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Marr

(20,317 posts)
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 03:12 AM Aug 2012

Want to piss off a Republican?

Or maybe even make them realize we've got a 1%er problem in this country for a moment?

Ask them if Romney was their choice. If your experience is anything like mine, you'll find not a single one that answers in the affirmative. Ask them if anyone they know wanted Romney. Again, they will most likely respond with a "no".

Then mention how strange it is that the Religious Right didn't want Romney, social conservatives didn't want Romney, the Second Amendment crowd didn't want Romney... none of the traditional Republican constituencies wanted Romney. Well, except for the filthy rich guys. Apparently they trump all the others.

I recently had this exchange with an acquaintance of mine, and I think it actually bothered him.

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Want to piss off a Republican? (Original Post) Marr Aug 2012 OP
I prefer "on" rather than "off". n/t gordianot Aug 2012 #1
you make a very, very veganlush Aug 2012 #2
Excellent! Sherman A1 Aug 2012 #3
Nice, will be used repeatedly. Thanks. Scuba Aug 2012 #4
Shiny! i'll be taking that, thanks Scootaloo Aug 2012 #5
Will use but goal not to piss off anybody. chknltl Aug 2012 #6
Those facts scare me. liberal N proud Aug 2012 #7
Me too siligut Aug 2012 #11
I don't know *any* Republicans that actually like Romney Freddie Aug 2012 #8
It doesn't matter. They vote for their party's nominee. If only Dems were that reliable. nt Honeycombe8 Aug 2012 #9
That is great Dane Aug 2012 #10
None of the Conservatives in my very rural red area... bvar22 Aug 2012 #12

chknltl

(10,558 posts)
6. Will use but goal not to piss off anybody.
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 05:53 AM
Aug 2012

Goal to reach across, to show a fellow American that we need to take back our democracy from the rich elite and in order to do so, we must do so together, devoid of party and as Americans out to restore A GOVERNMENT OF, BY AND FOR ......US.

After we do that THEN...then we can get back to the fighting among ourselves knowing that the grand experiment democracy, yet holds the field in America.

liberal N proud

(60,347 posts)
7. Those facts scare me.
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 06:04 AM
Aug 2012

No one wanted this idiot, yet he is the presumptive nominee. Were, the primaries Mittens won fixed?

If they were fixed, what do they have planned for November?

siligut

(12,272 posts)
11. Me too
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 01:31 PM
Aug 2012

I console myself by thinking that the party was spread too thin and none of the candidates really shined.

Money can make a difference and the message of Obama hate will motivate some, and then there is the cheating, voter suppression and places that lack a paper trail.

Dane

(6 posts)
10. That is great
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 01:17 PM
Aug 2012

I love to piss off republicans, but it doesn't take much either,just prove them wrong,when you know you have proved them wrong,and the have no logical answers, when they start to either try to divert the topic to something else, or they try to make the conversation about you.

bvar22

(39,909 posts)
12. None of the Conservatives in my very rural red area...
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 02:03 PM
Aug 2012

...would own being a "Republican" during Bush-the-Lesser's 2nd term.

They ALL said, "Well, I'm not really a Republican.
I'm more of a Libertarian or an Independent, and voted for Bush because the Democrats would have wrecked the military."


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