Do Republicans hate single parents?

[GumboYaYa]

Here is a quote from Bill Frist today:

"...or will the people protect marriage as the best way to raise children."

I thought the issue is the "sanctity of marriage" not the best way to raise kids. I'm certain that there are many single Republican parents who would be upset over this slight from Frist.

Where is the liberal press when you need it?

[JHB]

1. Yes...

...except when it's them.

[DrWeird]

2. Yes.

They hate children too.

[Reverend_Smitty]

4. They only like the unborn

cause once they are born the repugs gotta pay for silly little things like head start and public schools...kids become useful once more when the get old enough to enlist

[midnight armadillo]

17. You know the saying

"Life begins at conception and ends at birth" - the Republican anti-choice, anti-child slogan.

[mac56]

18. "We love the babies UNTIL they're born!"

:eyes:

[judge_smales]

3. Of course the do!

If these people had any self respect or decency thay'd be married.\

And of course "Think of the children" is what people pull out when they really have no defensable argument.

[tom_paine]

5. Yes. And there is NO "Liberal Press" in Imperial Amerika

[LittleApple81]

6. I used to work with a REPUG (capitalization intentional). The residences

in our University were planning to convert one of their buildings into a nursery for students with children to help them attend school with less hassles... HE WAS FURIOUS!!! Why should my tax dollars help them bring up their children? If you cannot afford children just don't have them! I raised my family why don't they?

WE GOT INTO A HUGE TISSY...and this was during an official meeting...

[GumboYaYa]

12. But yet we need to kick the same people off welfare

because they should be able to find work if they were really looking.

[merh]

7. They just hate -- they are equal opportunity haters !

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad::mad: :mad: :mad:

[natrat]

9. fully dude

they want to procreate and take over the world

[drumwolf]

8. yes, they do.

Single parents were the scapegoat du jour for the Republicans before the issue of gay marriage came up.

When the L.A. riots exploded in 1992 following the acquittal of Rodney King's police assailants, then-VP Dan Quayle actually blamed the riots on the rotten family values promoted by such shows as "Murphy Brown," which IIRC featured the lead character as a single parent.

[King of New Orleans]

10. yes, yes they do

eom

[jakefrep]

11. Yes,

the R's are trying to legislate Single parents away. Non-nuclear families have no place in their version of America.

[in_cog_ni_to]

13. Repukes hate anyone who

isn't exactly like them.

I thought they all looked like total fools on the Senate floor. They should be ashamed of themselves.

I LOVED seeing Lindsey Graham sitting in as Chairman....he's gay, isn't he? I wonder what he thought? I didn't see/hear him give a speech. I wonder what the gay Senators all think about this? There's Mark Foley from Florida (?), a State Rep (repuke)...what does he think about this? What do the Log Cabin Republicans think about this?

They showed their true colors this past week. Hate, hate, hate. If you aren't like me, you are unworthy.

Bastards.

How many Heterosexual people are going to become gay just so they can marry...if gay marriage would become legal? How will that affect my marriage? Your marriage? Will EVERYONE in this country all of a sudden "decide" to be gay? This entire thing is ridiculous. What a bunch of fools. SHAME ON THEM!

They are trying to make it an issue on how to raise children...just to hide their bigotry. "It's for the children".....MY ASS! They should talk to Rosie O'Donnell about raising children in a Lesbian household. She'll set 'em straight. We all know that there's many, many repuke single parent households but, of course, they didn't talk about THAT, did they? It was all about gay bashing.

Bastards.

[GumboYaYa]

14. The Repukes think that there are as many as 3,000,000

fundies that did not vote in 2000 that will vote in 2004 b/c of this issue.

I wonder how many votes they have lost with the Log Cabin Republicansalone over this issue.

[BiggJawn]

20. The Log Cabin RePUKES vote their Portfolios.

They think that they can BUY their way out of the next Kristallnacht. As long as they can be filthy rich, they don't care. So they stay in their posh, 3,500 square foot closets and pray that they don't get "outed" to their parents or something...

