Would you consider voting for a Republican if...?

they split from their Party and voted for healthcare reform? If someone like the moderate Republican women from Maine or other Republicans voted in the national interest, rather than following the dictates of their Party, would you consider voting for them in their next election to protect them from the right-wing voters that might desert them because of their vote? Would they consider voting for healthcare reform if they had that backup Democratic support?

But I don't think I could cast a vote for Collins.

whoever on the left is available, just to show some support for them. I do actually like having Snowe with her seniority down there in DC. But I also wish she would side with the left more.

I wish she'd jump ship...but I think enough dems and independents vote for her that she doesn't need to. She made an appearance at the Fryeburg fair the summer before the 2008 elections and people could not get enough of her. They LOVE her.

which own them completely right now. The Dems have plenty of corporate scumbags also.

There is no way in Hell I could ever cast a vote for any Republican.....

His Democratic opponent sounded more Republican/Conservative than he did so I said screw that, and voted "R" that time.

On a national level? I dunno...I guess it would have to depend on where this person stood on other issues, and whether I could trust him/her to stick to those issues.

I voted for Specter when he was a Republican. No change in my position now that he's a Democrat - he still gets my vote.

My state Senator is a wonderful woman who has her heart completely into what is best for the state and our local region. She's a Republican and she always gets my vote.

The list is small, but if the candidate deserves it and isn't opposed to the true causes we believe in, then their party affiliation isn't a big deal for me. It does confuse the fuck out of the wingnuts in the neighborhood that I would have a sign out for a Republican next to one for a Democrat. I do that just to mess with their heads.

Speaking of which, none of the wingnuts have flags out for Kennedy. A couple of the other Democrats have them out, but "fly every day" wingnut down the street actually took his IN! Asswipe.

The positions are more important than the labels.

But they would have to split on more than just health care.

Indie, or Green? Absolutely, and will continue to do so.

But a righty? No way. There's only the slightest chance that such a person would be supporting something humane if there wasn't some typically warped, pro-corporate, pro-police state agenda lurking in the shadows below the surface.

I've voted for Republicans before, and probably will again at some point. Particularly in local elections I'm more concerned about the candidate's character and positions; up here in New England a lot of pols are in the GOP just because our party crowds out a lot of the younger hopefuls.

Would you consider voting for a Democrat if you knew that he/she "WOULD NOT" live up to his/her campaign promises to end our two fronted war poste haste, or if you had known he/she would continue bush administration policy by reupping Blackwater's contract and paying Blackwater a near total of two hundred million dollars in funding for continued services in Iraq and Afghanistan?

I voted for Obama.....but I never voted once for either of the bush's.

Would you, if you were a Republican, consider voting for a Democrat that supported the war and Blackwater and most of the Bush Administration policies in Iraq and Afghanistan? Do you know any Repubs that would support these Democrats?

Sorry....your question isn't even moot....if you've been reading my posts, which I have to doubt, you would have noted that I was at one time in my life a member of the democrat party and the republican party. Then by a stroke of fate or just flat waking up I quit party politics.

Frankly I don't care whether "any repub" would support any of those democrats, anymore than I care whether or not democrats would support any republicans....of course I'm referring to the hardcore extremists in both parties. Most people even party members that have open minds vote for their person of choice not party. Unfortunately today I cannot but assertain that most party members, especially the hard core members, aren't nearly as openminded as they once were and vote with the herd right or wrong.

Just as frankly I see both the democrat and republican parties each stuck in their hate filled past, devoid of any new or even refurbished improvements on viably workable solutions to problems that were voted out by the party in current majority at the time or shelved in committees still gathering dust. This should give you a strong hint about which political direction I'm going. Did it?

Even if an individual republican is acceptable, I still wouldn't vote for them because republicans tend to so easily fall into group-thinking lockstep, with even the "moderates" going along with the extremists on important issues.

No, the old rule is the best: the fewer republicans, the better. For America and for Americans.

Wow!??

I remember being impressed by Nixon in China and thinking that he would probably win. :shrug:

I later figured things out and actually worked on the Carter campaign in '76 (playing cassette tapes over the phone to radio news departments at 6 AM).

unfortunately even living in a blue state, we still get radical right-wing crazies running on the GOP ticket.

it would depend on who they were running against, and where they stood on other issues.

The "moderate women from Maine" are senators so their terms are six years.

It seems to me pretty far fetched to say it would be better to re-elect them for a six year term than to replace them with a Democrat.

become dems.

Might have considered it in the past, but no longer. People like Snow and Collins will have to change parties, or change careers.

There is no excuse for any person not a registered Republican voting for anyone on the party's ticket, and precious little excuse even for a registered Republican to do so.

the right of center. I wouldn't usually vote for someone who doesn't have my financial interest at heart. Usually the democrat party help the people in the lower middle class. I think alot more people would vote for democrats if it were for the social issues.

The GOP junta is too dangerous for me to consider supporting even a fringe member.

There are sell outs on both sides and they get away with it by blaming the process. Who ever is in the majority, gets to line their pockets with special interest money, knowing all the while they can blame any lack of progress on the tactics of obstruction by the minority party. Both roads lead to us, the people, getting ignored by the folks we pay $75 million a year to do our business.

I'm hoping the election next year, when America has a chance to dump bipartisan politics in and of itself and stock congress with off party candidates.

How stupid would you have to be, if you refused to vote for a Republican on general principle, if he or she shared your ideals more than a Democratic candidate.

not after their theft of 2000, they'll never get my vote and I don't care what they do.

I can't even think about voting republican, it makes me throw up in my mouth a little.

Seriously, the only time I would consider it is if the Republican was very moderate, and they were running against one of the blue dogs holding up health care reform. But simply to protect them from their own party, I wouldn't. If they want Democratic support they can register Democrat.

I occasionally voted repug in the past in some local races. The party is now controlled by complete whack jobs, one of whom cost me my job of 20 years, along with those of many of my co-workers. Some of them were there longer than I was. My life is completely ruined because of these motherfuckers. No way in hell would I ever vote for one of them again. If the they run uncontested, I write someone in.

No matter what comes after "If...". The GOP has evolved into the Anti-America party and must die.

Voting for any republican is always a mistake. The so called "moderates" of the GOP exist only to weaken Democrats.