Democrats Admit To Poor Mental Health
Gallup Poll Results — PRINCETON, NJ — Republicans are significantly more likely than Democrats or independents to rate their mental health as excellent, according to data from the last four November Gallup Health and Healthcare polls. Fifty-eight percent of Republicans report having excellent mental health, compared to 43% of independents and 38% of Democrats. This relationship between party identification and reports of excellent mental health persists even within categories of income, age, gender, church attendance, and education.
*befuddled* I can’t see how this is news?
After all, what else would you expect from a bunch of communist-protecting, socialist-breeding, Islamist-coddling, free speech-destroying, America-hating, angry anarchists who see a conspiracy in everything and try to destroy the lives of Americans that don’t share their angry view of the world?
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
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I can’t wait for the responses.
They’ll probably start with “You Republicans….”
blah blah blah.
OT:
Michael Savage is suing CAIR. This is awesome news.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/018985.php
Comment by Vince P — November 30, 2007 @ 6:25 pm - November 30, 2007
Give it time. The Krazy Kos Kids will spin this into some sort of, “See, Republicans really are delusional if they think they’re more mentally stable than us…” type of statement. At least that’s my prediction.
And those of us who are gay and conservative, at least within the opinion of the left, are the ones most screwed up.
Comment by DhimmiTude — November 30, 2007 @ 6:26 pm - November 30, 2007
I am told that “What’s your dosage” is a standard ice-breaker at YearlyKos.
Comment by V the K — November 30, 2007 @ 7:21 pm - November 30, 2007
Good Lord, man, don’t you even read the “rest of the story”, or only the first paragraphs? Of course, Repubs report higher “excellent” ratings than Indies or Dems (though on the 4 point scale of excellent, good, fair, and poor, all 3 groups are at 93-94% on “excellent” and “good” combined — so big whoo). And that difference in the top-box? Read on…the greatest correlation to the higher top-box rating is with INCOME, and yes, Repubs have higher average HHI than Indies, followed by Dems. So you can take all the pleasure you want at the lesser fortune of people with lesser fortune, but all that comfy smirking won’t do you even an iota of good in recapturing the Congress or keeping the WH. As to the diatribe at the end of your post, so much for playing nice here huh?
Comment by KYKid — November 30, 2007 @ 7:33 pm - November 30, 2007
LOL, KY…. so predictible.
Comment by GayPatriot — November 30, 2007 @ 7:49 pm - November 30, 2007
KY, is this the article you meant?
http://www.gallup.com/poll/102943/Republicans-Report-Much-Better-Mental-Health-Than-Others.aspx
Because if it is, just about EVERY SINGLE thing you claimed is incorrect.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — November 30, 2007 @ 8:44 pm - November 30, 2007
In particular I’ll call out this from the article: It found that Repubs reported better mental health even when income was adjusted for, or even when everyone in the survey sub-group was low-income.
Further, you claim higher-income people tend to be Repubs… that’s not discussed in this article, but let me state briefly it’s a myth… or at least you have to break it down by more factors… higher-income self-employed people may tend to be Repubs… but not higher-income trust fund kids. And more billionaire political contributors (Soros but many others as well) are Democrats.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — November 30, 2007 @ 8:49 pm - November 30, 2007
Now why would Repubs have better mental health across the board, regardless of income? Here’s my own theory. Despite the literary and media stereotype of the religious person being a nutcase, most studies show that religious people have more peace of mind than the non-religious on average. And which party is more aligned with middle American religious people?
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — November 30, 2007 @ 8:50 pm - November 30, 2007
#4 = Exhibit A
Comment by ThatGayConservative — November 30, 2007 @ 8:59 pm - November 30, 2007
LOL … Listen to this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbmbAaeCteg
John Gibson’s radio show reading the comments from Think Progress, DKOS, DU, HP regarding the attack at Hillary’s election office.
And people wonder why Dems are mentally ill?
Comment by Vince P — November 30, 2007 @ 10:00 pm - November 30, 2007
#1: Vince: Savage suing CAIR? Pity they both can’t lose. Savage is a crushing boor – a bully and a jerk. His nicknames for his competition (the drug addict, the leprechaun) bespeak resentment and envy.
