What would it take for you to vote for a Republican?

Say for instance, it was a conservative democrat like Zell Miller running against a liberal republican like Arlene Spector of PA? Would you vote Republican then?

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True story!

particularly after watching him take Nixon down 30 years ago & then seeing him speak in Bryant Park this year a few minutes before Howard Dean.

Do you live in NYC?

by bailing on the Repukes and getting elected Governor of Conn. on the "A Connecticut Party" ticket.

As for Lieberman? Uh, he would later prove me right as well...

to rise from the grave and run on their ticket, or Mark Hatfield and Lowell Weicker to run on the same ticket.

but had just recently left working on/around 'The Hill.' Really respected Weicker. It is the only congressional election in 20 years that I was supportive of the republican over the democrat.

Interesting a year or so ago a Lieberman defender suggested that Lieberman was more liberal... so some 'ratings' checks - the few that date back through the eighties were pulled up.. and sure enough, though not by a whole lot, Weicker had a more liberal voting record in the Senate than Lieberman has had.

The weird thing is, I didn't know Lieberman from Adam, and I was more orthodox as a Democrat, after some flirtation with the Spartacists. But I didn't like what I was hearing about Liberman's "centrism," which I read as conservatism. It turned me off. And I suppose I just wanted to reward Weicker for his maverick reputation and independence from the Nixonites. So it didn't hurt at all to cast my one and only vote ever for a Republican.

Although, if that happened, I'd already be a Republican, right?

for some races there was only a Rethuglican...so I wrote in my family, my cats & my dog, and a few celebrities!

I cannot support anything that allows that party to remain in the majority.

In your situation, I would not vote in that race if there were no suitable alternative candidate.

Until the "liberal" Republicans disavow their fascist counterparts I will NEVER, EVER vote for a Republican.

I'd vote for Chafee and Snowe before Zell Miller.

I'd write in Nader's name before I'd vote for a Republican, whether his name was Specter or Miller.

I did not know that when I voted for him, or I would have voted for the republican. Next time, there was an "independent" running against him that I voted for.

as it stands now I wouldn't vote for God if the Republicans ran her on their ticket!

God? A Republican? :mad:BLASPHEMER!!!:mad:

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Naw, forget the free bottle. T'ain't a gonna happen.

held to my head then i would think about it.

And personally, I would rather have a bottle in front of me than have a frontal lobotomy. :7

Or maybe a gun to my head.

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were pro-choice, pro-environment, pro-union, pro-racial equality

in short, if the candidate were in fact a Democrat.

Gee will it come to that, in the "land of the free?"

Still no.

I would vote repuke for that.

I *might* vote for the anti-christ.. I mean Chimpy for $1,000,000. Though chances are I'd take the money and vote for someone else. :evilgrin:

So what.. I need money ya bastards! :evilgrin:

I would vote Green or Independent. But if I were limited to selecting between the two: Bu$h. (Surprised?)

My reasoning: Better to vote for the guy who you know is a bastard, then vote for the guy who pretends not to be.

he would be beholden to a democrat electorate, and he would be able to help pass democratic legislation through congress. he would also probably have some sense of fiscal sanity

and do a cost benefit analysis

If the Republicans were to nominate me and the job paid well, I would vote for myself. Strictly speaking, it's not an impossible scenario for that to happen. I'm not working on my acceptance speech.

but only as a strategic vote.

Here in this state, those of us registered as "unenrolled" can go to the primary and pick which ballot we want.

So, back in 88, when it was a pretty sure thing that Tsongas would take Massachusetts, I went into the primary and asked for a GOP ballot and voted for the Repug I thought least likely to win in a general election (Pat Buchanan).

Then before I left the polling place, I declared my self to be "unenrolled" again.

But they'd probably be Democrats today...

Lincoln was somewhat of a radical in his day---he was in the moderate wing of the early Repub party but he was supported by the radicals more than the conservatives.
Teddy Roosevelt hated big buisness and oligarchies.

1980, I was a student in PA, and Specter was running against Bob Case, an anti-choice Democrat.

If the republicans would have a foreign political agenda that wasn't "we got nukes so we do wtf we want", and they were more keen on making jobs that ppl could live on instead of outsourcing them I would most likely be a republican.. I like alot of their other moral and ethical views

before I vote for the asshead Zell Miller.

You'd have to pretty much torture me and tie my damn voting hand behind my back.If you are talking the lesser of the 2 evils here, I would come up with something better than that!!

