Leaving the GOP

[Catwoman]

Here's another lovely contribution to our civil dialogue by the left...

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011...est=latestnews
If you think this is funny or you would like to play...you are a.????

[peggy]

That video game is disgusting, as are all killing type video games. I never allowed any such game in my house. But this is a video game, hardly something coming from 'the left', unless you feel the need to assign party affiliation to virtually everything like other languages assign gender to every word.
Now come up with examples of leaders or politicians on the left encouraging violence. You know I can come up with plenty of examples from the right.

[iris lily]

... But this is a video game, hardly something coming from 'the left', unless you feel the need to assign party affiliation to virtually everything...

Gosh the inventor of the game self identifies as a leftie, he doesn't need catwoman to do it.

Of all of that race stuff, I thought that the button about the White House was crude, but I laughed at the The Magic Negro song by Shinkman. It's a funny parody.

[poetry_writer]

I hate the think of the bashing and trashing of each of the candidates on either side. Its pointless and childish and stupid and the media will certainly do it. This forum is an example, of the silly and (untrue) comments made about candidates.

[creaker]

Gosh the inventor of the game self identifies as a leftie, he doesn't need catwoman to do it.

Of all of that race stuff, I thought that the button about the White House was crude, but I laughed at the The Magic Negro song by Shinkman. It's a funny parody.

So it's fair game to bring in anyone who self identifies as a conservative and tag them as a spokesperson of the right? Maybe Fred Phelps?

I never cared for this "guilt by association" thing. Carried to its conclusion, every group can be considered just a bunch of wackos.

[iris lily]

I watched the GOP debate tonight and it was really very scary to me. I have never seen or heard such extreme people vying to run for President. IMO, the only two that showed any measure of sanity at all were Huntsman and Romney.

If any of these people are successful it will be an environmentally catastrophic. They have absolutely no regard for our air/water or health and define success based solely on continued war and consumption. We you hear people seriously talking about whether evolution is real, that climate change not real, and the roar from the crowd in response to just a question about the Death Penalty it makes you wonder who these people are.

Frightening.

Peace

Your summary of this event is peculiar. But let's get specific on at least one thing: can you summarize what was said when you heard "people seriously talking about whether evolution is real?" Voices in your head, me thinks, but please, enlighten me.

[iris lily]

So it's fair game to bring in anyone who self identifies as a conservative and tag them as a spokesperson of the right? Maybe Fred Phelps?

I think that the inventor of the video game would have more credibility as only a businessman if his range of products didn't entirely vilify the right. He's made previous products along the same lines as this one.

edited to add:

But I don't consider him a "spokesperson" of the left. As catwoman said, he's part of tdialog in the public square. Pay attention to him or not, he is there. As is Fred Phelps.

[freein05]

I fond it very sad when the audience cheered and clapped when Perry was asked the death penalty question. I believe the death of anyone is no happy event. This again shows how far the Republican party has moved to the right.

[gimmethesimplelife]

You know, this topic has really made me think, and to those of you who have followed my posts over the years, please don't have a heart attack here.....But there was a time in the history of the US when I might have actually voted Republican, maybe.....From the late 1940's throught the mid 60's when the American middle class was in it's heyday and by working hard you could actually pretty much be assured of accomplishing something and have some stability - I think under those conditions I could buy into the basic ideas of the Republican party better - free enterprise, hard work, personal responsibility, competition (tho in those days I don't think competition was so brutal as it is today). Under today's conditions for me personally the stance of the Republican party just does not work and I can understand why there would be those who would leave it. Just my two cents. Rob

[Florence]

In 1972 I manned the phone lines to help re-elect Richard Nixon. Fast forward to 2000 when I sent a campaign contribution to help re-elect GWB. Between those two points, voting was pretty much just pulling the Republican lever. Then came Iraq. That was the beginning of my disenchantment with the Republican Party. I didn't leave them--they left me.