why would anyone vote republican ?

Woowwww. First of all the republicans are not the ones blocking the oil pipeline that would create thousands of jobs. Second, they didn't lie about Iraq, there was intelligence from the CIA that suggested a good possibility of WMD's in Iraq. If we wouldn't have done anything and there were WMD's, we would have been in trouble. And thirdly, your second statement is so absurd that I don't even know how to counter it. You can't argue with idiots I guess

Frankly, I am completely fed up with both parties. Both parties have caused the gridlock in Congress. (Currently, Congress has an 11% approval rating! - http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/cong...

This election cycle, the mega-rich are buying the race through super-PACs that use negative advertising and the politics of personal distruction. In my 40 years of voting, I have never seen it this bad. It disgusts me.

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i live in the obama home state. illinois, land of corruption, bankrupt, run by unions. raised taxes and corporation and people are leaving this bankrupt state. large corporations threatening to leave are getting paid millions (no doubt by the taxpayers), state cannot pay its bills, but state workers continue to get pay raises. speaker of the house (Democrat of course) blocked a bill which would have allowed the refinancing of the mccormick place debt several times. this cost the taxpayers an additional $500 million in interest. he did this because he was mad at the governor. actually passed a bill allowing 2 union officials to teach in the chicago public school system for 1 day and receive a full pension. in addition to their other pension. this too will cost the taxpayers millions. doubled the toll road tax - this was supposed to disappear in 20 years. instead anybody who uses the toll road get to pay twice as much to get to their job. illinois cannot pay its bills, but manages to take care of their friends. they are so behind in their pension funding they are now talking about putting in on the property tax bill, which are now the highest in the country. if that happens, nobody will buy or sell a house in this state. i am amazed that illinois democrats continue to vote for this kind of treatment. all they do is use the taxpayer to pay for their corruption. i am looking at indiana, nice red state, not run by unions and is now a right to work state. they also have a billion dollar excess on their books. they should all be proud of what mitch daniels has accomplished. obama should also be proud as illinois follows his economic policies.

There's a huge number of folks, that vote right or left, from no more than a gut feeling... Others, its the party of they're parent... There's actually few, that keep informed, & even fewer yet... That understand, whether, the information they're getting, as accurate, or not... Bottom line, whether we'll admit it or not... We've all been coned, by a political party...

Republicanism has largely become a faith-based proposition. The fervor of the autocratic followers of the economic royalists leads the practitioners of Republicanism to actively suspend reason and self-preservation to blindly support kleptocractic plutocracy designed to redistribute to wealth hoarders. They are actuated by xenophobia and hate. Jingoistic propaganda has supplanted logic and reason. Just because a jack_hole is wrapped in a bloody flag and is carrying a Rapturian Book of the Dead is enough to discount his/her/its true purpose of destroying America's Commons and the raiding of middle-class for the enrichment of the wealthiest.

In short, there is no reason in balloting for Republican candidates. Anything and everything else is a fairy-tale told by idiots and thieves to low-information "independent" voters who only cast ballots for Republican candidates.

I guess you are a free loading Democrat that either doesn't know the truth or refuses to speak it.

First I might inform you that in the cases of both Iraq and Afghanistan, it was Clinton who dropped the first bombs on both in 1998. Iraq because of WMD, and Afghanistan because of OSBL. Here you go read Clinton Speeches yourself for a little History:

http://articles.cnn.com/1998-12-16/politics/1998_1...

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/military/july-dec98...

http://partners.nytimes.com/library/world/africa/0...

You See, all your Liberal Teachers are wrong as they try to put all the blame on Bush! Both for Iraq and Afghanistan, the US Congress which was Democratic, voted overwhelmingly for Bush to go into those countries. Yes, unlike Obama in Libya, he went to congress for approval and got it.

Now you say Created a poor economy!! Seems to me that it was Carter that outlawed the Banks Red lining and their refusal to make poor risk loans, even forcing them to make the Loans and promising to keep them whole by Govt. Guarantees. Then Clinton mandated that the Give a certain high number of these loans even though they would never be repaid. End result after years of bad loans being bundled with good loans and sold and resold the weight of the Bad became to heavy for the Good ones to compensate and then the Housing bubble burst and you blame it on Bush! This did not happen overnight. Both Bushes tried to stop it but did not have a Veto proof congress and the Democrats needed the inner city votes. Yes the votes of the Free loaders that were on the receiving end of those bad loans, you know, what the Occupy people call the 99%. Well I am not part of the 1% but I am tired of carrying all you freeloaders. SO just why has the 1% moved off shore? To protect their assets from theThief's in the 99%, more like the 55%. We, the 44% in the Middle have had it with all your Social programs for the lazy of America that we work and pay for while you sit on your lazy behinds.

