# Democrats are good, Republicans are evil **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 20, 2004, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrats-are-good-republicans-are-evil/270261 "2004-10-20T19:40:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Blackacre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@Blackacre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackacre)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrats-are-good-republicans-are-evil/270261/21 "2004-10-20T20:41:08Z")
In re Bush, does “Pubbies” or “Pubs” stand for Republicans or something else? BA ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrats-are-good-republicans-are-evil/270261/22 "2004-10-20T20:41:22Z")
No, no, no. Republicans are dicks, and Democrats are pussies. The dicks need the pussies to keep them in line, and the pussies need the dicks to protect them from assholes. ---
**Author:** ![Blackacre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@Blackacre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackacre)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrats-are-good-republicans-are-evil/270261/23 "2004-10-20T20:45:49Z")
OMG, laughed so hard at that last one I fell out of my expensive leather chair and spilled my Tab. =D BA ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrats-are-good-republicans-are-evil/270261/24 "2004-10-20T20:47:38Z")
**Evil Captor:** > [@](#): > > What’s wrong with “pubbies” as a term? It’s not an adaptation of a pejorative, like Repugs (i.e., Repugnants) or Demorats. Pubbies and Dems strike me alike as inoffensive terms, saving keystrokes and such. Where does the issue with Pubbie come in? Plus, it implies a certain alcohol-besottedness. Who _wouldn’t_ vote for the party of Par-tay!? 😃 **D the C:** > [@](#): > > I didn’t know “pubbie” was an insult. I often say “Pubbies” or “Pubs” just because I don’t feel like typing out “Republicans.” > > Do you have a better suggestion for an abbreviation? > > Do you think “Dems” is an insult? As long as we don’t descend to “Pubes” and “Dims,” we should be alright. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrats-are-good-republicans-are-evil/270261/25 "2004-10-20T20:48:10Z")
> [@gobear](#): > > No, no, no. Republicans are dicks, and Democrats are pussies. The dicks need the pussies to keep them in line, and the pussies need the dicks to protect them from assholes. Next thing you know, you’re going to claim to have beaten the system. 😛🆒 ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrats-are-good-republicans-are-evil/270261/26 "2004-10-20T20:48:29Z")
> [@gobear](#): > > No, no, no. Republicans are dicks, and Democrats are pussies. The dicks need the pussies to keep them in line, and the pussies need the dicks to protect them from assholes. I saw that movie last night. Hilarious! ---
**Author:** ![Debaser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@Debaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Debaser)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrats-are-good-republicans-are-evil/270261/27 "2004-10-20T20:59:58Z")
Nice, **gobear**. But what are the libertarians? ---
**Author:** ![MrFantsyPants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@MrFantsyPants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrFantsyPants)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrats-are-good-republicans-are-evil/270261/28 "2004-10-20T21:10:59Z")
well, if you define evil as a potent mixture of arrogance, ignorance and greed, then, um… what were we talking about again? ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrats-are-good-republicans-are-evil/270261/29 "2004-10-20T21:12:07Z")
> [@gobear](#): > > No, no, no. Republicans are dicks, and Democrats are pussies. The dicks need the pussies to keep them in line, and the pussies need the dicks to protect them from assholes. This is about the most succinct yet accurate definition I’ve ever heard. Kudos to you, sir. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrats-are-good-republicans-are-evil/270261/30 "2004-10-20T21:14:08Z")
> [@gobear](#): > > No, no, no. Republicans are dicks, and Democrats are pussies. The dicks need the pussies to keep them in line, and the pussies need the dicks to protect them from assholes. Print this onto bumper stickers and you’ll be a rich man. **DtC** , I always assumed you meant “pubbies” perjorativly since I’ve never seen anything other then “dams” as a shortened democrat in your posts. I stand corrected if that isn’t the case. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrats-are-good-republicans-are-evil/270261/31 "2004-10-20T21:14:46Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Personally, I think four legs good, two legs bad. I knew it! Those damn, evil birds! ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrats-are-good-republicans-are-evil/270261/32 "2004-10-20T21:15:42Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > “dams” That was “dems”. Though I’m sure you’ll forgive a Freudian slip here and there? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrats-are-good-republicans-are-evil/270261/33 "2004-10-20T21:15:59Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > Print this onto bumper stickers and you’ll be a rich man. I think he’ll be poor and Trey Parker and Matt Stone will be slightly richer, since (per [bJohn Mace\*\*'s post), it’s from a movie, and I’m willing to bet that movie was Team America: World Police. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrats-are-good-republicans-are-evil/270261/34 "2004-10-20T21:43:30Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > Print this onto bumper stickers and you’ll be a rich man. Actually, he’d be a poor man, as he’d be sued for plagerism. Has no one else seen _Team America: World Police_ yet? ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrats-are-good-republicans-are-evil/270261/35 "2004-10-20T21:55:56Z")
Yeah, but the trouble is, to a dick, everyone is either a pussy or an asshole–indeed they can’t tell the difference. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrats-are-good-republicans-are-evil/270261/36 "2004-10-20T22:06:12Z")
> [@sqweels](#): > > Yeah, but the trouble is, to a dick, everyone is either a pussy or an asshole–indeed they can’t tell the difference. Au contraire! Speaking as a dick, I can tell you that while it’s true some assholes can be pussies, and some pussies can be assholes, not all assholes are pussies and not all pussies are assholes. And furthermore, even among those that are both there are many layers of differentiation between them. Generalizations such as you purport only serve to cloud the issue. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrats-are-good-republicans-are-evil/270261/37 "2004-10-20T22:30:45Z")
> [@John Mace](#): > > No. I don’t recall Republicans around here ever being called “subhuman”. 🙂 No? Well, I will gladly remedy that lack at the earliest opportunity! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrats-are-good-republicans-are-evil/270261/38 "2004-10-20T22:57:58Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > No? Well, I will gladly remedy that lack at the earliest opportunity! 😃 Well, we all know that _Homo libertarianensis_ ts the most highly evolved form of the genus anyway. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrats-are-good-republicans-are-evil/270261/39 "2004-10-20T23:09:12Z")
The statement is becoming true, if only because all the sensible, non-evil Republicans are starting to change their affiliation to either Democrats or Independents. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrats-are-good-republicans-are-evil/270261/40 "2004-10-20T23:42:42Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > "Republicans think Democrats are wrong. > > Democrats think Republicans are _evil_." When I saw Charles Krauthammer use this, it was “Republicans thing Democrats are stupid,” as I recall. It may have been “naive.” Just a note for accuracy. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrats-are-good-republicans-are-evil/270261.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrats-are-good-republicans-are-evil/270261.md?page=3)