Positive republican values?

[OxQQme]

C'mon y'all. We can't be so narcisitic to believe that the 'liberal' way is the "ONLY" right way.
Series folks.........list some thing positive about the 'opposition':
Maybe we could blend our strengths and form a more perfect union.

[Sammy Pepys]

1. Well.....

I'll say that pretty much every Rep I know doesn't fit the normal stereotype among the left of being a millionaire or a redneck or anything like that. I know Reps/cons in academia, science, big business, small business and everything in between.

I'm impressed with how much consideration most of them give their intellectual roots...I'd love to see more of that on the left.

I've heard many good conservative arguments against the war and the Patriot Act (not that many in Congress adopt them).

[Rocknrule]

26. Well, I suppose not ALL of them

are neo-Nazis, billionares, homophobes, sociopaths, racists, or sick freaks who hate almost everyone else

[niceypoo]

45. Ask any republican what they are FOR and they will give you a blank stare

Everything they believe in is a negative. They are for nothing.

[sui generis]

2. oh yes you're very series. I kin tale.

:rofl:

[texastoast]

11. You!

:spank:

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

3. My issues are more with their "methodology"

To support family values does NOT require demonizing other groups
To support the economy does NOT require giving to the rich and taking from the poor
To support national security does NOT include invading other countries under false pretenses

Get my drift?

[tandot]

4. If girls in SD get impregnated by their dads, at least they don't have to

go through that horrible abortion. Thanks, Republicans! Great Job.

[VelmaD]

5. There is nothing positive about the opposition at this point...

There might have been in the past but since the fundy whackjobs took over...nope. Anything the current rethugs do well are things I don't want the Democrats to become good at. I don't want us to become good at using wedge issues to divide people. I don't want us to become good at playing on people's fears. I don't want us to become good at demagoguery.

[sui generis]

12. ya'll done been had.

that was excellent. almost got me too.

[VelmaD]

14. Hey...you're letting down the team...

It's spelled "y'all". For shame and you a Texan. :(

The apostrophe goes where the missing letters would be. Ya'll = Velma's biggest pet peeve. :)

[sui generis]

27. huh uh! it's a contraction for "ya all". Now yew no.

:rofl:

[Quantess]

6. ...........um.............

......thinking...............hmmm.........
I'm at a loss.

What have you come up with?

[Midnight Rambler]

7. Fiscal responsibility

Of course, they don't believe in this anymore

[Blue_Tires]

20. that's what i instantly thought

along with streamlined, more efficient government, 'personal responsibility', (whatever the fuck that means), the list goes on

[ToeBot]

8. Of course I believe it is the only "right way"...

To believe otherwise would be to undermine the entire notion. What's more, I am convinced that the Republican path leads to the eventual destruction of humanity and indeed, most of what is precious and unique on the entire planet. Sorry, I'm not going to play.

[Faygo Kid]

9. Well, Ike had it right on the military-industrial complex

Goldwater had a conscience. Rockefeller-Ford represented a wing that no longer exists. Today, there are no GOP values, except raw power, wealth and sadly, pure hate. There once was a time of GOP honor. It no longer exists, as they have turned their party over to Rush Limbaugh.

[Finder]

10. Liberal vs conservative-- not republican...

Republicans can be liberals just as Dems can be conservatives.

Parties have platforms, philosophies have ideals.

The party in power is not the party of Lincoln.

[bunkerbuster1]

19. For sure. There's every reason to believe the plates will shift again

at some point one coalition of voters will turn on the Dems or Goopers, and in a few decades or so we'll be back to the point where the Goopers have the progressives and the Dems have the dumbshit pro-slavery folks, like in the good ol' days.

Well, it could happen.

[devilgrrl]

13. If ravaging the environment can be construed as "positive"...

there's one value.

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[4 t 4]

32. Why would you say

I'm dumb as a post it doesn't make sense. I was just kidding. Why are you so mean ??

[sui generis]

34. oh my

thought you were going to add the sicilian gesture to that. Hey Other Mr. Sui and I are heading to Roma maybe for New Years! I already can't wait.

:bounce:

[bunkerbuster1]

15. Many of them are dead.

Many more will die eventually.

[Opusnone]

16. Here's something positive - Faith

Blind faith, to be more exact. What a liberating feeling having total blind faith in something.

