Proud To Be An American …

That Great American Song - Proud To Be An American by Lee Greenwood …

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With Words Like …

I’d thank my lucky stars, to be livin here today.

‘ Cause the flag still stands for freedom, and they can’t take that away.

And I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free.

And I wont forget the men who died, who gave that right to me.

And I gladly stand up, next to you and defend her still today.

‘ Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land,

GOD Bless the USA.

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There are those in America Today That Think You Have to Be a Member of a Certain Political Party to Say Those Words … Who Are They …

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The Mockers, Doubters, Skeptics, Naysayers, Gossipers, Complainers, Cynics, Pessimists, Gloomy Gus’s, Wet Blankets  …  Those That Are Holding YOU and America “Our Great Country” Back …

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T H E    G O P …

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We Need to Get Rid of & Replace/Vote Out of Office People Like "THE GOP" People That Are Limiting America, Our Country and YOU …

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We Need to Eliminate those in Government That Are Holding the U.S A and YOU Back …

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Those with the attitude of arrogance, elitism, and patronizing superiority “THE G O P … The GOP the Timewasters, Saboteurs , Obstructionists, Delayers, Condescending, Phonies, and Crones … 

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Replace the GOP with those that lift YOU and America Up …

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After All ... Do YOU Really Need Them in YOUR LIFE ?

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People Who Play on Your Weaknesses …

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Manipulators, Exploiters, Controllers …

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Distorting the Facts About YOU and America Through Media like Fox's O'Reilly's, Hannity's and Talk Radio's Rush and others that say You are Socialist and/or Communist  if You don’t see the World according to the GOP View … Remember our ex-GOP VP Cheney saying You were Un-Patriotic Non Citizen if you didn't take his view on going to war with Iraq.  

The GOP'ers are constantly - Warning American NOT to “Think Outside the GOP Box”!

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Draining and Dragging YOU and the U.S. Down …

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And … They Only Approve of You and America When It Agrees With Their Point of View   …

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Think About What a Definition of a Friend  … A non judgmental person whom one knows, likes, and trusts …. A person who one knows; an acquaintance.  A person with who one is allied in a struggle ...  

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NOT One Who Only Approves of You When You Agree With Their Points of View …

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Look for the Dreamers, Idealists, Visionaries , People with Promise … Offering the Freedom Our Fathers Fought and Pledged Allegiance Too …

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Ones Like OBAMA That “Animates, Stimulates, Inspires, Encourages, Excites, Elevates, Emboldens , Heartens, Uplifts,  Impassions, Motivates, Empowers, and Challenges You and Others to Reach Your Destiny” …

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He Encourages People to Be Bold Enough to Speak the Truth …

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Turn the GOP Night into the Light of Day ….

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The it is time for the GOP  to Go ...  Say NO to the GOP giving us and America a Heavy Head with Negative Under Handed Thoughts and Comments …

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Take Back America what has been promised YOU in the Declaration of Independence and Constitution ….   

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Make Our Country and the World Alive with the Joy of Freedom  …

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Make Our Country Alive with ...

Achievement Accomplishment Growth Success Triumph and Joy…

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Vote out "The GOP" Who Want to Take Away Our Bill of Rights and Freedom of Speech …

What Our Follow Americans and Fathers Have Died For  …

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Happy Memorial Day !!!

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GOP Political Super Bowl - 2012 Republican Presidential Nominating Convention …

40th GOP Presidential Nominating Convention … 
August 27 to August 30, 2012 Tampa FL ...

The 2012 Republican National Convention GOP's Super Bowl will be held at the Tampa Bay Times Forum in Tampa FL on August 27-30, 2012, and will host 2,286 delegates and 2,125 alternate delegates from all 50 states, the District of Columbia plus five territories. 
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The History of Tampa FL ...

