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发帖数: 4174 | 2 http://prospect.org/article/1st-circuit-rules-doma-unconstituti
One of the most striking examples of the progress made by supporters of gay
and lesbian rights can be seen with respect to the odious Defense of
Marriage Act. The bill, which denied federal marriage benefits to same-sex
couples and allowed states not to recognize same-sex marriages valid in
other states, had been signed by the second-most recent Democratic president
after passing both the House and Senate by veto-proof margins. A li... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 3 Mitt Romney closed the Republican National Convention in Tampa with his
acceptance speech Thursday night, speaking the language of religious
conservatives when he promised to “honor the institution of marriage” if
elected president.
The former Massachusetts governor devoted a large chunk of the almost 40-
minute speech to his personal biography and an attempt to close his campaign
’s gap with women voters. He talked about how his father, former Michigan
Governor George Romney, supported his moth... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 4 Longtime social conservative Newt Gingrich has made a surprising admission,
saying he accepts marriage equality as inevitable and he’s OK with it.
Voters’ legalization of same-sex marriage in three states in November’s
election changed the debate over the issue, and conservatives have to come
to terms with it, the former House speaker and Republican presidential
aspirant told The Huffington Post. “It is in every family,” he said. “It
is in every community. The momentum is clearly now in the dire... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 94 | 5 LA times的一篇文章，可能性还是挺大的。。。谁能评价一下么。。。
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-winkler-do
Despite the conservative tilt of the Roberts Supreme Court, gay rights
supporters expect the justices to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act
this month. Their hopes are pinned on Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, the court'
s usual swing vote, who has written two important pro-gay-rights opinions in
the past and voiced skepticism of the law during the court's hearing in
March. If he joins the court'... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 24887 | 6 http://nyti.ms/LKYVce
Mark R. Herring, the Virginia attorney general, center, said that Virginia
had been on the wrong side of other civil rights fights, including
segregation. Bob Brown/Richmond Times-Dispatch, via Associated Press
Asserting that Virginia had too often been on the “wrong side” of justice
on civil rights matters, the state attorney general asked a federal court on
Thursday to invalidate the state’s ban on same-sex marriage, calling the
law unconstitutional and oppressive.
The mo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5309 | 7 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: sgrastar (Theodore), 信区: Military
标 题: Re: 疮破vs希特勒
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Sep 28 21:01:55 2016, 美东)
凑巧NYT发表了一篇关于Ullrich的希特勒新传记的书评。在这篇书评里只字未提Trump
的名字，但如果你把作者总结的希特勒的性格特征里的希特勒换成疮破，一点都不会有
违和感。即使本人一直认为疮破是个彻头彻尾的法西斯，这样的相似依然让人不寒而栗。
• Hitler was often described as an egomaniac who “only loved himself
” — a narcissist with a taste for self-dramatization and what Mr. Ullrich
calls a “characteristic fondness for superlatives.” His manic speeches and
penchant for taking all... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3150 | 8 Senate reaches deal to end shutdown, avoid default
[Breaking news update 12:20 p.m. ET]
Senate leaders announced on Wednesday that they have reached a deal to end
the government shutdown and avoid a possible U.S. default.
[Original story moved at 11:45 a.m. ET]
Senate leaders on Wednesday worked out a deal to reopen the government and
avoid a potential U.S. default as soon as midnight, sources told CNN's Dana
Bash and Ted Barrett.
Formal announcement of the agreement will come at 12 noon ET on t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 582 | 9 A lot of social/military conservatives are against tax cuts.
GOP is a three-leg party, only the economic/libertarian leg is strongly
against tax. But GOP has a 'rule' (for most GOP, but McCain is evidently not
of this kind): do not criticize another GOP.
Bush is a typical social conservative and agrees most principles of economic
conservatism. He was not a military conservative until the 911. He might
have been a president of faith, and president of education/ss/health care.
But he has to be a p |
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发帖数: 2415 | 10 保守党连续两次当选，小左们无路可逃了，呵呵。
Canada's Conservative Party wins re-election
OTTAWA - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the first major world
leader to face voters since the global financial meltdown, led his
Conservative Party to victory in Tuesday's election but was forecast to fall
short of a majority in Parliament.
ADVERTISEMENT
The election agency reported on its Web site that the Conservatives had won
or was leading in races for least 143 of Parliament's 308 seats, an
improvement over the 127 |
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发帖数: 161 | 11 "Whose Side Are You On, Comrade" by E.J. Dionne, Jr.
