Name your favorite Republican

[Sannum]

And be nice!

Mine:

[southernlad]

1. I have one..

Mine is:

[whistle]

8. And she is....???

...the lady in your picture I mean.

My favorite republican politician has to be Everett Dirksen

<snip>

Everett McKinley Dirksen (January 4, 1896 – September 7, 1969) was a Republican U.S. Congressman and Senator from Illinois. He helped pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964, raising civil rights legislation above the state level, where it had remained blocked for decades. Pragmatic and broadly non-partisan, he shifted from being a major Republican critic of Truman and confidant of Eisenhower to become an ardent Republican supporter of LBJ. <more>

<link> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett_Dirksen

My favorite republican person is my 42 year old son because he is really a great father to his children, a loving husband, an honest and hard working professional and just a terrific person who I am proud to call my son. I still don't understand why he is a republican. But I love him...:-)

[Winamericaback]

9. Dixie Carter

If I am not mistaken, that is Dixie Carter of Designing Women

[southernlad]

24. Yes it's Dixie...

Sorry I am a designing fanatic and I just assumed everybody would know her. Sorry!

[Dem2theMax]

11. I had the honor of being on the same post 9-11 flight with her

when we were finally able to get flights home. She spent the entire flight going to the bathroom. Just a little gossip there for ya. ;)

Edited to add: I can't think of a single republican to name.
OK, one, but she's no longer with us. My Aunt, who died on Sept. 7, 2001. Returning from her funeral is the reason I was flying home on the same plane as Dixie Carter.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

2. Can't do. There is not one I can think of right now

that I have any respect for.

[flygal]

3. Nah - he still voted for *

can't think even slightly nice about repugs right now. sorry.

[NamVetsWeeLass]

4. My Favorite Repub is dead....

His name was John Heinz. Died in 91 in a plane crash. You all might know his wife...Teresa Heinz Kerry.

[The Zanti Regent]

5. None

They all sold their souls to Ayn Rand

[bleedingheart]

6. Lincoln and Trust Busting Teddy Roosevelt...

and they are both dead.

[doni_georgia]

16. Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt are it for me too

Can't think of any after them I agree with. Now, I do love my dad even though he is a republican, but don't think that was what you were after.

[Ladyhawk]

7. If I had a favorite Republican...I would name him "Fluffy." n/t

[morgan2]

10. i'd say jerry falwell

I love how he makes a mockery of religion. Sits there and says whatever he can to manipulate people into sending him money/voting for his candidates. If it was causing so much crap in the world, it'd really be funny.

[Laelth]

12. Teddy Roosevelt was good.

Abe Lincoln was good. Eisenhower was cool too.

Now, I don't know of any true Republicans. All I see is a bunch of wanna-be Fascists (and some true Fascists too).

-Laelth

[robbedvoter]

13. Ken Philips. Judge Souter.

But if they ran for anything, I'd still not vote for them.

[Octafish]

14. US Rep Pete McCloskey and Judge Lawrence E. Walsh

McCloskey ran against Nixon for the GOP presidential nomination in 1972. When Pat Robertson ran for prez in 1988, Pete recalled for the public record how Pat was a USMC officer who chickened out of combat, leaving his men by getting off the troop ship in Yokohama. McCloskey was on the same ship.

Waslsh is the Special Prosecutor who investigated Iran-Contra. He got convictions against a bunch of the Reagan-Bush White House staff, including the turd Oliver North. He'd have gotten more, but Poppy pardoned a lot of them.

Of course there are others, from Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Everett Dirksen, John Percy and William Milliken as well as more than a few of today's US Senators.

Most of the great GOP politicians are out of the picture. On the whole, today's GOP are greedy, evil, fascistic bastards.

[Laelth]

17. I read Walsh's autobiography.

He's got a tremendous ego, he's a big-time name-dropper, and his writing style promises to permanently cure insomnia, but you have to give him this much. He loathes what the Republican party became during the 70's and 80's. He's an honest, Republican, at least, and he believes in fiscal sanity.

-Laelth

[Octafish]

23. Here's the skinny on McCloskey and Pat "Pass The Loot" Robertson

2nd Lt. Pat Robertson USMC ABANDONED HIS COMMAND
during the Korean War. No kidding, the guys who remember the story include ex-GOP US Rep. Pete McCloskey, one of the Marines who went on and got wounded in the fighting.

Marion "Pat" Robertson was well on his way to the heavy fighting on the Korean peninsula, a young 90-day wonder second lieutenant, leading his USMC platoon when he got the call that maybe his life was too important to risk on the battlefield.

Robertson bragged to the other Marines onboard a troop transport heading toward the fighting that his pappy would pull strings and get him off the ship when it pulled into Yokohama, its last stop before Korea. The other Marine officers thought he was joking.

Robertson was not joking. He called Daddy, then a very conservative Democratic Senator from Virginia. The coward got off the ship and left his platoon leaderless.

at waved bye-bye from the dock. Most of the officers and Marines on the ship went on to get wounded and killed. Pat did his "service" in Japan, where he became known as became known as "The Liquor Officer."

The story was repeated in 1988 when Robertson ran for president as a “Combat Veteran.” The source of the story was Pete McCloskey (R-Calif.), one of the surviving USMC officers who was on the transport. Robertson sued McCloskey for libel and defamation of character, but dropped the suit the day the trial was set to begin. Slick move.

Here's a great resource on the subject:

http://www.schlatter.org/liquor_officer.htm

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

15. Bumbling Gerald Ford...seemed a decent sort.

Sort of like a puppy stepping on it's own ears. The Republican Party in those days actually had people who could be described as "moderates". Ford was one of them. After Nixon, he seemed human in a hapless sort of way.

[JNelson6563]

18. Former MI Governor, Bill Milliken

You should see the endorsement for Kerry he sent to our local paper! He also chided his own party for the nasty tone during the 2002 elections. He is a class act all the way.

Here are some links:

http://www.record-eagle.com/2004/oct/102204.htm

http://www.record-eagle.com/2004/oct/18mil2.htm

Julie

[Dzimbowicz]

19. I would have to say my father

and my sister as well. Both are nice people, but are rather well to do financially, so hence their political leanings.

Here is a good 'believe it or not...':
In 1964 my father petitioned the Colleton County, SC election board to allow republicans on the ballot; and he won.

[Deja Q]

20. A repub in power or a friend/acquaintance who is one?

n/t

[CarbonDate]

21. Dead and living:

Dead: Robert LaFollette (cheating, I know)


Living: P.J. O'Rourke (I think he's funny, even if I don't agree with his views)

[salin]

22. how about favorite former-republican?

former senator and governor Lowell Wiecker (sp) from Connecticut - but I think he is now an independent. The only republican I ever rooted for to beat his democratic challenger who was more conservative than Wiecker.... you might know that "democrat"... likes the term "Joementum" and is lobbying for a job with the bush administration.

[haunce]

25. Fav Republician

Cant think of any LOL

[Kestral]

26. NONE!!!

If You voted republican, you voted against America!!!

[proud patriot]

27. My Grandfather

:shrug:

I also kinda like that Gary Johnson Fellow
from New Mexico .