Everyone/anyone who has ever voted for a republican, any republican, since Lincoln

[ohiosmith]

should get down on their knees and beg the rest of us for forgiveness.

That is all!

[MrCoffee]

1. Just because you're old enough to have voted for Lincoln, gramps

Don't rub our noses in it.

[LynneSin]

2. That's not fair. Republicans weren't always that bad

Yes I've voted for Tom Ridge (Governor, the democrat was anti-choice and Ridge isn't) and Arlen Specter. I haven't voted republican since 2000 or I would seriously consider voting for Mike Castle here in Delaware (very moderate pro-choice, pro-environment guy).

The problem with the republican party was that fundies invaded it and took it over. Instead of being the party of less government they are now the party of big brother.

If I were a moderate republican like Castle or Specter, first thing I would do in 2009 is take back my party. Clearly Fundamental Xtianity and Politics do NOT work together.

[redqueen]

29. That might be regional though, no?

Seems to me that all TX republicans are ... ugh.

[LynneSin]

42. Some of your democrats aren't much better

I voted for NE republicans which in Texas standards are better known as democrats.

[dawgmom]

32. Right on

While I've never personally had to vote for a Republican, the issue of choice is a lithmus test for me. I could NEVER vote for an anti-choice candidate -- and I've made that very clear to the Democratic Party in recent years as I see them backsliding on the issue of choice. When they call me and ask for money, I always tell them: I support individual candidates, but I will not give to the Party as a whole again until you can guarantee me that my funds will not go to support anti-choice candidates.

[LynneSin]

43. Don't go tossing away a candidate just on choice - because there are some good ones

Bob Casey Jr comes to mind first - he's 'anti-abortion' but if anyone best defined 'pro-life' it would be Casey. He is opposed to abortions but he also realized that we need other options available and is ok with birth control pills and even EC. But most importantly is that a person like Bob Casey supports the child after it's born - wanting to provide things like healthcare, education and jobs. Plus a few judicial votes that made the senate floor, Bob Casey has opposed the more radical ones.

And Casey was an early supporter for Barack Obama, probably came up with one of the best campaign lines that everyone has been using - about John McCain not being a Maverick but a sidekick.

It's a different world today. I try to understand the reason why a democrat is against abortions and see their viewpoint on the entire process. Bob cares about families and taking care of them - he is worthy of our vote!+

[Skittles]

45. I disagree

as long as I can remember repukes have always sucked

[Ohio Joe]

3. Your correct

And I'm on my knees, begging for forgiveness. The first time I was able to vote in an election, I voted for Ronnie boy.... I'm sorry. Not only did I know nothing of the issues, I did not even try. Truth is, I voted based on commercials... Sorry.

On the bright side, I have paid attention since then and have since voted Dem!

[jobycom]

22. His correct? What about my correct? What about their's correct?

:rofl:

[lukasahero]

35. I :heart: jobycom

:rofl:

[unpossibles]

4. I would say more recently

I have voted for one or two on local levels before, but usually only if their opponent was completely awful. Also, I know quite a few conservatives who have learned that the modern day GOP has done nothing but screw them over, so I welcome them into the fold if I can.

[mwooldri]

5. I hate to say this but I owe a debt to Howard Coble of all people.

Thanks to his intervention in part, I'm here in the US. He isn't even our congressman - and certainly wasn't my wife's or wife's family at the time of need. He may have a voting record I don't agree with but for actually working for his constituents he's well a pretty cool dude for it.

Richard Burr - forget him.

Never had to contact Brad Miller about anything yet, so no thoughts on him.

Mark.

[TZ]

6. My Dad voted for Voinovich as governor

He liked him alot..:shrug:

[Redstone]

7. I've voted for LOTS of Republicans, on the local and state levels. I also REGISTERED

Repub for one day in 2000 to vote for McCain (or, rather, AGAINST Bush)in the Rublican primary.

That's why I've always registered independent (here in Conecticut, it's called "Unafilliated," because there's an actual Independent Party. I vote for the person who I think will do / has done the best job. If it's a tossup, I'll go with the Dem candidate.

Redstone

[JVS]

8. Kiss my ass, I voted for Grant and I'd do it again 1860-1932 GOP is good for me

Only with FDR does the Democratic party become an improvement over the Republican party.

[insanity]

9. Not true

Wilson was a decent progressive

[JVS]

10. He got us into a needless war! Fuck him right in the asshole!

[Fire Walk With Me]

15. ...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Sorry...I was again laughing to myself about your "Mr. B Natural" avatar as I read your preceding post, and then the next... "fuck him right in the asshole!"

