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See, there you go again, making Republicans look stupid.LeahLo519 said:
How to be a "Good" Republican
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I'm always amused by the attempts of democrat-activist-elites to try and portray Republicans as the less intelligent of the political parties. Just the opposite appears to be true. Virtually every study that has looked into the voting patterns of people finds one thing to be true. How much money you make is a better predictor of how you will vote than just about anything else. Whether you are male, female, ex military, 20 or 60 years old, or just about any other social group, in the last several presidential elections if you make 50k per year or more you are statistically more likely to vote Republican. People who are better educated make more money than people who are less educated the vast majority of the time. The more money you make often corresponds to how high your IQ is. When it does not, its usually where someone chooses a job where status and not money is seen. Socio-economic status and IQ are well married. Here is the breakdown for those that don't want to click the link and digest more info:
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/US/P/00/epolls.0.html
2004
Under 15k per year, 36% Bush, 63% Kerry
15k-30k per year, 42% Bush, 57% Kerry
30k-50k per year, 49%Bush, 50% Kerry
50k-75k per year, 56% BUSH, 43% Kerry
Overall: People who made less than 50k per year voted for Kerry 55% of the time and 44% of the time for Bush.
People who made more than 50k per year voted for Bush 56% of the time and 44% for Kerry.
So, the idiot that refers to the part of the US that is `Dumbfuckistan' must be referring to the people who are doing the best in those particular Red States because its clear that enough of them voted to beat the ones who arent doing as well. Less education, less income, less intelligence......a greater chance that they will vote for a Democrat. After all, they are the party of the `little' guy, right? How come they are all very wealthy themselves?
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/US/P/00/epolls.0.html
2004
Under 15k per year, 36% Bush, 63% Kerry
15k-30k per year, 42% Bush, 57% Kerry
30k-50k per year, 49%Bush, 50% Kerry
50k-75k per year, 56% BUSH, 43% Kerry
Overall: People who made less than 50k per year voted for Kerry 55% of the time and 44% of the time for Bush.
People who made more than 50k per year voted for Bush 56% of the time and 44% for Kerry.
So, the idiot that refers to the part of the US that is `Dumbfuckistan' must be referring to the people who are doing the best in those particular Red States because its clear that enough of them voted to beat the ones who arent doing as well. Less education, less income, less intelligence......a greater chance that they will vote for a Democrat. After all, they are the party of the `little' guy, right? How come they are all very wealthy themselves?
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Related to my earlier post about the Republcan Liberty Caucus:
Libertarian Orphans
by David Boaz
David Boaz is executive vice president of the Cato Institute.
The Gallup Poll's annual survey on government found that 27% of Americans are conservative; 24% are liberal, up sharply because the poll was taken after Katrina, which boosted support for the proposition that "government should do more to solve our country's problems." Gallup also found -- this year as in others -- that 20% are neither liberal nor conservative but libertarian, opposing the use of government either to "promote traditional values" or to "do too many things that should be left to individuals and businesses." Another 20% are "populist" (supporting government action in both areas), with 10% undefined. Libertarian support, spread across demographic groups, is strongest among well-educated voters.
So where are the libertarians in politics and the media? Since the Clinton impeachment and the Florida recount, there's been a polarization: Congressmen and TV pundits define themselves as red/blue, pro-/anti-Bush, partisan Democrat/Republican, and take rigid liberal/conservative positions on Iraq, tax cuts, Social Security reform, gay marriage, abortion. But polls tell us that Americans aren't quite so partisan.
With big-government conservatives spending money like Imelda Marcos in a shoe store, and big-government liberals supporting the Patriot Act, even pro-government populists are represented in D.C. It's the libertarian voters who are orphans. Democrats stand like a wall against tax cuts and Social Security privatization. Republicans want to ban abortion, gay marriage and "Happy Holidays." It's not just Congress -- in Virginia's recent elections, all the Democrats were tax-hikers and all the Republicans were religious rightists. What's a libertarian to do?
The worst aspect of all this is the oracles who appear on TV. You'd think they'd be thoughtful, independent. Yet they're as partisan as the pols. The typical cable show brings viewers two guests, a liberal and a conservative. You can count on conservative writers to defend everything President Bush does, and on liberal editors to denounce the GOP -- no matter what.
