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Which political party holds the following values?

Strong educational system (private or public)

Strong military defense.

The rule of law.

Hates wasteful government spending.

Despises corruption in Washington.

Is for bolstering small businesses.

Is for lowering the unemployment rate.

Believes in the constitution.

Believes in Freedom of Speech.

Believes in limited government intervention.

Believes in a balanced budget.

Believes in a strong free market economy for job creation and a government to intervene in the economy only when necessary.

Believes that their political party knows what they're doing.

A) Democrats

B) Republicans

C) The average American that comes home and asks, "Honey, what's for dinner?" or "What time do we have to take the kids to swimming lessons?"

If you choose A or B, please give one example based on legislative FACT and cite a source rather than rhetoric please.

Hopefully partisans on both sides will find that they have a heck of a lot more in common than our leaders would like us to believe.....

Update:

Addendum:

Perhaps the question should have been phrased differently. "WHICH OF YOU HOLD MOST OF THE FOLLOWING VALUES? Please state whether you are Democrat, Republican, Conservative, Liberal, Libertarian, Communist, Socialist, or own your own small island.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    you know dos centovos...i'm going to give a star for this one. and the reason being is that i'm going to keep watch today before i make any further comments or answer the question. i don't know what you're trying to do here but i think you know that you are looking for a particular outcome to suit your needs...your examples lack seriousness as written and will only provide a biased outcome. tell you what, think about it a little more, come back and add to the question and maybe you'll find that we will have a lot to offer for you.

    for what it's worth...conservative leaning libertarian. the party i chose many years ago gives me more opportunities to vote in primaries as this is a closed primary state so that has no bearing on my true affiliation. now if i may, i think most critical thinkers agree w/the majority of the question. except for me on a few of them. i have no use for the education system today. too much government. private is the way to go w/absolutely no gov. intervention. since i'm a constitutionalist, i prefer no gov. intrusion in anything...period...minimal or limited does not matter...they never get it right and only make it worse. your last line is the kicker here...i don't believe any party anymore knows what they are doing anymore, most members have been there for far too long and marched all over the constitution. now does this make us all closer together in terms of having common ground because of the way you worded the tag lines? i think not...and i believe you know where i could go w/this but maybe that's for another question on a different day!!

  • 1 decade ago

    That is what the REPUBLICANS SAY.

    Of course it is all rhetoric: to use voters as tools to be elected and give 2% of America a free ride while making 95% of America pay their way and then complain that the other party is responsible.

    We are not in the tailspin we are in because of that list. If you go to perotcharts.com and click on charts (this is an independant site) you will see that each time the republican party had the power the country, had a weaker dollar, bigger deficit, high unemployment, gdp less, and the entitlements they give to big business is absurd.

    Low taxes and borrowing from other countries that is in contention with us is not only indebting us to the country until we pay them back but in essense raising taxes because sooner or later the democratic party has to come in and make our party fiscally sound again.

    America is great and if something does not cost, it normally isn't worth anything. Now you don't see ppl lined up trying to get in any other country.

    I would rather have 70 cents of a dollar than no dollar at all.

    Everyone fell for that low taxes 8 years ago. The middle class making 60k had a 3% tax cut. That is about $38 a week. Now look what it has cost us.

    A good con man knows how to sucker a person by feeding his greed and pettyness. The republican party does it everytime.

    If all that were true and correct (what you enumerated) then what happened to our country. Why are we in the tailspin we are in.

    The Democratic Party had a 1 majority vote in 2007, that is when they took over by October of 2007 CITIGROUP was in trouble and China gobbled most of it up. By January 2008 Bears & Stearns, JP Morgan, Frannie & Freddie, Leahman started their stumble.

    You should know who is really hitting you over the head before you try and tell a person that you know what shade tree is best for them to sit under.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    It is fascinating watching you Americans fight amongst each other depending on if you're a democrat or republican. Have you always been like that? I think you guys really have a lot more in common than you think. I don't understand why if someone supports the opposite party from you they are suddenly bad people and wrong on most things.

    Politics seems to be a straight divider now?

  • 1 decade ago

    B

    Republicans have time and again tried to downsize government. They may spend more on national defense than the Democrats, but overall they are for cutting government spending as well.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    C. Conservative Americans.

    With Bush, McCain and people like the Three Traitors still calling themselves Republicans they no longer can claim that.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Why no longer choose in accordance with a undeniable concern. do in no way be thoroughly a million sided on your determination making. you ought to help the republicans for financial and tax motives, yet help the democrats for his or her desire to help the ecosystem or their help of Roe v. Wade. Be somebody, no longer a occasion member.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    since libertarian is not an option, I can't answer this with the choices given

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