Who would you vote for?

[Horse with no Name]

[ironman202]

1. Where is this alleged Republican?

[oldcoot]

5. A Republican in Vermont

I believe that there is a Republican in Vermont who has promised to try to impeach Bush if elected.

[liberaliraqvet26]

8. How do primaries work in Vermont?

do you have to be a registered Republican to vote in their primary?

I would love to see him win the primary

[oldcoot]

25. I don't know

You might want to check with your local election officials. They should not be too busy yet and should be able to answer your questions.

[LisaL]

13. Elected where?

[oldcoot]

16. the House of Representatives

See http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050721/NEWS/507210422/1002/NEWS01 for more information.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

23. as long as he's not running agaisnt the great bernie sanders

for anything, i'm cool with him

[oldcoot]

24. He is not running against Sanders

According to the article, Sanders will be running for the U.S. Senate next time.

[Coastie for Truth]

9. When both Arlen Specter and Dick Thornburgh were just youngsters

Specter was an up and coming Philadelphia Progressive DEMOCRAT and Thornburgh was a Pro-Choice, Pro-Transit, Card Carrying Board Member of the ACLU.

[SunDrop23]

2. I can't say that I will EVER vote for a repuke.

[liberaliraqvet26]

6. Mayor Bloomberg of NYC is OK...

but then again he is a lifelong dem who changed to sweep a primary. I like Ron Paul's views on the Iraq War too. Every now and then Hagel makes sense. But thats about it.

[Catholic Sensation]

14. you'd rather enable the bush administration

than disable it because of some stupid letter next to the politician's name? how progressive :eyes:

[noamnety]

3. What do you mean by "did nothing"?

You mean they were absent for every single vote?

A republican that gets rid of BushCo and replaces it with another warmongering corporate regime that craps on human rights does me no good.

We need more info, because the assumption in this poll is that all other things are equal, but that's not ever the case, eh?

[Horse with no Name]

7. We have Democrats and Republicans on the Armed Services Committee

They have ALL seen these horrific photos.
I want a hero...and I don't care what political stripes it has.
Someone needs to speak up against these atrocities.
Part of the problem is the political polarization.
I want my Democratic leaders to come forward and disclose these atrocities...not keep their heads in the sand.
But if it ends up being a Republican that brings these photos to light while our Democrats sit there wringing their hands...that Republican will be my hero.

[noamnety]

18. Are you a single issue voter?

That's my point.

All other issues AREN'T equal. They need to not only stand up against torture, but also stand up against damaging the environment, gutting our budget, all sorts of things.

A republican that makes a stand on one issue alone, no matter how heroic, isn't getting my vote.

McCain's working on the torture amendments now, that's swell. I hope they manage to pass that. It's a good thing. But I wouldn't hand over my child's future to that hypocritical self-serving sack of corruption.

[Horse with no Name]

20. Not at all

but when our Congress is enabling these neocon asshats to rape women and sodomize children...that kind of trumps everything else, don't you think?

[noamnety]

26. I dunno

I don't know if it trumps poisoning the entire Iraqi region with depleted uranium. I don't know if it trumps forcing a woman who was raped to carry a resulting child to term. I don't know if it trumps allowing raw sewage and mercury and arsenic to be dumped in my drinking water. I don't know if it trumps watching mass deaths from AIDS while refusing to fund organizations that provide condoms. I don't know if it trumps cutting food stamps to starving people, or cutting access to health care from people that are terminally ill. I don't know if it trumps sending 1700+ US soldiers to their death based on a lie.

[BlueJazz]

4. Sadly enough..the majority of us already voted for...

..numerous Democrats that have done "Next to Nothing'..

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. I think it's safe to vote for a Republican in this poll

because I don't think there really are any who will do a damn thing to stop the crimes of this administration. Of course, most of the Democrats are still just sitting on their asses, too...

[LisaL]

11. If there was this miracle republican, I would vote for him.

[OrlandoGator]

12. I am actually quite fiscally conservative. Too bad the GOP is not.

n/t

[etherealtruth]

15. Hmmm if a repuke was ...

... pro-choice, wanted to get us the hell out of Iraq, was a fierce defender of civil rights, was strongly in favor of environmental protection, did not believe that tax cuts for the upper 1% (or 5%...) of the population was fair or wise, wanted to respect the freedom of religion and understood that to be a strict separation of church and state ...

VS.

A democrat that did nothing to TRY to undo the damage that the chimp and the evil cabal have done ...

I would have to vote for the repuke ... since that isn't likely to happen; I'm not likely to vote for a repuke.

Your thread does point out that I vote for people with ideology that is similar to mine vs. identification with a label. Some northern repukes come closer to reflecting my values than some southern democrats.

[Ysolde]

22. Believe me, a lot of southern "dems"

aren't, really. Our most recently passed abortion restrictions were authored by a female "democrat". So, in a lot of cases, the northeastern republicans are more progressive than the dems here ever thought about being. It gets very discouraging, but I'd still vote for a republican if they'd stand up and stop this cabal.

[emulatorloo]

17. Show me this fantasy Republican of yours and I might vote for him/her

Until then I will refrain from attacks on Hypothetical Democrats.

[Horse with no Name]

19. Actually this poll is pointing out something far more important

and that is our difference with the other party.
Most neocons will lockstep for the good of the party, while most progressives would do the RIGHT thing for the good of the country.

[emulatorloo]

21. gotcha and agreed n/t

[helderheid]

27. how telling!