Tell me what Republicans look like!

[Stephanie]

Seriously, for us New Yorkers, how should we spot them? Any identifying characteristics? Dead give-aways? Just wondering...

:evilgrin:

[NMDemDist2]

1. Red bags with "NT Times" on them

gift bags given to delegates

[salinen]

2. The people in front of all pukes

have knives sticking out of their backs.

[thebaghwan]

3. Republican women look like they could suck the chrome off a ball hitch at

50 paces.

[Nordic]

6. Not with all that botox

they can't even disdainfully raise their eyebrows at the homeless.

Yuck, who'd want to even think of those nasty lizards in a sexual way?

[Nordic]

4. You just need those glasses from the movie "They Live"

and you'll see their reptilian truth behind the plastic

[ezekiel333]

102. Yep. Glasses On!

You see them on the street.
You watch them on TV.
You might even vote for one this fall.
You think they're people just like you.
You're wrong......Dead wrong.

<http://www.theylivenow.co.uk/>




They influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it. THEY LIVE.

<http://www.stormkingproductions.com/pages/themovies/tl/tl.html>

[KelleyKramer]

5. Diamonds

Lots of Diamonds all over them.

Nose in the air, and servants scurrying around them are also tell-tale signs.

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[KelleyKramer]

20. Bush will only be there for 4 hours

I wasn’t talking about the candidates, I was talking about the people who support them.

The big fat Coward from Crawford will only be at his convention for no more than 4 hours.

The chickenshit Bush will probably leave the motor running the whole time.

How is that for a 'stereotype' ??

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[Stephanie]

38. So you're arguing that George Bush is not a COWARD?

Interesting. Please provide evidence. Any evidence at all. Because as you well know, there is none. The Coward from Crawford will spend four hours in NY and then scram like a big fraidy-cat. He wants to exploit New York but he won't sleep here. I wonder if you would?

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[KelleyKramer]

91. No it wasn’t

"my response was not even regarding Bush, but the crack about his supporters"

No it wasn’t, it was about John Kerry's wife. And you are aware that Mr. Heinz was a super-rich Republican, right?

And Bush is a coward in so many ways..

Bush dodged the draft.

Bush ran and hid in a hole in Nebraska on 911, ... on Sept 11 Rudi Giuliani was the leader of the US not the coward Bush.

Bush was a coward to not come out and face Max Cleland.

Bush is even afraid of questions, the Bush coward makes everyone sign an 'oath of loyalty' before they are permitted into any event where a question might be asked.

I could go on forever about the Coward from Crawford.

[Lerkfish]

47. welcome to DU

enjoy your visit!

[Piperay]

85. I doubt

that visit will last very long...sniff, sniff, sniff. x(

[Cheswick2.0]

33. I have never seen her look anything like that

[Stephanie]

37. You're brand new here and you're telling us what we can say?

For future reference, if you don't appreciate humor you're not going to enjoy DU.

[SeattleJazz]

68. I am not "telling"...

I am SUGGESTING.

Yes, I am new. Seems to me this joint could use an infusion of non-cynicism.

[Stephanie]

97. We are not cynical about those who are suffering under George Bush

Those who lost family members on 9/11 when Bush failed to take any action at all to thwart the terrorist attack he was fully warned was imminent. Those who lost family members in Iraq when George Bush lied us into war to fulfill his sponsors' global agenda of colonization. Those millions who lost their jobs, and their health insurance. Those who lost their life savings to Bush's sponsors at Enron. I could go on, but you get the picture. We are dead serious about the tragedies caused by this maladminitration.

But when it comes to the would-be dictator George Bush Junior and his idiotic followers, yes, we are quite cynical, and rightly so. And we don't need any infusions of anything in that regard, thanks anyway.

[robbedvoter]

50. Republican until last year.

[SeattleJazz]

70. How wrong you are!

1992 - Perot
1996 - Clinton
2000 - Gore

See what I mean about being careful with your stereotypes?

[Philostopher]

7. Purely anecdotal ...

but in the Midwest, almost everybody I've seen getting out of a car with a Bush* sticker looks like, as my late father used to say, "they've got poop on their upper lip."

Do they look and sound like Glen and Dot (Hi and Edwina's friends, who drove the gigantic station wagon) from 'Raising Arizona'? If so, you've found them!

