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we still love Dubya in Wichita: on self responsibility, we may agree that one must be responsible for their own self, but the question here is not whether or not self-responsibility is admirable or necessary, we can agree that it is. The point I make, and the point that your example in fact proves, is that while we are all ultimately responsible for ourselves, we also are responsible to and for our communities. I advocate not the "big government handout" strawman so often used to critique appeals to social responsibility, but rather the notion that we are responsible for not _just_ ourselves, but our brothers and sisters as well. This is a basic tenet of Christianity, and, I would add, social contract theory. Your attempt at critique is admirable, but is predicated on a misunderstanding of the point being made.

As a native Sandlapper I cannot understand how people in my state consistently vote against their own interest. I am reminded of an instance when DeMint was running for election to the Senate. In a republican primary debate he said that we should stop worrying about job losses to other countries. A man who worked in the textile industry, now gone with his job, said he liked what DeMint said about abortion. This man had to be aware that the textile jobs were going overseas and eventually his would be gone, yet he voted for a man who said we shouldn’t be worrying about such things.

It's hard to watch INFIDELITY and DISLOYALTY. retch

That's real sweet, there, Dawson. Considering the state has some of the worst rankings in poverty, home foreclosures, graduation rates, pay equity, and a history of intolerance and racism, I don't think you have much to stand on.
The Democrats care about more than the rich elite, and if most self-claimed conservatives could see beyond single issues (i.e., abortion, creationism, etc.), they would realize that they vote against their own interests by voting for Republicans. Low graduation rates and a large percentage of a manipulated public kind of makes sense, doesn't it?

Hmm – A South Carolina official takes pride in how closed-minded and fearful of progress his state is...
I'll be sure to make vacation plans elsewhere.

It was done in 1976 and can be done again.

YOU KNOW. THOSE SOUTHERN REPUBLICANS MIGHT JUST BE IN FOR A RUDE AWAKEING.

A Republican Administration of Ron Paul will be better than any Democrats, who are only pretending to stop the war. Democrats and Republicans are but two wings of the War Party, with its disastrous and destructive policy of intervention.

Glad to hear the chairman is still living in 1865.

Give me a break! The Republican rhetoric is falling on deaf ears, even in SC. Hey Katon, a (not so) wise man once told us:

"Fool me once... shame on... shame on you... get fooled, won't get fooled again."

Skeeter wrote: Why are conservative so fearful of being responsible for someone other than themselves and something other than their own money?

Think about what you just said here?? What is wrong with being responsible for ones self?? Shouldn't we all be resposible for ourselves and not be standing around with our hands out waiting for someone to take care of us?? I am all for equal opportunity, healthcare etc etc. I just wish the liberals wouldn't stand around pointing fingers (like they did in New Orleans) and expecting someone to take care of them instead of TAKING RESPONSIBLITY and getting off there Government fed behinds and do something for them selves for a change. I Dont see hords of tv cameras pointing out all the injustices being done to the folks of Greensburg KS. You know the town that was wiped out by a tornado. That is because the folks of this town are not standing around waiting for someone else to fed them.

I thank Linda for keeping NY the great Blue state that it is. And I thank Bubba and Skeeter even more for being refreshing for their respective states. Don't be afraid to be in the minority down there.

Frightened by the Democrats? We should all be frightened by even the thought of another Republican administration. I remember the night when Bush was given the presidential office because I felt a bit sick but even I never thought that in six short years Bush would do the damage he has done. I now feel as if I understand how some of the citizens of ancient Rome must have felt as they watched their country fall to ruin. I guess some in this country would rather see the Republicans "give away" to war and rich corporations then to the average American city. Southern Republicans are pitiful.