[Toots]

46. If they were so "Liberated by Faith" why all the hatred?

:shrug: That argument just don't fly...

[dogday]

18. They are going down in Flames

That is a positive statement to me......

[lapislzi]

21. Define your terms

What is "the liberal way"

Who is "the opposition?"

Your query is way too nebulous to engender productive discussion.

[Eugene]

22. Good governance, fiscal responsibility. Those were a long time ago

before the Eastern "liberal" Republicans got plowed under
by the Reaganites, the theocrats, and the neocons.

[devilgrrl]

28. Those were NEVER.

Just because they claim to be true there is NO evidence to prove that that is the case. I'm so sick of everyone buying that line of BULLSHIT. Republicans have NEVER been fiscally responsible!

[4 t 4]

33. The tone of your

posts sound like you are pretty much sick of everything why don't you do yourself a favor and take a break!

[Cyrano]

23. 72% of sheep who have had interspecies relationships, seem to prefer

Republicans to Dems.

Damn, we just can't seem to beat these guys out at anything.

[Rocknrule]

24. Uhh, they're against gay marriage, so they hate the same people God hates!

:sarcasm:

[sweetheart]

29. there arn't any.

They are dangerous, sold out, greed-power-addicts.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

30. "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite" Oh, wait, that was French Republicans.

[Uncle Joe]

31. They know government cannot solve our problems,

and that it is a cold, unfeeling, incompetent, bureaucratic monster waiting to feed on the American People and throw them to the wolves and they prove this every time they come to power.

[annabanana]

43. unlike all those compassionate corporations, right?

The ones who throw the pensions under the train to keep those dividends flowing to the guys out on the 18th hole?

[baby_mouse]

35. I suppose eventually their bodies will contribute to soil nutrients. nt

[OxQQme]

36. But...but..but

Are you saying everybody on that side of the line in the sand is enemy?
Yer either for us or against us.
Is this just carrying on a family tradition ala Hatfields and MacCoys?
No amount of wood and water carrying will ever make us seek unity?

Soil nutrients......bwaaahaahaa

[baby_mouse]

41. .....

...why don't you ask THEM?

There's no point making friends with someone who's busy burning down your house.

Oh, incidentally, they break deals and cheat all the time.

Not that it isn't a noble sentiment...

[baldguy]

37. There are no REAL Republicans with REAL Republican values anymore.

Work hard & pull your own weight, play fair, respect others, offer help when needed...

Doesn't sound much like today's Republicans, does it?

[porphyrian]

38. Small government.

It doesn't need to be a gargantuan bureaucratic monster to do its job correctly, completely and well. However, outsourcing is no more the correct answer than adding an entire redundant and dysfunctional department to cure problems with departmental redundancy and dysfunction.

[OxQQme]

39. But...but..but

Y'all is spelled y'all (google y'all).

The reason for my posting this initially, as an infrequent poster/everyday reader, it feels as though there is an "If yer not one of us, yer not one of us" smoke that permeates the platform on which we stand and clouds clear vision of a united future and this troubles me. So I was just trying to inject some positivness into the mix.
Or is united an impossibility.
A seceded Ecotopian separate entity?

[seabeyond]

44. i think democrats have always worked in compromose with repugs

it hink this period of repug power in three branches of govt and their in you face evidence of breaking procedure and all to purposely exclude the opposition power leaves us to say, the repugs are not capable of it. i think the repugs have to hold ownership in this and until they grow up and see united it really doesnt matter. the repugs have the attitude of exclusion. the dems are much more inclusive

[porphyrian]

47. Most republicans are like most Christians...

...all dogma and no practice. Thus, many who currently identify with that party simply need to feel like it's time to switch teams, and there's evidence that this is starting to happen. The truth is that current republican policy only benefits the richest of us, and they are less than 2% of the entire American population. As the economic tidal wave they've created with record spending and record tax cuts during "wartime" crashes on Middle America (which it's already doing), most of the people who've been associated with the republican party stay only to avoid the shame of admitting they were duped and wrong. Like a junkie, America often has to hit bottom to affect real change. We're almost there.

[Jamison]

40. Republicans love children and teens!

In all the wrong ways though! PERVERTS!

[B Calm]

42. Cons lost all sense of direction with values about 150 years ago!