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1. I hope that when you say "progressive", you are aware everyone EXCEPT "progressives" know that is the current alias the socialists use. And Americans have never accepted socialism (that's why socialists have to call themselves different names politically.......when the public catches on, it's time to change what they call themselves). I don't believe you know the first thing about socialism, tyranny, or any other form of government.

2. No one except the brain dead see all the people of the world as equal because ...... they are not all equal. They should all be free, they should all be equal in the eyes of the law, all people have the right to life itself - until they forfeit that right by harming others, they should all be free to worship as they please - assume for logic's sake that no true religion calls for the murder of people who have committed no crime. But people who want to have the "right" to take what YOU have earned for their own use are NOT equal to those who think you have earned it therefore it belongs to YOU. People who are criminals are not equal with honest and honorable people.

3. You are right about a democrat being more likely to be for marriage of women to women, men to men, men to 4 legged animals, men to children. That is because they are mentally warped and have no Christian values. Forget Christian, they have NO values whatsoever. We are talking about A******L behaviors here. People are what they are and I have no problems with that. What I DO have a problem with, and MOST republicans have a problem with, is when POLITICALLY the left tries to force society to accept as normal what is clearly a******l. Accepting a******lity for normal is a very slippery slope. Are you really sure you want to accept the premise that it is simply "caring"? How will you feel about it when POLITICALLY (meaning under force of law) it is accepted as normal that all women MUST have their breasts removed because a few women did and a movement to make that normal caused politicians to make that law? And don't even think of telling me that would never happen. It or something equally i***tic WILL happen once a******l becomes the normal thing to legislate.

4. What you call "close minded", republicans call living by principles rather than by whim, and not all republicans believe that. Living by principles means that one lives by a set of rules that he believes is the way to live and those principles harm no one, but set the standard for that one person. I am not a republican, but I live, eat, v**e according to principles - and those principles are MINE, they hurt no one, and I don't force them on anyone. They guide my life and keep me happy until others try to force me to give them up. The default position of the Democrat party is to remove all vestiges of principled living and turn us back into cave dwellers, figuratively speaking. Another way of saying that is that the Democrat party is trying to LEGISLATE us back into the land of the Neanderthals where "anything goes until someone k**ls you" because of it.

5. Respect for women? Democrats?! You have GOT TO BE KIDDING! Democrats USE women, they don't respect us. They use us as tools to get what THEY want. Democrats don't even respect life itself. They don't even respect each other but they hang together simply so that they don't hang separately. Don't tell me that Bill Clinton was showing Monica great respect when he had her bj him in the Oval Office. Don't tell me Al Sharpton was showing respect to women when he had that young girl accuse the college boys of rape when no rape had occurred. They USE women for their own perverted needs, Mollie, and they have NO, ZERO, NO respect for anyone but their personal selves.

But you hang in there, you seem to know all you want to know. I'm sure you will disagree with my assessment of the rapists of women and souls, and I hope you will be happy being used like an old dirty sponge - because you WILL BE used that way. You are already being used that way - you just don't know it. I'm sure you are aware how the democrat party is working overtime to eliminate ALL PRINCIPLES THAT THEIR OPPONENTS LIVE BY. That includes honesty, hard work, integrity, utilization of logic, family structure, faith, honor, love of country. Be really sure you too want to see all that disappear because what is happening has never happened in the history of this country, and God willing, it will be unable to continue as it is now going.

1. I'm not a socialist and I don't think forward thinking on social issues like gay marriage or womens rights equates to socialism. Yet another false assumption. I don't really care what you think I know or don't know. Instead of making assumptions that attempt to validate an a warped view that you have of people in general, try using facts. They can be scary I know, but it won''t hurt. I promise.

2. I agree with the first half of this, I have no clue what the hell you are talking about with the second half.

3. They aren't trying to make anyone gay, they simply want to have the same rights and freedoms other couples do. I promise that allowing them to have the same rights everyone else has won't turn you gay. I promise you won't be forced to marry someone gay.I promise you won't be forced to cut your breasts of because we allow gay people to have marital rights. ANd if anyone is going to force women to do something with their bodies against their will it will come from the right. Its their M.O. lately. FOrced vaginal ultrasounds ring a bell? Democrats fight for women to have control over their bodies.. they don't force them to cut their breasts off. That's a ridiculous analogy.

4. You miss the point. When you put people who want to use their views to rule the views of everyone there is a problem. Maybe you disagree with gay marriage or a******n because of your religious beliefs or wh**ever. Telling other people they can't do it because of your views and you don't like it even though its a reality in their life? That is forcing your views on others. Democrats don't take us backwards, they change with the times. Republicans don't.. they believe their lifestyle and religion should be everyones religion and views and that's unAmerican. You want to tell people they aren't allowed to use birth control because you are catholic and its against your views? That is using religion to determine the rights of others and that is just one more reason church and state should be separate. Democrats are often principled, but they aren't naive enough to believe that everyone else is. There is a big difference.

5. Yes dems respect women. They respect their right to make their own decisions reggarding their bodies. Use them? How so exactly? Was it terrible that the President got a blow job in the oval office? Yes... it was horrible. But starting a war that many Americans didn't want can be seen as terrible too. The blow job effected his marriage, the war affected all Americans. See the difference? As a President he did good by the country, as a husband he failed. Dems are more likely to empower women while the GOP has to have a binder to find one qualified to do a job. Dems know the value of women and they are already in their orbit. They don't believe women should be home and taking care of the kids.. while it would be nice its not realistic for women so they fight for equal pay. Republicans force vaginal ultrasounds, determine if women should be alloed to have birth control, and attempt to restrict their access to medical care. This to me was your funniest rebuttal... it was by far the biggest joke imo

I value their effort to value people, the charity shown, the respect for women and their rights and their values that everyone should have equal rights. I also value family values and education and hard work and honesty. Yes dems need to do way more to get people off the charity and the 3 year rule needs to be reinstituted. There are many areas for improvement, but these values you list apply to many people in both parties. Its stupid to think that republicans are the only ones with values. You tell yourself that because it helps you justify your narrow views. However, its just inaccurate.

Tasine-do you know what's more pitiful then democrats fooling their v**ers? The fact that there are no democrats anymore, just Marxist that took over the party beginning during FDR when he had Henry Wallace as vice president, an admitted c*******t. The Marxist have been slowly wrecking the party and after JFK was out of the way and they stabbed LBJ in the back, the Marxist went full speed in taking control of the party after the 1968 e******n and they've succeeded. Anyone who calls themselves a democrat is lying. They are now working on the republican party.