But…wait…the OP is continuing the over-the-top Republican bashing…but if you’re applauding…
Oh dear, I think my head just exploded.
Wouldn’t “over the top” require some element of exaggeration, rather than a tedious recitation of the bleeding obvious?
Well, as often happens for me with YouTube videos, it’s going to take an hour to load, so I didn’t realize the OP was being facetious. 
But my comments on Republican bashers stand. The nicer people I know are Republicans.
They may be nice people, but that really has no bearing on their political values, and it’s the political values under attack.
Holy shit, a really good friend of mine is in that video. He just emailed me to say it was on Keith Olbermann. The funny thing? He’s a Republican!
I’m voting Democrat because the real issues don’t matter, who needs actual facts, I want things done purely based on “feel good” emotions, I don’t want anything to actually get done, and I want to support socialism whether I realize it or not.
Yay for political polarization. Little does anyone realize that, regardless of party, 90% of politicians are superficial, egotistical idiots anyways. It doesn’t matter what the party is, most politicians these days don’t tend to stick to the principles and morals of their respective parties. When are we going to look past the ridiculousness of “the political party” and start judging people by their character. There are plenty of Republicans (Bush for example) and Democrats (Bill Clinton for example) that have flown in the face of their respective parties principles. Each side likes to use such individuals as evidence to discredit anyone from the same party. It is just absolutely preposterous.
Glad to know it’s never personal and always only on the issues. :rolleyes:
I’m mildly surprised. I always had you pegged for an automatic GOP vote. Have you voted for Dem presidents in the past?
For the record:
I am flattered that some folks think it was clever or shifty of me to post this in MPSIMS intead of GD. But really, I thought the video was just silly and, well, pointless and mundane. I thought folks could make up their own silly one liners and move on.
If you can tease a Great Debate out of it, more power to you.
Indirectly it does. Being nice or not nice is a reflection of the persons values. I think the point Sam is making is that any off hand rather sarcastic dismissal of another persons opinions is dam rude. I’m a moderate Democrat myself and I have several great friends who are republican. Bush and his corrupt admin has given republicans country wide a black eye but that’s not a reflection of the real conservative values of the average hard working republican. Democrats may feel they have a good reason to act morally superior for now but comparing ourselves to possibly the worst president in history and saying, “We’re better” isn’t much to bragg about. Democratic leaders IMO have been great political cowards who have counted on the failure of this admin to make them look good. Obama has shown courage and intelligence. Perhaps he can motivate others to do the same. It’s about dam time.
When I first saw it I thought it was a little funny but mainly just shit stirring and unproductive.
I’m voting Republican because it’s time to add Iran to our Greater Middle Eastern Co-Prosperity Sphere.
Cripes, why didn’t they just put someone in the video to say “I’m voting Republican because I don’t want a nigger in the White House” and leave it at that?
Maybe they did; I didn’t watch the whole thing.
Regards,
Shodan
You mean voting Republican, don’t you? You know, you want to feel good that terrorism is being defeated (in fact it’s increased worldwide), that the free market is taking care of our economic interests (just look at wages and economy), that you’ve elected conservative politicians who will legislate your extremist desires on things like abortion (much hot air, no action). No doubt about it, the Republicans are the feel-good guys… how they keep pulling it off without delivering anything to their voters is a mystery to me. I guess it’s because you “feel good” about electing morons like W. who drive like me into a froth, though it’s debatable whether that actually counts as getting anything done.
Don’t worry, Republicans themselves are taking care of that.
There’s no satisfaction in satire when all you can really do is quote the target verbatim. They speak for themselves.
I’m not saying it never is. But none of the admittedly biased lines in the video were “I’m voting Republican because I’m a traitor” or “I’m voting Republican because I hate black people.” It focused on current Republican beliefs (and yes, displayed them in the worst light possible, although I reserve the right to think that at least some of them were spot on).
Besides, quite frankly, it is a bit of a strawman to go on about “But they’re nice people!” It’s possible to be friendly and civil while still holding loony or destructive beliefs.
I didn’t realize that every depiction of a politician as an ape was racist. Heaven forbid that we should have anything as offensive as mocking a candidate for the Presidency by comparing him with animals.
Regards,
Shodan
You do realize there’s a difference between a caricature of a person’s natural features, and outright using an image of a monkey, Shodan? Bush got compared to a chimp because it’s not a huge stretch to change his features into something chimp-like. Obama got compared to a monkey…why? It’s not his features, otherwise they would have done digital manipulation and not just slapped a Curious George image on the T-shirt.
You have to be kidding. It isn’t a huge stretch to change any human being’s features into something chimp like.