rise of the women's movement in the late '60s/early '70s.

Or am I being overly theoretical here?

[TallahasseeGrannie]

21. Interesting point

especially as this woman is a lesbian.

"Wimp" to me, means basically "pussy." I wonder what the word's origins are?

[coalition_unwilling]

26. A lesbian for BFEE is kind of like a Jew for Hitler, I'd say.

Not sure what etymology of 'wimp' is. I'm in a bit of a hurry, or I would run it down today. Maybe tomorrow?

[TallahasseeGrannie]

27. This woman is still in the closet but has shared with me

she has a lot of shame and self-hatred about herself. She has never had an open relationship at all. As a matter of fact, I don't think she even dates.

[coalition_unwilling]

28. Scratch the surface of most Repukes and you'll

find a lot of shame and self-hatred. IMHO, they're so virulently homophobic to mask their own latent homosexuality. By contrast, most progressives accept the fact that human sexuality exists on a spectrum and no one is either 100% hetero or 100% homo.

[Finder]

20. Most don't see a major difference between parties. IMO

I think it matters what region as well. Republicans are not considered social conservatives in the Northeast, for example, and run on the above platform--Snowe for one.

The 2004 elections had many long time repubs voting democrat BUT many long time dems voted for Bush--go figure.

I think assuming all conservatives are repub and all liberals are dems is a problem.

All politics are local.

[riona]

24. thanx, that applies in a couple of cases

[Gabi Hayes]

23. here's one

[rucky]

30. Now I know where Tucker Carlson got his look. n/t

[havocmom]

25. I live in a county FULL of such people

But many are saying they are no longer Republicans as things have finally hit the tipping point. They know the GOP has left them

[rucky]

29. low self-esteem?

must be. why else would anybody vote against their own self-interest like that (and it explains other odd Republican behavior, like the cowboy shit).

by voting with the rich, maybe they think some of it will rub off on them?

[riona]

31. maybe they consider it being the "elite" party?