you can bet he'd be sucking up to the tea party.

...unless there was a GOP majority in Congress.

There is no such thing as a 'good' Republican, and 'BanTheGOP's' tagline, "Until it is banned, the Republican party is, has been, and always will be, America's Ultimate Hate Crime against Humanity," fits nicely here.

The Conservatives are nothing but a legalized group of criminals and need to be marginalized, to say the least.

and I voted for him- along with most of the liberals and progressives in Vermont.

Dude always had my respect. Oh, wait, he's now a Democrat

In the spring of 2007, McCloskey announced that he had changed his party affiliation to the Democratic Party. In an email and letter to the Tracy Press, McCloskey stressed that the "new brand of Republicanism" had finally led him to abandon the party that he had joined in 1948. He followed this up with an op-ed column in which he explained that "Disagreement (with party leadership) turned into disgust" and "I finally concluded that it was fraud for me to remain a member of this modern Republican Party", although it was a "decision not easily taken."

If so, then my vote for Zell Miller as Governor of Georgia.

Talk about a wasted vote!

Did you know that Zell Miller was the politician who introduced James Carville to Bill Clinton?

I was too poor to make a donation!

My daughter recently had the Young Harris college recruiting her.

I told her no way in hell was she going to Zell Miller land for ANYTHING. Especially, NOT a college education.

Haven't heard from him in a while.

Thank goodness!

She was a good republican, back when we had a few good ones. But they are all gone now.

I don't know much about her except that she makes a lot of RWers rapid. So, she can't be too bad.

She seems reasonable though, votes with Snow on a lot of issues. But, when she speaks she sounds like a Republican to me.

I don't agree with him on everything by any stretch of the imagination, but he is actually sane and by all accounts a good man. It seems he is someone who would actually put the country first. He comes from a similar background as Romney in some ways (from a wealthy Mormon family) but he largely made his own path and refused large-scale infusion of his family's wealth into his 2012 campaign.

I looked at the GOP promary process and kept thinking to myself, Huntsman seems like the only repub in the bunch who comes across as sane, willing to reach across the aisle, not willing to pander to tea party types, which means he had absolutely zero chance to get the GOP nomination.

During the Republican primaries Huntsman was the only one I thought I could live with.

but they don't exist anymore....I think Chafee in NH comes the closest.

If Arnie Vinnick ever runs for office, he's got my vote.

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was a County Attorney(equivalent of a district attorney). He was a Republican on the ballot, but really, its one of those offices where the partisanship generally doesn't matter or come into play. I knew him personally, he was actually fairly moderate, and pretty much is supported by both the Republican and Democratic county party's. But beyond that... I could stand John Hunstman representing me, I could deal with a Barry Goldwater type person- who at least isn't stuck to the hip with a bunch of hyper-religious fanatical nonsense.

I'm trying to think of a Republican I could name now that I would vote for.... Oh, I could stand voting for a Susan Collins or Olympia Snowe- but even then, I'd probably vote for the person with a D next to their name for the control of the legislative body. <_^

... like a conservative. So in the end i never voted for him even though for several elections he had no opponent. 2 years ago he had an opponent that got 35% of the vote. This year he has a real opponent, and I hope he beats my old friend.

There are none I would vote for here in Kentucky. Think Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul and you get the two varieties of dangerous dumbass Rethuglicans here.

... and running against an anti-gay Democrat for State Rep.

not often but it happens

My very first presidential vote. My father marched me to the courthouse. Luckily it was a butterfly ballot. It didn't seem right just punching one little hole so I punched them all on that page and thus negated my vote. All my votes.

By the time the next election rolled around I had wised up.

Of course, I was too young to vote during Eisenhower's presidency, but in today's republican party he'd be a flaming liberal. In truth, I probably wouldn't vote for him because I distrust ex-generals as civilian presidents on principle, but for the most part his actual presidency was a much higher point in American government than most recent administrations.

...only about republicans who would be palatable TODAY.

Rep. Paul Henry who tragically died of a malignant brain tumor after serving several terms in congress. RIP Paul. I'm sure he'd be a Democrat now. His family are all campaigning for Steve Pestka to try to defeat that despicable bagger Justin Amash.

I never have, nor never will I ever vote for a Republican, although there have been one or so I have admired. I just can't digest their philosophy, since they go against everything I believe in.

And welcome to DU!

for Senate over DiFi simply because she refused to debate her GOP contender -- I found that appallingly arrogant and dismissive on her part. I think that is the sole GOPer I have ever voted for.

That said, ff my choice were between a northeastern moderate GOPer and a southern Blue Dog, my most likely choice would be the former.

he droped out of the gop primary race after the state convention. He endorsed Obama in 2008 i think.

