The Respectfully Republican Conversation

I think that sounds about right, that is how I explained it to my DIL but wasn't 100% that I was right.  I was pretty upset the last election that the dems worn the popular vote but didn't get the job.  That part doesn't seem right.

I saw the landslide coming in the electorial college but watching the states votes come in I knew the popular vote would be close.

Keep your fingers crossed, I think obama is going to come through on  some things to get us kickstarted and going.  If he can find and end to these wars we are in would be a sweet bonus also!  I want my son home, ok call me selfish!  LOL

Come on Bad Boob, are you serious?  The religious right wing have been trying to force the rest of us to march to their tune forever.  Do you forget about the allegations that Palin tried to ban books she didn't approve of, how about the anti-choice zeal of the religious fanatics, or the Bush doctrine of delaying stem cell research because it is the destruction of life, or anti-gay stances because it violates the bible or the will of god, or the teaching of creationism in school.  Why do you think the religious right want their own candidates, so they don't push their agendas?  I'm not saying Palin would have demanded people attend church, but from the Chiavo (spelling??) affair (remember that brain-dead woman?) to sticking their noses in our bedrooms, the religious right are always trying to tell us how to live.  Watching her in that video with that witch doctor was scary indeed.

Blaest, and to everyone on both sides of the politcal fence:  We are all willing to believe anything and everything we hear about the candidate we oppose.  "Democrat diehards" and "republican diehards" are all guilty on this account including myself. 

 So Blaest you speak of "republican diehards to insult everybody and anything they dont agree with".  I hate to be the one to point out the obvious but so do democrat diehards........DUH!!!

I would like to believe that most everyone on BOTH sides are merely fact finding and educating themselves so that we can do a better job of deciphering truth from lie.  One good way to do that is to have these discussions, get everyone to thinking and I know for a fact MANY of us then go on fact finding explorations to see for ourselves what is as close to the truth as anyone will ever get.

as long as it's not muslim. Then it's NOT ok.  ...  don't forget atheism ... its ok to blast every religious idea except muslims and atheists --- according to some over there.

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Blaest if you are going to charge Palin with something--- GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT.  The banning of books fiasco was FALSE and it's been publicized that the charge was not true." Looks like some of these library people failed reading comprehension. Take a look at the list below and you’ll find books Gov. Palin supposedly tried to ban…that hadn’t even been published yet. Example: The Harry Potter books, the first of which wasn’t published until 1998.

The smear merchants who continue to circulate the list also failed to do a simple Google search, which would have showed them that the bogus Sarah Palin Banned Book List is almost an exact copy-and-paste reproduction of a generic list of “Books Banned at One Time or Another in the United States” that has been floating around the Internet for years. STACLU notes that the official Obama campaign website is also perpetuating the fraud. And it’s spread to craigslist, where some unhinged user is posting images likening Palin to Hitler. Here it is again.

The person who first spread the Palin smear is identified as “Andrew Aucoin,” a commenter on the blog of librarian Jessamyn West. West has done the right thing in keeping the bogus comment up and pointing out in her main post that “there appears to be no truth to the claim made by the commenter, and no further documentation or support for this has turned up.”

It’s a fake. Not true. Total B.S. A lie.

How are the left "intolerant".  When is the last time they have tried to tell you how you should live "YOUR" life.   Ummm, I guess you don't read over there .. we've been told we should read certain books (LOTS OF THEM).  The intolerant left also would want homosexuality taught in school as an ok choice.  I don't think ANY religious view should be taught in school nor any personal lifestyle choices ... whether its an unmarried hetero or homo couple or married people. My daughter's teacher just asked them to draw their family.  Well, she was not chastised because there was no dad in the pic ... it's not that she doesn't know she has one, he is just not around so she doesn't consider him part of her "family" ...The idea of freedom of speech doesn't mean that those with fundamental and moderate values are to be shushed.  Freedom of Speech, though and values belongs to everyone. 

Come on Bad Boob, are you serious?

I'm sorry...I underestimated your ignorance

Okay I'm gonna throw something out there that will no doubt cause a huge controversary, but what the heck, I've told ya'll all along that I have no life

Blaest is against teaching creationism in public schools.  Okay, fair enough, everyone has the right to their opinions and there is suppose to be a seperation of church and state, I get all that.  But I just have one question:  IF evolution were true, why did it stop?  IF man came from an ape, or monkey, or whatever, why hasnt man evolved into something other than man?  Why haven't any NEW species evolved since "man" became a "civilized" creature????  Why is it that only apes (again whatever) evolved and not lions and and tigers and bears (oh my!)

