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Things in This Poll of Republican Values and Beliefs

• 2/2/10 at 12:15 PM

DailyKos has released a new poll, conducted for it by the polling outfit Research 2000, which seems like it was commissioned solely for the purpose of depressing liberals. Not only does it confirm that a sizable chunk of Republicans still refuses to believe that President Obama is legitimate, but also that, even in 2010, as "Don't ask, don't tell" slowly inches closer to repeal, fear and intolerance of gay people is still rampant among the GOP. If you were having a pleasant day, don't click ahead to read our list of the poll's ten most alarming revelations. 10: Thirty-six percent don't believe Obama was born in the United States, and 22 percent aren't sure. This would be more alarming if we weren't numb to this stat by now.

9: Only 36 percent say that Obama doesn't hate white people. Chris Matthews might want to rethink that thing about our post-racial society.

8: Only 7 percent support same-sex marriage. Not surprising, but still disappointing.

7: Sixty-eight percent don't think gay couples should receive any state or federal benefits, while 21 percent are not sure. This is more surprising — it's not even marriage, just benefits. And not even every benefit, necessarily, just some.

6: Thirty-nine percent believe Obama should be impeached. For what, exactly?

5: Twenty-three percent want their state to secede from the union. The number rises to 33 percent in the South. Good luck on your own, Alabama!

4: Twenty-four percent claim that Obama "wants the terrorists to win," while 33 percent are not sure. Really?

3: Only 24 percent say they definitely don't believe that ACORN stole the election. Did ACORN fake the hundreds of polls that had Obama trouncing John McCain as well?

2: Thirty-one percent think contraception should be outlawed.

1: An astounding 73 percent believe that openly gay men or women should be prohibited from teaching in public schools, and 19 percent aren't sure. That puts them at odds with Ronald Reagan, who openly opposed a measure trying to do just that. Over 30 years ago.

Daily Kos/Research 2000 Poll [DailyKos]

The last definately one violates the The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and a few others would too.
Others have no basis in fact. (Obama being impeached? For doing what?)
Others are fanciful (ceade from the US?)

Have the Republicans truly lost touch with the US? Or just with the world?

What do people think?

Should people have the right to chose when to end their own lives?

Or would people who want to live be exploited and murdered by greedy relatives?
Or greedy insurance companies? (as in Sicko when the lady whose cancer came back for a third time was offered euthanasia by her healthcare provider)

When should they? Should they always have the right? Or only if they have a terminal illness? (and what exactly is a terminal illness?)

::My view::

People should have the right to end their lives when the chose.
I am a Christian and think God doesn't want people to needlessly suffer and he would understand why a person chose euthanasia. Most arguments to the contrary put up by conservatives focus on obscure passages in the Old Testament, which is full of obscure laws that aren't followed anymore.

There are ways of ensuring that people can chose when they want to die and that loopholes allowing relatives to chose are closed. And if healthcare reform happened in the US then insurance companies would be barred from making such offers.

I think terminal illness is a really broad term. Honestly, some mental illnesses can cause such a compromise in quality of life and such intolerable suffering, I wonder if those people could chose when they want to die too (instead of being classified as incapacitated to make such a decision).

We have liberty in almost any other way, why not choosing if we live or not?

For the past two months, (good or bad) i've been RS twice a day, usually 4 hour blocks. On half price day, more than that.

This whole week, every time I go for AB for four hours, they ban me for the rest of the day.

Is TNT being trigger happy to everyone, or should I go quiet for a week or so on RS?

As was probably predictable by the way negotiations generally occur between nations, the Copenhagen Climate summit didn't come out with many strong agreements on action.

Much of it was the poorer (and more vunerable) countries pointing fingers, or, begging the developed ones for higher targets.


What I'm interested in is what do people think was achieved by it?
What should have been achieved?
Did the big polluters (biggest being US/China) give too little?
Or is climate change a myth?


Personally, i'm not surprised things happened the way they did. Nobody wants to give over anything to each other, unless they were forced to, and unless things become dire enough, there's no impetus to do so. Australia, as a small population but big per capita poluter, has domestic political problems in terms of putting in place a solution- it's an issue that has destabalised the local Opposition party and now they won't help pass the targets the government wishes to impliment. Also, Australia's targets weren't that high, and a lot of what is being said from both sides is hypocritical- given the political philisophy of the opposition, and that it supports deregulation, giving massive wads of cash to the big polluters- coal fired power stations- and mining companies- is a joke. There should be NO subsidies to them, give that money to clean power generation (particually solar) and let coal wither and die. And Nuclear is a viable option too given Australia can mine it's own uranium.
If climate change is a myth, why is Australia having strings of 40oc+ days for the first time in recorded history? Why are there serious water supply problems and a lack of rainfall? All the scientific fact points to Global Warming, and anything contradictory is minute in comparison.