Is the term "Republican" now interchangeable with "Criminal"?

[OffWithTheirHeads]

Seems like every day there is a new "revelation". The governor of Nevada and Wolfowiz most recently, or not. It's really hard to keep up. I think it may now be easier to name the Republics who are NOT under indictment or investigation than the ones who are.

[bluerum]

1. What do you mean "now"? FYI - Nixon and Agnew.

[Double T]

2. Terms have ALWAYS been interchangeable and their history supports it.

[shraby]

3. Don't forget the Reagan admin.

Elliot Abrams, Ollie North and co., etc. In my mind, all traitors to this country.

[Aviation Pro]

4. A new term that's an oxymoron....

"Criminal Republican".....

[madokie]

5. pretty much have been for years now

you'd think they would know that and would be trying to change peoples perspective of them, but no the money keeps tripping them up.

[Bitwit1234]

6. It sould be spelled CONserverative......

[Breeze54]

13. ReThugliCON

I've been seeing that and using that for quite a long time! ;)

"The only good rethuglicon is an incarcerated rethuglicon"!

[malaise]

7. NOW?

Duh :D

[Ioo]

8. Sure, I use them. You can also use "Scum" "Liar" and "un-American"

[blondeatlast]

9. No. there were no "nappy-headed hos" on the ScarletKnights, either.

Blanket statements are bound to be wrong, regardless of who says them or to whom they are directed.

[bluerum]

20. So you are calling members of the basketball team,, you know, what you said? eom

[ddeclue]

10. Stop insulting decent criminals everywhere.... ;-)

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/13/apologeticrobber.ap.ap/index.html

ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Florida (AP) -- A gunman robbing a convenience store allowed the clerk to call 911 and apologized after the woman said she might be having a heart attack. But he still took $30 and cigarettes, authorities said.

The masked man entered the Kangaroo Express store early Saturday in this Orlando suburb and pointed what appeared to be a semiautomatic handgun at 60-year-old clerk Mary Parker, according to surveillance audio/video released Thursday. He demanded access to the safe, but she said she didn't have the keys.

He told her to empty the cash register into a bag. He then pulled up a stool for her to sit down and told her he was doing this because no one would hire him and he had bills to pay. (Watch as a robber helps the woman )

She started hyperventilating and pleaded with the gunman for help.

"I have heart trouble. Help me," Parker said.

"I'm sorry, ma'am," the gunman replied.

"I have heart trouble," Parker told him.

"Ma'am, it's going to be all right," the gunman said.

"I'm probably going to have a heart attack," Parker said.

"Oh my, ma'am, please do not have a heart attack. Please do not have a heart attack. Please don't, ma'am," he said.

The gunman let Parker call 911, and when the store phone didn't work, he let her get her cell phone. She told the operator she was having a heart attack, but didn't mention the robber. She then sat back down on the stool.

A customer came in and, without seeing the gunman, tried to calm Parker. She handed him the phone, and he spoke to the 911 operator.

The gunman then reappeared and told the man to get into the beverage cooler.

He then grabbed his loot and apologized again.

"You have a good day. I'm sorry this had to happen. I'm sorry. God!" he moaned. He then went out the door.

Police said Parker is OK.

Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

[Marr]

11. It seems to be going that way. I don't think the Republican Party is going to

recover from the PR nightmare of the Bush Administration for a very long time. The funny thing is, the Bush team perfectly encapsulates the real Republican Party ideals of undermining labor, making the rich richer, the poor poorer, and using government purely as a tool of corporate America.

That's who they've actually been for decades, but they used to hide it under a nice little blanket of wedge issues and jingoistic platitudes. The Bush Administration is so supremely arrogant that they just put it all right out on the table and called it virtuous.

[Breeze54]

12. Wasn't it always????

:shrug:

I've never thought anything different.

[Old and In the Way]

14. I call 'em the Republican Syndicate.

I refuse to give them the cover of being a political party. That would infer that they have principles and a governing philosophy. All they do is figure how they can profit by destroying our system of government. It's been that way since Richard Nixon got elected.

[C_U_L8R]

15. don't forget "war profiteer"

these pukes have been lining their pockets
with petro scare dollars, terra graft and
big defense payola and skimming..
all with the blood of our young people.

there's no worse form of traitor..
their fate will be fitting.

[AX10]

16. It's always been so.

[EstimatedProphet]

17. That's like asking if Bush can be described as a spoiled brat bully

Uh...yeah.

[Warpy]

18. RNC should be synonymous with racketeering

because that's exactly what they've been doing as they scramble for their 1000 year reich through killing unions, holding wages down, fattening the rich and the corporate, money laundering, bribery, wholesale perversion of the Democratic process, and destruction of all regulatory agencies at every level of government.

We'll have to let all the dopers out of prison to make room for this scum.

[Joe Fields]

19. Only the republican leadership.

The rest are enablers, although I suppose one could argue that they are accessories to the administration's crimes.

[BuyingThyme]

21. Yes. Our Justice Department has been corrupted by Pukes.

Need we say more?

[Name removed]

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