Facts about Republican Party

Answer 1

Today's Republican is not your father's Republican Pary any longer! The Republicans have purged over the last 20 years, all the liberals and moderates that were numerous and had much clout and control over the party. Today, the GOP is a conservative to an far-right-wing party. They strongly believe in taxcuts only to the very rich. They are still against any regulations that provide safeguards for consumers against the powerful interest of Wall Street. They believe that any common sense regulations be it in the enviornmental or economic spheres, is an attack on free enterprises. The Tea Party is now in control of the GOP in the House of Representatives! The Republicans are against all abortions even in the women is in danger of losing her life or a victim of incest or rape. They are against Planned Parenthood that provides mostly Breast cancer tests and others for women. Only 3% is abortion-related services. They are also against Medicaire. They want to give seniors up to $15,000 and then they would be forced to go into the marketplace to find health insurance coverage-if you are sick and say, 80 years old, it would be nearlly impossible to find coverage and be able to afford it! The Republicans want to keep running up the deficit by voting for huge defense spending and tax cuts without any way to pay for them. They Republicans are so far to the right on social issues, be it abortion, school prayer, gay rights, and gun control.

The GOP is mostly a white man's party with very few people of color as members. If you compare the racial makeup of both parties in the Congress it is startling: the Democrats are the face of America with conservatives, moderates and progressives; African-Americans; Hispanics and Asian-Americans. Therer are also far more women in the Democratic side than Republican. On the GOP side, you have a few Hispanics, no Asians, 2 blacks and a handful of women. As I mentioned before, there are no progressives or moderates left.