# My fellow SDMB Republicans, it is time once again for the Republican Happy Dance®!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 3, 2004, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-fellow-sdmb-republicans-it-is-time-once-again-for-the-republican-happy-dance/272684 "2004-11-03T05:49:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Greathouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greathouse/32/2992_2.png) [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-fellow-sdmb-republicans-it-is-time-once-again-for-the-republican-happy-dance/272684/101 "2004-11-03T17:33:57Z")
**Shodan** , that was pretty damn funny. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-fellow-sdmb-republicans-it-is-time-once-again-for-the-republican-happy-dance/272684/102 "2004-11-03T17:38:59Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > I realize “you and yours” is a common term but would just like to point out that in this instance it was used inappropriately. I don’t see how. You voted for Bush, and thus you voted for his homophobic agenda. ---
**Author:** ![Tygr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@Tygr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tygr)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-fellow-sdmb-republicans-it-is-time-once-again-for-the-republican-happy-dance/272684/103 "2004-11-03T18:46:41Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > May he govern with wisdom and compassion, listen to others without bowing to them, and learn from his mistakes. May he rise above petty political squabbles, look past short-term gain, inspire the US people to greater heights, and bring out the hope and human goodness at the heart of that Republic. May he make the USA once again a symbol of hope in the world. Yeah, I hope he keeps doing what he’s been doing, too. Well, honestly, I’d prefer if he’d act more responsibly conservative at home. For one, our domestic spending needs drastic curtailing. > [@lieu](#): > > …unacceptable unemployment rate… “Unacceptable”…? Geez, what rate would make you happy? Right now it’s at the same rate as it was in '96 and that rate was cited as one reason for Clinton’s re-election. It’s acceptable when a Dem’s in the driver’s seat, but not a 'Pub? Also sorry to see that Puffy’s gonna have to put out a hit on all those 18-24 year-olds he registered. “Vote or Die”, and apparently most of 'em didn’t. Shame this thread weren’t able to do like '02s and stay mostly civil & in MPSIMS. Ah, well… ::waltzes off humming:: “The times, they are a-changin’…” ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-fellow-sdmb-republicans-it-is-time-once-again-for-the-republican-happy-dance/272684/104 "2004-11-03T18:59:20Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Congratulations to the winner\*! > > May he govern with wisdom and compassion, listen to others without bowing to them, and learn from his mistakes. May he rise above petty political squabbles, look past short-term gain, inspire the US people to greater heights, and bring out the hope and human goodness at the heart of that Republic. May he make the USA once again a symbol of hope in the world. > > [sub]\*From what I read, the outcome is still uncertain.[sub] Bravo! for that post. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-fellow-sdmb-republicans-it-is-time-once-again-for-the-republican-happy-dance/272684/105 "2004-11-03T19:12:05Z")
> [@Tygr](#): > > “Unacceptable”…? Geez, what rate would make you happy? Right now it’s at the same rate as it was in '96 Except in '96, the rate been in decline from a peak of 7.8% in the summer of '92. First time it had peaked that high in eight years. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-fellow-sdmb-republicans-it-is-time-once-again-for-the-republican-happy-dance/272684/106 "2004-11-03T19:14:38Z")
You kicked our butts. I am so glad I don’t have kids. There are no words for the horror I’d feel at having to raise them in the world you are making. You’re going to have to live in it, too. Enjoy. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-fellow-sdmb-republicans-it-is-time-once-again-for-the-republican-happy-dance/272684/107 "2004-11-03T20:54:29Z")
> [@Greathouse](#): > > **Shodan** , that was pretty damn funny. Thanks. **Brutus** inspired me, and I am posting in hopes his heart will bend in my direction, my hopeless affections from afar will find their reward, and he will discard that faithless trollop **gobear** and we can ride off into the sunset together. Plus I enjoy laughing at people who misspell their own user name. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-fellow-sdmb-republicans-it-is-time-once-again-for-the-republican-happy-dance/272684/108 "2004-11-03T21:26:44Z")
> [@Muad'Dib](#): > > They mustered everything they could and they could not take down a sitting president who has **the poor press in Iraq** and a murky economy. You think the problem in Iraq is the press? How many people have been killed by reporters? Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-fellow-sdmb-republicans-it-is-time-once-again-for-the-republican-happy-dance/272684/109 "2004-11-03T21:46:50Z")