[in_cog_ni_to]

23. Sounds like my husbands oldest son.

He's not gay but, he is a repuke. He said this to my husband who was complaining about the Capital Gains tax (this son is an attorney). He said...and I quote..."You need to stop voting with your heart and start voting with your pocketbook." Can you believe that?! THAT told me that the man thinks of no one but himself and his damn wallet. :grr:

As a side note....my hubby is a BLEEDING HEART LIBERAL...as Liberal as you can get and all 3 of his older son's are repukes. :puke: He and his ex wife are BOTH Liberals and all 3 of their kids ended up repukes. Go figure. :eyes:

[GumboYaYa]

24. Your step son needs to understand that

the economy and teh stock market both perform better under Dems. If he voted with his pocketbook he would vote Dem every time.

[in_cog_ni_to]

28. Tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts...

I think that's all he hears or wants to hear. For an intelligent guy, he's STUPID. For the life of me, I'll never understand why those 3 are repukes. He refuses to discuss politics with us. A few weeks ago he yanked my hubby's John Kerry banner off of his car and said...."What's this?!!" Hubby told him to put it back. Later, my husband said, "I didn't go see the Mel Gibson movie "The Passion" but, I did go see Fahrenheit 911." His son said..."Don't start with me! I'm not talking politics with you!"

The man cannot POSSIBLY defend voting for Bush and he knows it...unless he comes off sounding like a real jerk.

[drmom]

15. Republicans shouldn't raise children!

A decent argument can be made that republican households are a poor place for children. I would bet that kids from Democratic homes turn out to be better at critical thinking, more empathetic, more aware of environmental issues and superior promoters of peace. Now, how do kids from republican homes turn out???

[GumboYaYa]

16. Rich and spoiled.

I know lots of them.

[drdigi420]

19. Raising a kid as a republican is child abuse

[Bridget Burke]

21. Many don't. They hire people to do unpleasant tasks.

One guy I knew from a prominent Houston family said he was 5 years old before he realized his mother was not black.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

25. Unless they get out of the "bubble" and mingle with "regular" people.

Many have grown up in a nice little bubble, then went to school where they joined a frat or sorority and were in a nice litle bubble, then went to work somewhere where they were in a nice little bubble, and belonged to a golf club - where they were also in a nice little bubble. They don't want to hear any unpleasantries.

All those "poor" people and lower middle class people are just lazy and aren't really looking for work.

I grew up that way but since I was a non-conformist - I rejected all the b.s. My family think that I'm just being "rebellious" and doing it to piss them off.

[skippysmom]

22. Hell yes

Single mothers were scapegoats even before the FMA was a sparkle in Santorum's eye.

[catzies]

26. Not only yes, but HELL YES.

I knew the GOP hated me since the Murphy Brown brouhaha.

I was told I shouldn't exist, being a single mom and all.

[One_Life_To_Give]

27. Sort of

Repugs hate the thought of any child being raised by a single parent. Need a traditional nuclear family to make them happy.

[ThoughtCriminal]

29. What they really hate about "single" parents

is paying child support.

[democratreformed]

30. Yes, because...

single parents are immoral - you know, either sex before marriage or DIVORCED (gasp!).

sarcasm off

[PA Democrat]

31. Santorum is on the record being callous of the struggle of single mothers

<snip>

"Not to worry. It may be good for those poor working mothers not to have the child care money. Warning against the idea of child as an entitlement, Sen. Rick Santorum, a Pennsylvania Republican, reassured us: 'Making people struggle a little bit is not necessarily the worst thing.'"

<snip>

Santorum spoke at a meeting of the Senate Finance Committee last Wednesday that backed the administration in voting down an amendment that would have added $11.25 billion in child care money over five years to the bill renewing welfare reform. (Kudos, by the way, to Elizabeth Shogren of the Los Angeles Times for covering the committee and Santorum's words.)


http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=15640

[GumboYaYa]

32. Have you heard any Dems hammering the Repukes for this?

Being the chid of a single parent who also happens to be a Republican, I know that focus on this would turn off many single parents who live the struggles of day-to-day life.

The Dems need to scream this from the rooftops.

[trof]

33. Yeah I did a "raise your hand" for kids of single parents, yesterday.

Got about 45 responses.
He offends me on SO many levels.