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GOP Canidates Pro-Choice/Equal Gay Rights & Marriage/ Health Care Reform

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Are there any republican candidates out there that are

Pro-Choice

Pro Equal Gay Rrights/Marriage

Pro Healthcare Reform (now they can be against the recent health care bill but they admit health care is broken and needs fixed)


Just curious I dont think any of them are from what I have seen and studied about them.
 
There are some in local politics. I can't think of any in Congress though.
 
Objective-J said:
Are there any republican candidates out there that are

Pro-Choice

Pro Equal Gay Rrights/Marriage

Pro Healthcare Reform (now they can be against the recent health care bill but they admit health care is broken and needs fixed)


Just curious I dont think any of them are from what I have seen and studied about them.
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It just amazes me how much Republicans are more concerned with the ordering of deck chairs than the sinking ship. Our economy is not in a very good place, but its far more important to have a candidate that is "right" about gay rights and abortion rights than it is to have a president that can do the job. Let God worry about the moral issues.
 
upsideguy said:
It just amazes me how much Republicans are more concerned with the ordering of deck chairs than the sinking ship. Our economy is not in a very good place, but its far more important to have a candidate that is "right" about gay rights and abortion rights than it is to have a president that can do the job. Let God worry about the moral issues.
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as opposed to dems who think taxing the top one percent more is going to do anything other than give the dems more reasons to spend more?
 
Do those issues really matter? Every election cycle, a sh!t ton of fodder is payed to them yet very little is actually altered to them. At least at the federal level.
 
Krhazy said:
There are some in local politics. I can't think of any in Congress though.
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Yeah Im aware of some in local politics too. Any on a large scale that any one knows of?
 
TurtleDude said:
as opposed to dems who think taxing the top one percent more is going to do anything other than give the dems more reasons to spend more?
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Psst. Democrats want to cut spending too.
 
Objective-J said:
Are there any republican candidates out there that are

Pro-Choice

Pro Equal Gay Rrights/Marriage

Pro Healthcare Reform (now they can be against the recent health care bill but they admit health care is broken and needs fixed)


Just curious I dont think any of them are from what I have seen and studied about them.
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I really think the closest you'll find is Ron Paul of the current candidates.

Abortion: Abortion he explains he does not believe Abortion should be a topic at the national level; rather up to the states to decide. (though he is personally against abortion)

Equal Rights/Gay Marriage: Again, not something the national government should decide. Let the states decide. The libertarian side would say: let them do what they want; it's not infringing on the rights of others.

Healthcare reform: It depends on what you want reformed. He is about removing the 'government mandated insurance monopolies' (as he calls the HMO programs) and allowing free market competition to lower prices in the Insurance market (i.e. allowing insurance companies to compete ACROSS state lines). He is not in favor of government-mandated insurance, however, or subsidies to pay for healthcare. He is in favor of tax credits for medical bills for ALL individuals. Here's his website on these issues: Health Care
 
Objective-J said:
Are there any republican candidates out there that are

Pro-Choice

Pro Equal Gay Rrights/Marriage

Pro Healthcare Reform (now they can be against the recent health care bill but they admit health care is broken and needs fixed)


Just curious I dont think any of them are from what I have seen and studied about them.
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Fred Karger. First openly gay Republican running for president.
 
Deuce said:
Psst. Democrats want to cut spending too.
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Why do we all insist on lying to ourselves? The truth: Democrats and Republicans want to INCREASE spending to support their agenda and slash spending for the other side's agenda. Neither actually want a smaller government. Unless you're one of the folk who believe what they say instead of what they do.
 
Objective-J said:
Are there any republican candidates out there that are

Pro-Choice

Pro Equal Gay Rrights/Marriage

Pro Healthcare Reform (now they can be against the recent health care bill but they admit health care is broken and needs fixed)


Just curious I dont think any of them are from what I have seen and studied about them.
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1. There are no pro-choice Republican presidential candidates. To win favor with Iowa evangelicals, they all now claim "life begins at conception" and want a constitutional amendment declaring so - meaning even the morning after pill for a 12 year old raped by her father would be illegal and if taken would constitute 1st degree murder by that 12 year old and whoever gave her the MAP. The winner likely was Ron Paul, who claims the rule of God supercedes the U.S. Constitution.

2. Iowa also saw a contest of the Republican candidates over who hates gays more. The winner was Santorum, who claims gays are like men having sex with dogs and boys.

3. On Healthcare, they want tax breaks (credits) for people to buy their own health insurance - meaning 50% of the population is excluded and basically more tax cuts for higher income people and corporations.

A year ago I was certain I would vote for ANY Republican except Ron Paul over Obama. But with the Republican candidates ALL vowing to the goal of turning the USA into a theocratic government upon the theocracy of the evangelical rightwing I can not vote Republican for president. I'll pick a bad democratic government over an oppressive theocratic government.
 
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Objective-J said:
Are there any republican candidates out there that are

Pro-Choice

Pro Equal Gay Rrights/Marriage

Pro Healthcare Reform (now they can be against the recent health care bill but they admit health care is broken and needs fixed)


Just curious I dont think any of them are from what I have seen and studied about them.
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Presidents don't decide social policy, so where they stand on abortion and ssm is irrelevant.

Healthcare, however, is an economic issue. The only position on healthcare that any candidate, including Obama, needs to take, is to utterly repeal Obama'Care, offer tax brakes for perching a private policy, and let people choose to buy a policy from across state lines. Any position other than this is utterly wrong.
 
Jerry said:
Presidents don't decide social policy, so where they stand on abortion and ssm is irrelevant.

Healthcare, however, is an economic issue. The only position on healthcare that any candidate, including Obama, needs to take, is to utterly repeal Obama'Care, offer tax brakes for perching a private policy, and let people choose to buy a policy from across state lines. Any position other than this is utterly wrong.
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Of course -- we all know that insurance companies have our best interests at heart.
 
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