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FREE - Tampa Visitor Guide & What Tampa has to offer ...
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The convention will also include approximately 15,000 credentialed media and international press corps second only in size to this summer's London Olympic Games ...  As well as a global audience of 100's of millions that will witness a "convention without walls" thanks to Tampa's Advanced Internet and Social Media technology.
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More than 50,000 guests, delegates, media and staff will gather in Tampa state-of-the-art Tampa Bay Times Forum for the 2012 Republican National Convention.
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The Official GOP Convention Website ...
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The purpose of a nominating conventions, both Republican and Democratic, is to officially nominate the party’s candidate for president and vice president, and to adopt the party’s platform and rules.
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2012 Convention will mark the 3rd time the Republican Party has convened its nominating convention in Florida. The Sunshine State hosted the 1968 and 1972 Republican National Conventions in Miami Beach that nominated Richard M. Nixon. Let’s hope the 2012 GOP has a better candidate! 
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Prior to Nixon it was against Federal Law to communicate, travel or trade with Communist China.
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Prior to Nixon, China was considered (by U.S. standards) was an archaic agriculture based society ...
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In 1971, Nixon led the U.S. government in officially recognizing the Communist Chinese government and in 72, Nixon became the first American president to visit China, and sign a modern day Trade Agreement with China. The first time the U.S. ever recognized a Communist Country as an official trading partner.
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GOP NIXON's Accomplishments: A Secret Plan to End the War in Vietnam which turned out to be more or less a Surrender, Nixon's Red China Economics & Trade Agreements resulted in 100s of Millions US Jobs lost over over the years till now to China, 1st Wage & Price Controls, Took the U.S. Off the Gold Standard, Created the EPA and OSHA, Criminal Mind, Forced to Resign from Office for Criminal Activities over Watergate ...
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Romney 2012 More Expensive Stuff ...
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More Things To Do In Tampa ...

·         Historic Tampa Pics

·         Tampa History Museum

·         Florida Aquarium

·    Pics Inside The Florida Aquarium

·         Gasparilla Extravaganza - Tampa's Pirate

·         Lowry Park Zoo -Voted #1

·      Pics Inside The Zoo ...

·         MOSI Tampa Museum of Science & Industry

·         Tampa Art Museum Official Website

·     Pics Inside The Tampa Art Museum

·         Mahaffey Theater

·         Straz Center - Performing Arts Center

·         Florida Orchestra

·         Tampa Audubon Society

·         Salvador Dali Museum

·         USF Music & Arts

·         WW-II SS American Victory Liberty Ship

·         ChiHuly Collection - St Pete Morean Arts Ctr

·         The Sarasota Orchestra

·         Naples Museum of Art - Chihuly Glass 

·         Imperial Symphony

·         Tampa Bay Symphony

·         USF Botanical Gardens

·         Walk Wise Tampa Bay

·         Busch Gardens

·         Disney World

.     Harry Potter - Universal Orlando

·         Tampa PC Users Group

Why the GOP Rich Refuse to Pay Income Tax ...

The BEAST- Is the 1%ers View of Government, People and U.S. Voters!

On Aug 13 1981 ...

The GOP President REAGAN Cut 1%er Income Tax Rates in Half (1/2)!

From 90% to 45% !!!

The 1%ers KEPT THE MONEY!

REAGAN Had to Borrow Money to Pay Our Bills!

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Talk About FREELOADERS!

The Beast ...
Not This ...

1%ers View of Government, People & U.S. Voters!

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Reagan Spent more than all the US Presidents up to 1981 when he took office!

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Cutting taxes DID NOT spur economic growth …
Borrowed money created the 80s economic boom!
Reagan borrowed 1 trillion dollars of foreign money and 1 trillion from US Treasury!
Reagan Pumped the borrowed money and U.S. Treasury into the U.S. economy!
Reagan's guise of reduced tax rates spur economic grow!
Reduced taxes did NOTHING but make Rich Richer!
Borrowed Money Did!
It was Borrowed Money or Own Money the created 80s boom!
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Today 2012, U.S. Tax System Currently Favors Loopholes for Rich, and Powerful!

Middle-Income America Left to Pay the Bills ... Romney & Norquist Want More

Norquist - The GOP Mafia's Hit Man - Subversive
"Not One RED Cent" "Dont Tax Me I'm a Patriot"
"Promise to Bankrupt American"

  Koch Bros - Traitors - Extreme Acts Against Ones Nation
 "Don't Tax Us We're Rich!"
Sign Norquist's Taxpayer Protection Pledge "Or Else"

  Paul Ryan -  Obstructionist - Shutting Down Congress & the Government - No Government No Democracy - Means Freedom for 1%ers - Endorses Romney - "We Think Like"

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Obstructionists and 1%'ers Like Grover Norquist, Paul Ryan, Koch Bros, and other 1%ers Make Out Like Bandits While Our National Debit Soars ...
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Norquist & Koch Bros Provide Unlimited Moneys & Support for Candidates Against Rhino's - Middle of the Road GOPers who believe in moderate taxes on Rich ...

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"Don't Tax Rich" "The Rich Create The JOBS"  *** The 2012 Rich Are Drowning in $$$ Money $$$ ***, So Where are the Jobs?  