Weld vs Silber? I went with Weld. I voted against Ed King also, went with Frank Hatch.

Couldn't tolerate either Silber or King.

Warner was appalled that Oliver North was in a position to possibly be elected Senator. He sponsored/supported an independent bid by Norm Coleman (who was a Republican) who managed to siphon enough votes that Chuck Robb squeaked by to win reelection in Virginia.

Warner was challenged for the nomination when he was up for re-election a few years later, had most of the state Republican party actively campaiging for his primary opponent and still managed to win the nomination thanks to Dems that crossed over during the primary.

before the Marriage Equality Vote. It was a fairly long email and I quoted Mildred Loving's statement on gay marriage. He wrote back to me, personally, not a form response. This really surprised me since I am sure all those Republican State Senators were swamped with calls and emails.

He basically said that although his religion was against gay marriage, as an attorney representing all people, he had to put aside his religion and vote based on the latter. Sane?

I have only voted 2 times (I'm 64) for a Republican in my life, as an Independent. Gerald Ford and George Patakai. "Fool me once" applies there.

If you think NY Republicans are not "good", move to Florida. You will learn very quickly what INSANE really means.

"I didn't leave the Republican Party." "The Republican Party left me." He is an Independent now, AND campaigning for OBAMA.

I voted for Reagan in the 2nd term. At that time I voted for the man not the party. Although I nearly always voted for the Democrat. Since then I have only voted for Dems.

In a local race, I'm voting for a repub because I know the Dem, and I can't stand her. She's a lying, back stabbing ass, and I would only vote for her if she was running to pick up excrement.

I lived in Maine. This was way before the Republicans went off the deep end.

It is really weird, I had a whole different viewpoint of the Republican Party when I lived in Maine then the way I have come to view them living in Oklahoma. People who live in states that are not red states do not see just how crazy the Republican Party can be.

Looking back I would have voted for him, can't remember who I voted for instead of him. Probably was a straight Democratic party vote. I can't believe John Heinz was in the same party of Pat Toomey, sen. now from PA.

…had Heinz not been killed in the mid-air collision in 1991, he would've run for President in 1996, likely winning the GOP nod as a centrist by today's standards.

You have to remember that when Heinz died, Bush the Smarter was riding at an all-time high in the polls after Desert Storm. Re-election looked certain for him in 1992. The 1996 election was but a parlor game for the political wonks. Given the choice between Heinz and Quayle for President, all the smart money would've supported Heinz.

He's an honorable man who places Country over Party, I think.

there's Eisenhower, Lincoln, and maybe Jon Huntsman.
Yes, Lincoln did see Blacks as scum and was hesitant about freeing the slaves, but he at least did what was moral and made slavery illegal.
I'm a big fan of Eisenhower's 90% tax rate on millionaires. There's another Republican who did what was in the country's best interest as a whole. He knew that those were the people who could afford to pay extra in taxes in order to keep the country afloat. All of that revenue was spent towards things like infrastructure and funding working class programs. Good luck finding a Republican today who would even agree to raise the top income tax rate to 40%.
Finally, we have Huntsman. He was arguably the most liberal Republican from the 2012 GOP primaries, and at least valued science and secularism unlike his GOP compadres. I also liked his stance regarding both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

The Democratic Party was still against civil rights for African Americans and didn't improve much until FDR.

If I were a Republican voting in the primaries.

However, being an Independent in Maryland, that isn't going to happen.

My first election in 1980 I was a zero information voter.

I got better.

no democrat is running and our union endorsed the non crazy. so i actually voted in their primary.

btw - our republican won.

There have been Republicans I have admired in my voting lifetime, like Sen. John Heinz for instance.

If Heinz had lived, and run for president in 1996 - a definite possibility - I would have had to vote against him, even though I think he may have been a good president at a different, theoretical, point in time.

by working with former Detroit mayor Coleman Young.

primary. He was kind of an ass but a home town guy and I was friends with his son. That's pretty much what it takes for me.

Definately Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt.

Maybe Eisenhower. I might have said Nelson Rockefeller but not since I learned he destroyed a Diego Rivera mural he had commissioned for Rockefeller Center because Rivera put Marx and Lenin in it.

I really can't think of anyone else. Certainly not any members of the current crop.

And Teddy Roosevelt.

Pretty reasonable, moderate guy. The GOP now considers him apostate and heretical; he endorsed Obama.

back before he split off with the Progressive Party.

The first one, and also the last one.

I'm voting for Chris Nocco as Sheriff of Pasco County. He's a proud Republican, but he gets the job done.

I have a few other Republicans on my ballot, just not for POTUS.

every republican i would vote for if they were alive today are dead.