Please remember that. (That goes to everyone; not just Sooner ...).

It may be true that Rs are a lot like D lite, but when it comes to socialization, I prefer "lite" to "heavy".  And Yes, I will vote for almost any pol with an R beside their name over almost any pol with a D beside their name because voting for Ds to take over the country is voting for the ruination of our country.  Not that some of them don't have good ideas, but they vote as a block for things I despise.

This is the thing. I voted for a democrat or two in my day. Paul Simon from Illinois was in the Senate for 12 years from 1985-1997. Decent man, but the key was that his liberal positions, while wrong, weren’t radically destructive or tyrannical like the democrats of today.

I also voted for Ross Perot, once.  He did the same thing that libertarians do in a general election. Prevent the conservative from winning. I didn’t make that mistake the second time.

I read an opinion piece yesterday that claimed patriotism is ok, but nationalism is hateful.

<sigh>

And, of course, the piece continued with the claim was that Donald Trump rode a message of nationlism to the white house.  In other words, President Trump and all those that voted for him were hateful.

This is outright character assassination not of Trump, but of those of us who support him. We are already cowed by not outwardly supporting him in public out of concern for violence.  I certainly don’t want my truck keyed, or worse, by having a Trump sticker on my window.

The goal is to make us feel so bad that we don’t even want to go and campaign or vote.

However, I think the democrats have overreached on that score. Look at the turnout at his rallies.

Lol, horseshit.  I know a whole host of people who vote (R) no matter how terrible the candidate/incumbent is.  Religious zealot who spends more time worrying about how to enact laws about whether gays can marry than trying improving something meaningful . . . sure seems like a shoe-in for political office.  Hell, we've had (R) politicians fighting for a decade over putting a monument of the 10 Commandments on the State Capitol grounds.  The problem is, moron (R) voters will lap that shit up like it's "fighting the good fight" and vote party line. 

Most R/D voters and politicians are just two sides of the same coin.  They espouse different platform ideals, but in reality, operate in lockstep when it comes to legislation . . . and Libertarians are the bad guys, lol.

Bullshit. I’m no great defender of Republicans, but I despise mischaracterizations of Republican voters.

You are emblematic of the pathetic populace that characterizes republicans as evangelicals.  Frankly, that group has lost any power it may have once had.

Republicans support the bill of rights - all of them, not just a few. So when Republicans make an impassioned argument for freedom OF religion, freedom of speech, the right to keep and bear arms, or due process, it is doing so from a constitution-centric argument. Likewise regarding abortion. Being pro-life is not necessarily a religious position. It is a pro-science position.

Yes, in many cases Republicans have to hold their nose and pull the R lever.  But that’s only because the D or L option is often bat-shit crazy and in the case of D’s likely damaging to our freedoms.

Well take the SS/Medicaid/Medicare out of that number . . . DoD is the next biggest Federal budget expenditure.  It's equivalent to a whole host of other "social" discretionary spending categories combined.

Yet that large blue portion of the pie chart is the ONLY power represented in the chart that is specifically granted to  Congress in the Constitution.

I didn't find that thread offensive at all, unless, well, maybe you're an atheist snowflake.

I saw nothing in that thread that would cause any reasonable person to close it, even a sensitive snowflake. I wonder if “offending” posts were removed before I saw it.

yup - that was the headline of an opinion piece in the Boston Herald today (Wednesday).

The writer is Joyce Ferriabough Bolling, someone who bleed liberal liberal liberal all the time.

She laments about the cost of eye drops, she cries about the cost of prescription medicine, she decries "big pharma" getting sky-high profits, she complains that a company has the audicity to discontinue production of a cancer drug (calling it "unconscionable" - I guess she'd be ok with forcing the company to continue production)

Not once does she consider how much it costs to develop and produce medicine.  Not   one   single   time.


Not once

Does this woman think that Warren’s plan also involves a government takeover of the pharmaceutical industry? 

Pharma profits are used for R&D on new lifesaving drugs. R&D doesn’t just “happen.” 

What a twit.

https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/11/05/video-leaked-insider-recording-from-abc-news-reveals-network-executives-killed-bombshell-story-implicating-jeffrey-epstein/

This is on Tucker Carlson right now. Holy crap.

Another week and Sean Spicer is still in and the judges get more indignant each week. I love it.

Funny as hell. Spicer is the shittiest dancer out there and he keeps getting saved by the fans.