What is your #1 personal reason why you could never EVER be a Republican in a million years?

[mtnsnake]

For me it's wildlife and the environment. Republicans have no regard for either, and their atrocious modern-day record on the environment shows it. Most Republicans would level an old growth forest just to get a few prime logs. They'd kill the last fur-bearing animal on the planet to make a quick buck or to have a fur coat, and they'd do it without any empathy for the creatures what so ever. Republicans have become such rotten, corrupt assholes concerning the environment and wildlife that Teddy Roosevelt must roll over and over in his grave.

Although Republicans are out to screw anyone but the rich, I feel that people in general stand a chance to take care of themselves or at least fight back. But wild animals and forests? They are 100% at the mercy of ruthless assholes who would wipe them out for an extra dollar. Animals and forests wouldn't stand a chance without Democrats always fighting to protect them.

Do you have a personal #1 reason why you could never be a Republican in a million years? If so, what is it?

[rurallib]

1. their total disregard for people and money

they are totally uncaring about people and spend money like a bunch of drunken lottery winners.

[roguevalley]

39. what everyone on this list said times two. They taint everything

and everyone they see, touch, think about. they have no souls. They are evil, entitled and stoopid. I loathe their party, their drunken child molesting party. I hope it dies soon before we all go with it. Our wonderful country is over because of them and they have enshrined stoopid like a national event.

[Bettie]

2. For me it is the general attitude of almost all of them.

Which can be summed up as "I've got mine, now screw you".

That covers almost everything they do...it is all in the service of their overwhelming greed.

[givemebackmycountry]

3. Yeah, they hate people...

Poor people.
Brown people.
Black people.
Gay people.
Female people.
Old people.
Young people.
Sick people.
Disabled people.
Unemployed people.
Educated people.
Service people.
Retired people.
Free people.

Basically, they hate any group of people that is not:

White.
Christian.
Rich.

There's a whole lotta of hate right there.

[mrcheerful]

4. I can't bend over enough to be able to shove my head where the sun don't shine

[rox63]

5. Because I don't hate poor people n/t

[DrDan]

6. I don't want to be associated with mitch, boner, bachmann, palin and the rest

[RoBear]

7. I can't sustain

that level of hate. Same reason I can't affiliate with any religion. Jesus would weep...

[Cutatious]

8. Because all generalizations are wrong

Everyone is unique in their own way.

[hayu_lol]

9. A million years...LOL!

I'd be dead.

So would everyone else reading this.

[Sienna86]

10. It's me versus we.

[karynnj]

11. Economic social justice

In a time when the gap between the haves and have nots is rapidly expanding, there is no way that I can support almost any Republican. I know that the Clinton years showed greater expansion than most earlier years due mostly to the incredible dot.com bubble - which would likely have happened had GHWB remained in office.

(Foreign policy and the environment are important to me and the differences in them make me support Democrats, but on just foreign policy, Dick Lugar is better than some Democrats and there have been some Republicans, who are good on environmental issues (other than the obvious big one - climate change). In fact, if John Heinz had lived, remained in Congress and remained a Republican, he would be an example of a Republican who was better than most Democrats on all environmental issues - including climate change.

[old mark]

12. I remember watching Joe McCarthy's hearings on TV as a kid - I have

hated republicans since then-since Nixon was VP! They stand for nothing I want and everything I don't want.
The Democrats might suck, but they don't suck near as much as republicans, and there actually are occasional really good ones, whereas there are NO good republicans since TR.


mark

[queenjane]

13. Animals & environment - in total agreement with you (n/t)

[riverwalker]

14. war

The belief that the power to cause death is true power.

[harun]

15. I don't support oppression of the Middle/Lower class.

[slackmaster]

16. Nixon

[NatBurner]

17. because i'm not an asshole

and that's basically it, in a nutshell

[Hello_Kitty]

49. Ain't it? I've said for years that Asshole-Americans are the GOP's main constituency. eom

[randr]

18. I have a heart that pumps warm blood

[northoftheborder]

20. Republicans show total lack of empathy for people (other than.....

,,,,,rich, white, powerful), no respect for the environment, scientific method, the poor, sick, aged, ordinary human beings, other races, countries. The current version of Republicanism also has incorporated a narrowminded, intolerant, radical religious Christian evangelical cause with which to judge the rest of mankind. I despise and abhor every one of them. Comments above, ditto.

