What does it mean to come together with the Republican Party?

[ck4829]

Everybody is talking about bringing the nation together and bringing the Parties together.

I don't buy it for a second.

Republicans: It's time for the Democrats (minority) to come together with the Republicans (majority)
Translation: You will be assimilated into the Dominionists

Am I wrong?

[NVMojo]

1. like sex with condoms.

[jhain]

2. like sex with your brother n/t

[Maiden England]

3. "resistance is futile"

aaach, I knew I couldn't hide the trekkie in me for too long!

[Doohickie]

25. Trekkie? That's a Douglas Adams reference.

[pinkpops]

4. he say

ooooone and ooooone and ooooone is three

[Ganja Ninja]

5. Bend over, grab your ankles and smile. n/t

[Triana]

6. Get lots of K-Y and bend over...

...and get screwed.

[liberalmuse]

7. It means...

they want us to be their bitches.

[The Backlash Cometh]

10. Holy shit!

Great minds...

[drscm]

8. Welcome to BORGland.... eom

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. It means, they want us to be their bitches.

[mmonk]

11. They want you to surrender

[hatrack]

12. Unscrew the KY tube and roll over

That's exactly what "healing" and "uniting" mean now.

[tibbiit]

21. You mean they will use KY while screwing us?

Then by all means we must unite with these kind republicans!
If they werent using any lube then we would have an argument, but heh they are truly compassionate in their actions so we must be happy to UNITE with them!
tib

(i am being sarcastic)

[tibbiit]

22. You mean they will use KY while screwing us?

Then by all means we must unite with these kind republicans!
If they werent using any lube then we would have an argument, but heh they are truly compassionate in their actions so we must be happy to UNITE with them!
tib

(i am being sarcastic)

[dbt]

13. It means line up for the showers.

Hang your clothes on the hooks over there to the right and remember where you put them, as you will want them afterwards.

:grr:
dbt

[Laelth]

14. Same thing it has meant for the last 4 years.

It's our way or the highway.

Frankly, the highway is sounding more attractive every day.

-Laelth

[Q]

15. Bush* has already explained...

...what it 'means'. The Democratic party will simply be ignored unless they AGREE with everything he does. It means that the Democratic Republic is dead...to be replaced by a theocracy and the divine right of 'kings'.

[LiberalEsto]

16. That's like reaching out to Hitler

and saying "Let's work together"

[SoCalDem]

17. It means: "Do it THEIR way, and shut up"..

That's ALL it means..and the ONLY thing they will accept

[LWolf]

18. I don't think we need to join republicans.

We need to "come together." We need to do away with the polarity we are experiencing right now; 2 parties in such opposition that there is no meeting of minds.

In this climate, no republican will ever stop to think about the health of the nation or the planet, if it is labeled "democrat." And no democrat will consider any idea if it comes from a "republican." There is no going forward.

So how do we "come together" without becoming republican?

We take the issues. We bring people together, and leave parties out of it. Let's face it; there are so many issues that have been swept under the rug by both parties. Even here at DU; I finally quit dropping in to GD at all, because there could be no more discussion of issues. It was all campaign, all the time. All about "beating the opposition."

How about if we choose issues and take them to the people? They don't have to have a democratic or republican label on them; they just have to be issues that affect everyone on both sides of the aisle:

*health care
*education
*outsourcing of jobs
*economy

To start with just a few. And we can "join" in agreeing on some universal values, that transcend faith or belief system of choice. Like respect, for example. How about a national, non-political conversation about respect for others, and how to incorporate it on a daily basis until it is part of who you are?

On many issues, we can meet the bush voters head on with numbers, for the fiscal conservatives, and scripture, for the christian right, that support another look at these issues. Leave the politicians and the parties out of the conversation; that's how we come together. When we've come together enough on an issue to identify common ground, then we go to all the politicians with that common ground. And, as a united people, we bring change.

At that point, people can look at politicians to see who really listens to people when they come together, and make their choices about who to support based on that criteria; action on what the people as a whole have brought them.

That won't turn this ship around in a day. There are many issues that won't be front and center; the issues that polarize us. But if we start with what we can agree on, and learn to engage each other respectfully, we'll eventually be able to bring those issues into the conversation. And so will they. Better a respectful conversation, even if agreement isn't reached, than an all out war. It leaves the door open for future conversations.

I know this isn't a popular pov; but I keep thinking this:

If war is what we want, and what we go after, war is what we'll get. Attack does not create surrender, it creates defense of the indefensible, and counter-attack. A never-ending vicious cycle. War does not create peace or prosperity.

So we talk. We leave the politicians and parties out of the conversation.

And we start using the power we still have; the power of the dollar, to activate for change.

Just my 2 cents.

[UTUSN]

19. It Means Something Involving Chains and Knees n/t

[Javaman]

20. it means, drink the kool-ade

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

23. I think a better translation would be

"Sit down and shut the hell up, Democrats and everyone on the left."

I'm not putting up with it. After four years of sowing division, the right suddenly wants "unity?"

Bullshit. They want you to shut the hell up. They realize we suddenly don't have to watch what we say as much--we have no candidate to worry about embarrassing.

And that makes them nervous.

[BurtWorm]

24. Who is talking about bringing the nation together?

Just Republicans. What they mean is, shut up and go along.

[wildflower]

26. I think we can reach out to the some of the 'true conservatives' (only)

As Randi said, we have any number of differences with true conservatives over policy. But they agree that this administration is not their party; it is something else altogether.

The Republicans who voted for Kerry are all in this camp (obviously). Then there are some who at this point may just have been misinformed by the media. There are probably some who didn't want to vote for Bush but did out of loyalty to family or party.

At any rate, I don't believe reaching any kind of common ground with the neocons can be done. The rest of them, maybe. (For example, on the issue of fiscal responsibility.) The more who want the current state of affairs changed, the better.

-wildflower

[Justpat]

27. It means abandoning every spiritual belief I have based my life upon

It means believing that God wants us to give alms to the filthy rich
instead of the poor.

It means that we do not allow others to find a different route to
God. We are all on the same fundamentalist road - or else.

It means that we will believe that Christian ends can ever be
established by fascist means.

I don't buy it. I have always believed that God's love, whether
it stems from a Baptist, Catholic, Buddhist etc, religion should
cause us to go into the world to redeem it by a charitable, loving
use of intellect and reason. Fundamentalists try to legislate
against their own dark impulses by forcing all of us to bow to an
angry, hateful God. I cannot and will not go where these people are
taking my country.

[69KV]

28. Never.

The Republican Party must be destroyed for all time. That party has become the biggest menace on the entire planet to everything good and decent.

There is only one legitimate political party in this country. That party is the Democratic Party.

Well-meaning people who are still trapped in the Republican Party can do one thing and one thing only that will lead me to unite with them. That one thing is - SWITCH PARTIES and join the Democrats.