[Systematic Chaos]

10. Raising Arizona? Hey that was a great flick.

Thanks for the memories. :)

[DoYouEverWonder]

8. Here's a couple of pics I took last weekend

At the Gainesville SBV Rally. I think these folks fairly represent your typical Bushbot.

[Philostopher]

14. Hey, butthead guy in the shorts isn't wearing his uniform!

Where's the brown penny loafers and black nylon socks? I'm disappointed in him -- we should report him to his Republican team leader immediately!

[GingerSnaps]

86. God they are talented

Y R U LYING .... Damn that takes talent to make and it looks like their marker ran out and they had to use a different color.

They look like WEIRDO'S They have the nerve to call us nuts and weirdos so back at ya republicans.

[Earth_First]

93. Is that a beret that man is wearing?

I was under the impression that Repugs hated all things "French"

[AngryOldDem]

95. Why Do They Insist

...on always bringing Jane Fonda into this? She's over. Irrelvant. Passe. (Reason I ask is at a rally I was at to protest Cheney coming to town, some old coot came over and repeatedly got in our faces asking if "Jane was invited." We kept asking him if that was the best he could come up with as a taunt.)

And it's good to see that the United States education system is still doing its usual bang-up job. Or is "Y," "R," and "U" secret code, or something?

(And if the babe in the first picture is flipping someone off, someone might want to clue her in on what finger to use.)

[greblc]

9. Look for the trousers su*ked up their tight arse' !

They really need to relax, ya know !

[mia]

11. Make-up

[Stephanie]

12. You people crack me up!

You're scaring me! I don't know what I'll do when I see them. I might have to flee!

[oasis]

13. Some bragged that they would be wearing flip-flops.

[Stephanie]

15. I hope they don't mind getting their toes stepped on

Purely by accident of course. I would never deliberately stomp on their toes with my platform shoes. Just clumsy that way. Apologies in advance. Oops!

[LunaSea]

16. According to Encyclopaedia Idiotica-

the most common variety is pretty easy to spot.

[Huckebein the Raven]

17. Here

From a John Carpenter fansite:

http://www.aow13.com/theylive/nada.html

[AgadorSparticus]

18. i always think of the preppy frat boy types. like scarborough. yuck.

[SeattleJazz]

21. Why is demonization necessary?

I know I am developing a rep as a contrarian around here, but what does it help to demonize the "other side"? Isn't that just a tad hypocritical for this group, which pats itself so often on the back for thinking, acting, and voting Liberally? This current election cycle has already seen the public discourse devalued to the point of worthlessness, now we add to it with cheap stereotyping?

The truth is you CAN'T spot a conservative or Republican, just as you can't spot a liberal or a Democrat. There is no guaranteed "packaging". That college dude with the tie-dye shirt, long hair and the flip-flops might be a Young Republican, while the fellow in the three-piece suit with the high shine on his shoes is a card-carrying member of the ACLU and donates to the DNC every election year. We get ourselves into trouble if we assume their is a "look" to watch for, and we're liable to feel foolish barking at anyone who might turn out to be a friend, or buddying up to someone with whom we share almost nothing politically in common.

In the end, we're all AMERICANS, right? Doesn't that count for something?

[devilgrrl]

22. Fight fire with fire!

The "other side" has been doing this for years - people are sick of it!

[SeattleJazz]

24. Fight fire with fire?

My Dad always said that was a good way to burn the whole house to the ground.

Yeah, I am sick to death of it. So why perpetuate it?

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[DrWeird]

23. Back in the 1930's...

The Nazi Party of American held a big convention in Madison Square Garden.

Thousands in attendance. Sure, they were American, but only on the technicality of being born here. They're still fucking nazis.

[SeattleJazz]

25. Go ahead, Weird...

I suppose if you're so determined to see other Americans with forked tails and big, nasty horns coming out their heads, I can't stop you. I can feel bad for you, but I can't stop you.

:(

Me, I'll keeping looking for those precious threads which bind us together...

[DrWeird]

27. Hey, I'm just not delusional to think that all Americans are good.

Take the republican platform, for instance. Anybody who supports that is a first class prick and should be ashamed of themselves.

Btw: have I met you in a past life?

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[yankeedem]

31. Interesting you say that

This is the republican picture for the ages.