[handmade34]

19. because

I would be in the same club as:

Boehner
McConnell
Cantor
McCain
etc...

[opihimoimoi]

21. They are CLOSET WIMPS.....fearful buggers project FEAR into the Society

[JustAnotherGen]

22. I'm a bi-racial woman

So tell - what have they done for me lately?

[hatrack]

23. Contempt for intelligence, contempt for science, contempt for logic, contempt for reality

It's all about them, their money and their fears - however well- or ill-founded such fears may be.

It's an entire political movement resting on the premise that anything the conflicts with Republicans' pathetically tiny world-view and their simultaneously bloated sense of self-importance can (and must) be ignored, ridiculed and wished out of existence - simply because doing so makes them feel better.

[TwilightGardener]

24. I hate being wrong.

[Doctor_J]

25. Because the best of them is lying, racist, ignorant filth

Probably the most despicable subspecies ever to walk the Earth.

[salinen]

35. You're being kind

I can't even write what I feel for them. The worst part; they get almost everything they desire thanks to the corporations sharing (programming) their thoughts.

[Mass]

26. Because I disagree with their vision of the world?

[Arkana]

27. Because I give a shit about people that aren't me.

Because of their utter contempt for people with higher education.

Because of their glorification of stupidity and ignorance.

Because of their Wild-West black-and-white view of the world, both foreign and domestic.

There are a million reasons why I would rather eat worms than sign on to the Republican Party.

[Gregorian]

28. I seek the truth.

Period.

[tk2kewl]

29. I used to be of the same mind as you, but...

I think my main reason these days is their utter disregard for members of their own species who cannot help line their pockets and the pockets of their friends.

[philly_bob]

30. They're the anti-science party. (nt)

[DoBotherMe]

31. Because they are crazy

in an emotionally and mentally deranged sort of way. Oh, and liars. Dana ; )

[The Backlash Cometh]

32. I can not handle their level of deceit, and/or self-delusion.

[lumberjack_jeff]

33. Because I'm not okay with bigotry. n/t

[fatbuckel]

34. They`re greedy,selfish,racist punks.(funny how all those things have a common denominator,Me,Me,Me)

[mentalsolstice]

36. Their contempt for the less fortunate. nt

[justiceischeap]

37. 'Cause I'm a lesbian. (EOM)

[tavalon]

38. My humanity would have to be neutralized

Tavalon without humanity would just be a sociopath and I don't like sociopaths and that would set up a conundrum that would ultimately lead to my untimely death. But just remember, I'm coming up with reasons every day for why I'm no longer a Democrat, either.

[laylah]

40. Lack of a soul. nt

[golfguru]

41. Two reasons

I am pro-choice and pro-environment.

[Arugula Latte]

42. I have a functioning brain.

[Yavin4]

43. I Simply Don't Value Money and War Above All Else

I just don't get it.

[SteveG]

44. because I'm not a congenital idiot n/t

nt

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

45. I consider myself a thinking human being. (Although I'm sure some would disagree). nt

[Zoeisright]

46. Hypocrisy.

They do everything they accuse others of doing; they constantly lie, and they name bills the exact opposite of their intention: i.e. the "Clear Skies Act" that increased pollution.

I actually have a functioning brain, depend on logical reasoning, and cognitive dissonance makes me uncomfortable. Unlike 100% of repukes.

[Cherchez la Femme]

47. Lack of Compassion

I'd have put Greed, but seems like the other Party has caught right up with the Repigs...

[totodeinhere]

48. Because their economic policies are not good for the country. n/t

[Hello_Kitty]

50. I'm an atheist.

Most Republicans wish my kind dead.

[Arkansas Granny]

51. I have the ability and the desire to think for myself and base my decisions

on facts and data instead of being told what I believe in and what I should support.

[Uzybone]

52. many items, but top of the list is Racism

[AspenRose]

53. I'm uppity.

And a Liberal Christian; the kind they hate.

[lunatica]

54. Climate change

Everything else comes second.

[treestar]

55. Their cold and uncaring attitude towards the poor and disadvantaged

2nd: their willingness to start a war at the drop of a hat.

[Jakes Progress]

56. I'm not rich enough or mean enough.

[tomg]

57. Because human rights trump

corporate "rights."

[BlueMTexpat]

58. Practically speaking, I won't live for a million years.

But, if I could, I still could never be a Republican - at least not by the "standards" of today's GOP - because it would literally mean putting my brain in a lockbox or otherwise suspending all logical thought processes.

