My birthday is October 15th so yeah. I was old enough. 1. I support a women's right to choose because, statistics and logic has told me that it is the correct the decision. 2. I don't make up opinions because other Republicans have them, I think about them. 3.Yes, I am socially progressive, much like every other Young Republican out there. 4.We look at things differently as far as social issues are concerned. It is those in the NRA, Tea Party and Koch army that have made me angrier and angrier with those in this party.5. I do not understand how you people call yourselves Republicans when Reagan, the hero of the party, was more liberal than the majority of these Tea Partiers.
6.The establishment of the Libertarian Party is probably the best thing for us at this time. This way we can just go our separate ways. 7. Us in the GOP will continue to try and convert moderate Dems to the financial logic we present without having to answer the issues that radicals in our party bring to the table. Keep nominating Gary Johnson or whatever with his 10 k votes and we can go back to trying to win elections.
1. So, what are these statistics you speak of? Logic alone is not an argument, facts supporting that logic, or facts and logic, however; are. Neither of which you have proven to me yet.
2. As stated in my previous response, I will consider your opinions made up until you refute them.
3. I am only three years older than you, even I cannot fathom such thinking as "progress" as so defined by you and your so-called "young republican" friends. Progress is positive, not destructive.
4. Indeed. I think the party should be unified, not rife with division. My father is a member of the NRA, he is as nice as a person you could ever meet, so why should he be blamed for the alleged destruction of the Republican party? Your anger at the NRA is simply anger at their beliefs, not for any other reason. Your anger at Koch is simply anger at their wealth, not for any other purpose. And why aren't you angry at Monsanto?
5. I never said I was a Republican, now did I?
6. Your unwillingness to meet in the middle will be your undoing. As well as the GOP's. The cancer in a person's blood does not discriminate against itself, it proceeds in its deadly task. Even a disease has more resolve than the party that calls themselves Republican or Democrat. Please for pete's sake, stop bickering with each other.
7. See No. 6.
8. I didn't nominate Gary Johnson, I voted for Romney and McCain, that is until I found out how fruitless voting for establishment candidates could be. A party that can't meet with everyone at the table is like saying King Arthur sought the Holy Grail with only half of his knights.
You have yet to provide any statistics either, but that is because we have been using mostly anecdotal evidence. I support gun regulation because it makes sense. Guns kill twice as many people then cancer does in this country. WE kill more people via firearm than any, repeat ANY other nation in the industrialized world. Heck just take a look at this graph.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/dk-production/images/27091/large/GunHomicideByCountry4_7_13.jpg?1365387268. We have a gun problem and we have a bigger problem, we cant admit it. We love our guns. I live in a nice NJ suburb and have friends with guns, but I also live next to Trenton. A place that kills so many kids via firearms yearly, its absurd. Its even more absurd that they can just go across the border to PA, grab a gun from some random auction, no paper work needed, come back and kill whoever.
Now, progressive in the sense of gay-rights, marijuana, abortion. I have bigger issues to deal with like college loans and the economy to be worried about wether gays get married or not. Socially progressive means moving our society forward, not backwards. Which is what we would be doing if we were to make guns more available
Yes, my anger is with the NRA. The policies they support so that some of their members wont have to wait in line a little longer or can sell their weapons at auction is directly related to inner city violence that kills more kids every year. 70% of our homicides are committed by guns, most other nations like the U.K. hover around 11 percent.
My unwillingness to meet in the middle of people in my party is justified because of the nonsense that they spew on a daily basis. They say that they are Republicans, but if Eisenhower or a Republican from an older generation were running today, heck even Reagan, they would label them as a RINO. You cant do anything with a person like that.
If you don't want to vote for establishment candidates then you are just wasting your vote. Ya, I get it, no vote is wasted, blah blah, but it is. If the Tea Partiers or Libertarians don't want to get on board with a sensible candidate who doesn't go Santorum crazy on social issues or has the foreign policy of crazy ass Rand Paul, then hop off, we don't need you.