[SeattleJazz]

71. Whatever...

I like to think I'm a Democrat not given over totally to absolute hatred of the other 50% of America.

[Ripley]

40. HAHAHAHAHA!

Yeah, it's the Liberals in America who have demonized Conservative Christian Republicans, not the other way around. That's why all candidates put LIBERAL in bold in their ads and the word CONSERVATIVE never shows up in ads.

You need a reality check.

And WTF are you talking about binding us together? This is a liberal board, not a "binding" board for conservatives to join in and sing songs around the camfire.

[Stephanie]

41. Please post links to those threads when you find them.

I'd like to know what sort of threads you prefer.

Thanks for arriving at DU and immediately giving everyone else orders about what we should do. Can't tell you how much we appreciate it!

[thebigidea]

30. you're developing a rep as a Barbara Bush/Colin/Condi/chickenhawk defender

If that's what you mean by "contrarian," then you and Christopher Hitchens can keep the term.

[SeattleJazz]

75. I like Hitchens

So I will take that as a compliment.

The truth is, those whom most DUer's slander and hate, are not nearly as bad as all that. Just as most Democrats/peaceniks/greens are not as whacko as the Freepers say they are. The real problem lies in the fact that Freepers and DUers have grown so far apart and are so infatuated with their respective rhetoric, they have forgotten that we're all in this together and at some crucial point, we all have to check our politics at the door in order to work together and keep the world turning.

Pat yourselves on the back for your grand superiority all you want. The Freepers are doing the same over on their own forum, and it looks just as bad. The pots call the kettles black while the kettles call the pots black, and the election cycle discourse keeps spiralling to new lows.

:(

[devilgrrl]

77. Oh, quit projecting!

"Pat yourselves on the back for your grand superiority all you want."

Speaking of pots calling kettles black! :hi:

[Piperay]

87. So we're suppose to raise the level

of political discourse all on our own (?) NO THANKS we have been trying that for years and it doesn't work!

[Lerkfish]

96. you seem to be setting yourself up as an expert...

on the freeper forum and the DU forum.
I refuse to go over to that filth-drenched place myself so I give you a thumbs-up for being able to stomach that vile hatred over there.

er...what was I saying again? oh, yeah. if you could contribute to a thread...you know, discuss the topic, instead of wallowing in critiquing other members....I mean, that's ALL you do...for someone complaining about negativity, you appear to have bucketsfull of negativity to share.

thus ends my lecture to you...

enjoy your stay!

[thebigidea]

99. of course, your acting superior is perfectly ok.

Cute bit of irony there.

(oops, ancient post, ancient tombstone. This is what I get when I reply to "my posts" too late.)

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[Stephanie]

39. When you say "we get ourselves into trouble..."

who do you speak of? Who is this "we?"

Also, when was the last time you saw ANYONE in "tie-dye shirt, long hair and the flip-flops"? Just curious.

[SeattleJazz]

76. He was on the bus this morning...

he got off at Convention Place station...

[progressivebydesign]

59. IT WAS A JOKE!

Who peed in your Wheaties this morning? Seriously. While I'm certain everyone appreciates your fine, upstanding, humanistic words this morning.... Coming into an online community lecturing people on how they should act is just.. well, it's a really bad way to start out.

This thread was a joke. If you're looking for a happy, smiley, place.. where all parties are considered equal, then perhaps you can find a nice gardening forum. DU enjoys a variety of personalities on these threads... you won't agree with them all, but coming like the arbiter of good taste, as though the DUers don't get it, is certain to guarantee your failure here. Sometimes DUers go over the line, (though this thread is NOT one of them), and the other members call them on it.

Part of your urge to have everyone get along should include trying to get along here, with the DUers, before you tell us how to act.

Welcome.

[SeattleJazz]

78. I didn't "tell" anyone...

How to act. Not once have I said, "I order you all to behave in such and such a manner!"

All I have done is point out how pointless it is to engage in nasty play like this. Maybe it is for jokes and fun and blowing off steam, but this is a public forum and I can't think of a better way to provide ammunition for those who would portray Democrats and liberals as mean-spirited hypocritical whackos than to engage in conversations like this. I mean, really. This is gradeschool behavior.