It was lessened somewhat from having the MST3K short going through my head upon seeing your enraged comment...Context! The guy in the Chiquita Banana costume might not be taken as seriously as Obama! ;)

[jobycom]

17. Dude promoted the KKK from the White House lawn and opposed

women's suffrage until Congress forced it on him. In the words of Helen Keller, who had supported him at first, he was a big disappointment.

[LeftyMom]

19. Wilson was a racist douche.

[insanity]

30. Yes and no

I don't agree with segregation, but some of his SC appointments were key to laying down a legal basis for extension of the 14th Amendment.

[LeftyMom]

33. He actively removed most of the few people of color who were serving in government.

"Segregation is not a humiliation but a benefit, and ought to be so regarded by you gentlemen." -Woodrow Wilson

[PVnRT]

34. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Wilson was a vicious racist who ran on a pacifist platform in 1916...and promptly got us into a war we had no business in the next year.

[Oeditpus Rex]

11. I voted for a Republican every time he ran for the California Assembly and Senate

Bruce McPherson had a stellar environmental record; California's Central Coast would probably not enjoy the protections it does if not for him.

[Orsino]

12. Ah. Those who *do* admit to having voted Republican should apologize to those who don't.

Got it. :eyes:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

13. The ONE Republican I voted for in my life (Sen. Mark Hatfield of Oregon)

was pro-environment and against Reagan's war in Central America.

I'm proud that I did NOT vote for Bob Packwood, even though some of my women friends did, just because he was pro-choice. (So was his Democratic opponent, by the way.)

[Deep13]

14. I really don't need forgiveness from you.

That's partly because I was acting within my rights.

[bigwillq]

16. Naw.

I voted for republicans before, on the local level. Some were very good people.

[Fire Walk With Me]

18. Shirley MacLaine will have to tell me if I've ever voted Republican in any of my past lives.

Until then, I'm not sayin' nothin'.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

20. I voted for a Republican this election

for a local spot... he is by far the better choice

[cemaphonic]

37. Yep, same here

I'll vote Dem in a tossup, or if I don't know enough about the candidates, but occasionally the Republicans field a clearly superior candidate.

In my case, it was a socially progressive, fiscal conservative R against a socially and fiscally conservative D, who is kind of an asshat to boot.

[jobycom]

21. I voted for Trent Lott and Kay Bailey Hutchison.

Lott was my local representative in 84, and I was in love with a woman whose uncle worked for him. I was 19. I voted Democrat for every other spot, though, and never voted for him again.

And I voted for Hutchison in Texas in the early 90s, because the opponent was a Democrat who seemed more conservative than Hutchison. He later went on to work for a firm founded by Henry Kissinger and to personally award John Howard a prize his own family sponsored. So I don't feel too bad there.

Neither election was close, and many Democrats voted the way I did in both those elections.

[kwassa]

23. Connie Morella, my former congresswoman, very moderate Republican

Good person, but not a Democrat. Finally knocked off by Chris Van Hollen, with the argument that we needed to take back the House. Sorry, Connie, but had to do it.

[TZ]

24. I voted for her a couple of times

But after she voted yes on Clarence Thomas..that was it for me.

[Burma Jones]

27. I took English 101 from Connie Morella.......

about 12 years later, I saw her at an American Public Transportation Association happy hour where we watched interns feast upon free shrimp as though it was krill.........She did not remember me alas......

[Burma Jones]

25. Piffle......I voted Republican in the Maryland 6th Congressional District race in 1978

First Time I ever voted.

The Republicans did not run anyone against Beverly Byron that year, so, a homeless man from Baltimore scraped up the money to have his name put on the ballot as a Republican and I then cast the first of many votes for a doomed candidate....

Ahhhh, those were the days, when the 'Pukes didn't even run anyone.....

I do forget the name of the candidate




We also had ourselves an enormously decent man serve as a Republican Senator for a long time, Mac Mathias....

From Wikipedia:

"Mathias was elected to the Senate in 1968, unseating incumbent Democrat Daniel Brewster. He continued his record as a liberal Republican in the Senate, and frequently clashed with the conservative wing of the party. For a few months in late 1975 and early 1976, Mathias considered running an insurgent presidential campaign in an attempt to stave off the increasing influence of conservative Republicans led by Ronald Reagan.

His confrontations with conservatives cost him several leadership positions in the Senate, including chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee. Despite isolation from his conservative colleagues, Mathias played an influential role in fostering African American civil rights, ending the Vietnam War, preserving the Chesapeake Bay, and constructing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. He retired from the Senate in 1987, having served in Congress for 25 years. As of 2008, he is practicing law in Maryland."