> [@Mtgman](#): > > You think the problem in Iraq is the press? How many people have been killed by reporters? > > Enjoy, > Steven Not to put words in anybody’s mouth, but it sounded more like he was talking about the poor ‘press’ that comes out of Iraq. That is, endless reports of American GI’s killed, insurgents running wild, no-go zones, etc… ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-fellow-sdmb-republicans-it-is-time-once-again-for-the-republican-happy-dance/272684/110 "2004-11-03T22:03:46Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > Not to put words in anybody’s mouth, but it sounded more like he was talking about the poor ‘press’ that comes out of Iraq. That is, endless reports of American GI’s killed, insurgents running wild, no-go zones, etc… Surely the actual killings, running wild, no-go zones, etc. are the actual problem then. The “press” isn’t creating those events. If they were reporting events which did not happen(like reports Iraqi troops pulling babies out of incubators in Kuwait in GWI) then the press would be the problem, but I don’t see that here. I could see being happy at a president avoiding negative blowback from a false report, but the deaths and instability are not false reports. The handling of Iraq’s reconstruction is a serious strike against Bush and it was not fabricated by “the press”. Bad press on Iraq is reflective of a bad situation in Iraq. It is a symptom of a problem, not the problem itself. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-fellow-sdmb-republicans-it-is-time-once-again-for-the-republican-happy-dance/272684/111 "2004-11-03T22:10:14Z")
> [@continuity eror](#): > > I am so happy for you. > > I am happy that you have made it so that my hypothetical future wife and I will not be able to visit one another on our deathbeds[/SIZE] That’s so much horseshit. Sign a living will and execute a power of attorney for medical treatment naming your partner as the decision maker. That’s all you have ever needed to do; you damn sure didn’t need a marriage ceremony for that. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-fellow-sdmb-republicans-it-is-time-once-again-for-the-republican-happy-dance/272684/112 "2004-11-03T22:12:31Z")
> [@Mtgman](#): > > Surely the actual killings, running wild, no-go zones, etc. are the actual problem then. The “press” isn’t creating those events. If they were reporting events which did not happen(like reports Iraqi troops pulling babies out of incubators in Kuwait in GWI) then the press would be the problem, but I don’t see that here. I could see being happy at a president avoiding negative blowback from a false report, but the deaths and instability are not false reports. The handling of Iraq’s reconstruction is a serious strike against Bush and it was not fabricated by “the press”. Bad press on Iraq is reflective of a bad situation in Iraq. It is a symptom of a problem, not the problem itself. I wouldn’t disagree. There are some who might make the point that the press should be focusing on all the ‘sucesses’ that Shrub et al seem to believe are occuring… but I wouldn’t be one of them. ---
**Author:** ![Brutus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-fellow-sdmb-republicans-it-is-time-once-again-for-the-republican-happy-dance/272684/113 "2004-11-03T22:14:15Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Thanks. **Brutus** inspired me, and I am posting in hopes his heart will bend in my direction, my hopeless affections from afar will find their reward, and he will discard that faithless trollop **gobear** and we can ride off into the … You know, I hear in Canada they have different laws about that sort of stuff. Maybe we could give **Sam** a call… 😉 You know, I haven’t had this much fun jumping from board to board in a long time. The DU boards melted down, but not before I laughed like I haven’t laughed in ages. Well, days, since I just watched _Not Another Teen Movie_\*, but you get the idea. The Donut Lord’s website crashed a while ago. To those of my fellow tighty-Righties who think the **SDMB Grim Association of Hysterical and Not-So Bright Lefties** is overreacting, you are right. But HOLY CRAP there are some fucking nutcase lefties out there! It’s like if Dave Barry and PJ O’Rourke were given a task by God to go forth and populate the internet with the most ridiculous and over-the-top Lefty rants. Pure. Comedy. Gold. 🙂 But let me reach out to the board Left here. I make the following promise: As long as you guys keep posting your amazing little ‘ITS TEH END OF THE WORLD!#@!@’ bits, I promise to keep laughing at you, interspersed with a touch of ridicule. ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-fellow-sdmb-republicans-it-is-time-once-again-for-the-republican-happy-dance/272684/114 "2004-11-03T22:49:37Z")
> [@Brutus](#): > > But let me reach out to the board Left here. I make the following promise: As long as you guys keep posting your amazing little ‘ITS TEH END OF THE WORLD!#@!@’ bits, I promise to keep laughing at you, interspersed with a touch of ridicule. Ah, yes. The well remembered Republican Voice of Uniting, rather than . . . yeah. Never mind. Hope you all have fun in your next invasion. Tris ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-fellow-sdmb-republicans-it-is-time-once-again-for-the-republican-happy-dance/272684/115 "2004-11-04T00:31:23Z")
> [@Bippy the Beardless](#): > > Bravo! for that post. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-fellow-sdmb-republicans-it-is-time-once-again-for-the-republican-happy-dance/272684/116 "2004-11-04T00:43:21Z")
