bucs90
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President Obama and the Dems went out of their way to hand the GOP the election in 2012, and the right wing blew it anyway. Why? Many reasons. But one I'm sensitive to: The Real Message Behind Mitt Romney?s Anti-Police And Firefighters ?Gaffe? | Mediaite
Romney, the GOP and Tea Party took their attack to the front porch of a once-sacred part of society: Cops, firemen and teachers. As the article says, that would at one time be political suicide. Not anymore.....or so they thought. They thought it was safe to attack these evil government employees. Teachers? Well, they weren't as sympathetic a cause. But cops and firemen? The types of men and women who died on 9-11 as first responders, and who take on the role of protecting us inside our borders where the military, by law, cannot? That would be disaster. But why did they do it? The link explains it. To rich Republicans like Romney, the police are just servants there to do petty work, like check on seals near the kids pool on the beach, and to manage the hippie surfers. They find that work expendable.
But there are probably about 2,000,000 total cops and firemen in the country. Who have a spouse. And kids. And parents. And siblings. All in all....the attack probably cost the GOP 5,000,000 or so votes. Either by turning them, or pissing them off enough to not vote at all (like me).
The right wingers in Congress even passed a bill that would make the 9-11 surviving first responders...you know, cops and firemen, to be run through a terror watch list before they could collect any benefits: Jon Stewart 9-11 First Responders Bill | Terrorist Screening | Mediaite
Would the right wingers demand the same from, say, an Air Force member returning from a deployment, to be checked on a terror list before collecting military benefits?
God no. Not the military. Unlike the police and firemen.....the military "protects us".
And just like the cops and firemen, most of the military is right leaning, Republican. For now. Tens of thousands of cops/firemen have abandoned the GOP thanks to the party's attitude towards them the last 5 years.
Soon....the military members may get the same treatment. Afterall, a right winger's patriotism STOPS when it comes to his tax dollars being increased. And soon, the once-suicidal idea for a politician on the right wing to turn on the military may become ok. We never thought it would turn against cops/firemen either, but it did.
Just wait. It'll start here on this forum.
Romney, the GOP and Tea Party took their attack to the front porch of a once-sacred part of society: Cops, firemen and teachers. As the article says, that would at one time be political suicide. Not anymore.....or so they thought. They thought it was safe to attack these evil government employees. Teachers? Well, they weren't as sympathetic a cause. But cops and firemen? The types of men and women who died on 9-11 as first responders, and who take on the role of protecting us inside our borders where the military, by law, cannot? That would be disaster. But why did they do it? The link explains it. To rich Republicans like Romney, the police are just servants there to do petty work, like check on seals near the kids pool on the beach, and to manage the hippie surfers. They find that work expendable.
But there are probably about 2,000,000 total cops and firemen in the country. Who have a spouse. And kids. And parents. And siblings. All in all....the attack probably cost the GOP 5,000,000 or so votes. Either by turning them, or pissing them off enough to not vote at all (like me).
The right wingers in Congress even passed a bill that would make the 9-11 surviving first responders...you know, cops and firemen, to be run through a terror watch list before they could collect any benefits: Jon Stewart 9-11 First Responders Bill | Terrorist Screening | Mediaite
Would the right wingers demand the same from, say, an Air Force member returning from a deployment, to be checked on a terror list before collecting military benefits?
God no. Not the military. Unlike the police and firemen.....the military "protects us".
And just like the cops and firemen, most of the military is right leaning, Republican. For now. Tens of thousands of cops/firemen have abandoned the GOP thanks to the party's attitude towards them the last 5 years.
Soon....the military members may get the same treatment. Afterall, a right winger's patriotism STOPS when it comes to his tax dollars being increased. And soon, the once-suicidal idea for a politician on the right wing to turn on the military may become ok. We never thought it would turn against cops/firemen either, but it did.
Just wait. It'll start here on this forum.