[Beer Snob-50]

26. does it count that the first time i voted for prez

i voted for john anderson as the independant candidate. not for ronnie or jimmy carter (i was 18 and voted based on my pocketbook and the gas lines)

[redqueen]

28. Hahahahaha.

I've never voted for a Republican. Ever.

I have voted for Libertarians though. Only cause they were the only ones running against a repuke, though. :7

[dawgmom]

31. Methinks this is deliberate overstatement

However, as it is possible it is serious, let me say: while I have never personally voted for a Republican, I love a great many people who have voted Republican on occasion. There was a time when being a Republican meant fiscal conservatism, and not right wing religious fundamentalism. Also, there are places in this country where the only way to get elected to a local office is to run as a Republican. My BFF's sister lives in a very Republican county in Indiana, and the only way she could win election there as County Commissioner was to run on the Repub ticket. I personally know her to be a fine person who is pro-choice and very supportive of GLBT rights (her son is gay.)

The world is not all black and white. There are shades of gray.

[Sisaruus]

36. 1988: Lowell Weicker (R) v. Joe Lieberman (D)

I voted for Lowell. No regrets.

(Weicker has endorsed Obama in this election. Lieberman is not worth discussing.)

[YellowRubberDuckie]

38. Republicans used to be the Democrats.

The platforms have flip-flopped more than once.
Duckie

[Lucian]

39. I have never voted for one single Republican.

:)

[Jade Fox]

40. There is a local, perennially re-elected Republican.....

who I have voted for in the past, but not this year. He's outta there!

No excuse for being a Republican after the last eight years!!

[triguy46]

41. I voted Saturday...

keeping true my pledge to never, never, never vote for any repug under any circumstance. A promise I have kept since 1972. I will tolerate no variance, no excuses, no "I vote for the person not the party" crap. True blue.

[Zavulon]

44. I did, twice.

Voted for Reagan in '84 and Bush in '88. In retrospect I am not proud of myself, especially given the latter vote, but I'm not going to beg for forgiveness at all because I don't care if I get it. I've admitted my mistakes here and in my profile, and that's as far as I go.

[billyoc]

46. Is it OK if you did it for money?

:evilgrin:

[qwlauren35]

47. Weld (R) was the better choice when I voted for him in Mass.

I guess you had to have been there.

It always amuses me that Massachusetts ends up with Republican governors.

So, I'm not begging forgiveness.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

48. Not American and have never voted for conservatives in my own country

But that was only because I was too young to do so in 1993. One of our major parties had a conservative leader who a right wing nut on fiscal policy but nevertheless pro-choice, very socially liberal and very enlightened on foreign policy. He lost the election unfortunately but since the election he's been a vocal critic of Dubya and the Iraq War and has argued for a more compassionate approach to refugees and asylum seekers. That at one stage actually placed him to the left of the major social democratic party in our coutry

Actually the same applies to our conservative Prime Minister back in the 1970s, who emerged as a leading statesman in the fight against apartheid and to this day remains one of the most passionate crusaders against racism and injustice I have ever come across. I would have voted for him any day of the week

[lightningandsnow]

49. Well, I'm under 18, and I'm Canadian, but...

In my old riding, the Liberal candidate was a social conservative, extremely crooked, and actually hated by most of the Liberal party. (When your own party thinks you're an asshole, you know you're in trouble.) We've had some decent Conservative candidates there - generally pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, and so on. If I still lived there, I may be tempted to vote Conservative if they ran a good candidate, but if the Conservatives won in that riding, I'd be pissed off that a seat in parliament went to the Conservatives, even if it was a decent candidate.

If I still lived there, I'd probably vote NDP (New Democrats - to the left of the Liberals), because even though I'm a pretty strong Liberal, I actually like some of the NDP's social policy better. (As in, I'm a huge social liberal). I'm more centrist economically, so, I don't typically support the NDP because of their economic policies, but I'm heavily sympathetic towards them. The NDP doesn't have a chance in hell of winning where I used to live, though.

Hope I'm not boring/confusing you with my talk of Canadian politics!

[av8rdave]

50. I'm a former Republican (changed in the late 80s)

I feel I didn't change as much as the Republican party did.

[Marrah_G]

51. My mayor is a Republican- but he is a Mass Republican

He's a good mayor. I'd vote for him again.

I also once voted for Lincoln Chafee- But that's "Lincoln" so I guess I am in the clear on that one.

[lukasahero]

52. I voted for John Chaffee - twice.

And I'd have voted for his son if I still lived in RI (but not in the last election). In parts of New England (RI especially), our Republicans are more liberal than a great number of Democrats.

[mentalsolstice]

53. Sorry, I voted for one today

I voted for Repub today for district judge. As a retired attorney, I knew both men running, and in this case I have a lot more trust in the Repub.