(I was at NOGOP.COM when I noticed a form to add to a list of 100 reasons not to vote republican. Little did I know that the idea was that we'd all add ONE reason - but the thought of having to make such a brutal choice never reached my optimistic mind - I mean, just narrowing it down to ten would have taken hours of soul-searching and debate. So, I added the below to the form, only to discover that it's maximum size was 200 characters...Well, without any further ado, here is:
100 REASONS TO NOT VOTE REPUBLICAN!
100 "States rights" BS has been moot since the civil war
99 Republican economics is a pyramid scheme
98 If the best that millions of dollars of corporate think-tank money can come up are incompetants like Reagan, idiots like Quale, and spoiled-kid hypocrites like Bush, what are the worst like?
97 Being a klan bedfellow isn't all it's cracked up to be
96 There ought NOT to be limits to freedom
95 Their heritige is our slavery
94 If we wanted the same level of government as somolia, we would move to somolia
93 Jesus never said "blessed are the rich, for they have inherited the earth"
92 Schools should NOT become a new advertising medium
91 C'mon, why do the corporate think-tanks actually need to spend over one billion dollars on propaganda? Do they think we're stupid?
90 If the second amendment is so great, why didn't it apply to the black panthers?
89 Scandanavia has better schools than the US - therefore republicans want education to resemble scandavian education as little as possible.
88 If they're for rugged individuality and responsibilty, why do they oppose inheritence tax, huh?
87 Saving us from the scourge of homeless people and black lesbians in wheelchairs - how tough, how heroic...
86 How can you "get govmint off our back" while adding a flag amendment, abortion amendment, balanced budget amendment...
85 We've got more arms than the next biggest 7 militaries in the world combined, yet republicans still can't sleep - what a bunch of cowards!
84 If guns don't kill people, why are we spending 200 billion bucks a year on the military?
83 It's time to get corporations off the welfare dole 82 David Koresh was not a hero, he was a child-molesting cop-killing wuss who hid behind women and children.
81 You lost the civil war. Most southerners have gotten over it.
80 If the only way to keep full employment is to imprison millions for "youthful indiscretions", it's time for a different economist
79 Yugoslavia was NOT "Clinton's vietnam." Republicans just can't stand the thought of using the military for something other than bombing muslims for oil
78 Toxic sludge is NOT good for you
77 We had progressive income taxes in the 50's and 60's - and somehow the economy survived
76 GNP = Gross Nueosis Perpetrator
75 The only war republicans have opposed in recent history were Kosovo and World war two (Against Germany, at least) Hmm, also the only wars in recent history against whites...
74 Just because someone doesn't live in a trailor park doesn't make them "elitist"
73 Just because someone with a radio show gets millions of dollars to call a 13-year-girl a dog does not make them a "man of the people"
72 I'm sick of hearing people whine about poor oppressed rich people.
71 Non-property owners can vote now - get with the times!
70 Last time I checked the UN wasn't in league with the devil
69 When the only way someone can make their viewpoint known is through religious indoctrination I have to wonder if they're right
68 The guilded age was NOT utopia
67 I STILL don't see how "tree-hugger" is meant to be a vicious insult
66 If the pentagon isn't "big government" what is?
65 Idiots like Quale, Reagan and Bush Jr are white, yet those who know them best still believe the Bell-Curve
64 Gee Bush, defending Texas from the Viet Cong - how heroic.
63 Picking on homeless people isn't "getting tough" it's evidence of a phenominally small penis
62 Government is not a "tit", and if it was I still don't see why something shared by women and children is so evil - but then, I'm not a cowardly spoiled brat who can't get it up...
61 Ken Starr may have been the greatest pornographer of all time, but I'm still sick of him.
60 Anyone who needs azooka to hunt deer is a wuss
59 It's not that I'm not angry, it's just that I fail to see exactly how unwed mothers affect my wages yet competing with Chinese political prisoners in the labor market doesn't.
58 Women can vote now. GET OVER IT!
57 Lst time I checked, Ayn Rand was not one of the 12 apostles.
56 If the GI bill was creeping socialism, it's effects sure have been delayed.
55 Read "The Jungle" and you'll stop wondering why cheap meat killed more troops in the Spanish-American war than combat
54 The only things that have trickled down is our standard of living
53 Because someday, and it might be soon, we're going to run out of scapegoats...
52 I don't care how good they say the good old days were, my kids are NOT going to work in a coal mine.
51 20,000,000 people starve in the global marketplace - and the part of hell created for collaborators is a very unpleasent place
50 I don't see how being PC (Polite and Compassionate) is the greatest threat to planet Earth
49 I don't get how bankrupcies in "necessary downturns" help efficiency, yet bankrupsies blamed on taxes are worth joining a militia over.