Great question! I guess I would never vote for a Republican. Ever. The worst I would do is NOT vote for a Democrat, and even then I'm just not sure. I guess things like how many seats Democrats have in Congress is really important to me. If it was a matter of gaining a one or two seat majority, I would vote for the Democrat. If the Democrats had a comfortable majority, I guess maybe I'd have to consider it.

I'll look forward to other people's replies.

I cast a lot of Republican votes. Now that I am converting to Democrat,NEVER AGAIN will I cast a vote for any of them.


Their attitude towards the working class in this country has made it clear who they are and who they represent. The reason they so easily scoff at the suggestion of a "living wage" is because they are among the fortunate who have never been in the position to have to decide whether to buy food or pay the electric bill when there isn't enough money to do both,even though there are 2 adults working full time in the household.

Fuck 'em in the neck,I have seen the light and given no viable choices,will simply abstain from voting for anyone.

-- Allen

if they call themself a repuke than they will NEVER get my vote!

If the Republican is like Lowell Weicker and the Democrat is like Zell Miller. Otherwise, if I don't like the Dem. candidate, I'll skip that vote or write in.

i would probably write in a green candidate...

I'd give it up then

I wouldn't vote for either one.

I wish I could find the link of the political spectrum standing of both men, but it says that Specter is more to the left.

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before voting for Miller.

Or are they "too progressive"? :eyes:

Whn he ran for pres in 1988, I liked the way he sood up to Foulwell and others of that ilk. Being Jewish, it was a natural thing for him to do, amd I was favorably impressed (not that I would have voted for him).

Then, later during the RR hearings, he had Randy Weaver (neo Nazi) on the stand, and treated him like a honored guest. WTF????? This guy wasn't far from being another Erich Rudolph or Gordon Call!!!!

We are in a fight for our lives -- a literal fight if you are older or disabled and need to get health care and medications. We can't give any support to the party of corporate theft, even if there be a few honorable thieves in the bunch. We certainly can't risk having any more GOP in the Congress...yikes, what a thought. The decent ones just get shouted down anyway.

John Silber. Weld was an old-style liberal Republican I could respect. Unfortunately, there are very few left.

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Take a look at who John McCain's likely Democratic challenger in Arizona is going to be in 2004 and tell me you wouldn't vote for McCain over her:

http://www.lizmichael.org/

Ahh, who the hell am I kidding? No amount of money would ever make me vote for that motherfucker!

Why did I have to be born with a goddamned conscience?

and run as a repub candidate before he learned anything about the last 140 years...

afterwards he'd probably switch over anyway

same for teddy roosevelt and dwight eisenhower

otherwise i'd need a full frontal lobotomy, and someone to force my hand away form the (D) column

He's pro-choice and he's for the seperation of church and state.

It's often cases when I could deal with any Democrat running, but absolutely can't stand one of the Repukes. (I.e. the 2000 primary when I could have dealt with either Bradley or Gore, but rightly predicted that a Bush Jr pResidency would be a total fucking disaster. So I voted for McCain, as a Republican President I could live with - if I had to)

There are many Democrats that I would overlook for a Republican such as Weicker who HONORABLY fought witht the right wingers, especcially in the Reagan administration.

Weiker over Zell "I'm Dick Russell's Love Child" Miller
Weicker over Ralph Hall
Weiker over John Breaux
Weicker over Charles Stenholm

That's my price.

Then again, if chimp won again, I think I'd eat the whole bottle at one sitting.

Princeps barbarorum par Caesari non est! :evilgrin:

.....a hell of a lot. Like enough cash to get me out of debt by the next day.

In a local race, it depends. I make it a point to meet as many of the local candidates in person as I can. In the last Sheriff's race, I voted Republican because the guy running had stellar qualifications and the right attitudes -- didn't give a damn about catching potheads, was much more concerned with violent crimes, etc. The Democrat was an elitist jerk who wouldn't answer simple questions.

As soon as Satan starts serving up snowcones in hell.

1) I would have to completely lose my mind; and
2) I would have to become an American citizen

(not necessarily in that order, although I suspect they'd be related somehow, causally)...

...and we KNOW that #2 just AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN, no matter what. I mean, I'm pretty sure I'd have to lose my mind before I'd become an American citizen, but I KNOW for a fact that I'd have to lose my mind before voting for a Republican, even if I were already an American citizen. So I guess we're all safe. :)

And maybe not even then!