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Fact

It is the U.S.Consumer and Middle America's Purchasing Power That Create the Jobs! NOT The RICH   !
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Fact
Top 1%'ers in 2008 Paid ONLY 23% Income Tax ...
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Yet Taxes On The Rich Still to High by Norquist & Koch Bros Conservative Standards ...
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This GOPer Actually Supports Paying Taxes ... Coburn Says "Pay Your Taxes"
THE DEBT BOMB by Tom A Coburn (R) OK ... End Loop Holes! -
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Norquist Believes "We Should Take Away All Government Ability to Tax" AND "To the Point You Can Fit Government into a bath so Government could be Drowned" i.e. "NO Government - Rich/Money Rule" " ...
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Grover Norquist, Paul Ryan, Koch Bros, and the Tea Party's Right Wing Tax Policies are Destroying our Country’s Economic Foundation ... And Are ...  Traitors, Subversives, and Obstructionists ...   
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RUSH & Steve Forbes - Facebook Tax Dodger Saverin is the Patriotic Poster Boy for the GOP ... "Saverin is an American HERO" "Dodging Taxes is Patriotic" .
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We have an economy skewed to the top, low wages and missing jobs, predatory interest on loans. These are consequences of government politically engineered by and for the one percent. So is our tax code, the product of money and politics of influence and favoritism, of lobbyists and the laws they draft for politicians to enact.
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Wealth has become a demonic force in politics. Nothing can stop them. Not the law, which is written to accommodate them. Not scrutiny they have no shame. Not a decent respect for the welfare of others. The people without means, whose safety net has been shredded, leaving them helpless before events beyond their control, like those passengers on that ship.
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Watching what’s happening to our democracy is like watching the cruise ship Costa Concordia founder and slowly sink into the sea off the coast of Italy. The passengers, shorn of life vests, scramble for safety as best they can, while the captain trips and falls conveniently into a waiting life boat.
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Bush said & believed "Budget Surpluses Are a BAD THING"

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After Geo W Reduced taxes even more on Rich ... Plus He Spent Like a Drunken Sailor ... By 2008 Top 1% were Paying ONLY 23% Income Tax ...
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BUSH TAX CUTS Resulted in 3 Trillion Dollars Debit - OK By GOP Reasoning... The Nat'l Debit was $10 Trillion at Time Bush left office ...

Bush was being Pressured by 1% to lower taxes even further for 1% ...
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Reagan Reduced Taxes to 45% for the 1% ...

Days When Rich Paid Fair Share ... Between 1940 to 1982 Rich Income Tax Rate was 70-90% in 1982 GOP Reagan Cut 1%ers  Tax Rate to 45% & Started the Borrowing to Create Jobs ...
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And The 1% people did just fine in 80s at 45% ...
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In 2009 the Tea Party Came Into Existence saying Lower Taxes ...

Miss informed T-Party thought Taxes Were Higher Than They Were ...
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GOP Media Talk Radio & TV Keep Feeding the People Lies That We Are "Over Taxed" on behalf of the 1%ers.
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THE 10% TRUTH - The Majority People Pay Around 10% Income Tax After Deductions ...
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Voters Have to be GIVEN FACTS ... NOT 1%er LIES Funded By Billionaires ...
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So What Makes GOP 1%ers LIE ...
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MOST PEOPLE BELIEVE - Christian Belief Is More Important than Facts AND a Christian Will Become a Secular Humanist basing Life Solely on Facts ... Also Facts are NOT facts outside of the 1%ers approved and controlled Media ... Any other media is a Distortion and LIE ... If You Research Facts or Accept Facts Outside GOP 1%er's Media You will be considered a Secular Humanist by your Christian peers ... The GOP 1%ers Know This ... and That the Bible has Preached against Secular Humanists for 100's of Years ... So, Challenging a GOP point of view tied to the Bible is a Sin, so to speak ...  A GOP Gotcha! 
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GOP LIE - If You Cut Taxes, Revenues Will Go Up & We Will Pay Off The National Debt ...  A Sin to Challenge?  
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Another 1%er Gotcha is Big Money 11,000+ Lobbyists, 300 of which are EX Members of Congress ... Mostly GOP ... Acting as a Lobbyist is having a NON Elected PAID Big Money Voice in Our Government and is WRONG ...  
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More Facts ...
36% Post Tax Income Growth between 1979-2007 Went to the Top 1% ...
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66% Post Tax Income Growth between 2002-2007 Went to the Top 1% ...
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The Insanity Behind GOP 1%ers Conservative Beliefs ... 