Well, it’s all yours now, tighty righties. You bought it, you own it, its all yours. So far, we’ve lost about a thousand of our best and brightest in Iraq. Have you any reason, any reason at all, to believe it won’t be 2,000? 5,000? 10? Will you still be happy-dancing? ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-fellow-sdmb-republicans-it-is-time-once-again-for-the-republican-happy-dance/272684/117 "2004-11-04T01:37:23Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > Ever study history and find out the advantages to not only the US, but the rest of the world due to WWII? Especially Japan? Or are you in the Nintendo (heh) generation and only see things from a micro world? Wow. You’re a Bush supporter, correct? Here are some of the estimated casualties for WWII: Soviet Union Military 13,600,000 Civilian 7,700,000 Total 21,300,000 China Military 1,324,000 Civilian 10,000,000 Total 11,324,000 Germany Military 3,250,000 Civilian 3,810,000 Total 7,060,000 Poland Military 850,000 Civilian 6,000,000 Total 6,850,000 Japan Military 1,506,000 Civilian 300,000 Total 1,806,000 Yugoslavia Military 300,000 Civilian 1,400,000 Total 1,700,000 Rumania Military 520,000 Civilian 465,000 Total 985,000 France Military 340,000 Civilian 470,000 Total 810,000 Austria Military 380,000 Civilian 145,000 Total 525,000 Italy Military 330,000 Civilian 80,000 Total 410,000 Great Britain Military 326,000 Civilian 62,000 Total 388,000 USA Military 295,000 Civilian - Total 295,000 Holland Military 14,000 Civilian 236,000 Total 250,000 Belgium Military 10,000 Civilian 75,000 Total 85,000 Finland Military 79,000 Civilian - Total 79,000 Canada Military 39,000 Civilian - Total 39,000 India Military 36,000 Civilian - Total 36,000 Australia Military 29,000 Civilian - Total 29,000 Spain Military 12,000 Civilian 10,000 Total 22,000 Bulgaria Military 19,000 Civilian 2,000 Total 21,000 New Zealand Military 12,000 Civilian - Total 12,000 South Africa Military 9,000 Civilian - Total 9,000 Norway Military 5,000 Civilian - Total 5,000 Denmark Military 4,000 Civilian - Total 4,000 [http://www.valourandhorror.com/DB/BACK/Casualties.htm](http://www.valourandhorror.com/DB/BACK/Casualties.htm) Perhaps you could use your obvious ‘knowledge of history’ :rolleyes: to explain how the ‘advantages of WW2’ justify the above. Words fail me. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-fellow-sdmb-republicans-it-is-time-once-again-for-the-republican-happy-dance/272684/118 "2004-11-04T01:49:07Z")
> [@continuity eror](#): > > You’re fucking up the fucking lives of millions of fucking people and you don’t fucking care. … do a Snoopy dance on the Bill of Rights, you’re probably a rich white male aren’t you? What’s good for you is good for everyone else right? …(You) don’t care about other people… Finally! Someone understands me! 😃 > [@](#): > > …I’d like you to know that your posts and the posts of the other Bush supporters in this forum have made me go into a panic attack. I bet all you Pubbies (oh dear is that an offensive term now?) think that’s really funny. Well, actually it is kinda funny. 'Specially if you are all “shakey” and wet yourself. 😛 “Panic Attack” :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![spectrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@spectrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spectrum)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-fellow-sdmb-republicans-it-is-time-once-again-for-the-republican-happy-dance/272684/119 "2004-11-04T01:51:47Z")
> [@Muad'Dib](#): > > Take it to the pit. And realize that, even if it turns out that I am wrong about everything, I hold my views because I believe to be just, correct, and to the benefit of everyone. UNless they’'re gay, in which case they should just go swallow a bullet and do the world a favor, right you right wing reactionary shithead? Fuck Bush. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-fellow-sdmb-republicans-it-is-time-once-again-for-the-republican-happy-dance/272684/120 "2004-11-04T01:53:00Z")
> [@Brutus](#): > > You know, I hear in Canada they have different laws about that sort of stuff. Maybe we could give **Sam** a call… 😉 I draw the line at three-ways. > [@Brutus](#): > > You know, I haven’t had this much fun jumping from board to board in a long time. The DU boards melted down, but not before I laughed like I haven’t laughed in ages. Well, days, since I just watched _Not Another Teen Movie_, but you get the idea. The Donut Lord’s website crashed a while ago. I was seriously disappointed when Democratic Underground dumped. Don’t know about the Donut Lord. > [@Brutus](#): > > To those of my fellow tighty-Righties who think the **SDMB Grim Association of Hysterical and Not-So Bright Lefties** is overreacting, you are right. But HOLY CRAP there are some fucking nutcase lefties out there! It’s like if Dave Barry and PJ O’Rourke were given a task by God to go forth and populate the internet with the most ridiculous and over-the-top Lefty rants. Pure. Comedy. Gold. 🙂 Word. 🆒 Regards, Shodan [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-fellow-sdmb-republicans-it-is-time-once-again-for-the-republican-happy-dance/272684.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-fellow-sdmb-republicans-it-is-time-once-again-for-the-republican-happy-dance/272684.md?page=7)