Reason vs Unreason

A Republican friend of mine sent me an email listing the Top 10 reasons a person would vote Democratic in the up coming election. It was, as usual, full of right-wing talking points and lies.

I rarely respond to these, but I did this one because it was so easy to point out the fallacies of his arguments.

I have included it below:

Here are the top 10 reasons a person votes for Republicans.

10. I vote Republican because I believe that all the oil companies making record profits and paying NO taxes is OK as long as they only gouge us at $4.00 a gallon, and the government only gets 15% of that.

9. I voted Republican because I like paying more in income taxes than GE, Bank of America and CitiBank combined, and many others who all paid exactly $0.00 in taxes last year.

8. I voted Republican because Freedom of Speech should be confined to areas far away from any Republican person or gathering is taking place.

7. I vote Republican because I like the right to openly carry a firearm to a Presidential Rally, a National Park, a church, a bar, you name it, as long as all those poor people in New Orleans have their guns taken away.

6. I vote Republican because I don't believe in climate change even though the Winters are colder and the Summers are hotter than they were 10 years ago and the polar ice caps are melting and glaciers are shrinking. And I like getting 8 miles to the gallon in my 2 ton SUV.

5. I vote Republican because I don't believe in a woman's right to choose but do believe in the Death Penalty so I'm only pro-some life.

4. I vote Republican because I believe that all illegal immigrants should be deported, except the millions Saint Reagan gave amnesty to and the ones George W. Bush wanted to give amnesty to.

3. I vote Republican because I believe that Big Business ought to be able to privatize their profits and socialize their losses, so that the US Taxpayer in on the hook for billions in bailouts when these businesses become too big to fail.

3A. I vote Republican because I believe that Social Security and Medicare ought to be privatized so that Wall Street can get its hands on all that money and lose it all on bad investments so we are left destitute, bailing them out with our taxes again.

2. I vote Republican because I I believe that the Supreme Court should be able to legislate from the bench, overturn a hundred years of precedent, and choose the President, as long as it favors Republicans.

1. I vote Republican because I am so appallingly ignorant and hateful that I want the country to be destroyed by following the same failed policies it has for the last 30 years.

So, Yeah! Vote November 2, 2010, or do the country a favor and stay home.

It may be that last line went a little too far, but if we can cause an “enthusiasm gap” on their side, We Win!