WIth the embryonic cell research we need to note that "was" and actually doing are two very different things. With this issue the things the left has said many times is the right is dead set against the research when in fact that is not true. It just drives me up the wall when people say that.
I am glad you clarified yourself because I had hoped you were more aware of the situations in politics then your post stated.
I read it as you were saying anyone other than republicans are OK to be in office. I also read it that all republicans are against gay marriage etc. Which astounded me because you don't usually make such blatant generalizations. I read what you wrote but I gotta admit that's the way I read it as well. It would've been like if I had written YAY the democrats lost-now our soldiers will get a congress that appreciates them! Its such a statement that makes you step back and say-WTH? That's not like this person-I know this person is pretty smart and usually doesn't make these comments. That's just how I read it
I knew though - you would be back to explain yourself more!
Now as for Gay Marriage-I'll be perfectly blunt with you-I do not think that it will ever be banned. It's kind of like the abortion issue-people will push for it to be banned but it will never get banned.
Beauty Mark had it right that the lines between both parties are so blurred right now you can't really see where the definate line really is.
Case in point: Joe Lieberman. He ran as an independent he identifies more with the democrats but he has more conservative values. He agrees with the war in Iraq for example.
The lines are getting very very blurred.
Socially there are differences of course not many but there are some.
But the reason I said the two parties are essentially the same is for the following reasons:
1) Both parties want to increase federal spending
2) Both parties want more government in the average american life
3) Both parties want amnesty for illegal immigration
4) Both parties want to raise the minimum wage but in order to raise the minimum wage...
5) Both parties want to continue to tax us more just in different ways
6) Both parties are going to essentially destroy this country and its stand for freedom but in differents ways.
7) Both parties want the american citizen to depend more on the federal government-case in point- the more the minimum wage is raised-the less jobs are created because employeers will not be able to afford each employee at minimum wage. Jobs will therefore be cut. However, if you can't afford to live-guess who will come to the rescue? Federal Government!
There is more common ground than either party cares to acknowledge. Seriously-the only huge dissention that is very evident between the two parties is the war in Iraq-but even that is beginning to get blurred.
Nancy Pelosi and George Bush are going to find they have more in common then they differ.
Maybe thats why there is an insepid hatred for democrats and republicans up in washington. They see things in themselves that they dont like and they see it in the other party.