Why conservatives have finally lost their sense of solidarity and purpose.
Post Date October 24, 2008
WASHINGTON--Conservatives are at each other's throats, and here's what's
revealing about how divided they are: The critics of John McCain and the
critics of Sarah Palin represent entirely different camps.
Skeptical social conservatives are precisely the people McCain was trying
to mollify by picking Palin as his running mate. These include the |
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发帖数: 897 | 12 The conservatives' new rallying cry — Defund NPR — is actually an old
rallying cry, given new life by National Public Radio's firing of political
commentator Juan Williams.
But if history is any guide, the calls to strip NPR's federal funding that
have emerged from the offices of Republican lawmakers and leaders face an
uphill battle. They've tried this before, several times, and it's never
worked.
Republicans have been trying to strip government subsidies from public
broadcasting almost since t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 13 Published on TheHill.com on December 7, 2010
Republicans gnashed their teeth in frustration as the national tide of GOP
resurgence washed up against the massive Democratic fortresses in Nevada,
Washington state, Colorado and California. When they neither toppled nor
faltered, most conservatives resigned themselves to a divided Congress with
the Republican House and the Democratic Senate forever at war.
Not so. The vote on the extension of the Bush tax cuts reveals that the
Republican Party has, ... 阅读全帖 |
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m******1
发帖数: 19713 | 14 【 以下文字转载自 QueerNews 讨论区 】
发信人: globalized (球球), 信区: QueerNews
标 题: GOP swings both ways on NY gay-marriage bill
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Jun 13 15:41:06 2011, 美东)
Seven or more Senate Republicans have signaled Gov. Cuomo that they're ready
to legalize same-sex marriage, more than enough to put the controversial
and historic measure over the top this week, The Post has learned.
A highly knowledgeable Senate insider said yesterday that "far more of the [
GOP] members are in play than anyone realizes, ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 15 Majority in U.S. Continues to Distrust the Media, Perceive Bias
More perceive liberal bias than conservative bias
by Lymari Morales
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The majority of Americans still do not have confidence
in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly. The 44%
of Americans who have a great deal or fair amount of trust and the 55% who
have little or no trust remain among the most negative views Gallup has
measured.
The majority of Americans (60%) also continue to perceive bi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 16 By Jeremy Egerer
It is oftentimes complained, partially unfairly, that the American lower
classes are getting poorer and poorer. But enough has been written, by
practically every conservative think-tank, about how the welfare state and
anti-discrimination legislation destroy neighborhoods and promote the
business interests of those with poor moral constitutions (leftists,
primarily) by providing layabouts with an arsenal of unreasonable lawsuits.
This article, recognizing the above socioeconomi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 17 By Victor Volsky
The rogues' gallery of the far left is enormously spacious, and it doesn't
take much to be eligible for inclusion; any conservative worth his or her
salt automatically qualifies. But with the possible exception of that
eternal bogeyman, Richard Nixon, nobody is hated by the left with such
abandon; nobody is more vilified; nobody is targeted with such volcanic
eruptions of insane hatred and vitriol as former Vice President Dick Cheney.
But why? What did Cheney do to deserve suc... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 18 By James Lewis
Hi Tech Lynching is here again! Shades of Justice Clarence Thomas and Anita
Hill. They're going to play the same sadistic power game they lost with
Justice Thomas. Well, let 'em try, but now they are facing a revived
conservative media. This is a trial of strength. When Clarence Thomas was
nominated to the Supreme Court he had few defenders. Today we have talk
radio and the blogs.
As a morality play this looks like Snidely Whiplash against Little Nell. The
Corporate Media are wide... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 19 Why Demographic Shifts on Religion and Marriage Could Doom the Democratic
Party
Nov 22, 2011 4:45 AM EST
The party of Obama is increasingly unmarried and irreligious, a shift that
could help the GOP build a new majority.
If demography is destiny, the Democratic Party could be facing big trouble.
A growing contrast between the two major parties centers more and more on
stark differences in marital status and religious involvement—distinctions
that should give substantial advantages to Republicans... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 20 (Reuters) - Canada on Monday became the first country to announce it would
withdraw from the Kyoto protocol on climate change, dealing a symbolic blow
to the already troubled global treaty.
