irateplatypus

of course i'm a republican. but that's not even the point... i'm a conservative. being a republican is incidental. i could'nt care less about the party apart from how it serves as a vehicle for advancing my ideas/principles. i'm increasingly disappointed with the GOPs lack of fiscal restraint, i think i'll switch to the Libertarian party soon.

and you must recognize that the republican party has MILLIONS of members. there are at least representatives of every race, social background, sexual orientation, income strata etc. etc. if you paid attention to how the GOP base turned on the President when he nominated Harriet Miers for the vacant Supreme Court seat, it's quite obvious that republican thought is far from monolithic. to say that someone always sounds like a "republican" is meaningless.

as TFP's own garrulous and grandilloquent roachboy might say, such a worldview lacks nuance. you must not employ such presumptive hubris in your closed up Gore-world. what function this category of memes serve in the liberal mind, i do not know. painting people in broad brush strokes is xenophobic, bordering on the most vile racist roots of the rising neo-fascism.

just joking.

very plainly, i don't care about whether a person is a democrat or republican... especially as it relates to the role of military service in their politics.

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