If you can't see that bush is a dangerous idiot, you're too stupid to vote

[mopaul]

but the stupid are allowed to vote. and the stupid vote is the main vote the republicans are after. if you possess half a brain, then they don't want to reach out to you anyway.

it's too bad that voters don't have to take a qualifying test, like for drivers and gun owners for instance. a simple civics test maybe or i.q. test. i know that invites trouble, because the stupid would complain they were being kept at bay.

it's amazing how bush supporters are able to turn off their brains and be an idiot just like bush. he can't speak without a script or teleprompter, no biggie. he doesn't understand the reporter's questions, so what? he has no clue about world affairs, never reads the newspapers and has never really read a book, who cares?

he enjoys killing people and sending troops off to die for nothing other than profit, but so what? wave the flag, and get your talking points from rush.

all bush supporters have sold their souls and turned off their brains and they put the rest of us in peril.

[blueknight]

1. i think there

should be a test, before you are allowed to vote

[Jacobin]

3. There used to be a test to be allowed to vote

It was used to disenfranchise African Americans.

[mopaul]

4. exactly

this is why the stupid would rise up and reject an intelligence test.
but this is now. and the times are different. not really an intelligence test but a basic civics test perhaps.

people vote for the stupidest reasons, 'he reminds me of my first husband', he's a democrat, therefore, i MUST vote for him' etc.

i also believe that every citizen should be REQUIRED to vote.

[Puglover]

6. Mopaul I totally agree...

one of the reasons I have trouble staying on point and rational when trying to discuss this with a wingnut. They are morons.

[kcwayne]

10. You can't have it both ways

If you believe that every citizen should be REQUIRED to vote, then you can't also believe that some sort of test be mandated that would prevent everyone from voting.

I would prefer a scenario that would make people stand behind the results of their vote. So that if you vote Republican, and they send us to war in Iran, then you go first, or you are drafted into some sort of support role, where you are paid the on a National Guard pay scale. That would pucker the assholes of all the scumbags that think its OK to send the poor to bear the burden of policies by which they are enriching themselves. Oh, and Senators and Representatives would be the first drafted and put on the National Guard pay scale.

If you vote for a party that spends 2 trillion on offensive military systems over the objection of the opposition party, then the tax bill is divided up and apportioned to the voters for and contributors to that party.

This system would have obvious problems regarding the secrecy of your vote that would need some fresh thinking. But I like the idea of making people accountable for the consequences of what they vote for. It would make everyone more circumspect about what they ask government to do.

[mopaul]

12. good idea

back up your vote with what you voted for. i can see that working to a degree.

in australia i think, it is mandatory for all adults to vote, or be fined a small fee. if we could do that, i'd forget about the 'voter test' theory. i'd rather see all adults made to vote, and given a month to do so, not one afternoon.

then we'd begin to see a representative type of government. as it is now, only a tiny percent vote, and half of them are idiots.

[Jacobin]

13. "Times are different"?

Uhm, no problem with black disenfranchisement anymore? (Hint: Florida 2000 AND 2004)

Hey, all the tests in Mississippi were just about the constitution. Very reasonable test. Problem was, no blacks could pass and all the whites did.

I share your concern about the limited intelligence of many voters. Don't think the testing thing is a good idea, though.

[mopaul]

15. I defer

i'm just throwin out ideas, and you've thrown a couple back at me.
i personally would fail a test on the constitution or basic civics.
and then i'd be disinfranchised for sure. what the hell am i doing anyway?

[necso]

2. Your premise at least is true enough. n/t

[terrya]

5. There is not One. Single. Reason. to vote for George W. Bush.

Not one. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada.

And an infinite number of reasons to toss his sorry ass out of the White House in November. Under his "leadership", the rich are getting richer, the poor is sinking further into poverty, the environment is getting dirtier, the Constitution is under assault as never before, the rest of the world is hating us and I am sure as fuck not anymore SAFER under this pathetic moron than I was 4 years ago.

Once again, mopaul...excellent, excellent post. A big thank you.

[liberalmuse]

7. Voting for George W. Bush...

is like telling all of your posterity to go to hell. It has to be a sign of mental illness or some personality disorder. It's cruel. It's incredibly selfish. It's should be a crime.

There ought to be some kind of test, because I'm tired of hearing Bush supporters say, 'I don't keep up on politics. I think he is a man of god so that's why I'm voting for him.' Right there they should have their voter registration voided.

[Art_from_Ark]

11. A "man of god"

So was Adolph. He even issued a coin with a church on it to commemorate the 1st anniversary of his ascension to power

[Brewman_Jax]

8. My favorite freeper friend is going to vote for him

That's fine, I'll remind him that he's condemning his kids (9 yr old twins) to fighting in Iraq as soon as they're old enough. Not to mention that his kids won't get to be neo-con chickenhawks, unlike their dad.

How's he gonna live with this..."Hey, dad! You voted to send us to die for Bush's* oil!"

[mmonk]

9. Your subject line

would make a great bumper sticker.

[RedSock]

14. Dukakis

I knew someone who said she wouldn't vote for Dukakis because his last name sounded "funny."

[cthrumatrix]

16. "F" the idiots and media.... vote and get your friends to vote

[Surf Cowboy]

17. Dead On.

[Zorra]

18. I have talked with so many republicans, and every single one of them

without exception is as dumb as a box of rocks. They cannot think logically and most of the information that they have believed all of their lives is not factual. IMO, they are actually insane, but socially and economically functional in a robotic sort of way.

I don't bother with republicans anymore. There are a lot of intelligent young people out there between 18 and 25 that can think logically. It does not take a whole lot of work to convince the open minded that Bu$h is an idiot because anyone with half a brain already knows it.

[LibDemAlways]

19. On vacation in Canada everyone

we spoke with couldn't believe that anyone in the US could vote for Bush. They all see him as the moronic lowlife he is. The corporate whores here are part of the problem. The other part is that many Americans are programmed to hate anyone who thinks or sounds like they have a brain. Rush is a multimillionaire because of these cretin "dittoheads" who blindly follow whatever the rw talking heads spew out.

[KitSileya]

20. How about if we gave voters a choice?

They could either answer a simple civics test, or they would have to tie a pair of shoe laces on their own or something like that. That should eliminate most of those Repubs - I doubt they have the intelligence to answer the former, and they're too lazy, spoilt, or plain stupid to manage the latter. <tongue-in-cheek>

KitSileya

[Lost147]

21. you're just preaching to the quire

Its not like anyone here really disagrees with you...