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Most American's View of Government - The People's House - A Democracy-Republic Run by Representatives Elected by the People and For the People ...  

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Not the 1%ers  ...

1% GOPers Philosophy is Cutting Taxes is "STARVING The Beast - YOU" Main Core of Their Belief of FREEDOM ...  The Beast Equals People - YOU ... 

STARVING The BEAST - The People - The 1%ers View of Government ... Starve the US Voter So the 1%ers Rule - Taking Freedom From The PEOPLE ... Removing the People's Voice in Government ... Look at this Picture ** This is the GOP 1%ers View of YOU ...

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GOP 1% Conservative View - Force Spending Down "There is Only So Much FREEDOM (Money) Out There".  More Money in the 1%ers Pocket Equals More Power ... Less Money in Government ...  "More Government Less For 1%ers Pocket".
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FREEDOM is MONEY - The More Government is Spending Creates a Smaller Share of GDP/Budget for the 1% there by LESS FREEDOM for the 1%ers ... When the Government is Spending 50% of GDP/Budget on Medicare, Social Security, other programs  ... that leaves 50% less FREEDOM for the 1% ...
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The GOP 1%er are NOT About PEOPLE ...
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So When You Hear the GOP Talking About FREEDOM ... It has NOTHING to do with What YOU Think of as FREEDOM & Being a PATRIOT ... For the GOP it is Talking About One Thing MONEY !!!
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1% GOPers BELIEVE Their Money is Theirs & Goes to Them ...
Paying Their Fair Share - LOL "For the GOP NO Such Thing"

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*** This is Why GOP 1%ers REFUSE To PAY Income Tax *** 

There is NO Trickle Down ... 

There is NO Trickle ... Just Trick ... Tricking U.S. Voters that the Jobs Can be Created & Budget Balanced by 1%er Tax Cuts ONLY ... TRUTH More Deficits 

NONE of The 1%ers Money is Ever Going to YOU if they have Their Way ... Especially via INCOME TAX ...

All MONEY Goes In 1%ers Pockets ....

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This is the GOP's FLAG ...

NOT This ...

 
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How Geo W Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagon Legency ...

Where the Boys Are ...

The Republican Party GOP in particular the Anti-Gay Conservatives in the party pressured Richard Grenell, Gay National Security Spokesman for Mitt Romney to Resign last week …
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Richard Grenell born September 18, 1966 in Michigan NOT California is an American Political Consultant and Media Commentator who briefly served as National Security spokesperson for Mitt Romney in his 2012 Campaign for President of the United States. He was raised in the East went to college at Harvard an eastern college ….

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In April 2012, he became the first openly Gay spokesman for the Republican presidential candidate. after being hired by Mitt Romney, less than one week later, on May 1, he resigned after pressure from anti-gay conservatives in the GOP … 

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They say he wasn't a good fix, and lacked required experience.  

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And there are more Gays in the Deep South percentage wise than any other region of the U.S. ….  So it could NOT have be been southern conservatives asking for his resignation.

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Let's look at some demographs on Gays ....

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Washington DC, the city he would most likely be working in, has one of the highest population Gay States Percentage Wise in the U.S. … As a matter of fact DC is #1 on the list …  So seems like Mitt picked the right man for the job for the DC area, Grenell should be right at home there …

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Rank	State	GLB Population
		Percentage of State Population	population
1	District of Columbia	8.1%	47,651
2	New Hampshire	6.6%	81,561
3	Washington	5.7%	335,964
4	Massachusetts	5.7%	361,898
5	Maine	5.2%	66,295
6	California	5.2%	1,895,792
7	Colorado	5.1%	219,364
8	Vermont	5.1%	31,050
9	New Mexico	4.9%	99,085
10	Minnesota	4.7%	231,215

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Let’s looks at some more demographic numbers … The GOP city for 2012 Presidential Convention i.e. Tampa FL … seems a fit for Grenell ... Tampa is #5 on the list of Top 10 Cities for Gay Villages Percentage Wise of the general population with the city of Orlando FL #9 on the list, a close 80 miles nearby …. Grenell should be right at home … So that can’t be it …
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Rank	Metro Area	Percentage of Metro Population	GLB Population
			population	rank
1	San Francisco	8.2%	256,313	4
2	Seattle	6.5%	256,051	11
3	Boston	6.2%	201,344	5
4	Portland	6.1%	94,027	21
5	Tampa	5.9%	119,044	16
6	Austin	5.9%	61,732	29
7	Denver	5.8%	99,027	19
8	Minneapolis	5.7%	130,472	15
9	Orlando	5.7%	81,272	24
10	Hartford	5.6%	49,000	33

