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Not to cause offense, but I find that, in general, leftists are more likely to speak against "their guy", and conservatives usually support "their guy". Not sur
by selter01 13y ago
Not to cause offense, but I find that, in general, leftists are more likely to speak against "their guy", and conservatives usually support "their guy". Not sure why, but it's just what I've observed through the years.
- twoodfin 13y agoI wonder how much of it is a lame duck effect: The bottom never fell out of GWB's conservative support until his second term, either, despite much to complain about.
- anaptdemise 13y agoThe bureaucracies don't change much between administrations and there is a lot of the same faces at the top between administrations. It causes a permanence of policy regardless of the party. In fact, the bureaucracy are more or less required to be non-partisan in their long term policies. The hypocrisy is probably more of an effect of indoctrination into the bureaucracies than of actual changes in an individual politicians views. It would be difficult for a president to reverse 8+ years of an institution's operations, especially when those have been funded for longer by congress.
- pyre 13y agoWell, they do lobby heavily for the religious vote. Better to keep a 'good Christian' in the Presidency than some 'godless Liberal.'
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- MartinCron 13y agoAnd you saw how well that worked.
- jebblue 13y agoIf faith in something greater than oneself gives people hope; I'd think that liberals would not have a problem with that.
- pyre 13y agoLiberals aren't against it, but the most fanatically religious people tend towards conservative candidates, which was what I was (ineffectively) trying to get across.
- Vivtek 13y agoSpeaking as a leftie, we haven't had an "our guy" since maybe Carter. If you think Obama is left-wing, I have some nice beachfront property you might be interested in. He talked a good game in 2008, though.
- crusso 13y agoWell on that note, Conservatives haven't had a guy in office since Reagan.
- jacoblyles 13y agoYou must not know a lot of Tea Partiers. Though to be fair, they are more "right-wing revolutionaries" than "conservatives" by any reasonable sense of the word.
- crusso 13y agoThat's your bias in wanting to believe that people like you are more honest and true to their convictions. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5864729 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5864729 ... looks like Republicans and Democrats are pretty close in their consistency. Small sample, but usually what you see on most similar issues.