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Booing soldiers who are currently serving in the military now?

Bonus points for no one on the stage standing up for the solider.



Apparently not being discharged for being gay is a special privilege, which was met with applause.

Stay classy.

Dvergar /
Quisling

#1: LOL Rick Santorum
#2: I think you're confusing 'boos for GAY' with 'boos for soldiers.'
#3: Eventually someone worth voting for will enter the race, and these morons will all be able to get back in their clown cars.

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Jubber

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AKA "ROFeraL"

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So someone who is actually putting their lives on the line for your ideas of security and democracy is a pillar of society unless he's turned on by a dude?

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Everyone agrees that the only candidate obama has to beat is himself.

Yes lolassfroth, but not a single candidate stood up for someone serving in Iraq right now.



I am surprised you were able to type something so ridiculous without removing it before posting.



Hope you're ready for 4 more years, because the non-moron candidates have all been alienated by your moron base.

Dvergar /
Quisling

Yeah the republican party is so fractured its absurd. Pretty funny, actually.

That's what happens when your only real stance on any issue is "whatever the opposite is of what the black guy said".

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Last nights GOP debate,

The opportunity FOX allowed each candidate to speak:
Romney - 16
Perry – 11
Bachmann – 9
Huntsman – 9
Santorum – 9
Gingritch – 7
Cain – 7
Paul – 6
Johnson - 5

Pretty sure Fox's plan last night backfired on them, seeing as how only Paul, Johnson, and possibly Cain were the only ones who came out not looking like derpbag sammiches. I don't have to say who I thought won the debate hands down lol

I'm not saying it's not ridiculous, I'm saying you're confused about which ridiculous thing was actually happening. You're looking at an "I hate gays" thing and trying to make it an "I hate soldiers" thing. There's a difference, and it really only matters to the sort of people who think Rick Santorum would make a good president (which are basically just the idiots in the party who don't mind having government meddle in everyone's lives so long as they meddle in a fashion they approve).



I'm feeling oddly OK with that. I can always hold out hope that republicans pick up a larger majority in the House and win a majority in the Senate, and then we'll basically be in the same boat we were in when Clinton was president...and I/we can hope that works out the same way it did in the 1990s.

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Jubber

AKA "The Gun"
AKA "ROFeraL"

World Renowned Mexican Forklift Artiste

Y'know, I don't like him any better white.

Funny thing is, 8 years ago that was the Dems position.

Except it was a cowboy and not a black dude.

I'm not trying to make it into anything. This is a party that deifies soldiers and here they are booing one who is at this very moment putting his life on the line in Iraq. Booing him simply because he is gay.



This isn't the beliefs of the fringe, this is the platform of the republican party. Every candidate wants smaller government, and aside from Paul, every candidate wants the the federal government dictating who can and can't marry.



There will always be some disagreement, as there should be. The difference is the republicans are willing to do (and have done) immense harm to the country.

Dvergar /
Quisling

True enough, I was just pointing out that it's hardly a new phenomenon (well, it might be? I have a feeling elections/politics have changed dramatically in the past 25-30 years.)

Please don't keep trying to defend these people though Jubber (and Eturnal when he catches a whiff of this).

Who wins the election is irrelevant. Historical forces will trump the gyrations of the political tug-of-war.

Aestu of Bleeding Hollow...

Nihilism is a copout.

I'm not going to boo a serviceman in another country. I'm not going to boo a gay guy for being gay, either. While I don't entirely support some of the government decisions on this matter nor I don't like being told I have to accept homosexuals life style choice as the 'new norm', I'm not going to be some outspoken cunt at a public event in protest of DADT. I don't go out in public and protest/advocate any issue... that's just not really my thing. Just because it's not my thing doesn't mean I'm going to tell them they're wrong for protesting (I feel like I said this when people were protesting the Muslims in Orange County). Just as the gay guy can openly admit he's a gay soldier thus showing his support for DADT, I think it's only fair that the audience could show their lack of support for DADT by booing.

What I find interesting is the attention this is getting. Why is it suddenly bad to boo in protest? Is the dialog closed? Is this a taboo subject now? Does it make a difference that he's gay and a soldier? What if he was just gay... or just a soldier... or even if he was a straight guy living state-side working as a teacher? I know liberals for a long time were protesting the wars in the middle east... and I know gays can dance down the street hoping that the general public will say, "Hey, those guys are bumping dicks while being painted as rainbows... ya know, I think they're totally swell and I accept them", as a way of protesting against the status quo. Hell, when people would protest Bush during speeches or throw shoes at him during events I remember people on the left kinda cheering and giving attaboys. But, the moment you take a gay and put him in the middle east, and have him go public the week DADT is repealed... then it's OMG SHITSTORM EVIL REPUBLICANS ARE PROTESTING!

I might not agree with the way they protest, what they're protesting against or when they decide to protest (sometimes protests are just plain stupid like sailing yourself through an Israeli naval blockade) - that's their right and I'm not going to hate on them (or anyone) for doing it... unless, of course, it turns violent or something... then I'd probably blame the people who are violently protesting.