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Well maybe it is the GOP Party itself … Percentage wise maybe there are less Gays in the GOP Percentage wise than in the Democratic Party or Independents ...  The findings, from a Gallup poll conducted May 5-8, 2011 Support for Gay - Percentage by Party, Ideology, and views on Same Sex Relationships … Percentage of Gays by Party Affiliation by other polling companies show ... Democrats are 8-10% Percent Gay GOP 6-8% Percent Gay and Independents 8-10% are Gay.  The GOP says they are 3-4% Gay.  Personally I think they got the tally by show of hands ... U.S. Adults Estimate That 25% of Americans Are Gay or Lesbian ...

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One other thought, Democrats, liberals, and those who say they are socially liberal are also more likely to give higher estimates than those at the other end of the spectrum. However, the differences by political or ideological leanings are in most cases not as wide as those seen by demographic group.  By party and ideology NOT much difference percentage wise ….

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So what is it in the GOP Republican Party causing Grenell all the problems?
Could it be the GOP is NOT a True Democracy ... When you sign-on as a Republican, the GOP Party Leadership NOW speaks for YOU and you are NOT allowed to speak your mind or opinion or beliefs ... NO Freedom of Speech… NO Majority Rule,  Suppression of Democracy …. The GOP Party Leadership runs the Show ... The GOP Party Leadership decides how the Party runs, what is meets GOP standards, and what is consider ACCEPTABLE, wrong or NOT Republican.
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The Republican Party has close ties to the Christian right - the party is a religious based party, and thus tends to oppose gay rights legislation, as does its national party platform. 
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The GOP- Republican Party is a religious/religion Bible based party and should be clearly stated as such ...
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As a Registered Republican ...  GOP Voter You are Expected to follow the following guidelines ... Based on 2008 GOP Platform 2012 Not Available Yet ...
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- Freedom of Speech - Yes but expect STRONG condemnation if NOT along party lines   - Paraphrasing - NO 

- Gun Control - Federal licensing of ALL guns & national gun registration - NO
- Unions - NO
- Social Security - NO - ASAP 
- Rich Paying Fair Share - NO
- Gays, Homosexuals, Lesbians, Feminists, Humanism - NO
- Abortion, ProChoice,  NARAL - NO
- Birth Control - NO
- Socialism - NO    Communism - YES  ... Expected to be asked to follow GOP Party lines or else ... GOP Capitalists Like Doing Business and Support Red China ...
- Planned Parenthood - NO
- Health Care - Individuals Pay for Their Own Ins - YES - Government Paid - NO
- Medicare - NO for future Generations - 50% Cuts Current Medicare
- Medicaid - Paid Health Poor at Fed Level - NO
- NOW - NO
- Progressives - NO
- Secular Humanist - NO - Reason or Scientific Fact over Christianity - NO
- Free Thinkers - NO - If you are interested in expressing opinions outside the party platform you should join another political party ...

- Live By the Faith - You will be expected to follow the Bible as a guideline to life...
- GOP is a religiously Inspired Political Party and believes America was founded on Christain based principles ... The GOP encourages apolitical evangelicals into political action ....

- Follow the GOP Platform as Outlined or else ...
- Democracy - NO - Democracy is a form of government in which all the citizens of a nation together determine public policy, the laws and the actions of their state ... Not if in conflict with GOP platform ...
- A few rich far right are the leaders of GOP, will be runing the Republican Party.  if you have a problem with that you should join another political party 
- Right of citizens to be secure in their property - Shoot first law - Yes
- Safeguarding Religious Liberties - NO - GOP Does Not FOLLOW GOP Platform .
... After all this is America and you have that choice.  Once you join the GOP party you must go along with the platform ...
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As in any contract the terms of contract terms should be clearly stated before signing ... Copies of GOP-Republican and Democratic platforms should be made available at all Voter Registration sites.  So voters know what they are signing on too ...
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That to me sounds that is what we are fighting against as Americans ... COMMUNISM ...  If you are a GOPer you give UP YOUR RIGHTS.  Once you sign up as a Republican Voter, you sign on to the Conservative Agenda for the Party … If you speak your mind and/or it is different from PARTY platform you will be ousted or ask to leave the PARTY ...
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In conclusion, the Majority of Americans say Gay Relationships are OK ... The problem is Grenell is in the wrong party ...

30% of GOP support Same Sex Marriage ... 59% Independents and 69% of Democrats ...
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