Timeline of right-wing dirty tricks in America

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Hi Boult , I am sure there is a timeline somewhere for the left wing party somewhere and the rap sheet will be worse than what the right wing party has. :) :thumb:
 
hahahahahaahahaha.....Nope Heath.....a left wing "dirty trick" is lying about an affair.....a right winger dirtytrick is lying about Iran-Contra, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and seeing Enron as just good ol' boys stuff.
 
Heath said:
Hi Boult , I am sure there is a timeline somewhere for the left wing party somewhere and the rap sheet will be worse than what the right wing party has. :) :thumb:
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When the dems have done something really wrong (and indeed they have in the past, remember slavery?), it's only occured when the dems were the right-wing party.
 
deafdyke said:
hahahahahaahahaha.....Nope Heath.....a left wing "dirty trick" is lying about an affair.....a right winger dirtytrick is lying about Iran-Contra, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and seeing Enron as just good ol' boys stuff.
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And those are just three things the GOP has done. By the way, GOP is the acronym for "Good Ole Party" which gives you an idea what kind of crap they do and have done. I mistakenly voted for them this last election, but will NEVER vote for any Republican again.
 
Teresh said:
When the dems have done something really wrong (and indeed they have in the past, remember slavery?), it's only occured when the dems were the right-wing party.
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Do you have verification of this, Teresh? It was my understanding that the Dems wanted to abolish slavery and the GOP wanted it, hence, the Civil War.
 
pek1 said:
Do you have verification of this, Teresh? It was my understanding that the Dems wanted to abolish slavery and the GOP wanted it, hence, the Civil War.
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I thought the civil war was about states rights. The democratic southern states wanted less power to the federal government and more power to individual states. Slavery was just one of the more popular issues brought up over this argument.
The fight over states rights is still going on today. Take for example the 2000 presidential elections. When Al Gore kept losing the recounts he tried to get the supreme court to change how florida counted their ballots. The supreme court said no because only that state's legislature can decide on how they count their ballots. I'm sure now somebody somewhere is trying to change that so congress can decide for all states on how to count their ballots.


Back to the original topic dirty tricks by the GOP, I honestly can't tell the difference between the democrats and the republicans. Both will lie, cheat and steal to get your vote.
The usual trick of the democrats is to tell minorities and people in poverty that if they vote for them we will give you handouts. The republicans will usually tell the the upper middle class and rich to vote them and they will give them tax cuts and corporate welfare. It's all a stupid game to them.
 
pek1 said:
... By the way, GOP is the acronym for "Good Ole Party" ....
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GOP = "Grand Old Party"
 
pek1 said:
... It was my understanding that the Dems wanted to abolish slavery and the GOP wanted it, hence, the Civil War.
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That would be news to the Southerners who hated Republicans ever since Lincoln was elected, until recent decades.

In 1860, the Democratic Party split into two factions:

The Southern Democrats, who supported the federal protection of slavery in the western territories; and

The Northern Democrats, who wanted all questions of slavery left up to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Neither faction of the Democrat Party supported abolition of slavery.
 
pek1 said:
Do you have verification of this, Teresh? It was my understanding that the Dems wanted to abolish slavery and the GOP wanted it, hence, the Civil War.
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You know also that the KKK was comprised of democrats when they were lynching african americans?

The Democrat party, however, has undergone many transitions and has a history with ups and downs. We expect this, especially since the Democrat party is one of two of the longest living parties in the world. The other is the Tory Party of England.

What Teresh is trying to say is that there have been times where the donkey looked more like an elephant, and specifically for his post the donkey really harbored elephant-like candidates around the same time it also presented its stance on slavery.

Conversely, there have been times when the Republican party looked more like the Democrat party in our history. I've heard that good ol' Abe looked more like a modern liberal than a modern conservative, but I'm not a historian, so my opinion is a bit loose here.
 
That's right; I vote mostly along Republican lines but I don't always toe the Party line. I try to vote for the individual. Alas, these days, it's a baffling chore!
 
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