[WiffenPoof]

59. Apparently, I Did Vote For A Republican...

My first one.

-PLA

[great white snark]

63. You should have voted for Obama.

I'm hoping you didn't, if not that statement would be a rules violation on Democratic Underground.

[WiffenPoof]

76. You've Got To Be Kidding Me...

I guess I should have used the little "sarcasm" icon.

Of course I voted for Obama.

Thankfully the mods are sophisticated enough to understand my meaning.

-PLA

[Arkana]

65. Accidentally voted for McCain, did you?

At least, that's what I'm assuming you meant.

[boppers]

74. Bill Clinton?

:evilgrin:

[Vinca]

60. I could never be a Republican because I care about people other than myself.

[LeftishBrit]

61. Changing this to 'Tory', our version of the same thing..

I have lots of reasons but my biggest one is that right wing policies treat those who are poor, weak or vulnerable as undeserving scroungers unless proven otherwise. And I hate that attitude.

My signature line sums it up, I suppose: I prefer the 'helping hand' to the 'iron fist'.

[Norrin Radd]

62. I don't suffer from Stockholm Syndrome.

[InvisibleTouch]

64. My reason is the same as yours (environment/endangered species)...

...but I will also add that I could never be a fundie religious crazy either.

[vduhr]

66. Their uncaring attitude about everone and everything....

except when it benefits them.

[kestrel91316]

67. I actually give a damn about my fellow human beings, and also other life forms on earth.

[Fire1]

68. B/c I'm a socialist at heart. n/t

[Jefferson23]

69. I doubt I could ever be a Republican as we know them these last 30 years...I like people and

they do not. Well, they like some people, but not most.

[lucca18]

70. Their lack of empathy...

[tnvoter]

71. Republicans hate humans.

The can't stand that other people exist. They can't stand that other people have rights, too.

[LibDemAlways]

72. Because I have a working brain. n/t

[Proud Liberal Dem]

73. I can't stand them (nor what they stand for period)!

so why would I want to BE one? :shrug: It's kind of like why I never smoke. If you don't start a bad self-destructive habit (esp. something you can't stand), you'll never have to *break* it.

[elehhhhna]

75. because it's impossible to reconcile being a Republican and being a Christian

[Recovered Repug]

77. In a million years?

Being dead for over 999,900 years would probably make it difficult. If I'm buried in Chicago, I still might be active in politics, though.

[Bonobo]

78. War and health care are major issues for me.

It is why I am not sure I could support Obama in 2012.

[Crunchy Frog]

79. I could in a million years. I would have been if I'd been around in the 1860's.

A million years is a long time.

[rury]

80. I could not be a regressive racist jingoistic

corporate plutocratic shill

[boppers]

81. I could have voted for Jefferson, or Lincoln, so I guess I'm out.

Heck, that's not even a million years, that's less than 200.

[Harry Monroe]

82. They stand for everything I am against

racism, inequality, injustice, greed, intolerance, bigotry, hatred, ignorance,(and they are proud of that ignorance!) their anti-Christian attitudes towards the poor, women, children and the less fortunate amongst us etc., etc., etc., etc., etc.

They are simply un-American. I cannot understand people like this.

[Danmel]

83. Because their core philosophy is repellent

We have an obligation to each other and human dignity matters. Allowing sick people to die because they are poor is repellent. Stigmatizing people based on their race, orientation or religious beliefs is repellent. Treating women like second class citizens with no autonomy over their bodies is repellent. Sending young men and women into the hellholes of Iraq and Afghanistan to die or be mutilated and psychologically scarred for life so they can drive their Tahoe XLs to their McMansions is repellent. Why? Because I'm not a self absorbed prick.

[quaker bill]

84. I am insufficiently criminal

so I would be no good at it.

[mwb970]

85. I am not a crook. /nt

[SharonAnn]

86. Anti-woman. Anti-middle class. Anti-intellectuals. Pretty much sums it up.

All the rest of their bad behavior comes from these things.

[Dulcinea]

87. I'm firmly & unapologetically pro-choice.

It's my body, my choice. End of story.

[NancyG]

88. I won't be here in a million years...but if I were, because of compassion for people

[maxsolomon]

89. Because i am not afraid of everything i don't understand.

in fact i seek new experiences.

