A long answer, which will probably fall on deaf ears... but here goes.
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So you hate the GOP because a guy who fired you happened to be a Republican? Seriously?
No, he happened to be an asshole who justified his bad treatmetn of employees with "Good thing I don't have to deal with a union!" You see, what I figured out is the the GOP works for guys like that, not guys like me. Oh, they try to keep guys like me upset about abortion and gay marriage and shit like that, but oddly, never make any progress on them. So oddly enough, I am not concerned about them, because, frankly, getting screwed over by a company after I got sick became a bigger deal in my life than whether total strangers have abortions or anal sex.
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"...you guys have definitely lost the plot." Funny thing, Joe...you refer to the GOP as "you guys" while you repeatedly state that YOU are a Republican...a claim which is laughable at this point. You may have been a conservative back in 1980 but you're a card carrying progressive in 2014. Show some character and admit to what you are!
Actually, I'm going to draw a Republican ballot today, and vote for Kurt Dillard over corporate raider Bruce Rauner, Kaifesh over Teabagger Gaol for Congress, and whoever isn't ******* Oberweis for Senate. (Why the Milk Dud doesn't take a hint is beyond me.) BUt, yeah, as long as the GOP keeps nominating crazies, I'll probably be voting for more Democrats.
Point is, the Sainted Reagan would be called a RINO by today's crazy GOP and you know it. Raising taxes, reforming social security, granting amnesty to illegals. YOu'd have ******* hung the guy.
The reality is, the Democrats are the sensible party, the GOP has been taken over by the nuts. Perhaps the oppossite of the situation in the 1980's when the HIppies took over the Democratic Party.
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The GOP nominated the most moderate candidate running...just as they did in the election BEFORE this one. The truth is that Mitt Romney's "religion" was a non-issue when he was the Governor of Massachusetts. He didn't get slandered with nonsense like "MAGIC UNDERWEAR" until he decided to run for President against Barack Obama...just as John McCain got slandered when HE ran against Obama.
Actually, Romney's religion became an issue in 2008 and was brought up by Mike Huckabee and all the Evagelical Funditards who think Mormonism is a heresy. Of course, in 2012, they were perfectly happy to vote for the Heretic because "God Damn, there's a N****r in the White House!!!!"
OH, yeah, Mormons really believe they are wearing magic underwear and dozens of other batshit crazy things that should disqualify them from any public service or being let outside without adult supervision. Just sayin'.
And sorry, no one really "slandered" John McCain. John McCain was treated very respectfully, but the point is, he had to argue that the GOP knew what it was doing after Bush fucked up pretty much everything. OH, and he took a complete retard as a running mate. "Hey, I'm the oldest guy to ever run for this office, I have a history of cancer, and my running mate is stupider than a bag of hammers!"
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Both Romney and McCain were moderates and it is the guy sitting in the Oval Office who was from the extreme fringe of his party.
Uh, no, not really. if Obama were "fringe", he'd support single payer, socialized medicine, not Romney's corporate welfare plan writ large.
If Obama were "Fringe", he'd support the nationalization of the Auto Industry and Banking INdustries, not bailing them out.
Now, i know you whack jobs scream all these code words like "Marxism" and "SOcialist" and "Keynan" because you can't say "n****r' in polite company. but really, in terms of policy, not so much.
As for McCain and Romney being moderate, the problem was, they had to run from their moderate histories. McCain had to run away from his very MODERATE amnesty plan (which, by the way, was FAR more draconian than the amnesty the Sainted Reagan supported.) Romney had to run away form his Health Care Reform plan.
You can't call yourself a moderate when you denounce the few good things you've done. Just saying. NOt to mention embracing the crazies on issues like gay marriage and abortion.