Reasons to vote Republican
If you believe that the US can continue to sustain and increase its nuclear weapons storehouse after agreeing to reduce it, and at the same time keep other sovereign nations from developing their own similar capabilities, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe we should continue to stack the Supreme Court and lower level federal courts with activist judges who decide cases based upon ideology rather than law and the constitution, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe this nation can and should continue to amass skyrocketing debt, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe that what consenting adults do sexually and in private, should be the subject of government intervention, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe that two adults, no matter their gender, who choose to make a long-term commitment to each other, do not deserve government consideration of that commitment if they are of the same sex, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe that the tenets of a particular religion should be imposed on US citizens who do not share that particular religious belief or those tenets, other wise known as theocracy, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe that corporations should be considered as individuals under the law, with the same rights and privileges as individual citizens, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe that federal tax regulations should provide preferential treatment to those of great wealth, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe that the public education system should provide only a very basic education and largely only to those who cannot afford private education, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe that the US should abandon its long and successful tradition of filling its defense needs by using citizen-soldiers and instead should hire paid mercenaries, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe that the US should occupy and maintain long-term military bases in many foreign countries while not allowing other countries to do the same in our country, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe in free trade agreements that ignore or have unenforceable human rights provisions and that threaten US jobs, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe that hard-working and moral individual immigrants should be held responsible for the technical illegality of their presence here, rather than those who encourage them to immigrate and employ them, or their home countries that do nothing to prevent them from coming, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe the government has no role in managing the country’s economic system and that corporations should control federal policy in their areas of interest, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe that federal employees should be hired chiefly on their ideological biases rather then their professional competence, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe that federal regulation of industry is an intrusion on corporate rights rather than a necessary and proper role for government in a complex society, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe that federal elections and politicking should go on uncontrollably and be dependent exclusively on available funds to sustain them, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe that the federal budget should allocate about 45 times as much to its defense (offence?) department than to its diplomatic efforts, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe that the US should not pay its agreed share of the UN budget, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe that credible science should be subverted when it conflicts with political interests, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe that federal responsibilities for infrastructure investment should be ignored, such as those for in highways and bridges, water safety, food and drug safety, etc., then you should vote Republican.
If you believe that health care should be strictly the responsibility of the individual and largely remain privatized, unlike any other developed nation, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe that reducing the national debt is unimportant and that our annual commitment to doing so should be continuously disregarded as that debt level grows exponentially, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe that the news media should be controlled entirely by a few corporate interests, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe that access to news and facts relative to government operations should be kept secret and media representatives, and thus we citizens, denied access to such data based upon political loyalties, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe that Eisenhower was wrong in warning the nation about the dangers of the military-industrial complex, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe government deregulation of industry has been a good thing, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe that “swift-boating” has contributed positively to our political system and should go on uncontrolled, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe that the number of minorities and poor who end up in our prisons is a reflection mostly of those individuals rather than of the inadequacies in our economic and judicial system, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe that where, or if, a person goes to church, or professes certain religious beliefs, should be a prerequisite for holding public office, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe that capital punishment is necessary, moral, and administered fairly and humanely (as if it could be), then you should vote Republican.
If you believe that more guns, in more homes, will keep your family safer and more secure, despite credible evidence to the contrary, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe that taxpayers should bail out private corporations that have been irresponsibly and/or incompetently run, all the while allowing executives of those same companies to escape or go on in their positions while receiving exorbitant salaries and benefits, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe that, for the most part, unions have been bad for this country, and that the good will of company management is sufficient to protect worker rights, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe that privatizing most government services, from education to the military and intelligence activities, will do anything beneficial without continuing to sacrifice professionalism, increasing costs, and destroying accountability, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe that such things as reproductive rights and abortion should be determined based upon certain religious convictions rather than upon a constitutional and legal basis, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe that a predictable and proven wasted investment in abstinence-only sex education should be continued, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe that oil companies should reap millions of profits while foregoing responsibility for investment in bio-friendly energy, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe that our nation can and should drill it’s way out of the oil shortage, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe that the ecology will take care of itself, that nature is here for our exploitation, and that global warming and the accompanying severe climate implications are simply natural and are uncomplicated by human behaviors, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe that peace and justice are simply “feel-good” terms and that maintaining “the world’s strongest military,” thus creating extreme “terror” amongst potential global competitors and enemies, is our most important national obligation and the primary way to contain and eliminate international “terrorists,” then you should vote Republican.
If you believe that not supporting an illegal, immoral, unjustified war is the same thing as not supporting our troops, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe whether the troop surge had a positive impact in Iraq is more important than whether the invasion and occupation of that sovereign country was legal, justified, or moral in the first place, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe that the United States is responsible for militarily challenging all threats in the world, regardless of whether in doing so it violates treaties or international law, and do so with or without allies, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe the United States has an entitlement, including military action, to gain access to oil anywhere in the world and irrespective of the sovereignty of the nation where that oil lies, then you should vote Republican.
If you believe that national military service should be staffed primarily by the poor and desperate in our society, or be handled by paid and largely unprincipled mercenaries, and that the rest of us should make little or no sacrifice in times of national challenge, then you should vote Republican.
And last, if you think it’s okay to impose your double standards on the rest of the world, then you should vote Republican.
Bob Barkley, Worthington, Ohio
Email: rbarkle@columbus.rr.com
AND CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS OLD FRIEND IS AN OHIOAN?
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