BUT, I DO BLAME YOU FOR OMITTING THAT ONLY 18% OF AMERICANS ARE NOW REPUBLICANS!

Per NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, 18% of Americans are “self-identified” Republicans: http://online.wsj.com/public/r.....090922.pdf

Basically, the Daily Kos numbers have no value for determining relative approval/disapproval of anything other than what the remnants of wingnuts still identifying as Republicans. Thanks to W, over half of the Republicans who voted that jackass into office, twice, are no longer Republicans.

And this is what is making the manner in which the Administration is working its politics so fucking annoying. The Republican Party represents less than 1 in 5 Americans; so why does the Administration care what the fuck these asshole wingnut homophobic war-mongering morons think? Since there is all this ass kissing going on, let the Administration kiss our, LGBT, ass instead of kissing Joe the Plumber and his girlfriend Sarah Palin’s asses.

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62% of Republicans are cannibals
93% of Republicans have scalped at least one gay person
81% of Republicans believe that Barney Frank is the anti-Christ

and most importantly

100% of polls which are commissioned and implemented with a desire to make some group appear evil are not reflective of reality.

I have been asked offensive questions at interviews (how can you develop a relationship with students without being inappropriate? With a math degree you should have a position by now, something must be wrong with you, etc).

When I was Student Teaching my Mentor Teacher allowed the gay students to be bullied. He would allow students to refer to them as “queers” when they talked to him about the gay students.

At teachers meeting the Principle talked about how they were going to punish the gay couples for holding hands in the hallway but not the straight couples.

When I was taking School Law and Ethics and we were going over how teachers use to be fired just for being gay several of my peers said that gays shouldn’t be allowed to teach today.

I’m not sure what the results have to do with the Democratic party. Is it your belief that Markos Moulitsas commissioned the poll to make us snuggle closer to the Dems? I think most of the members at DailyKos are as frustrated with the Democrats’ lethargy in enacting a progressive agenda as we are. It’s not only a matter of gay rights where they’ve fallen down on the job, mind you, but health care, the economy, and many other areas where progressives are dissatisfied with the Democratic leadership.

Regardless, it’s important to know thine enemy and for all our gripes about Obama, Pelosi and Reid, the poll results show that we’d be shit out of luck without them. Unless we bring an end to the two party system and get a party that’s to the left of the Dems, we sure as hell won’t get anywhere by turning to the Republicans who despise us and think we’ve played a large role in advancing America’s downfall.

But I would loathe to see us being manipulated by desperate Democrats. Our situation is too serious for that. We’re smarter than the average. We need to be realistic in our appraisal of our circumstances in order to make effective choices as to how to move forward. How much good does it do us to align ourselves blindly to the Democratic Party if it does nothing for us? All we have had, and still have, is talk from them. Even with majorities, they’re like deer in the headlights, terrified that a relatively small minority of loudmouth wingnuts might yell at them. Fuck polls. The Democrats were elected to lead. Let’s see them do it.

Based on previous polls I’ve seen, including anything involving Obama like presidental approval, it’s my estimation that 70% of what’s left of the Republican party are whackjobs and only 30% are reasonable.  

Notice I said what’s left of the Republican party, because many of the more moderate factions of voters have abandoned it and become Independents.  Many others switched to Democrat over the past couple years.  It’s the hardest of the hardcore righties who refused to budge and they’re the ones who comprise the pool of those polled.

What’s so surprising about the numbers?  Republicans feel homosexuality is a disease that can spread with influence, so why would they want gays teaching their children when they’re at their most vulnerable to those influences?  Why would they want gays to marry when they feel anything that further degrades “the family” is the biggest threat to America?  There’s no bigger degradation than allowing two men to marry and maybe raise children, destroying the sanctity of marriage.  Why wouldn’t they want creationism taught in schools when they feel it’s the only truth and Darwinism is poisoning the minds of children?

And then the numbers are far lower for the more egregious questions like the banning of birth control and impeachment of Obama (who many of them think wasn’t born in this country).  So what’s so hard to believe about these numbers?    

I’m usually more than happy to be an alarmist, but I call bullshit on this one. But that doesn’t mean I think we should vote Republican! LOL

Calling it a “DailyKos poll” is a classic rightie manuever to invalidate the results rather than having to digest them. Kos happens to be one of the very few organizations that actually polls these questions to get a deeper understanding of how these nuts think.