Environment Minister Peter Kent broke the news on his return from talks in
Durban, where countries agreed to extend Kyoto for five years and hammer out
a new deal forcing all big polluters for the first time to limit greenhouse
gas emissions.
Canada, a major energy producer which critics complain is becoming ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2273 | 21 The magazine founded by conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. blasts Newt
Gingrich in a scathing editorial, saying nominating the former House
speaker as president could cost Republicans the White House and a majority
in Congress.
INTERACTIVE: Poll tracker
National Review posted its editorial, "Winnowing the Field," last night. The
piece minces no words about Gingrich, while saying rival candidates Jon
Huntsman, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum "deserve serious consideration" for
the Republican... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 22 2011年度州长是挑战政府部门工会势力的威斯康星共和党州长Scott Walker，“即便被
弹劾，他依然在这场大辩论中胜出，养老金改革是政治现实”
By GoJo Staff on December 23, 2011
(Madison, WI) – In 2011, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker(R) served as the
embodiment of the state by state battle to balance budgets and the best
symbol of the struggle between the two political parties about how best to
meet those fiscal challenges. His first year will extend well into his
second year, quite likely culminating in a recall election to remove him
from office.
He has domin... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 23 By Larrey Anderson
Venture capitalism is, and always has been, the heart of capitalism. There
is nothing "new" or modern about it.1 Venture capitalism is one or more
private investors financing a risky new venture (thus, the "venture" in
venture capitalism) -- or a private investor's attempt to salvage an already
existing, but troubled, business. Venture capitalism takes the risks that
banks won't and that governments shouldn't. Crony capitalism is the system
of politically motivated handouts fr... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9007 | 24 It's Republican's primary now. You think other candidates are blind to this
now? You think Romney's open remark on the CNN debate "I have been married
42 years, 5 kids, and 16 grandkids, ...." is simply a casual talk? Meanwhile
, his campaign is pressing Newt's to release all detailed documents related
to his impeach which ended his house speaker role. You think this is
republican against liberal media, you are simply wrong, they are fighting
against each other now!
Meanwhile, you have one boast... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 25 Taking away the guns is how to enslave the people
by Raquel Okyay
01/21/2012
Gun control advocates have it all wrong. They believe the Constitution is a
document and agreement meant to be twisted and turned. They believe it
grants rights to politicians and lawmakers, when it does just the opposite.
They believe scare tactics will convince us that placing burdens on gun
owners will prevent violent crimes, when all the evidence suggests otherwise
.
You see the Constitution governs the government.... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 27 By JEFF ZELENY
¶ SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — Mitt Romney fought back a vigorous challenge
from Rick Santorum in Michigan on Tuesday, narrowly carrying his native
state, and won the Arizona primary in a pair of contests that reasserted his
control over the Republican presidential race as it advances to critical
Super Tuesday contests next week.
¶ His victory over Mr. Santorum here in Michigan was far from
commanding, but it was most likely sufficient to dampen the rising clamor
from across the ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 28 Faith-based films made more money in 2011 than their left-leaning
counterparts, report says
By Hollie McKay
Published March 08, 2012 | FoxNews.com
What’s a good recipe for box office and DVD sales success? It seems in 2011
, pro-America sentiment mixed with conservative values and faith-centered
themes equaled a hit.
This according to an annual study conducted by the Christian-focused
entertainment advocacy group Movieguide, which found that in 2011, American
audiences preferred movies with stro... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 29 65 Percent of Union Members Say Obama is More Liberal Than They Are
(CNSNews.com) - President Barack Obama has tried to portray himself as a
champion of the average American against a wealthy elite. However, a new
Rasmussen poll found that 65 percent of union members say they believe Obama
is more liberal than they are.
The poll also found that 59 percent of likely voters think Obama is more
liberal than they are, an increase of 7 points from last month.
When asked if in political terms Presiden... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 30 April 2, 2012 Posted by Rodney Graves
Having failed (miserably) to read and understand the arguments of the
Conservatives when it came to the challenges to Obamacare, the Democrats and
the LSM (but I repeat myself) were shocked to find that the high court did
indeed appear receptive to those arguments, and dismissive of their own
positions.
Now they are working on “Plan B.”
So far that plan appears to be claiming that a ruling against Obamacare
would be a political, vice a judicial, decision an... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4321 | 31 By NPR
Congressional scholars Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein are no strangers to D
.C. politics. The two of them have been in Washington for more than 40 years.