48 Honestly, go to a gun show and judge for yourself
47 Some undreamed-off technology will clean up pollution and replace oil but not pay government debt (government doesn't include the pentagon, remember!) Gimme a break!
46 Ohh, guys holding hands...Somehow I'll survive!
45 They chant "free enterprise, competition" and then oppose efforts to split up monopolistic corporations...
44 Sorry, Rush, women do not "vote with their vaginas"
43 If you can't yell "fire" in a crowded theater, what do you say when the flames start spreading?
42 Rich kids who have never worked can't talk about the value of hard work
41 If more people voted republican, we'd still be reading the weekly body-count from the Vietnam "conflict"
40 The only conservative artworks I can think of is Wagner and the movie Red Dawn
39 If all it's leaders do for its people is to appeal to their egos, maybe America should get pushed around.
38 The think-tanks can say what they like, but my enemies are not fellow workers, no matter how gay, black or atheist they are.
37 What are they doing to fight corporate McDomination?
36 Last time I checked, Lezarius was not in the oil lobby
35 They're trying to pit against each other. UNITE! UNITE! UNITE!
34 The best place to discover the side effects of polutants and biotech is a labortory...
33 Oh, and did I meantion that science is not an advertising medium?
32 Social Darwinism is SO passe...
31 If the founding fathers were pro-machine-gun, they'd have put frigates and siege cannons in the second amendment.
30 What's the difference between a corporation and a command economy anyway? Oh right, one gives campaign donations...
29 If guns don't kill people, gimme one and let's duel
28 The has a disprinate amounf conservatives. Coincidentally, the net also has a disproportinate amount of perverts, spoiled kids, racists, paranoid losers, and scum in general.
27 I make desitions based on my economic reality, rather than what will help me after I win the lottery
26 Do YOU want rights to be as unevenly distributed as incomes?
25 "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness". - James K. Galbraith
24 While we're into quotes: "As long as you continue to tar social democracy with all the crimes of communism, I feel equally entitled to tar the free market with the crimes of slavery, segregation, colonialism and genocide; piss me off and I'll add fascism and the Nazis." - Greg Erwin
23 "All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind." - Adam Smith (It isn't just the bible they're bastardizing!)
22 "Economist Frederick Thayer has studied the history of our balanced-budget crusades and has come up with some depressing statistics. We have had six major depressions in our history (1819, 1837, 1857, 1873, 1893 and 1929); all six of them followed sustained periods of reducing the national debt. We have had almost chronic deficits since the 1930s, and there has been no depression since then -- the longest crash-free period in our history." - Molly Ivins
21 Even Horatio Algar couldn't dream up ways to go from rags to riches - in all of his books the character is helped by someone else's inherited wealth.
20 Private ownership is NOT the cure for all problems, see the historical record of privately owned states such as Nazi Germany, Czarist and Stalinist Russia, and Maoist China - or our "inevitable" corporate owned future.
19 Which reminds me - in a democracy NOTHING is "enevitable" - even things that don't involve screwing over the working class.
18 The benifits of lessez-faire : child labor, orphanages, sweatshops, poorhouses, debtor's prisons, company towns, monopolies, trusts, cartels, blacklists, private goons, slumlords - oops, that's more than one reason not to vote republican!
17 Anyone who can talk about "the virtue of selfishness" and "family values" at the same time is an idiot
16 Slame the debt all you like, but it was Rambonomics that thriples the damn thing
15 IGOTMINEIGOTMINEIGOTMINE - hey, it still hasn't become true!
14 One load of robber barons was enough
13 Superstition sucks
12 They think that corporations deserve equal rights yet women don't.
11 A living wage is NOT a "trade barrier"!
10 Voodoo economics. nuff said
9 To imagine a totally republican America, think of Wal-Mart except the greeters have ak-47's
8 Count me out of the race to the bottom - I don't see how we can work for less then Ethiopians anyway
7 Much I hate to defend a republican - John Mcain is NOT a bolshevik!
6 Choice, dammit.
5 Dittoheads.
4 If we were all for states rights, there would still be slavery.
3 If we were all for property, etc.
2 Ever seen a mad max movie gun-totinganarchy is not a cool as it looks!
1 They're so bad, we'll have to change this to 1,000 reasons not to vote republican!
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