As an Irishman from Dublin following the US Presidential Election I have to say that my jaw has dropped many times with the ugliness in campaigning from the so-called Republican Party.

Virtually everyone in Ireland is against the war in Iraq. However when it started I supported it and remember doing so in class in college (although I was the only one) in the belief that Bush was going to start knocking out dictatorships from Iran, Iraq to Africa.

What a failure!!! The US owes 300 trillion because of the war. For a country being the only superpower in the world your country owes half a trillion dollars to China!!!

The Republican party represents ugly, childish politics. Their brand of nationalism is childish and dangerous. And I am a proud Irish nationalist and republican so I am not one of these anti-nationalist nobodies.

The Republican Party and their voters who orchestrate and support the ugliness in campaigning represent 40%+ Americans. If Barack Obama wins work will still have to be done to make these people grow up and see that America is not the centre of the world (there is no centre) and that their negativity and politics of fear is as ugly as it is dangerous.

And Sarah Palin is a political embarrasment as is current president George Bush.

First of all, welcome to the forum.

I can't disagree with anything you said in the OP, but would like to point out that the Republican party has been hijacked by the neocons which do not promote the traditional Republican platform of fiscal conservatism and small government.

I agree that the selection of Palin was a poor choice and that the McCain camp has engaged in a campaign mostly based on smearing his opponent. Since McCain has voted with the unpopular incumbent 90% of the time, he cannot run based on this unsatisfactory record.

The harm Dubya has brought to the Republican party is just a microcosm of what he has done to the whole country and it will take both a long time to recover. While the country goes into a depression and the people here suffer he'll be enjoying the fine life at his ranch in Paraguay. He should have been impeached.

__________________


"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty." Thomas Jefferson

Walter Mondale: "George Bush doesn't have the manhood to apologize." George Bush: "Well, on the manhood thing, I'll put mine up against his any time."

Now why would Bush do that, he likes dictatorships...

__________________
I'm Proud I never Voted For Bush!



PAT PAULSEN FOR PRESIDENT

$300 trillion is probably more money than exists in the entire world, so this isn't true at all.

I agreed with much of the rest of your post, however.

__________________
"Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states...Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds."



~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

I have to admit that it scares me that the republican party even exists, let alone people actually belong and believe in their ideaologys.
It's a party based on the belief "what can the president do for ME", not the country.
Their only criteria for a presidential candidate is if he'll give a tax break to the wealthiest 5% and big oil, nothing else matters, this is why we have a mentally challenged dry drunk who can't speak a sentence without a sickening stutter in office now.
This country should have safegaurds put in place to protect this country and it's citizens from ever being hijacked by these madmen again, it scares me that these people are allowed to vote, they have the maturity and intelligence of a kindergartener.
I seriously believe these people are a greater threat to this country than AlQaeda, they have done more damage in eight years than any terror group has done in all of history, not to mention the millions of innocent people who died over Bushes lies.
These people scare the hell out of me, they're money grabbing, finatical self serving nutcases...
McBush's campaign of throwing smear bombs and insults is painfull to watch, it's a national embarresment. I still to this day have yet to hear him say what his economic policy is or what he'll do if elected. His campaign rallies remind me of the lynch mobs of years ago, a gang of white people calling a black man a terrorist and yelling insults..scary ****.

__________________
Vote For The Ugly Liar - Impeach The Stupid One

Agree with a lot of the OP but the point that the current republican party certainly isn't Reagan's party should be well noted.....can they get it back from the neocons and right wing christians is the real question.

__________________

I don't know where I got that figure frorm...

$600 billion has been spent on it and in June Bush allocated another $200 billion.

HUGE cost anyway.

Why? Hitler, a right wing fascist, road into power on the backs of a socialist party. This kind of "monkey on their backs" happens all the time.

__________________
I'm Proud I never Voted For Bush!



PAT PAULSEN FOR PRESIDENT

Another one with no knowledge of the Nazi Party or the Third Reich in general.

__________________
"Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states...Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds."



~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Out of curiosity, how in the world can today's unclean Republicans NOT be the party of Ronald Ray-Gun? Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, Eliot Abrams, John Negroponte, Paul Wolfowitz all served in his administration...and they're just the ones I can think of off the top of my head! You're just honked off that the Bush Crime Syndicate pulled the covers off conservative ideology and revealed it for the fraud and the callous Grand Theft which it actually is.

Our Current White House embarrassment is the EXACT continuation of what was begun under Bad Actor: Needless war (Remember Grenada?), huge deficits, deregulation, privatization. We've seen ALL this before...or don't you remember that part of it?

__________________