Classification of stereotypical republicans

[woodsprite]

My daughter has to come up with some categories for a classification example essay. She thought of this topic on her own, but she needs some ideas for classification groupings. It's from a sarcasm standpoint, and I thought maybe there might be something out there that could help her get started with some ideas. I figured that someone on DU might be able to add to what we already have.

She currently has the Teabaggers, Gun nuts, Right to lifers. She needs more than 3 though.

Thankfully, the paper only needs to be 3 pages long.

[sakabatou]

1. "No Way, Jose (Repubs in Congress)"

The Dark Agers (People who don't accept science or want to stay behind in some time period)

I can't think of a third right now.

[BR_Parkway]

2. I was reaching for the current version of the DSM - seriously, you've got

Birthers, Anti-immigrant militias, zero tax folks

[LibertyLover]

3. How about::

Birthers - as a sub-set of Teabaggers

Paleo-Republicans - thought to be extinct, believed in fiscal conservatism, robust foreign policy, government that governed least governed best

Rockefeller Republicans - on the verge of extinction, similar to Paleo-Republicans but did believe that a woman was entitled to control her own body and that government had a place in solving some of society's problems

[left coaster]

4. Misogynists? Racists? Homophobes? Narcissists? nt

[HughBeaumont]

5. The most infamous one: Reaganomic Disaster Corporatists.

You know, those Free Market, Laissez Faire, "Trickle Down", Milton Friedman, Chi-School, "Can't strengthen the weak by weakening the strong", "A poor person never gave me a job", "Pull yourself up by your bootstraps", "Invisible Hand", "You can't legislate altruism", "Greed is Good, Greed Works", "Tax Cuts for The Rich", "Government IS the Problem", "Outsourcing is painful, but the workers will bounce back!", "Who is John Galt" mothershitters who should live ONE YEAR in a poor person's shoes before flapping their pieholes.

[Bobbie Jo]

6. Neocons.

I guess "Morans" wouldn't go over so well, considering it's school-related.

[Echo In Light]

7. Authoritarians Demagogues Neocons

[slackmaster]

8. I suggest a non-insulting category for people who were born into it

Like my mom. She quit the GOP in about 1997 because it got taken over by religious loonies, but the reason she became one in the first place was that she was born in a place where she was immersed in a different kind of GOP than exists today.

She was born in a small town in Iowa. The following were all life-long Republicans:

Both her parents,
Most of her schoolmates and teachers,
Most of her neighbors,
Most of the people in the church she attended,
The families of most of her fellow Camp Fire Girls,
etc.

None of the negative stereotypes brought up in the OP or any of the other responses apply to her.

She's pro-choice, supports womens' rights, is probably neutral on same-sex marriage, and respects the right to privacy. LibertyLover came close with "Paleo-Republicans", but I'd add the nuance that party choice often reflects the attitudes of people around us.

[TheDebbieDee]

9. Did anyone mention knuckle-draggers, cousin-lovers or butt-sniffers?

[BeFree]

10. regressives

[pwb]

11. Neocon, cheapskates, radical right, scared people.???

[Javaman]

12. Here you go...

My definition...

Edited on Thu Jan-28-10 08:31 PM by Javaman

moron: someone who does something wrong but doesn't know it.

idiot: someone who does something wrong but does it anyway.

jerk: someone who does something wrong, knows it's wrong but does it anyway.

fucking jerk: someone who does something wrong, knows it's wrong, does it anyway and enjoys it.

asshole: someone who purposely does something wrong, knows it's wrong, does it anyway, but not only enjoys it, but finds creative ways to make it worse.

fucking asshole: same as above but gets paid for it.

All of the above can be applied to repukes, one way or another.

[HopeHoops]

13. The rare but still not extinct - Conservative

Yes, actual Conservatives do exist and are often Republican. By this I mean those fitting the definition (as per New Oxford American Dictionary): "(n) a person who is averse to change and holds to traditional values and attitudes, typically in relation to politics."

Note that "averse to change" does not mean opposing absolutely everything for political reasons, which is part of the definition for "Republican Congressperson".

There are still true conservatives out there but I imagine most if not all try to hide the fact that they are registered Republicans out of fear of being associated with the wingnuts (another good category) and other lunatics that make up the vast majority of the GOP these days.