:(

[kwolf68]

80. Have you ever been to

A right-wing board and attempted to get them to "stop hating the other 50% of America?"

[Cheswick2.0]

32. White men with no taste in clothes

and the woman who hang around them. the women can be identified by the sour look on their faces and the helmet head hair-dos.

[soup]

35. .

[Stephanie]

43. lol!

.

[TahitiNut]

36. Two words: Polyester

:silly:

[Shopaholic]

42. Think Country Club types. . .

women with coiffed hair that doesn't move. Pearls. The type who look like that not only do they not have sex, wouldn't enjoy it if they did. The men all look like overgrown frat boys.

[Stephanie]

44. I think they are the men who wear khaki shorts as eveningwear?

Grown men dressed like boys? Big beefy men who won't wear long pants?

[TahitiNut]

49. Desperation ... desperate for approval and money.

People who aren't comfortable in their own skin. When I watch the body language, I see money-grubbing predators and people-prey consumed with anxiety over "fitting in" - the too-wide smile, the closed posture, the obsequious manner, the forced laughs. White, overweight, soulless, superficial, emotionally-contorted, repressed, compliant drones.

[Hubert Flottz]

45. A Brown Nose is a good indicator of acute GOPism!

Look for people leading others around with a dog collar and leash!

[leesa]

46. They always seem to be really pasty, like they never see the sun

Arrogant.

[Lerkfish]

48. there was an artist during the reagan era who plastered NY with

posters of the republicans, with the heading : men without lips. Sure enough, at that time, Reagan, Bush, Weinberger, etc...none of them have any lips.

[randr]

51. Generally Obese People-in mind and character

apology's to the overweight among us.

[LiberalPersona]

52. Dead giveaway:

They often stick their coward faces into the dirt like an ostrich or up their rear.

[arwalden]

53. Televangelist Hairstyles (Women AND Men)

[Chovexani]

69. Hee!

[Lerkfish]

81. yeah, what's up with that?

they all seem like they got their hair done at the same place Big Boy restaurant statues did.

[noiretextatique]

90. definitely the hair...for the black ones

see condi and/or clarence.

[JimT]

54. one test is to...

yell "Fire" in a crowded building and they will be the ones to trample over YOUR children to get out.

(Obviously, don't really do this. It is just an attempt at humor.)

[belle]

55. Hairspray/hair gel. Pink, smug faces. No lips, esp. on the men...

On older people, the wrinkles etch a pattern of looking like a discontented sea bass, all jowls and frown lines.

The younger people all look at least ten years older than they actually are. Think "The Miss America Pageant." Again: HAIR.

I'd say wearing pastels, but that just pretty much marks you as your average August tourist. Overdressed in the August heat means you're either a Wall Street wonk (who are not *all* republicans...probably)...or an RNC delegate. Look for facial expressions of genial distaste or bewilderment.

Also listen for the politican laugh: heh-heh-heh. Very artifical looking and sounding.

[BurtWorm]

56. White hair, white skin, white clothes

That's what I saw of them on NY1.

[pdx_prog]

57. The smell of English Leather

it's a dead give away......lol

[LibDemAlways]

58. I live near the Ray gun library

and have gone along on school field trips there. The repuke visitors are all white. The women wear pastel polyester pantsuits and the men all wear polyester pants that don't require a belt. They also wear white shoes and golf shirts. The older ones pull up in cadillacs and the younger ones in SUVs. The worst thing about them, though, isn't their appearance but their attitudes.

This morning on Washington Journal there were twin sisters - one a repuke convention delegate, the other a protester. The repuke made some truly outrageous statements about outsourcing -- how transporting jobs overseas was a good thing because it "lifts up" people in other parts of the world. She didn't give a shit about Americans and it showed. Repukes are mean-spirited and Darwinian and proud of it.

[Individualist]

60. Vacant look in the eyes

indicative of cult mentality.

[ignatius 2]

61. The men have no lips. seriously, with the exception of Nofacts,

they have none..too much pursing them whilst they count their pound of flesh.

[VOX]

62. It's best to wait until they open their mouths.*Then* you'll know for sure

Tough to judge books by the covers. Better to consider the content of character.

[Digital Domino]

63. Tell me what Republicans look like!

You'd have to scratch away at their face like in "V" to see the difference.