They came together in 2006 to write a book about dysfunction in Congress,
called The Broken Branch. But their assessment of Congress today is even
more dire — so dire, they've called their new book It's Even Worse Than It
Looks.
Mann, a senior fellow of the Brookings Institution, and Ornstein, a resident
scholar at the American Enterpri... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 32 Democrat’s Newest Attack on Free Political Speech With Willing Assistance
by Media
June 22, 2012 | by Warner Todd Huston
What would you say if a Koch Brothers, right-wing effort was pushed on
Americans with the knowing assistance of National Public Radio — and big
money was paid to NPR for the effort? Would you say that this is an outrage,
that NPR’s use of public airwaves to push a right-wing policy idea is a
misuse of the journalist’s charge as well as our national airwaves? Well,
that is exac... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 33 by Rick aka Mr. Brutally Honest
Professor Jacobson of Legal Insurrection isn't buying this notion that Chief
Robert's decision to weigh in with the liberals on the court was part of
some crafty long term strategy:
Some well-meaning people are peddling the notion that today’s Obamacare
decision was a long term victory, that we lost the battle but won the war,
that there was some master plan by Chief Justice Roberts to gut the
expansion of Commerce Clause power under the fig leaf of a majority... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 34 By: Patrick J. Buchanan
7/3/2012 06:57 AM
For John Roberts, it is Palm Sunday.
Out of relief and gratitude for his having saved Obamacare, he is being
compared to John Marshall and Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Liberal commentators are burbling that his act of statesmanship has shown us
the way to the sunny uplands of a new consensus.
If only Republicans will follow Roberts’ bold and brave example, and agree
to new revenues, the dark days of partisan acrimony and tea party
intransigence could be beh... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 35 By Paul Kengor
It's interesting that not only does Barack Obama need continued vetting, but
so do his biographers. The culprit is the same: the liberal bias that
dutifully protects Obama like white knights guarding the king's castle,
shamelessly tossing journalistic objectivity right out the window. As Sean
Hannity likes to say, when it comes to Obama's background, it has fallen to
us conservatives to do the job that the mainstream "Obama-mania media"
plainly refuses to do.
The most recent Oba... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1637 | 36 Now I can say you do show some irrationality. It is nothing with your
supporting GOP, it is your argument contradict your own claim that you
support a national healthcare system. Unless you really do not support such
system at all?
Such nation healthcare system is key ingredient in Dem platform, and deadly
agenda for GOP. I think you are smart enough to recognize it. By the way,
please don't just label other poster. This is bad habit. For instance, I am
pretty social conservative, in some key... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8363 | 37
Conservative之所以叫Conservative就是因为知道如何CONSERVE WEALTH.
渔夫CSVT知道收成有时候好有时候不好，所以平时就多打一些鱼做成肉干
储备起来，这样RAINY DAY来了或者哪天身体不适不能打渔照样有饭吃。
在LBTD眼里这是自私:"MD, 有鱼干不拿出来给我白吃，自己留着太不象话
了。这是为富不仁，不行，老子要征收鱼干税，这样才公平。" |
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发帖数: 29846 | 38 哈哈, 你看下wiki再来发言不好嘛
The contemporary Left in the United States is usually understood as a
category including New Deal liberals, Rawlsian liberals, social democrats
and civil libertarians, and is generally identified with the Democratic
Party. In general, left-wing implies a commitment to egalitarianism, support
for social policies that favor the working class, and multiculturalism. The
contemporary Left usually defines itself as promoting government regulation
of business, commerce and industry; ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 39 Daniel Halper
October 8, 2012 5:37 PM
The weakest response to Mitt Romney's foreign policy address, which he
delivered earlier today at the Virginia Military Institute, comes from
Virginia-based trade publication Politico.
In a piece titled, "Experts pan Romney foreign policy speech," writer Josh
Gerstein notes, "Mitt Romney’s foreign policy speech Monday was filled with
tough talk and slams of President Barack Obama’s leadership — but little
of the clarity Romney has vowed to bring to the Oval ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 193 | 40 http://www.standard.net/stories/2012/11/08/bush-blame-romneys-d
Is Bush to blame for Romney's defeat?
By Ginny Grimsley
Contributed
Thu, 11/08/2012 - 11:28am
As the United States prepares to inaugurate Barack Obama for a second term
in office, many Republicans are still struggling to understand Gov. Mitt
Romney’s defeat.