The thing that stops Job creation iin thisCountry is Government Regulations. The EPA is at the top of the list of worthless agencies. If we had been under EPA in 1941 you would now be speaking German or Japanese. We geared up for, built up for and won WW II in far less time than it now takes to get approval to build a factory in the USA, so we build them somewhere else before our product is obsolete and unmarketable. Gas is high because we cannot drill, we cannot build Refineries or oil pipelines because of the EPA and the Liberals. No Electronics are made in America because of problems building Factories, Meeting OSHA requirement, and the inflated labor ccosts createdby Unions that think Slackers should be paid the same as hard workers. That menial labor should be paid the same as highly skilled labor, that there should be limits to stop good workers from performing well. YES Unions black ball good workers because it reflects poorly on the Lazy slackers that would rather be out drinking or doing drugs.

Liberals should read a little History and find out that Socialist type Governments are doomed to fail because it creates a atmosphere where there is no incentive to do well and soon the Good Workers ar overwhelmed by the lazy and their is no more tax money to support all the takers, so, Obama style they just print more which devalues all that you have now, in the past and the future, but, makes you feel good until you get hungry and there is no one left to feed you.

Want more Jobs In America? close EPA, Close Osha, close FDA, Close the Dept. of Energy along with the Dept. of Labor and make every state a Right to work state. Outlaw labor unions for Public employees and all medical employment. This is a good start. Then repeal "the Sarbanes Oxly act" and then put heavy tariffs on countries that use Child labor and extremely poor working conditions. With all of this done, then Jail every employer that manufactures off shore using cheap labor and all those that hire illegal immigrants.

Please spend the rest of the day researching all this and learn the truth, not the propaganda.

@@Edit@@ It does not matter at all who controlled congres when the vote was taken, it was a overwhelming bi partisan vote. so, please enough of the Liberal smoke screen. Here, FYI here is a speech on the Senate floor by Democrat Hillary Clinton concerning her vote to go to war. Maybe you will believe her

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkS9y5t0tR0

The Senate voted 77 -23 and the House voted 296- 133 in very Bi partisan voting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkS9y5t0tR0

Proud Vet

Take your head out of the sand and look around Syria. That is where the weapons were moved to.

The Democrat Congress Approved a Declaration for WAR with Iraq. You Democrats can't remember anything that is worth posting. Then Obama got credit for killing Osama Bin Laden under the Kill Order from President Bush. Obama wanted a New York City Civilian Trial for Bin Laden...oh you must have forgotten...it's your Democrat nature after all.

barrack obama, nancy pelosi, harry reid, barney frank, carl levin, sander levin, john kerry, john dingell, impeached former president clinton, ted kennedy, debbie stabenow, joe biden, barbara boxer, and the rest of the panderers who show more loyalty to and knowledge of the Communist manifesto than the Constitution of the United States.

I love seeing libs admit that john kerry, hillary clinton and the rest of the dumocraps LIED in speeches before Congress when THEY claimed Iraq had, and was ready to use WMDs.

Who would have bid against Haliburton? What other company can do what Haliburton does? Where is your evidence of overcharges? Tell me the ONE government contract that did not contain "overcharges".

chairman obama was allegedly a lawyer in Chicago. Do you blame him for the high fees charged by lawyers there? Why do you blame Mr. Cheney for what Haliburton charges for services?

Haliburton does a LOT more than haul FUEL. (I'm assuming this is what you mean. Please turn "Spell Check" on.)

None of what you said is true. That was applicable only 4 years ago. Americans overwhelmingly voted Republican in 2010. And the economy & country & military - can you say "genocide in Afhanistan" - are doing terribly.

The real question is how could anyone vote for Obama.

Why would anyone vote for a destructive Keynesian who is running up $1 trillion budget deficits triple those of our last 'Republican'. Look how poor the economic recovery has been under Obama, his disgusting stimulus prevented the market from curing itself and now we are looking at an even worse crisis in the future.

I will tell you now, speaking only of the facts, that if Obama is re-elected, the US WILL face a situation similar to Greece.