Well, let's be honest here: Republicans have always been, as a group, incredibly vindictive against anyone they feel has "transgressed" or who doesn't agree with their positions. - Really? ONLY Republicans?
Stacey Dash and Melissa Joan Hart received death threats after voicing their support for Obama. Jenna Jameson was called a whore and a slut by people from the same party that was so against women being called whores and sluts. Evan Longoria (Obama's election co-chair) said minorities and women who vote for Romney are "stupid". Not to mention there were people threatening to assassinate Romney days before Election Day.
So what of that?
It's obvious when you look at how they treat people of color, LGBT people, women and other minorities. - Yeah, that's why Republicans blocked the first five Civil Rights Acts from being passed. Oh wait, that was Democrats. My mistake. If you read up on your history, the first African-Americans in Congress (http://factreal.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/history-the-first-blacks-in-congress-were-all-republicans-photos-bios/) were Republicans. The first woman in Congress (http://womenincongress.house.gov/member-profiles/profile.html?intID=202) was a Republican. Republicans also had the first openly LGBT Presidential candidate in Fred Karger. So please, tell me how intolerant the Republicans are when we have groups within the party that represent a wide spectrum of people.
It's even more obvious when you look at the targeted voter disenfranchisement they attempted this election. - Obvious? GOP election monitors were being chased out of polling places when they were elected to be there. One of them was actually chased out of a polling place by a man claiming he had a gun. The real voter disenfranchisement had nothing to do with race but population. If you look at the election results by county, Romney had the vote. Problem is the bigger cities ruled the elections, and that hardly seems fair.
I wasn't surprised in the least to hear of Republicans laying off workers and otherwise pulling nasty, vindictive bullshit in the wake of Obama's reelection - there were messages going around that night and the next day for women and, particularly, people of color to stay indoors because angry Republicans might hurt or harass them, for fuck's sake. - Where were these "messages"? I never heard anything like that. I saw a lot of disappointed people on Facebook and Twitter but no threats at Obama voters, save for that one lunatic in Nebraska that threatened to kill any who came to her home after inviting them.
They run on a platform of racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, classism, and murder. It doesn't get much plainer than that. - WTF?!? I do believe it was the NAACP who called for the UN to monitor polling places, Obama who ran on a platform of telling women to "vote like their lady parts depend on it", and Obama flip-flopping on his position on marriage equality. When he ran in Illinois, he was for it. When he ran for POTUS in 2008, he was against it. Then when he ran for re-election in 2012, he was suddenly for it again. He needs to make up his damn mind and people were gullible enough to eat his tripe with a spoon!
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Stacey Dash and Melissa Joan Hart received death threats after voicing their support for Obama.
Jenna Jameson was called a whore and a slut by people from the same party that was so against women being called whores and sluts.
Evan Longoria (Obama's election co-chair) said minorities and women who vote for Romney are "stupid".
Not to mention there were people threatening to assassinate Romney days before Election Day.
So what of that?
It's obvious when you look at how they treat people of color, LGBT people, women and other minorities. - Yeah, that's why Republicans blocked the first five Civil Rights Acts from being passed. Oh wait, that was Democrats. My mistake. If you read up on your history, the first African-Americans in Congress (http://factreal.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/history-the-first-blacks-in-congress-were-all-republicans-photos-bios/) were Republicans. The first woman in Congress (http://womenincongress.house.gov/member-profiles/profile.html?intID=202) was a Republican. Republicans also had the first openly LGBT Presidential candidate in Fred Karger. So please, tell me how intolerant the Republicans are when we have groups within the party that represent a wide spectrum of people.
It's even more obvious when you look at the targeted voter disenfranchisement they attempted this election. - Obvious? GOP election monitors were being chased out of polling places when they were elected to be there. One of them was actually chased out of a polling place by a man claiming he had a gun. The real voter disenfranchisement had nothing to do with race but population. If you look at the election results by county, Romney had the vote. Problem is the bigger cities ruled the elections, and that hardly seems fair.
I wasn't surprised in the least to hear of Republicans laying off workers and otherwise pulling nasty, vindictive bullshit in the wake of Obama's reelection - there were messages going around that night and the next day for women and, particularly, people of color to stay indoors because angry Republicans might hurt or harass them, for fuck's sake. - Where were these "messages"? I never heard anything like that. I saw a lot of disappointed people on Facebook and Twitter but no threats at Obama voters, save for that one lunatic in Nebraska that threatened to kill any who came to her home after inviting them.
They run on a platform of racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, classism, and murder. It doesn't get much plainer than that. - WTF?!? I do believe it was the NAACP who called for the UN to monitor polling places, Obama who ran on a platform of telling women to "vote like their lady parts depend on it", and Obama flip-flopping on his position on marriage equality. When he ran in Illinois, he was for it. When he ran for POTUS in 2008, he was against it. Then when he ran for re-election in 2012, he was suddenly for it again. He needs to make up his damn mind and people were gullible enough to eat his tripe with a spoon!