Democrat vs. Republican

Claim #1: "...Democrats believe in protecting the environment..." And Republicans don't?
Fact: Republicans for Environmental Protection (REP) is a national organization of United States Republican Party voters formed in 1995. They have members in 49 states and formal chapters in 10 states.

Claim #2: "...Democrats respect a woman's right to make her own health care decisions." This is code for, "I believe women should be allowed to rid their mistakes via the death of their own unborn child.. er, mistake... er, fetus."
Fact: Republicans care about every issue regarding women's health care, including abortion. In fact, Republicans do not try to cover up the facts about abortion. Get the facts here.

Claim #3"...Democrats know... They work for me and you. They will not pander to the pressures of special interest groups."
Fact: Democrats pander to the pressures of the Sierra Club (environment), the NAACP (rights for African Americans), gay rights organizations, CAIR, NARAL, Planned Parenthood, NOW, and many other special interest groups.

Claim #4:"...Democrats will keep me safer from real terrorist threats." I admit this one made me laugh.
Fact: Democrats support CAIR, which funds terrorist activities and other groups that also support terrorist activities.
Fact: Obama is holding Arizona hostage to his political goals of amnesty for illegals, creating practically an open invitation to terrorists at the border of Mexico. If not for Arizona's stand-alone efforts to secure the border, things would be a lot worse than they already are.
Fact: During Democrat President Clinton's term, a sniper had Bin Laden in his cross-hairs three times and Clinton knowingly let him go. He was more interested in his golf game than he was in protecting innocent lives from Al Qaeda, including the lives of the soldiers camped near the top security location of Bin Laden at dusk. At night, those soldiers could have all been killed had they waited any longer for an answer from Clinton. They were forced to abort the mission for that very reason.
Fact: Republicans supported the war. Democrats did not.

Claim #5: "...Democrats will defend good-paying American jobs."
Fact: The unemployment rate under President Obama was, at the time this video was released, at 9.6%, almost 10%. Socialism is the Democrat's answer to job loss. Redistributing wealth causes people to stop trying because the fruit of their efforts is not theirs to keep. Too much of it is taken via taxes and given to others. One gets the same results regardless of the effort that goes into the work. (See The Real Story Behind Thanksgiving.) Therefore, no one has any incentive to work hard... not for strangers. When production goes down, the economy suffers. Businesses don't wish to create more jobs if they know that taxes will be higher and there are penalties and more government regulations for making more money. And it is the big businesses and the rich who provide jobs. Yet, the Obama administration wants to tax the rich and either penalize big business or bail out companies that are failing, complete with strings attached. The rich were defined as making over $300,000 per year in Obama's original proposal. Sounds good at first whisper, but... for a business, that is not rich, considering that a large percentage of those earnings are (in most cases) likely to be needed to operate the business. But if business expenses are not taken into consideration, a company making over $300,000 could very well be a small business with large operating costs. These would be hit just as hard as the big businesses that might be better capable of surviving a large tax increase. Haven't we seen by now way too many vacant retail spaces pop up all around us? Are they big business? No. These are small retail shops that can't afford to pay for the space anymore because of a recession that has continued since Obama began his term. Where did the bailout money go? Definitely not to the people. The unemployment rate hasn't changed much.

Claim #6:"...Democrats understand the complexities of global warming. They will work to keep me and my family safer from the unpredictability of climate change."
Fact: Global warming was never an issue needing to be understood by the average American until a politician named Al Gore made a lot of money on his hit "documentary," An Inconvenient Truth. But the claims he makes about global warming are simply not true. And climate change happens cyclically, and there is nothing Democrats or Republicans can do to stop it from happening. It was here before we were.

Claim #7:"...Democrats understand the importance of keeping America globally competitive. They will get public education and health back on track."
Fact: Democrats reject the idea of school vouchers because vouchers require the public schools to compete with private schools over the preferences of people like you and I rather than catering to the kind of education that the government thinks our children should have. And we all know that anything that is government run is inefficient.
Fact: Democrats say that countries like Canada and Europe have superior health systems. But what they don't say is that we already surpass other countries in the quality of health care provided in this country, as well as availability of medical services and the speed at which someone can be treated, and at a competitive price. The only problem is the middle man... the insurance company... sometimes limits our choices by limiting our physician choices and the types of care that are covered by our insurance. But not everyone has to pay for medical care via insurance. The old fashioned saving for a rainy day seems to have become a lost art unless a family makes a deliberate and self-controlled decision to set aside money for medical costs on their own. It can be done. Yet, Democrats tout that we need to compete with inferior, government-controlled, foreign health care systems. Ask a Canadian how long you have to wait for cancer treatments. Ask how long the line is. Truth be told, patients are getting worse and/or are dying during that wait. Some would not have died if they had received their care in America. Take Newfoundland's Premier, Denny Williams of Canada, as an example. He recently visited Florida to undergo heart surgery. He could have gotten this done in his country. So, if Canada is superior to America in health care programs, then why didn't he have the procedure done in Canada?

Claim #8: "...Democrats believe in equal rights, regardless of age, gender, race, sexual orientation, political preferences, religion, or lack of one.
Fact:Democrats promote special rights, not equal rights, in order to make minorities more privileged than the average American. Affirmative action was a Democrat's idea, which makes it mandatory for companies to hire people with different racial backgrounds, regardless of skill. Who would want to be hired based on the color of his/her skin? No one I know. Democrats side with Gay rights advocates who claim that homosexuals have fewer rights than the average American. But the rights of homosexuals are already protected as well as those of heterosexuals. Furthermore, a civil union is legal and affords same-sex couples the same rights as heterosexual couples, without changing the definition of marriage for the entire nation. Democrats are famous for pieces of legislation that attempt to undermine the American family, such as awarding decisions to the government that belong to parents, removing our parental rights. (And the list goes on.)

The end of the video is Democrats at their best, saying, "Join us! Be a Democrat!"
Isn't that what Democrats do best -- they tell us to be like them and then accuse Republicans of doing the same as if it were a crime? Something to think about.