Comments on: Heaven forbid am I a Republican? https://malcolmr.com/heaven-forbid-am-i-a-republican/ My little slice of the web Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:26:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: SouthernGirl306 https://malcolmr.com/heaven-forbid-am-i-a-republican/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:25:10 +0000 http://malcolmr.com/?p=14#comment-3 I think it’s difficult to point out a small set of issues and be able to comfortably declare one party over the other without looking at the history of each of them.

When you examine the Democratic Party’s voting record, it’s no secret that they are the party for the Working Class American, Women, Seniors, African-Americans and Hispanics. They are also strongly in favor of protecting civil rights, protecting the environment, gun control, education, public health and yes, reproductive freedom.

The Republican Party’s voting record shows that they are the party of big businesses, conservative in nature, stands for cutting taxes and government programs and strongly against abortions. All other issues indicate to me that they are against all issues supported by democratic party. (and in fairness so are the democrats)

I am a democrat and I can say that I don’t fully support all issues from the democratic party; however I am not willing to jump on the republican band wagon, especially with GW still in office. In fact, I can’t say that I agree 100% on all issues with ANY party.

I believe that America needs an overhaul of the construction of the political parties in general. Perhaps that would be a great place to start.

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