Are Republican Voters Paranoid?

So can we be done with the republican hating threads already. It is getting old. Lets talk about some mother not taking her kids to the doctor for religious reasons.

Make a thread about it, with a news link, and it shall be done

And then we discover she voted Romney, and we're right back to square one.

Oh, you silly billy.

I'm an Independent who leans left, and honestly, I probably would have reacted similarly. If someone comes to my door, before I even open it I look out the window. If I know and trust the person, I will toss the door open and invite them in. If I do not know the person, I will open the door only a little, enough that we can see each other and carry on a conversation but not enough that they could see into the room behind me, and I ask what they would like. Being cautious when opening the door to strangers may be paranoid, sure, but there are just enough lunatics in this world for me to feel like it's necessary not to just openly trust strangers.

If they are selling me politics, religion, or products I don't need, I'll generally smile and say no thanks and close the door-- whether or not I agree with their stance on politics, religion, or think whatever product they are selling is fascinating. Very few people are likely to change their mind based on a stranger harassing them in their homes. I feel that it's a waste of both my time and the stranger's time to allow them to sit there and try to sell me a product or idea when I already know what I'm doing and have everything I need. I'm sorry, I know that sounds very rude and strangers knocking on doors are people too. But I've never met someone who actually enjoyed any sort of salesperson coming up to them in their home. It's a situation that can make people resent you whether they agree with you or not. (If they are there for a different reason, like looking for information on my stances instead of trying to sell me theirs, or they are lost and need directions, etc etc, I will of course try to help them out.)

On top of that, people get bombarded with political stuff so much that by the time the presidential election is over, they are sick to death of it. After about a week straight of getting 3+ political pamphlets for state elections in my mailbox every single day, I will be very annoyed when I see another one in there, I give zero darns who it's for. After months of hearing political ads on the radio every time I take a ride in my car, I'd rather drive wherever I'm going in silence, never mind who the ads are for. Add that to people actually coming to my home, and it's a lovely recipe for anger.

Now, is it ridiculous that people were threatening bodily harm to you or yelling at you? Yes, that's pretty awful and unnecessary. :-( I'm sorry that happened to you and you are right, it's not normal behavior. Perhaps they were overly sensitive following Romney's loss, perhaps they felt you were there to gloat. Either way, simply saying no thanks and shutting the door would have been more appropriate. But this isn't limited to republicans. I'm sure that if the tables were 100% turned-- that is, Romney had won, and republicans were going to the houses of democrats to try to persuade them to vote for other republicans, similar things would happen. It's kinda like rubbing salt in their wounds, I suppose.

I answer my door with a water filled rechargable fire extinguisher... regardless of who is knocking... op got off easy

nobody voted for romney.... don't you read the news?

Living in Canada, where we are typically seen as leaving the door open to strangers, i don't find it the least bit paranoid to be cautious enough to open the door part way. It still leaves a barrier, but also welcomes someone to say something in person.

Oh Niko, so much love and hate comically intertwined. So glad you'll have front row seats to the world burning.

top of the smoking pile, best seats in the house...

I'm not sure if this has ever been posted before, but here's a fun political test to find out where you really stand.

Here's my results
Compared to some world Leaders:

Is there a Petreaus thread we got going on and I don't see it?

Fun test.

I have almost the exact same results as Zicdeh. ^^ Cool!

This is where i stand according to this test.

not too far off from Ghandi.

Not sure what being Independant has to do with it, but you may have an inner ear infection.


Oh Liela, you are just so darned cute.

Surprisingly no...

I wish i could be that trusting of people. Lol

Id make a thread on it but so much news still coming out, dunnon where to start!

Quite a profound number of Americans keep saying that, very few rarely comply with their own wishes on that matter. Reasonably so.

wow, interesting test. For a second i thought i was playing darts with it.

Darn it, I was aiming for commie red.

It's not getting old if people insist on supplying the material.

Those questions are lulzy on that test? It's like something you'd find in Cosmo. The questions are so ridiculously slanted taht anyone will place themselves right in the middle of everything to not sound ridiculous. It is also very leftleaning.

Like this question:
"It is regrettable that many personal fortunes are made by people who simply manipulate money and contribute nothing to their society."

The only option is to agree or disgree that it is regrettable, which means that you have to accept the premise as true that people that succeed manipluate money and contribute nothing.

Better off just taking a Cosmo sex quiz. See if you score more like Petraeus or Clinton.

fox news and msnbc hasn't told us how to feel about this yet....

the whole thing makes me queasy.. don't talk to me about paranoia when the fbi has every email that everyone petreaus ever met wrote to other people about the most intimate details of a secret affair nobody was supposed to know about.

I'm waiting for them to start whipping out his kindergarten artwork and start psychoanalyzing how they knew early on he was going to be trouble...

First of all, thank you. I mean that. Someone like Akin has no business in 21st century national office.


I think you are generalizing too much. But I also think that a black "liberal" president in office has caused a lot of outrageous behavior in white Americans who are suffering from diagnosed or undiagnosed mental illness.

Im sure when you sign up to lead the CIA you give up a good deal of your privacy.

Petreaus isn't worthy of a thread until people start answering questions especially him. The situation is so ridiculous and the timing of everything is even worse. Can't make any presumptions, but so many questions need to be asked before anyone can pretend to know what happened. Unbelievable though how this man's risk/reward calculator completey gets tossed out the window for sex.

I think the funniest part about all this is that a used car salesmen can carry on an affair for the majority of his life, but the supposed head of "Intelligence & espionage" can't pull it off. hilarious. I'd resign too.

Sure they have... fox news wants us to believe that it is a conspiracy to keep Petraeus off the stand about benghazi and also that it was some kind of election scandal kept secret til the day before the election... basicially conspriacies everywhere!!!!!!

MSNBC no longer exists man!!!

the biggest worry I guess was how much information this owman had about petraeus and allens whereabouts all the time... more conspiracy suggestion that she was hurting for the dolla dolla bill yo and would provide that info for cash money...

The head of the CIA doesn't answer to many people... I doubt he has to provide a whole lot of info to anyone let alone anything that would be visible to anyone but a handful of people... beyond that... he is succeptible to an investigation as any government employee would be... probably less so unless there is a concern...

Edit: also, I believe patraeus forced quite a few people out of the military for infidelity... as i'm told its a court martiable offense in the military... I guess he had a lot of pent up stuff going on as he claims he waited til he was out of the military to act on this..

Petraeus' wife...


Petraeus' mistress...