Savage was fired from MSNCB in 2003 for referring to a caller as a “sodomite” and that he should “get AIDS and die”. I’d put him on the same one-way boat to Iran that I’d put Fred Phelps on.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2003-07-07-talk-host-fired_x.htm
#4: So you can take all the pleasure you want at the lesser fortune of people with lesser fortune
KY- what does this mean? Are you suggesting that the “more fortunate” somehow take pleasure in the travails of the “less fortunate”? If so, to what end?
I suspect the survey is pretty accurate. Lots of libs live their lives with an enormous chip on their shoulders and seething with envy. We all go through spells of envy and resentment but it’s corrosive when it becomes a way of life.
Comment by Robert — November 30, 2007 @ 10:08 pm - November 30, 2007
I think I’ll just leave off any commentary about namecalling for that would be the better course given my earlier compliments to you, Bruce, about your and those of your colleagues’ efforts with GPblog… but I gotta ask: was your day really THAT bad to do the final paragraph of namecalling… it’s like a litany found in the Scorched Earth Black Mass. Yeow, Bruce. Or was that just some good natured, clean fun ala “pillories-and-stocks-for-the-varmits”.
If it wasn’t kidding, I’d suggest the next time you have THAT bad a day and feel so inclined, wait 5 minutes, find a cat and dropkick it across some fence 20 yards distant… it always cheers me up on a bad day. But then, I think cat people are weird pseudo-fems harboring a deep-seated masculinity dysfunction order and real guys don’t like cats. Thank God you have manly dogs!
Hope the bad day doesn’t follow you through the weekend… cheers and thanks again, Bruce.
Comment by Michigan-Matt — November 30, 2007 @ 10:16 pm - November 30, 2007
So KY blabbers that the difference between Republicans, Democrats, and independents is based on income, and has nothing to do with party affiliation.
Obviously KY lacks a command of English.
One could be quick to assume that these differences are based on the underlying demographic and socioeconomic patterns related to party identification in America today. A recent Gallup report (see “Strong Relationship Between Income and Mental Health” in Related Items) reviewed these mental health data more generally, and found that men, those with higher incomes, those with higher education levels, and whites are more likely than others to report excellent mental health. Some of these patterns describe characteristics of Republicans, of course.
But an analysis of the relationship between party identification and self-reported excellent mental health within various categories of age, gender, church attendance, income, education, and other variables shows that the basic pattern persists regardless of these characteristics. In other words, party identification appears to have an independent effect on mental health even when each of these is controlled for.
And how was this determined?
Gallup also conducted a separate multivariate analysis that looked at the impact of a list of variables — including party identification — on self-reported mental health. This analysis showed that even when the impact of these other variables is controlled for statistically, there is an independent and highly significant impact of being a Republican on mental health.
One wonders how KY is a statistical expert, as he claims, when his ability to read and comprehend language around statistics is so obviously compromised.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — November 30, 2007 @ 10:29 pm - November 30, 2007
To 11: I’m more than aware of Savage’s past. Regardless… we cant allow Islamic front groups like CAIR to shut down free speech in this country. So i may not agree with everything Savage says… i will certainly defend his right to speak out against the Muslims and CAIR can go to hell
Comment by Vince P — November 30, 2007 @ 11:40 pm - November 30, 2007
Not cool.
Comment by cowb0y — December 1, 2007 @ 12:45 am - December 1, 2007
This pairs with the recent survey that showed pluralities of Democrats believe that the US Government was involved in the 9-11 attacks. Paranoid delusion is a form of mental illness, and as we’ve seen in the sinestrosphere, a lot of the more prominent lefty bloggers believe that George Bush is tapping their phone calls, and the USA has become a fascist police state. They are, of course, immune to the contradiction that if the USA were a fascist police state, no one would be blogging that it was.
And then there’s the paranoid delusion that Republicans would be happy to see gay folk exterminated, and that camps in the Pacific Northwest have already been prepared for this purpose, but we won’t get into that.
