List your 5 Least Favorite Interest Groups

[Kaine for Senate '18]

1.  Big Business










2.  Fundies
3.  Tea Party crowd
4.  Radical pro-choicers
5.  Anti-global warming

[Torie]

Public employee unions
Tort lawyers
AARP
Cap and Trade Lobby
Ethanol Lobby

[Bo]

1. Big business
2. Pro-abortion groups
3. Anti-global warming groups
4. The Arab/Muslim lobbies
5. The marijuana lobby

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

Off the top of my head (in no order):

1. Supply-siders/Fiscal Conservatives (US Chamber of Commerce, Club for Growth, etc.)
2. Insurance Companies
3. Oil Companies (Coal companies are up there too)
4. Neoconservatives/People who advocate or profit off or war
5. Abortion supporters (NARAL, Planned Parenthood, etc.)

6. The "atheist" anti-Christian lobby

[Zarn]

They are too many too name. So, I won't.

Anything..

1) Pro-Choice
2) That promotes 'traditional values'
3) Pro-massive expansion of social programs
4) Anti-gun
5) Anti-public schools

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

They are too many too name. So, I won't.

Anything..

1) Pro-Choice
2) That promotes 'traditional values'
3) Pro-massive expansion of social programs
4) Anti-gun
5) Anti-public schools

That one seems like an odd man out there...?

[Vepres]

In no order:

Public employee unions/UAW/Teachers' union, basically unions that are too strong
Latte-liberals
Neocons
Global warming alarmists
The "too big to fail" banks

Fundies
Large IT companies

[Iosif]

The God and Guns crew
Obsessive pro-lifers
The small government but not the parts I like hypocrites
Chest thumping nationalists
But most of all - the holier than thou (all) Libertarians. Thankful they only exist on the internet.

[Zarn]

They are too many too name. So, I won't.

Anything..

1) Pro-Choice
2) That promotes 'traditional values'
3) Pro-massive expansion of social programs
4) Anti-gun
5) Anti-public schools

That one seems like an odd man out there...?

There is a need to educate the future workforce. No education and capitalism does not work, correctly.

[nclib]

fundamentalist Christians
knee-jerk jingoists
anti-feminists
those against higher education/anti-intellectual
pro-big business ahead of individual welfare

[Filuwaúrdjan]

1. Rupert Murdoch
2. Rupert Murdoch
3. Rupert Murdoch
4. Rupert Murdoch
5. Rupert Murdoch

[Zarn]

pro-big business ahead of individual welfare

I believe that one is called "Democratic Party"

[frihetsivrare]

1.  "too big to fail" banks
2.  man-made climate change influences
3.  AIPAC
4.  anti-gun, such as the Brady Campaign
5.  establishment Republican tea party wing

[Vepres]

pro-big business ahead of individual welfare

I believe that one is called "Democratic Party"

No, no, no, they're called "politicians"

[Oakvale]

But most of all - the holier than thou (all) Libertarians. Thankful they only exist on the internet.

ZOMGZ YOU HATE LIBERTY

[Conservative frontier]

1) ACLU
2) Abortion industries
3) Anti-Family, Anti-Marrige
4) Pro-Marijuana Legalization groups
5) AARP

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Oh wow, my statment spawned this thread, I feel so dandy... Like I care.

I have about 10
1. Unions especially public sector unions
2. Open borders lobby/Immigrant advocacy groups
3. Identity Politics crowd
4. AARP
5. Trial Lawyers.
6. Enviro-Fascist
7. Big Agriculture
8. Too big to Fail Banks
9. Tobacco
10. Big Pharma/Big Insurance

[Badger]

They are too many too name. So, I won't.

Anything..

1) Pro-Choice
2) That promotes 'traditional values'
3) Pro-massive expansion of social programs
4) Anti-gun
5) Anti-public schools

Aren't both #s 1 & 2 and #s 3 & 5 somewhat contradictory?

[Zarn]

They are too many too name. So, I won't.

Anything..

1) Pro-Choice
2) That promotes 'traditional values'
3) Pro-massive expansion of social programs
4) Anti-gun
5) Anti-public schools

Aren't both #s 1 & 2 and #s 3 & 5 somewhat contradictory?

No.

Being Pro-life is not necessarily being a fan of 'traditional values.' It is just a belief in the right to life.

Public schools need to be locally based. What we have now is massive expansion through the federal government, although my comments on that were geared more towards other programs.

[cinyc]

1) Unions, especially of the public employee variety
2) So-called "progressives"
3) Global warming alarmists
4) Racist and sexist grievance mongers and groups (like Al Sharpton, la MEChA, NOW and the Southern "Poverty Law" Center)
5) Trial lawyers

[Mechaman]

1) Traditionalists
2) Anti-gun
3) Unions
4) Environment extremists
5) Politically correct wankers

[Badger]

They are too many too name. So, I won't.

Anything..

1) Pro-Choice
2) That promotes 'traditional values'
3) Pro-massive expansion of social programs
4) Anti-gun
5) Anti-public schools

Aren't both #s 1 & 2 and #s 3 & 5 somewhat contradictory?

No.

Being Pro-life is not necessarily being a fan of 'traditional values.' It is just a belief in the right to life.

Public schools need to be locally based. What we have now is massive expansion through the federal government, although my comments on that were geared more towards other programs.

OK, fair enough.