Exit polls on Nov. 6, however, indicated that voters blamed former President
George W. Bush for the country’s economic troubles, and most believe that
Obama’s policies have help... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5610 | 41 If the Republican party can split into two parties. One emphasizes on
conservative economic ideas, and one emphasizes on conservative life style.
I would give the conservative economic ideas a chance.
However, since the current Republican party has so many weird extreme people
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发帖数: 850 | 42 Left liberals's strategy is to hide their liberal views. On surface, liberal
media seem not very biased because they all try to be fair in terms of
tones, words to choose. But they are as liberal as fox is conservative.
Right conservative fox news does not try to hide it's view. It says flat out
we are conservative. This is reflected on their tones and words especially
Sean Hannity.
Everyone expects that liberal media such as CNN and NBC to attack Bush and
Romney. Everyone also expects fox to at... 阅读全帖 |
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k***n
发帖数: 3158 | 43 GOP's traditional conservative ideas are very easy to be accepted by asians
just search Mr Republican, Robert Taft, and try to understand these ideas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Taft
Unfortunately, in today's world, the whold GOP is hijacked by a whole bunch
of neo-conservatives. The rise of the the Tea Party was initially inspired
by Ron Paul, who has been following those traditional conservative ideas.
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发帖数: 29846 | 44 By J.T. Hatter
Obama decided early in his re-election campaign to destroy his opponent,
Mitt Romney. The Democratic Party's mud-slinging ads, and the mainstream
media newscasts, relentlessly painted Romney as an evil conservative who
looks down on the 47% of Americans who receive government benefits. Romney
was a wealthy industrialist who outsourced American jobs, a greedy
capitalist who murdered a steelworker's wife by taking away her health
insurance, a tax-evader, a bad Mormon, and a racist... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1371 | 45 你的ID是6666，我还是回个贴吧。你说的O8支持者的理由都是social的，说得共和党的
理由都是fiscal的，本来这就不矛盾，本来大多数老中就是social liberal, fiscal
conservative.
你搞得清楚共和党的social观念吗？我可以建议你去听上一个月的Rush Limbaugh的
radio show，再来回复这个问题。这家伙连现在4.2%的美国大学生失业率都能怪到移民
上来，说什么10年前美国大学生能毕业就能保证有工作，现在因为移民太多，大学生都
开始失业了，还几乎都是白人大学生。
所以，这个大选，倒霉碰上个social liberal & fiscal liberal的O8，和一个social
conservative & fiscal conservative的Romney，对大多数老中来说，本来就是个
social还是fiscal选择的问题。
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发帖数: 3158 | 46 I am glad to see many of the fiscal conservatives are separating
themselves from those neo-conservatives on the war issues.
if Romney lost tommorow, he should blame himself being hijacked
by those neo-conservatives |
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发帖数: 446 | 47 咱老中是和真正的fiscal conservative同一战线. 如今的GOP却被一帮social
conservative的religious nuts所绑架 (tea party居功至伟),不输才怪. GOP也要响应
江core的号召, 要'与时俱进'. fiscal conservative the moderate主导才行.
据说 |
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发帖数: 1637 | 48 Bottom line, Canada is much more socialistic country than US. Low income
gap, national health care, etc, are those your preference? If it's true,
fine, don't be hurry, US is converting itself towards Canada style.
Here is a question in Yahoo popular. Q and A section,
Are the democrats and republicans in America the equivalent to the Labour
and Conservative party in the UK?
Guess what,
"Best Answer - Chosen by Asker
No, by American standards both Labour and the Conservatives would be
considered... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 930 | 49 还有个问题，说到政策宣传，GOP的政策宣传真的是值得反思的
远比DEM的差远了
什么叫conservative 什么是他们坚持的，什么是大众有误解的
什么是真正的精神~
GOP到这届大选，都在嘴上宣传自己是true conservative
但没有人重提conservative 的精神本质，更不用说向independent去宣传了 |
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发帖数: 2964 | 50 (Fiscally) conservatives' problem is they, unfortunately for themselves and
for this nation, mingles with the social conservatives, and those social
conservatives are vocal, and the GOP choose/have to run on social issues,
and it becomes a major platform for the GOP, a litmus test. A big turn-off
for many moderates.
The liberals have their wingnuts too, but those are less vocal, and more
importantly, the Dems in general do not outrageously run on social issues. I
do not know there are counter-pa... 阅读全帖 |
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