Comment by V the K — December 1, 2007 @ 6:53 am - December 1, 2007
This shouldnt be a surprize to anyone. Especially if you’ve read this
Comment by American Elephant — December 1, 2007 @ 7:00 am - December 1, 2007
I never liked that stuff
Comment by Vince P — December 1, 2007 @ 8:56 am - December 1, 2007
Boy, y’all really hate things like the press and polls, unless of course what is reported is to your advantage. too funny.
Comment by Kevin — December 1, 2007 @ 10:05 am - December 1, 2007
See reply, I L C and Nortie, in the hidden comments.
Comment by KYKid — December 1, 2007 @ 10:06 am - December 1, 2007
I think the hysterical comments in the postings above this one prove the lack of good mental health among liberals.
Comment by GayPatriot — December 1, 2007 @ 12:50 pm - December 1, 2007
#15 Cowboy, I think he’s trying to insult me because I have cats and he can’t call me a racist any more. No big deal, though.
Comment by V the K — December 1, 2007 @ 2:05 pm - December 1, 2007
At least I hope it’s just to insult me, because anybody who would advocate animal abuse is not a mentally healthy person.
Comment by V the K — December 1, 2007 @ 2:56 pm - December 1, 2007
If anyone got an hour to kill…. I recommend watching this lecture Tammy Bruce gave on the topic
http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=200053-2&highlight=tammy
Click watch on the right side
“The Left as Hypocrites”
Description
Tammy Bruce talked about why her philosophy as a lesbian and a conservative doesn’t always make her welcome in feminist circles. She discussed other contemporary issues including conservatism, higher education, religion, and her criticisms of liberals. After her presentation she responded to audience members’ questions.
Tammy Bruce is the author of The New American Revolution, The Death of Right and Wrong, and The New Thought Police.
The event, called “The Left as Hypocrites: How They Don’t Practice What They Preach,” was part of a seminar on “Deconstructing the Left” that was held for college students at the Reagan Ranch Center.
Young America’s Foundation
Comment by Vince P — December 1, 2007 @ 7:49 pm - December 1, 2007
#22-23 V, I just figured he was trying to bond with Bruce on a common interest (dogs). You know, making sure that old blue-blood-neo-nazi name-calling incident is off-radar
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — December 1, 2007 @ 8:40 pm - December 1, 2007
#21, “hysterical”? After you wrote the following on 11/30? BY GAY PATRIOT BRUCE……”After all, what else would you expect from a bunch of communist-protecting, socialist-breeding, Islamist-coddling, free speech-destroying, America-hating, angry anarchists who see a conspiracy in everything and try to destroy the lives of Americans that don’t share their angry view of the world?”……Now, THAT’S “hysterical”.
Comment by KYKid — December 2, 2007 @ 11:06 am - December 2, 2007
Hysterical but accurate.
Comment by V the K — December 2, 2007 @ 11:20 am - December 2, 2007
26: i would say hyperbolic yet accurate
Comment by Vince P — December 2, 2007 @ 11:47 am - December 2, 2007
And yet KY can’t refute it…
Comment by The_Livewire — December 2, 2007 @ 2:06 pm - December 2, 2007
ky thinks expressions of self-righteousness is the same thing is proving someone wrong.
Comment by Vince P — December 2, 2007 @ 2:27 pm - December 2, 2007
Isn’t that what all left-liberals think? (I’m sorry… *feel*)
Comment by V the K — December 2, 2007 @ 4:04 pm - December 2, 2007
So I guess we all agree — the blogger has redefined “hysterical”.
Comment by KYKid — December 2, 2007 @ 7:59 pm - December 2, 2007
The frothing, deranged hatred of the Democrat left shows itself once again as they respond to Henry Hyde’s death.
Comment by V the K — December 2, 2007 @ 10:42 pm - December 2, 2007
Solid agreement, apparently.
Comment by KYKid — December 3, 2007 @ 2:56 pm - December 3, 2007
No wonder they call it the looney left!
Comment by Dave_62 — December 4, 2007 @ 3:59 pm - December 4, 2007