Name Republicans that you like or at least respect

[Kucinich Feingold]

Similar to this HfBoards thread. http://hfboards.com/showthread.php?t=786650


Now I know we don't like most Republicans but there was quite few good names. I despise 95% of them. This is like trying to like the Habs to me. I hate them but respect them for having great teams and a great rivalry with the Black and Gold.


Like for me: Lincoln(both Abe and that Rhode Island governer), Ike, Roosevelt, Earl Warren, and Fightin Bob Lafollette

[niyad]

1. not a single one living.

[Historic NY]

2. they're all dead.

[MineralMan]

3. Not a damned one, alive or dead, since Lincoln.

Why do you ask?

[Kucinich Feingold]

10. Because a thread also similar to this was on HfBoards

About Democrats. The guy who posted that thread was the same guy who posted that thread about "republicans that you". The guy was a conservative in Canada and I think he would do better among the Dems since cons in America are far different then in Canada.

[polichick]

4. These are not your father's Republicans - many of these are sociopaths. nt

[MineralMan]

5. BTW, that forum you're promoting looks awfully much like

any other right-wing forum. No thanks.

[Kucinich Feingold]

7. It's a hockey forum

And tons of left-wing people post there as well.

[MineralMan]

8. Right. I was just in the political part of that forum.

It's way right. Anti-teacher, and much, much more. I can read, you know.

For example, here's the title of what is a very, very active thread:

"Is there anything worse than Teacher's Unions?"

The consensus there is that there isn't anything worse than teacher's unions. The question is: Why are you promoting this forum here on DU?

[Kucinich Feingold]

12. I try to ignore all the idiots there

The right-wing on that site is just people who just listen to Rush and other douchbags talking points. Dems like TimKassel, MayDay, and Big McLargehuge are great people on that site. It's just that people like Devil-Fan-Ru runied the politics forum so I don't go on there too often. I talk mostly hockey there.

[MineralMan]

14. Hmm....

How novel.

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. Here's my list, in alphabetical order:

[hypocrisyandlies]

32. Dan Zwonitzer,

republican in the Wyoming State Senate.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/02/23/305103/-Gay-victory-in-WY-due-to-straight-GOP-lawmakers

[FSogol]

9. F' Ron Raul. Broken clocks are correct twice a day. Why so much respect for that scumbag?

:puke: on pukes

[Kucinich Feingold]

15. Where most of his ideas are batshit crazy and he's a racist

At least he's honest and is great friends with Dennis. But his worship of the 1800s and his racist comments scare the shit out of me.

[MineralMan]

17. So why bring him up as an example of someone you respect?

This just gets curiouser and curiouser.

[Kucinich Feingold]

25. Only because he's likes my man

And it's in my username:)

[shraby]

11. If I liked or respected Republicans of any stripe, I wouldn't

be on this forum. Most of them have sh*t for brains and speak out of their a**es

[Kucinich Feingold]

13. Even the old school repuks like Robert M. Lafollette and other progressives?

[MineralMan]

16. Who the fuck is "Fightin Bob?"

You're not getting this at all. This is Democratic Underground.

[Kucinich Feingold]

18. Robert M. Lafollette

One of the great senators of all time.

[Jackpine Radical]

19. Some mud puddles aren't worth playing in.

[Kucinich Feingold]

20. I think Nader is great as well as the Green Party but...

Most of you think he stole Gore votes when he did not. Democrats aren't perfect and have tons of bad names in their group. I'm not a Republican by any means so just to be clear. Sometimes, we have to choose the evils in our life. FDR was pals with Stalin but that didn't mean he was some egomanic who murder tons of his own citizens.

[shraby]

22. There is a difference in being "pals" with a dictator

and negotiating with them for the good of your country. FDR realized he needed Russia in order to squeeze Hitler, and Russia also needed us for the same reason as Hitler was going after Russia. After the war was over, the "friendliness" came to a screeching halt in Berlin.

[Kucinich Feingold]

24. And sometimes, that has to happen

And that was a great thing for FDR to do.

[DemocraticVictory]

21. Lincoln

Linclon.

[Kucinich Feingold]

23. Gotta love Lincoln

He along with George Washington set up what a president should be. The best along with FDR and LBJ.

[Webster Green]

26. My mom.

That's about it.

She's just brainwashed. (Oh wait...they're all brainwashed.)

Well...she's my mother. I still love her, even though she's a brainwashed repuke.

That's all I got. :smoke:

I talked to her on the phone this morning. She started talking about the unions in Madison. I told her we better not go there. Then..."I gotta go mom...I love you!" :shrug:

[Kucinich Feingold]

27. I know people in my family who are either brainwashed DLC or brainwashed Faux Noise

I try to tell someone that Obama is a citizen of the United States but he never listen. I hear complains about Puerto Ricans in my family when I try to tell that they need welfare for a reason. But they keep saying "but there lazy":grr: :grr: Why are some of them called Democrats?

[Kucinich Feingold]

28. And here a HFBoards thread similar to the one I posted

http://hfboards.com/showthread.php?p=26291587

[alp227]

29. The Republican Party pre-1920s I respect for their progressivism

e.g. Theodore Roosevelt.

And modern Republicans? The moderate kinds and some ex-Republicans who became independents. Charlie Crist (FL) and Lincoln Chafee (RI) come to mind. Chafee even wrote a book criticizing the Bush administration, Against the Tide, and I'll read that soon.

Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, the two US Senators for Maine who voted for the stimulus and repealing DADT and generally moderates in the GOP, I respect too. Collins also collab'd with Maria Cantwell (D-WA) to introduce the Carbon Limits and Energy for America's Renewal Act.

[Mason Dixon]

30. Ike was a Great President

Great Balance of social and defensive. Just like the constitution states. Promote the General Welfare and provide for the Common Defense

From that he gave us the interstate system.

[timesup]

31. None

I am in the none actually living are worth a penny for their thoughts at this time, camp.

[dorksied]

33. None that are alive... and here is why.

The similarities of Right-Wing Conservatives and Al-Quaeda terrorists:

Both believe their religion is THE way of life.
Both have no regard for the well being of other citizens.
Both believe in being HEAVILY armed with firearms.

Both believe the American government is infringing on their territory.
Both make statements and sound bytes under the protection of the internet.
Both follow the leadership of absurdly rich men.
Both declare war on those who don’t agree with them.
Both heavily use propaganda to brainwash the uneducated.
Both are anti-education.

Both believe in male supremacy.
Both believe their logic makes sense and must be followed.
Both make violent attacks on the American government out of righteousness.
Both make strong attempts to mislead and persuade the population through lies.

Both love Big Oil.
Both operate in militias.
Both are hypocrites.
Both want total control and power, no matter the cost.
Both are pro-war.
Both are pro-religious governance.
Both are anti-gay.
Both are anti-choice.
Both are anti-women's rights.

Every terrorist from Timothy McVeigh to Osama Bin Laden to Eric Rudolf, to Byron
Williams to the Shoe Bomber...

...every terrorist is a Religious, anti-progress Conservative.

Every time.