Are YOU pro-America or anti-America?

[Believing Is Art]

Dear Senator McCain and Governor Palin,

As we approach the November election, your campaign has raised issues of Senator Obama's association with Mr. Bill Ayers. Your campaign manager, Rick Davis, has hinted that the controversial statements of Rev. Jeremiah Wright and his relationship with Senator Obama may be brought to light once again. In recent events, Governor Palin has praised "real" America with its "pro-America" patriots. While Senator McCain has, upon occasion, admirably spoke out against some of the prejudiced statements made at his events, nothing has been heard from Governor Palin to contradict the cries of "terrorist" and calls to violence.

Senator McCain and Governor Palin, what you are leaving unsaid is what is being heard. Others, speaking on behalf of the Republican party and sometimes directly on behalf of your campaign, are claiming that some parts of this country are not American and that some citizens are against America; specifically, liberals are being labeled as "anti-America." While you are not directly encouraging prejudice against Muslims, liberals, or those of Middle-Eastern descent, you are fanning those flames of hatred and tacitly endorsing the bigoted faction of your base.

As the current leaders of the Republican party, you need to make a decision: will you continue to allow the flames of baseless fear and hatred to burn with your silence and your rhetoric in order to win votes, or will you chastise these sentiments in order to prevent the growth of this dangerous fracture in American society? You have a choice to be "pro-America" or "anti-America." It should be an easy one.

Sincerely,
A concerned "real" American

[silverojo]

1. I'm pro-America, therefore I'm anti-Republican - n/t

[izzie]

2. I frankly see not much wrong with how the GOP see Am. but

I just do not like them forcing me to think like them. I will leave them alone if they will just leave me alone.

[Celebrandil]

3. I cannot honestly say I'm pro-America.

I'm a European and still see too many reasons for not being pro-America, but I hope I can one day change my mind.

[polichick]

4. I'm pro-American Constitution, but anti the current government...

I'm pro-American potential, but anti the current culture of greed. material consumption, empty-headed religiosity & faux patriotism.

[KharmaTrain]

5. Their "America" Is Shrinking

After 40 years of being on the rise, the conservatives and repugnican party is in full retreat. Their "ideology" is discredited and their base has shrunk to the "true believers"...those so indoctrinated with their propaganda they vote and act in a Pavolvian fashion. Or, as we call them here...dead-enders.

These are people who live in the "Ozzie & Harriet" America...a conveluted vision of stability and social order that really didn't exist except on their TV sets. Their "vision" is one of a divided country that uses the fear and hate of racism, bigotry and sexism as a glue that holds the party together and is a strong underlying theme. Without the hate, the party loses its ability to dominate and thus begins to implode.

A longtime trick the GOOP employs is "patriotism"...and an ever changing definition that has gotten far more inclusive. It's been a litmus test that has driven many away from them in recent years and will continue to do so as long as they ignore the reason they're being rejected at the ballot box.

[radfringe]

6. who do they have left?

it's desperation time - divide and conquer with an axe.

[northofdenali]

7. What still makes me inwardly cringe is that Sarah Sellout is

more Alaska Independence Party than Republican. Her beliefs are much, much closer to that organization. The AIP believes firmly that Alaska should SECEDE from the United States.......

So that makes her really pro-Amerukun, don't it?

The Alaskan Independence Party's goal is the vote we were entitled to in 1958, one choice from among the following four alternatives:
1) Remain a Territory.
2) Become a separate and Independent Nation.
3) Accept Commonwealth status.
4) Become a State.
The call for this vote is in furtherance of the dream of the Alaskan Independence Party's founding father, Joe Vogler, which was for Alaskans to achieve independence under a minimal government, fully responsive to the people, promoting a peaceful and lawful means of resolving differences.

(underlining is mine)

http://www.akip.org/

Joe Vogler had nothing on Sarah. And I'll bet her "dressing out a moose" experience lies strictly in watching over her cup of java and brandy while her guide did the work. No way this "ex beauty queen" would get her hands into that!

Anti-anything but fundamentalist christian white uneducated gun-toting submissive wives, that's Sarah.

[sohndrsmith]

8. I think the issue is far more complex to reduce to an "either/or" scenario n/t

[Believing Is Art]

9. That's not the point

If those on the right want to say that citizens and public servants are either "pro-America" or "anti-America," then I think they need to look at themselves: is their rhetoric hurting our country or helping it? If the former is true, then if they are truly "pro-America," in their words, what will they do to prevent more damage? They made it an either/or question, and I want to ask them which side THEY are really on.

[Heather MC]

10. I can't be Pro American, I live in Communist Country, I am not a Real Virginian

I am black, so I am "not one of them"
I am different, dangerous, risky,
exotic, I am racist because I am part of the
all black voting block, that doesn't matter
and I support Obama