It is no more "out there" or "crazy" or "offensive" to believe that there is a God who created earth, animals, and man than it is to teach that man started out on all fours and now we have the internet.  Of course for me, it is way easier to believe in Adam and Eve, than to believe we "evolved" from a tadpole, or monkey, or ape, or whatever. 

Just a thought............................

My dad sent this nice email today and it's appropriate ... I wish I could send this to Obama:

Aw man!!!!! I knew I was forgetting something!!!!!  That was on my list too!  THANKS FOR HAVING MY BACK!!!!!!!!  

My daughters science class has been studying evolution this past month.  It bothers her but she understands.  I told her to ask her teacher that very question.

Moody, your daughter should jokingly ask her about my signature line .... If evolution is fact, why do mothers only have two hands?

It's difficult for me to believe in the whole evolution theory.  I believe there is a God that created everything on earth, and I don't know which religion is the "right" (for lack of a better word) religion.  I do see many similarities in religions.

You are free to ignore Sherri.  There are those here like moody who have open minds and tolerance and the intelligence to have an opinion.  Then there are those who have closed minds and who so hate any opinions which contradict their own that they insult, attack, protest, call names (like trolls), etc.  Why am I not surprised that this would happen on a board that thinks the left are whiney and self loathing.

Something I've always believed is that being a liberal is a form of cowardice.  They don't stand for anything.  There's nothing any easier than saying, "Anything goes".  There is no moral right or wrong in liberal land.  The word "morality" seems to cause them angst.

You know, I read something like this and I ask myself, as a centrist, moderate, how so many people became so ignorant to actually believe something like this let alone to public assert it.  It is just amazing to me.  First of all, Liberals can also be religious, if that is your requirement for standing for anything, but your statement makes absolutely no sense.  They are simply meaningless words meant to, again, hurl insults at those you don't agree with.

And by the way, even Homosapiens have evolved along different paths, at least when it comes to the shape of the eye, the color of skin, etc.  There are also some physiological and biological differences.  For example, Blacks tend to inherit the sickle cell anemia gene, which in itself might have had an evolutionary purpose:

    It is believed that sickle cell disease arose as an "evolutionary mutation" in order to survive places which had the malaria virus.  A mutation is a biochemical change in the DNA structure of the human-being to insure the survival of offspring.  Thus the hereditary disease of sickle cell anemia, protected Africans against deadly forms of malaria.  Scientists have identified at least four types of sickle cell, each indigenous to different geographical areas around the world.  Some children, however, only carry the sickle cell trait, while other children are born with the sickle cell disease.

So there has been evolution, even in a relatively short period of time that we've been around.

Evolution is a fact, its just a question of how much evolution has to do with man's creation and how much may have been some kind of "devine" intervention.

Blaest don't forget, this is the RESPECTFULLY Republican thread ... we aren't here to defend our choices .. you can create a thread for that if you want ...  And by the way, having multiple log-in's and profiles, VIOLATES the rules....  Blaest, Blaest2, truthseeker, what are the other names???

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Oh I was reading an article where people were mad about Prop 8 being funded by the Mormon and Catholic church (Knights of Columbus is a Catholic org) ...  WTF? These religions have a right to fund propositions that go along with their beliefs.  Both these religions are bible based which speaks against homosexuality.  

Tell me, is it only ok to fund money for liberal causes?  Why don't they have freeness of speech? 

Even though it was seen only as an issue of them being able to marry there were financial repurcussions for Californians ... in a time where we don't have any money.  In some cities, its a non issue: San Fran ... benefits are extended to life partners, but other cities are not this way.

I don't know why "evolution" is seen as mutually exclusive from the concept of God.  There is so much scientific evidence that it's impossible to deny evolution.  It doesn't mean that there isn't a god who has a plan.

One of the posts above claims that we have not seen recent evolution.  I would ask, then, how do you explain MRSA (Medically resistant staph)?   The only way the staph can survive is to "evolve" to resist known antibiotics.  The staph that can't dies, the staph that survives is a new strain.  Sounds like evolution to me.