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How does one deal with the fact that a full third of Republicans have affirmatively relinquished their responsibility to actually utilize the gray matter inside their skulls?
- Only 24 percent of Republicans say that ACORN definitely did not “steal the 2008 election.” Twenty-one percent say the community group did; 55 percent are unsure.
- Thirty-one percent of Republicans say President Obama is “a racist who hates white people.” Thirty-six percent disagree; the rest aren’t sure.
– Twenty-three percent of Republicans want their states to secede from the union. In the South, it’s 33 percent.
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People are stupid, film at 11.
You could poll 1/3 of Democrats believing something stupid, especially back when Bush Derangement Syndrome was in full bloom.
We nonpartisans hopefully have our heads screwed on straighter.
yes, please do bore me with dismissive false equivalency.
I don't look for equivalency, I look for similarities to other groups when people only highlight those they particularly don't like. What is false about this, pray tell?
Here you are engaging in wild hyperbole--"Viscous, Non-Sentient Sacks of Human-Like Goo", and then say you're bored when I suggest you widen your frame of reference?
o-kay--you can be bored, I'll be rational.
yes, rational. by all means point me to the polls that indicate that one side is just as bad as the other so, yawn, move on nothing to see here.
do point me to polls that indicate parity with this level of insanity:
"A plurality of rank-and-file Republicans wants to see President Obama impeached. More than a third of self-identified Republicans believe he wasn't born in the United States. A 63% majority is convinced the president is a socialist, about a fourth believe he wants terrorists to be successful, and about a third think Obama is a racist who hates white people.
Nearly a third of Republicans think contraceptive use should be outlawed.
More than three-quarters of Republicans want public schools to teach children that the book of Genesis "explains how God created the world."
A third of Southern Republicans want to see their state secede from the union." <a href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individ…” target=”_blank”>http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individ…
until then, spare me the "news at 11" [zzzz] dismissiveness
What's wrong with them wanting to see him impeached? Here's a Rasmussen poll from 2007:
"Democrats in America are evenly divided on the question of whether George W. Bush knew about the 9/11 terrorist attacks in advance. Thirty-five percent (35%) of Democrats believe he did know, 39% say he did not know, and 26% are not sure."
Of course Republicans are going to have a lot of bad ideas about social issues like sex and teaching religion. But if confronted with constitutionality, they would likely ask the constitution be changed, similar to how some want it changed to outlaw abortion. Secular people like us certainly won't care for this, but our disagreement doesn't make their traditional views non-sentient.
Also keep in mind that people who identify as Republican are quite a rump right now. When considering 1/3 of 22% of the electorate (the last figure I saw for self-identified Republicans) you're going to get some awfully fringe views.
how did i know you were going to go to the one fringey leftist issue that every commentator since moses (or 2002) has used to create the hallowed false equivalency that so nurtures and suckles the insane fuckwits on the right…
back to work. no more from me on this latest installment of "Yawn, Other People Do Stuff Too! (And Why You Shouldn't Care)"
Well, it's a lot like the birther issue. It's just the first thing that turned up in a google search. It's not taht easy to find polls of Democrats and similar fringe issues, preferably from ~4 years ago.
I was going to try and spend some more time looking later, but I don't really care about the numbers if you don't….
I just know there is plenty of crazy stuff on the left, like people who think international trade is harmful.
just to highlight, i really would love to see the polls that point to a similar level of anti-constitutional insanity like this on the other side of the aisle (from which I assume you derive your bored waving away of my point):
"Should public school students be taught that the book of Genesis in the Bible explains how God created the world?
Yes 77
No 15
Not Sure 8 "
But do we teach the KJV, NIV, the Good news for man, the Lutheran, the Catholic, the Baptist, or what ever other sect out there. These people really have no clue. Religion is taught in a church school, church, or home not in the public school!