Of course, it could be that most Americans are, in fact, liberals and conservatives. Maybe Gallup is wrong, every year. But the exit polls on election day 2004 offer some confirmation. According to those polls, 17 million voted for John Kerry but did not think the government should do more to solve the country's problems. And 28 million Bush voters support either gay marriage or civil unions. That's 45 million who don't fit the polarized model. They seem to have broadly libertarian attitudes. In fact, it's no secret that libertarian voters make up a chunk of America. But you'd never know it from watching TV -- or listening to our elected politicians.
This article appeared in the Wall Street Journal on January 31, 2006.
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5431
Libertarian Orphans
by David Boaz
David Boaz is executive vice president of the Cato Institute.
The Gallup Poll's annual survey on government found that 27% of Americans are conservative; 24% are liberal, up sharply because the poll was taken after Katrina, which boosted support for the proposition that "government should do more to solve our country's problems." Gallup also found -- this year as in others -- that 20% are neither liberal nor conservative but libertarian, opposing the use of government either to "promote traditional values" or to "do too many things that should be left to individuals and businesses." Another 20% are "populist" (supporting government action in both areas), with 10% undefined. Libertarian support, spread across demographic groups, is strongest among well-educated voters.
So where are the libertarians in politics and the media? Since the Clinton impeachment and the Florida recount, there's been a polarization: Congressmen and TV pundits define themselves as red/blue, pro-/anti-Bush, partisan Democrat/Republican, and take rigid liberal/conservative positions on Iraq, tax cuts, Social Security reform, gay marriage, abortion. But polls tell us that Americans aren't quite so partisan.
With big-government conservatives spending money like Imelda Marcos in a shoe store, and big-government liberals supporting the Patriot Act, even pro-government populists are represented in D.C. It's the libertarian voters who are orphans. Democrats stand like a wall against tax cuts and Social Security privatization. Republicans want to ban abortion, gay marriage and "Happy Holidays." It's not just Congress -- in Virginia's recent elections, all the Democrats were tax-hikers and all the Republicans were religious rightists. What's a libertarian to do?
The worst aspect of all this is the oracles who appear on TV. You'd think they'd be thoughtful, independent. Yet they're as partisan as the pols. The typical cable show brings viewers two guests, a liberal and a conservative. You can count on conservative writers to defend everything President Bush does, and on liberal editors to denounce the GOP -- no matter what.
Of course, it could be that most Americans are, in fact, liberals and conservatives. Maybe Gallup is wrong, every year. But the exit polls on election day 2004 offer some confirmation. According to those polls, 17 million voted for John Kerry but did not think the government should do more to solve the country's problems. And 28 million Bush voters support either gay marriage or civil unions. That's 45 million who don't fit the polarized model. They seem to have broadly libertarian attitudes. In fact, it's no secret that libertarian voters make up a chunk of America. But you'd never know it from watching TV -- or listening to our elected politicians.
This article appeared in the Wall Street Journal on January 31, 2006.
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5431
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lavender said:
Spoken like a true Democrat who believes that educational status directly relates to IQ.
How many people do you know with college degrees that are dumb as a fence post? Hell, I've known quite a few. As to what someone makes, excluding professional entertainers and athletes due to there outrageous salaries, most people who make a lot of money are not booger eating morons, but smart people who work hard and come up with innovative ideas that make them more competitive.
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I'm repeating myself when I say that I don't think all Republicans are dumbasses, but if you meet a dumbass, you can bet the farm that he votes Republican.
This is a poll that was conducted before the last election, and it shows the belief systems and how they widely differed between those that planned to vote for Bush and those that planned to vote against him. I don't know about Republicans, but I'm pretty certain Bush supporters won't be curing cancer...
Bush Supporters Still Believe Iraq Had WMD or Major Program,
Supported al Qaeda
Agree with Kerry Supporters Bush Administration Still Saying This is the Case
Agree US Should Not Have Gone to War if No WMD or Support for al Qaeda
Bush Supporters Misperceive World Public as Not Opposed to Iraq War,
Favoring Bush Reelection
Even after the final report of Charles Duelfer to Congress saying that Iraq did not have a significant WMD program, 72% of Bush supporters continue to believe that Iraq had actual WMD (47%) or a major program for developing them (25%). Fifty-six percent assume that most experts believe Iraq had actual WMD and 57% also assume, incorrectly, that Duelfer concluded Iraq had at least a major WMD program. Kerry supporters hold opposite beliefs on all these points.
Similarly, 75% of Bush supporters continue to believe that Iraq was providing substantial support to al Qaeda, and 63% believe that clear evidence of this support has been found. Sixty percent of Bush supporters assume that this is also the conclusion of most experts, and 55% assume, incorrectly, that this was the conclusion of the 9/11 Commission. Here again, large majorities of Kerry supporters have exactly opposite perceptions.
