John Hawkins over at Right Wing News once again took the temperature of the right end of the blogosphere, this time in response to a rather kooky Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll of “self-identified ‘Republicans'”. I honestly don’t remember (Shoebox: I did it. Usually I forget these things. This one didn’t require a lot of thought and I’m good at that!) whether it was Shoebox or I that provided the answers for the blog (it’s been that kind of week), but I’ll fire in my two-cents’ worth (my answers are bolded, and the “not sures” from the Kos poll, which are not tabulated in the RWN straw poll, are not copied here):
Would you favor or oppose giving illegal immigrants now living in the United States the right to live here legally if they pay a fine and learn English? (RWN – 24% favor/76% oppose, Kos – 26% favor/59% oppose)
That doesn’t go far enough. Illegal aliens also need to go back to their country of orgin, apply properly, and enter the line at the point they do so. Shoebox:ditto
Do you believe Barack Obama is a racist who hates White people? (RWN – 29% yes/71% no, Kos – 31% yes/36% no)
Obama hates conservatives regardless of skin color. Shoebox: Ditto
Do you believe ACORN stole the 2008 election? (RWN – 20% yes/80% no, Kos – 21% yes/24% no)
Allow me to clarify. Without ACORN and affiliated groups, including the Soros-bought-and-paid for secretaries of state, Shoebox and Birdman would not be calling Al Franken “Senator”. However, Obama’s election was by beyond the margin of fraud. Shoebox: I voted no because this was based on the Presidential election. I agree with Steve on the Franken mess.
Should openly gay men and women be allowed to serve in the military? (RWN – 53% yes/47% no, Kos – 26% yes/55% no)
The key word here is “openly”. For the record, I am also against co-ed military units where fraternization cannot reasonably be limited. What a military member does off-base, so long as it doesn’t violate the laws or involve intimate relations with another military member, does not matter.
Shoebox: This was the hardest one for me. I believe in equal employment opportunities regardless of sexual orientation, therefore I voted yes. The “openly” for me is almost irrelevant because as best I know, it’s not a good thing to be caught “openly” having heterosexual sex while on duty. I believe the real issue comes down to performance. As long as we keep the ACLU out of it, I think the military has plenty of ways to deal with disruptive behavior of any kind. I don’t think the government needs to micromanage this one.
Should same sex couples be allowed to marry? (RWN – 24% yes/76% no, Kos – 7% yes/77% no
For those who say that marriage is simply a religious function, explain why the former Soviet Union sanctioned marriages and specifically limited it to one man and one woman.
Shoebox: ditto
Should Barack Obama be impeached, or not? (RWN – 11% yes/88% no, Kos – 39% yes/32% no
Obama meets the Constitutional requirements of the office of President, was duly elected in accordance with the Constitution, and hasn’t done anything like lie to a grand jury or direct a coverup of a break-in.
Shoebox: I’ll put one caveat on Steve’s point; we haven’t heard the testimony on the Blagojevich case yet!
Do you believe Barack Obama was born in the United States, or not? (RWN – 86% yes/14% no, Kos – 42% yes/36% no)
See above. Shoebox: distraction. Move on!
Do you think Barack Obama is a socialist? (RWN – 89% yes/11% no, Kos 63% yes/21% no)
If one seizes companies like a socialist, one parcels out pieces of said seized companies to favored political interests, specifically unions, like a socialist, and one dictates the maximum level of compensation at companies not quite completely under the ownership of the government like a socialist, one is a socialist.
Shoebox: I marked yes but I actually think he is a Marxist.
Do you believe your state should secede from the United States? (RWN – 6% yes/94% no, Kos – 23% yes/58% no)
We’re not at that point in the course of human events where it is necessary to dissolve those political bands…yet.
Shoebox: Besides, at least while I’m living in MN, there’s no way we’d leave the losing side!
John also asks a question not asked by Kos/Research 2000 that has had (see below) Shoebox on one side, Birdman on the other, and me somewhere in limbo.
Do you think the Democrats are going to pass a health care bill? (26% yes/74% no)
Call me hopeful, but I don’t see how Nancy Pelosi has 217 (yes, the majority is 217 now that there are two vacancies) votes for the abortion-and-payoffs Senate version of PlaceboCare. I also don’t see the troika of Obama/Pelosi/Harry Reid accepting anything less than full socializatin of health care complete with full abortion-on-demand funding. If they couldn’t ram the full monty through in the 6 months they had a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, despite having said full monty allegedly certified for “reconciliation”,….
Shoebox: anything is possible but I think this is dead. I think there are too many electoral bodies stacking up even for ideologues like Pelosi, Reid and Obama.
About time you came around Shoe.
On which topic?
On whether PlaceboCare gets out of Congress this year.
You forgot a very important question:
Should we kick Minnesota out of the Union for electing Al Franken? (Ignorantapathy’s personal poll – 100% yes/0% no)