You might be a Republican if...

that can pretty much be applied to ANYONE who toes the party line. kool aid drinkers abound everywhere. they're scary.

 

All ya gotta do is to look at the conventions and all the rest with objective eyes.

The Repug campaign is all about appealing to the good old boy, bubba, redneck, trailer trash countryfied (as in yer dog died, yer girlfriend left you for your brother, and ya missed the last deer ya shot at by a mile, so I wanna cry in my beer) soap opera mentality. You know, ya might be a republican if you are against abortion but for the death penalty and ya think war is a GOOD thing, but not if it's in your back yard.

On 'tother hand, the Democrap campaign is all about appealing to the intellectual crowd, with just enough honesty thrown in that it keeps those college eddycated yuppies appeased.

Ya might be a democrat if you went to Harvard, smoked pot just because all your friends did, but quit because it is not "socially acceptable" in certain circles, and basically go along with the status quo so as not to make too many waves. It helps if you dress well, and have charisma...

 

Never been to a democratic rally.

But I would suspect anyone who toes the party line for the sake of it.

I must point out, however, that your analysis of today's democrats makes little sense, and you suffer from a false sense of equivalency. It is possible for two sides of a party divide to be less or more than equals. Not all is yin and yang.

You might be a republican staffer if you are sending your résumé around and leaking dirt on your boss to the press.

 

If you spend more on booze and prescription psych meds than you do on weed you maht be a republican.

And of course you gotta talk about the environment. Whether or not you do anything about it is a different story. I don't know which is worse, the republicans who are up front and in your face about screwing you, or the democrats who screw you while making you think they're doing the right thing.

The key then is to quit the democratic party, and flip off all those losers in Congress who let us down after we voted them in there.

...as an after thought to Sig's concept of deregulation, the man's got a point, without any regulation no industry would have any competitive advantage over any other, other than strictly on the basis of merit, which is the whole point of capitalism. Now if only mankind were capable of being civilized and honest with one another, we might be able to make it work. I won't hold my breath...

 

regulation should not be about fixing outcomes, but we do need regulations in the financial industry in order to keep catastrophically large swindles from occurring.

it's protection from coercion via deceit.

 

Exactly. One of the fundamental principles you learn in economics 101 in college is that the economic model of supply and demand is based on the premise that producers and consumers are omniscient regarding the products they trade. That model goes out the window when you introduce corporate fraud.

The Republican version of deregulation, which is siphoning money from the tax base, while lining the pockets of big corporations who don't need it and haven't earned it, is not working.

 

If verizon and AT&T build cell towers on your ranch for free you maht be a republican.

 

how about, you might be republican if you see a person drowning and tell your buddy "that guy should just swim better."

 

how about "that guy should innovate to get himself out of drowning. let's lower his taxes to encourage innovation".

 

i think mine was funnier.

 

Now you're talkin'!

If you consider Fox news informative (instead of the joke it is), you maht be a Republican.

 

if you spent more on your nascar memorabilia than your house, you might be a republican.

 

If what you drive is bigger than where you sleep you might be a Republican.

 

that one can be taken both ways, i think, depending on the area. hmmmm. how about "if what you drive is bigger than your barn, you might be a republican." it's a stretch.

 

You might be a republican if...

Your idea of going green is installing compact fluorescent bulbs but not recycling them

 

well, to be fair, they're usually in rural areas and they're fun to shoot.

 

Republicans or compact fluorescent bulbs? Either way, they're both fun to shoot at, lol!

 

If you wear a sheet when it's not halloween you maht be a republican.

 

lol good one.

You might be a republican if...
your campaign contributions are higher than your taxes.

 

You might be a republican if your campaign contributions are your taxes.