These are some of the findings of a new study of the differing perceptions of Bush and Kerry supporters, conducted by the Program on International Policy Attitudes and Knowledge Networks, based on polls conducted in September and October.
Steven Kull, director of PIPA, comments, "One of the reasons that Bush supporters have these beliefs is that they perceive the Bush administration confirming them. Interestingly, this is one point on which Bush and Kerry supporters agree." Eighty-two percent of Bush supporters perceive the Bush administration as saying that Iraq had WMD (63%) or that Iraq had a major WMD program (19%). Likewise, 75% say that the Bush administration is saying Iraq was providing substantial support to al Qaeda. Equally large majorities of Kerry supporters hear the Bush administration expressing these views--73% say the Bush administration is saying Iraq had WMD (11% a major program) and 74% that Iraq was substantially supporting al Qaeda.
Steven Kull adds, "Another reason that Bush supporters may hold to these beliefs is that they have not accepted the idea that it does not matter whether Iraq had WMD or supported al Qaeda. Here too they are in agreement with Kerry supporters." Asked whether the US should have gone to war with Iraq if US intelligence had concluded that Iraq was not making WMD or providing support to al Qaeda, 58% of Bush supporters said the US should not have, and 61% assume that in this case the President would not have. Kull continues, "To support the president and to accept that he took the US to war based on mistaken assumptions likely creates substantial cognitive dissonance, and leads Bush supporters to suppress awareness of unsettling information about prewar Iraq."
This tendency of Bush supporters to ignore dissonant information extends to other realms as well. Despite an abundance of evidence--including polls conducted by Gallup International in 38 countries, and more recently by a consortium of leading newspapers in 10 major countries--only 31% of Bush supporters recognize that the majority of people in the world oppose the US having gone to war with Iraq. Forty-two percent assume that views are evenly divided, and 26% assume that the majority approves. Among Kerry supporters, 74% assume that the majority of the world is opposed.
Similarly, 57% of Bush supporters assume that the majority of people in the world would favor Bush's reelection; 33% assumed that views are evenly divided and only 9% assumed that Kerry would be preferred. A recent poll by GlobeScan and PIPA of 35 of the major countries around the world found that in 30, a majority or plurality favored Kerry, while in just 3 Bush was favored. On average, Kerry was preferred more than two to one.
Bush supporters also have numerous misperceptions about Bush's international policy positions. Majorities incorrectly assume that Bush supports multilateral approaches to various international issues--the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (69%), the treaty banning land mines (72%)--and for addressing the problem of global warming: 51% incorrectly assume he favors US participation in the Kyoto treaty. After he denounced the International Criminal Court in the debates, the perception that he favored it dropped from 66%, but still 53% continue to believe that he favors it. An overwhelming 74% incorrectly assumes that he favors including labor and environmental standards in trade agreements. In all these cases, majorities of Bush supporters favor the positions they impute to Bush. Kerry supporters are much more accurate in their perceptions of his positions on these issues.
"The roots of the Bush supporters' resistance to information," according to Steven Kull, "very likely lie in the traumatic experience of 9/11 and equally in the near pitch-perfect leadership that President Bush showed in its immediate wake. This appears to have created a powerful bond between Bush and his supporters--and an idealized image of the President that makes it difficult for his supporters to imagine that he could have made incorrect judgments before the war, that world public opinion could be critical of his policies or that the President could hold foreign policy positions that are at odds with his supporters."
The polls were conducted October 12-18 and September 3-7 and 8-12 with samples of 968, 798 and 959 respondents, respectively. Margins of error were 3.2 to 4% in the first and third surveys and 3.5% on September 3-7. The poll was fielded by Knowledge Networks using its nationwide panel, which is randomly selected from the entire adult population and subsequently provided internet access. For more information about this methodology, go to www.knowledgenetworks.com/ganp.
Funding for this research was provided by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
http://64.233.179.104/u/pipa?q=cach...4+election&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=17&ie=UTF-8
This is a poll that was conducted before the last election, and it shows the belief systems and how they widely differed between those that planned to vote for Bush and those that planned to vote against him. I don't know about Republicans, but I'm pretty certain Bush supporters won't be curing cancer...
