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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a republican.

This guy akin is an idiotic, mean, ass. His statement was both cruel and dumb, but mainly[b] cruel[/b].

Romney and republican leaders around the country asked him to drop out. I think republicans are united with democrats in being appalled by this. 
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What you don't understand, PP, is that to a lot of us Liberals, the Republican party's positions on most things these days are just cruel, period.

When you profess a love of life, but don't care about the life of the mother, don't care if the kid in question goes hungry, don't care if the kid has access to basic healthcare (Ryan voted against CHIP, didn't he?), you look cruel. Really cruel.

When you attack teachers who make 40k a year or call people who've lost their jobs and can't sell their house "moochers"  and advocate cutting the pittance they're given to survive, while advocating for every advantage possible for the financial "wizards" who brought the country to the brink of collapse, you look cruel.

When you send young kids who don't know any better into battle under false pretenses for the benefit of a military-industrial complex and oil industry that are the real moochers sucking at the government's teats, you look cruel.

When you advocate cutting social programs of all kinds that would benefit a majority of people at their weakest, most vulnerable moments while preserving defense spending that just benefits fat-cat government contractors, you look cruel. (please, no BS about protecting our troops. If you want to protect the troops, don't send them into killing fields to fight wars they have no hope or prayer of ever winning--they're just cannon fodder to keep the military spending machine going).

Cruelty seems to many of us "bleeding-heart" liberals to be worn like a badge of honor by those in the GOP these days.  What makes them so mean? Where they horribly mistreaten as children?
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I don't think it is cruel to acknowledge the reality that our current spending will bankrupt our country, and that if our country goes bankrupt it will be the most vunerable among us who suffer the most.  .  It isn't cruel  to think that the members of our military aren't "young kids who don't know any better" It isn't cruel to think that killing a child isn't the path to a better life for a child and its mother.  I think you are comfusing the support of the financial wizards with the democratic party and Obama's bailout of Goldman Sacks.

I wasn't mistreaten as a child, but I wasn't given everything I wanted either.  I don't confuse concern and love with being given everything with no personal responsibility. [/quote]

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