DD

[Chovexani]

66. Great minds think alike!

LOL. Welcome to DU. :)

[Digital Domino]

79. RE: Welcome to DU

Thanks. It's good to be here.

DD

[Chovexani]

64. This is what Republicans look like!

:evilgrin:

Seriously though, Republicans are some of the tackiest people you will ever meet. The uber rich ones wear cheap suits and the women wear a nauseating amount of bling, while the PWT types look like they shop exclusively from QVC and the Kathie Lee sweatshop collection at Walmart. The men look like Bob Boudelang. And they look dreadfully out of place here. When I left the hospital last night and walked over to Times Square to catch the 2 train home, I never saw so many tacky people in my life...one woman looked like a blonde version of Roseanne and she was wearing what can only be described as what tarp would look like after a Gallagher performance. Red white and SPEW not to mention Bush/Cheney pins all over her lapel. Frightening but not as scary as the look on her face, which screamed "STICK UP MY ASS!". BTW, I'm not criticizing her for her size, because larger women can be stylin' and classy...but she just looked sloppy.

You know how to pick out tourists, right? Well, Repubs look like your typical Midwestern tourist only they look like they have poo on their upper lip and they're always sneering.

[wadestock]

65. ARROGANT AND IGNORANT

And walking as if they have a carrot shoved up their a**.

Eyes are not kind. Eyes look at you and the world as if you are "something potentially in their way of success".

[yella_dawg]

74. My room mate was looking at Dennis Hassert on CNN this morning...

and commented that his haircuts must be easy. Just drop down in the chair and say "Gimme the Republican." I had to agree. Look for folks with "Father Knows Best" haircuts.

[Octafish]

82. Typically, they avoid eye contact.

And they don't smile because they have no lips.
How they can kiss so much ass is beyond my powers of understanding.



BTW: Was thinking about you and DU's New York contingent while watching C-SPAN yesterday. Thank you from Motown for all you and your colleagues did and are doing, Stephanie. PLEASE take care!

[Renew Deal]

83. They were carryingf red bags yesterday. Today they may be carrying

yellow Nextel bags. There is a rumor about orange credentials but I haven't seen them. Some wear Bush/GOP pins or shirts.

[Stephanie]

98. You got the inside dope!

What are you, a spy? How do you know about the Nextel bags?! LOL!

splattered, all over, Manhattan

[kayell]

84. They are the ones desperately avoiding anyone who doesn't look like them

Which in NY, results in their having to keep their eyes glued on their pumps and crossing the street every block. They are the ones with deer in the headlights look whenever they see two men holding hands, or someone with unusual piercings or tatoos. They look like they are certainly expecting to be mugged, raped and dragged off into Central Park for some horribly unnatural activities.

You can also spot them when they are thundering in herds up the street, running from all the mice.

[ignatius 2]

88. Too funny, as if any self respecting mugger would touch them..

Seriously, I went to NYC last fall for a long weekend. While standing in line to see Gypsy, a homeless black man came up asking for money. My son and I were the only ones of the dozen or so he asked to give him anything. The bleached blond 50 somethings, a group of 3 or 4 women who all looked suspiciously the same, in front of us were afraid. Like this man would attack in a line of hundreds of people.His only crime was that he was poor and black.

When did Americans become such scairdy cats?

[kayell]

92. We've been indoctrinated with the fear for years

Crime, terror, horrors in the night. People are terrified that the "bad guys" are lurking around every corner in wait for their particular juicy morsel. Actual crime statistics don't support this, but fear, fear, fear is great for getting people behind your program, be it hard-core law enforcement or a illegal war.

And if people are trained to see poor people as dangerous "others" they are not going to feel compassion for that person's plight, or question why this has happened to so many people.

Are republicans more afraid because they are more likely to buy the official lines, or are afraid people more likely to become republicans?

[UdoKier]

89. A lot of the ladies like shirts with puff-paint or feathers/spangles...

nt

[Eagle_Eye]

94. Republicans

Are the ones looking up and pointing at the tops of the buildings.
They can also be heard saying things like "gooolly! lookie how high thatin' is!"

[drdigi420]

100. They are the ones standing far away from the truth

[rumguy]

101. One word: UGLY

Their faces are the faces of ignorance. The spirit of the blind follower glows in their eyes.

Their faces are always UGLY.