Bush Supporters Still Believe Iraq Had WMD or Major Program,
Supported al Qaeda
Agree with Kerry Supporters Bush Administration Still Saying This is the Case
Agree US Should Not Have Gone to War if No WMD or Support for al Qaeda
Bush Supporters Misperceive World Public as Not Opposed to Iraq War,
Favoring Bush Reelection
Even after the final report of Charles Duelfer to Congress saying that Iraq did not have a significant WMD program, 72% of Bush supporters continue to believe that Iraq had actual WMD (47%) or a major program for developing them (25%). Fifty-six percent assume that most experts believe Iraq had actual WMD and 57% also assume, incorrectly, that Duelfer concluded Iraq had at least a major WMD program. Kerry supporters hold opposite beliefs on all these points.
Similarly, 75% of Bush supporters continue to believe that Iraq was providing substantial support to al Qaeda, and 63% believe that clear evidence of this support has been found. Sixty percent of Bush supporters assume that this is also the conclusion of most experts, and 55% assume, incorrectly, that this was the conclusion of the 9/11 Commission. Here again, large majorities of Kerry supporters have exactly opposite perceptions.
These are some of the findings of a new study of the differing perceptions of Bush and Kerry supporters, conducted by the Program on International Policy Attitudes and Knowledge Networks, based on polls conducted in September and October.
Steven Kull, director of PIPA, comments, "One of the reasons that Bush supporters have these beliefs is that they perceive the Bush administration confirming them. Interestingly, this is one point on which Bush and Kerry supporters agree." Eighty-two percent of Bush supporters perceive the Bush administration as saying that Iraq had WMD (63%) or that Iraq had a major WMD program (19%). Likewise, 75% say that the Bush administration is saying Iraq was providing substantial support to al Qaeda. Equally large majorities of Kerry supporters hear the Bush administration expressing these views--73% say the Bush administration is saying Iraq had WMD (11% a major program) and 74% that Iraq was substantially supporting al Qaeda.
Steven Kull adds, "Another reason that Bush supporters may hold to these beliefs is that they have not accepted the idea that it does not matter whether Iraq had WMD or supported al Qaeda. Here too they are in agreement with Kerry supporters." Asked whether the US should have gone to war with Iraq if US intelligence had concluded that Iraq was not making WMD or providing support to al Qaeda, 58% of Bush supporters said the US should not have, and 61% assume that in this case the President would not have. Kull continues, "To support the president and to accept that he took the US to war based on mistaken assumptions likely creates substantial cognitive dissonance, and leads Bush supporters to suppress awareness of unsettling information about prewar Iraq."
This tendency of Bush supporters to ignore dissonant information extends to other realms as well. Despite an abundance of evidence--including polls conducted by Gallup International in 38 countries, and more recently by a consortium of leading newspapers in 10 major countries--only 31% of Bush supporters recognize that the majority of people in the world oppose the US having gone to war with Iraq. Forty-two percent assume that views are evenly divided, and 26% assume that the majority approves. Among Kerry supporters, 74% assume that the majority of the world is opposed.
Similarly, 57% of Bush supporters assume that the majority of people in the world would favor Bush's reelection; 33% assumed that views are evenly divided and only 9% assumed that Kerry would be preferred. A recent poll by GlobeScan and PIPA of 35 of the major countries around the world found that in 30, a majority or plurality favored Kerry, while in just 3 Bush was favored. On average, Kerry was preferred more than two to one.
Bush supporters also have numerous misperceptions about Bush's international policy positions. Majorities incorrectly assume that Bush supports multilateral approaches to various international issues--the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (69%), the treaty banning land mines (72%)--and for addressing the problem of global warming: 51% incorrectly assume he favors US participation in the Kyoto treaty. After he denounced the International Criminal Court in the debates, the perception that he favored it dropped from 66%, but still 53% continue to believe that he favors it. An overwhelming 74% incorrectly assumes that he favors including labor and environmental standards in trade agreements. In all these cases, majorities of Bush supporters favor the positions they impute to Bush. Kerry supporters are much more accurate in their perceptions of his positions on these issues.
"The roots of the Bush supporters' resistance to information," according to Steven Kull, "very likely lie in the traumatic experience of 9/11 and equally in the near pitch-perfect leadership that President Bush showed in its immediate wake. This appears to have created a powerful bond between Bush and his supporters--and an idealized image of the President that makes it difficult for his supporters to imagine that he could have made incorrect judgments before the war, that world public opinion could be critical of his policies or that the President could hold foreign policy positions that are at odds with his supporters."