[olegramps]

90. I would rather go to heaven than hell if theyactually exist.

[baldguy]

91. 9/11

[craigmatic]

92. My personal reason is that I have a brain.

[mix]

93. They're lying liars who lie. nt

[Raine]

94. FEAR ... they control thru fear

I used to be a repuke back in the 70's (when I first registered to vote, my family WAS repuke) but I got sick to death of having to "fear" everything. :scared: They used fear ... fear of crime (aka minorities) fear of liberals taking your money on and on and on. I came to realize that the only thing to really fear was repukes! :think:

[Mr. Sparkle]

95. Because they steal from the poor to give to the rich.

[mwooldri]

96. I can't be a Republican in its present form - period.

Firstly I *am* a Monarchist.

But ignoring that... they in general are working for an agenda that is not in connection with their voters. It has been mainly Republican ideals vs practicality.

There are exceptions to this rule.

I can though take some things from the Republican playbook and their agenda. But the general Democratic agenda is better because at the present time it appears to be for the good of the many versus the good of a few.

[GOPBasher]

97. The anti-science thing. n/t

[rhiannon55]

98. Because I'm not stupid and I'm not a liar,

and I care too much about other people and about the earth to be a Republican.

[rufus dog]

99. Hate!

[Iwillnevergiveup]

100. Because I'm a proud, knee-jerk liberal. n/t

[pauldg0]

101. I'm just not that stupid.....

....I was a Republican and could not stand to be surrounded by a bunch of morons.

[mikekohr]

102. A 70 Year Record Of Economic "F" up

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mHSyEv8vBt4/S6Zvl-nui8I/AAAAAAAAACQ/3j0wUSj78mk/s640/Job+growth+graph.jpg?

Many Americans are aware that George W. Bush has had the worst job creation record since the government began tracking these figures in 1939. But Bush's colossal failure to manage the economy overshadows a much larger story.



The record shows two unmistakable patterns:
Every time a Republican succeeds a Democrat in the White House, the job creation rate plummets.
Every time a Democrat succeeds a Republican in the White House, the job growth rate soars. Every time! No exceptions!

Considering the steady growth in population of the United States during this time frame the job creation rate should steadily increase each month (currently it must grow by 128,000 per month to keep up with population growth). This trend only manifests itself when examining Democratic administrations:

Listed below is the average job growth increase for all terms served:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mHSyEv8vBt4/S6Z6xo0qSnI/AAAAAAAAACY/p8SkoEnN5dw/s640/job+creation+by+president.jpg?


By: mike kohr Graphics by: Bonny Kohr

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobs_created_during_U.S._p...

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/01/09/bush-on-jobs-... /

[Initech]

103. Same reasons I could never be an Xtian - racism, sexism, homophobia

I went to a school that had fashion design as a major. I have met gay people. They are nothing like the way the Xtians describe it to be.

[saras]

104. Torture

And I don't just mean the Gitmo kind. My own political experience with Republicans is that if there is more than one way to accomplish some goal of theirs, they will consistently choose the one that makes the largest number of people suffer the most. In fact, given the chance to really screw some people over, many of them will abandon their own values and self-interest to support it. If they were tenth in line to be waterboarded, they would be whooping and hollering "kick 'em in the nuts!" as number eight succumbed.

[GoCubsGo]

105. I don't wet my bed.

Never seen such a huge bunch of fearful, cowardly pussies in my entire life. Their stances on the environment, science, immigration, civil rights, health care, and just about everything else are based on their deep-seated fear of EVERYTHING, as well as their unmitigated greed.

[TheKentuckian]

106. A million is hyperbole since even magnetic poles change in such times and less

I don't hold much with being a post TDR Republican, a post Reagan Republican is disgusting, and a post Shrub puke is deep, deep, deep into the shit you cannot make up territory.

My reason is they don't actually believe in governance nor have any grasp of the concept of the general welfare. They have a fundamentally flawed and demonstrably failed ideology across the board. The things people "credit" them for are the big lies. They don't reduce the size or scope of government, they blow up the deficit and claim it doesn't matter, they tend to increase spending no matter how many services are slashed, and they are just generally pigshit stewards.

The underlying ideology is a mess and on top of it are ever increasing layers of nastiness. What is right as in good and correct about the heathens is infinitesimal, at best.

[Kaleva]

107. No Dem I've voted for has been an accused cop killer or child molester

[Phx_Dem]

108. Because I don't like to kill people. n/t