When I watch Rachel Maddow, I wonder...

[Pryderi]

HOW THE FUCK DOES ANYONE VOTE REPUBLICAN!?!?

[msongs]

1. blind belief in the bible (tho there are so many variations to choose from)? nt

[Botany]

2. Beats me

When I was a little kid our next door neighbor's brother in a very middle class
neighborhood was the Governor of PA ..... he played ball w/the kids and was a
nice guy ..... later I looked up his record and he was for civil rights, unions,
schools, infrastructure, and the environment sadly he would have no home in
republican party today.

These people are freaks and know they have to cheat to win.

[Pryderi]

4. Tonight was an exceptional example of how she can ignite my

hair and make me run screaming down the street.

[tblue37]

13. I'm guessing Bill Scranton? (He was gov. when I lived in PA, and he was that kind

of decent guy Republican.)

[Botany]

14. close ..... Ray Shafer was the gov

but Bill was a good guy too as was Chuck Percy and so many others ...

[nevergiveup]

17. Chuck Percy would be considered far left today.

I worked on his first campaign for senate when I was in college. It is hard to believe that at onetime there were Republicans like Chuck Percy.

[Botany]

20. Before my time but Sen. Margaret Chase Smith was a good one.

At one time republicans put country ahead of party.

[bluestate10]

3. People that have insecurities and/or a totalitarian streak love the republican party and vote

for anyone with an R beside their names. Republicans that win public office turn around and behave like Nazis, trying to neutralize all possible opposition from their position of power. Republican leaders and the faithful mouth breathers that one encounters on blogs call anyone that they disagree with nazis, yet in their every action, they show what fascism is.

[NightWatcher]

5. It's Common Sense vs Fearful Willful Ignorance

[Flying Squirrel]

6. I wonder why she isn't in charge. n/t

[Loudly]

8. Humility. She told the story on Letterman.

When she was an undergrad at Stanford, there was a court ruling which allowed students to inspect their school files.

Not copy them, but view them in place.

She always suspected that she had just barely, marginally, been granted admission to the School.

And when she was given the opportunity to inspect her file, which she did, her suspicions were thoroughly confirmed.

[Flying Squirrel]

10. What does education have to do with being in charge?

I would much prefer common sense. Any rich person can get a college degree.

[Loudly]

11. Such a person needs to be drafted. She is too inclined to say "Who, Me?" n/t

[Zax2me]

7. Well, you are in a bubble.

Progressive watching progressive preach. There are other angles from which people approach life. In this case, my opinion, the wrong way, but it is different.
The same bubble exists on the other side but to a greater degree.
The bubble is smaller, tighter.

[Pryderi]

19. Since when is reality a bubble? ;) n/t

[Sharpie]

9. I'm sure someone out there...

... says the same thing about Hannity or O'Reilly or Limbaugh....

I don't think anyone has all the answers.

[HughBeaumont]

22. Um, she backs her talk up with these things called "facts".

The three you mentioned have Frank Luntz/Lee Atwater/Karl Rove cue card mythology that 47% of the public buys because bumper stickers and factoids don't require deep thought.

[kelliekat44]

12. A law should be passed that requires everyone over the age of 18 to watch Maddow every night.

What would this country be like with over 50% of the nation "informed?"

[Moostache]

16. It was called the "Fairness Doctrine", and it was so much better than today.

Just another legacy from Saint Ronald of Reagan, bequeathed to us as a generational present and sign post of the ruin that man and his army of followers have wrought...

[Sekhmets Daughter]

15. My son works for 2 people who don't believe in 'charity'

So you can imagine what they have to say about the 'welfare' state! How do you not believe in charitable giving? It boggles my mind. One votes republican the other libertarian. They hate homeless people...as though the homeless choose to be that way! They are selfish, amoral, sociopaths....

[Mira]

18. Reminds me of this, and may make it my signature for a while:

"If there's a job a Democrat can't do, let's abolish the job". Andrew Jackson

[shenmue]

21. Some people are just weird

[HiPointDem]

23. because the democrats are cutting social security?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

24. Sociopaths think all sick people are faking it.

I wish I didn't have personal experience with this.

My ex-husband tried to nag me to death. He nagged me into a physical collapse in only four years.

My immune system was destroyed. The people at the hospital didn't understand how I could be sick from non-pathogenic flora.

I came down with severe bacterial pneumonia and bronchitis. This went on for many years. My doctor had to vacuum my lungs out four times in five years, so I would not drown in my own pus (sorry to be so gross) and die. I was in and out of the hospital and ER and doctor's office with uncontrollable vomiting from sinus infections and dehydration for about eight nine years.

And this jerk had the gall to accuse me of faking it and bribing my doctor to put me in the hospital. On HIS insurance because it "embarrassed him at work".

To sociopaths, illness is a moral failure.

He called me "lazy" and sat in the far corner of the hospital room a couple hours after I'd had our baby and major abdominal surgery with a C-section, which he witnessed, because I was flat on my back for two days with a urinary catheter in me. And I'd had
spinal anesthetic so I couldn't have gotten up anyway.