The polls were conducted October 12-18 and September 3-7 and 8-12 with samples of 968, 798 and 959 respondents, respectively. Margins of error were 3.2 to 4% in the first and third surveys and 3.5% on September 3-7. The poll was fielded by Knowledge Networks using its nationwide panel, which is randomly selected from the entire adult population and subsequently provided internet access. For more information about this methodology, go to www.knowledgenetworks.com/ganp.
Funding for this research was provided by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
http://64.233.179.104/u/pipa?q=cach...4+election&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=17&ie=UTF-8
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Speaking of "saying" you are a Libertarian, I wonder what happened to my favortie one, Jazzmanjim.
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Purple Haze said:
Hilarious and seemingly accurate.
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Two posts in this thread struck me as both bullseye accurate , and funny. Here they are :
MechaBlade said:
Morcheeba said:
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Make your boy wear a crewcut. Hmmm, he does.
Wear a crew cut. Yup, I do.
Keep your dog in a cage (kennel) in the back yard You couldn't pay me to have a dog.
Have a fat wife with a perm I got rid of her years ago. Damn democrat.
Watch NASCAR That was a strange race Sunday.
Watch NASCAR interviews Micheal Waltrip gives the best interviews.
Fuck your fat wife Refer to above.
Go to church Refer to above. I got rid of her so I'm going to hell. To the hell with that, go to church = go to hell, don't go to church = don't go to hell. Hmmm, I don't want to go to hell.
Pretend you're a good person Pretend hell. I am a good person.
Kick a homeless guy and scuff my shoes? Are you crazy. No need to answer that, I know the answer.
Have a latte Coffee black please.
Play with your cellphone Who needs one of those annoying things?
Listen to Rush Okay, if you insist.
Buy a magnetic yellow ribbon for your SUV How about just for my car. No SUV, too hard for the kidlet to get in and out of.
Fart Ahhhhh.... that felt good.
Pretend you're working Pretend hell. I am, well, not really.
Drive home to your big fat wife. Refer above.... again.
Suck her dick...
She has a dick? This must be your wife you are speaking of.
Wear a crew cut. Yup, I do.
Keep your dog in a cage (kennel) in the back yard You couldn't pay me to have a dog.
Have a fat wife with a perm I got rid of her years ago. Damn democrat.
Watch NASCAR That was a strange race Sunday.
Watch NASCAR interviews Micheal Waltrip gives the best interviews.
Fuck your fat wife Refer to above.
Go to church Refer to above. I got rid of her so I'm going to hell. To the hell with that, go to church = go to hell, don't go to church = don't go to hell. Hmmm, I don't want to go to hell.
Pretend you're a good person Pretend hell. I am a good person.
Kick a homeless guy and scuff my shoes? Are you crazy. No need to answer that, I know the answer.
Have a latte Coffee black please.
Play with your cellphone Who needs one of those annoying things?
Listen to Rush Okay, if you insist.
Buy a magnetic yellow ribbon for your SUV How about just for my car. No SUV, too hard for the kidlet to get in and out of.
Fart Ahhhhh.... that felt good.
Pretend you're working Pretend hell. I am, well, not really.
Drive home to your big fat wife. Refer above.... again.
Suck her dick...
She has a dick? This must be your wife you are speaking of.qwertyzxcvbn
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Oh, let me guess, all of you anti-republicans think that people who make more than 50k per year are just `lucky', right? Its all about luck, isnt it? Its never about an INDIVIDUAL'S skill, WORK ETHIC, INTELLIGENCE, or ATTITUDE, oh, Nooooooo, that would mean, that people DESERVE what they have in life. What a radical concept that would be. That secretary has all of the same inate ability that the CEO has! Yeah, thats right...same for the janitor....hes just as inately skilled as the scientist whose garbage he is dumping. He just didn't get the opportunity, right? Horsecrap! People are different. IQ is MOSTLY genetic. All of the science points in this direction. IQ is no different than the genetics of height. Short people usually produce short offspring, taller produce taller. Each of our brains are different and the science has proven this. The only people who still hold on to some notion that we are all created equal are people who are either ignorant to the science or who are still clinging blindly to the notion that the playing field can really be levelled. IT CAN'T and NEVER CAN. Just like some people are genetically stronger, faster, taller or longer lived, people differ very much in their POTENTIAL to perform mental tasks. You cannot teach an average janitor to do rocket science. There are fewer people born in the world with the mental capacity to do rocket science, therefor they get paid more in the same way that a rock costs less than a diamond. Supply, demand........IQ, socio-economic status.
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^^^ this Republican believes that truly intelligent people are homeschooled in a used tire yard.catfish said:
