YES - These things go in cycles, and eventually moderation will prevail.
12%
NO – The Republican Party is a wholly owned subsidiary of Corporate America. Moderation be damned!
88%
Asked on Feb. 1, 2012 10:07 am
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The way I see it, the GOP is currently in a suicide pact with the Tea Party.
IMHO, there's little (if any) difference between the Republicans and Democrats...they're BOTH wholly owned subsidaries of Corporate America, they'll BOTH do the bidding of the 1%, and they'll BOTH go down within 10 years....THAT'S why I'm voting straight Socialist in 2012!!
A profile of the typical low level Republican voter as presented on Huff Post :
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/27/intelligence-study-links-prejud...
if they need to be damned i would hep them.get that way ,
I'm afraid there's too much money in politics ... and it d o e s corrupt (on both sides, though I'll still take the Dems any day). Eventually, things will moderate .. I just wonder if I will live to see it.
Occupy Wall Street gives me some hope!!!
If Grover Norquist succeeds in having Obama impeached for a tiny 2% tax for the uber rich, then I would like to see him drowned in a bathtub.
A bathtub full of Drano....no incriminating evidence...