16 year old daughter asked me if there were any decent republicans

[greenbriar]

and I couldn't think of any




she asked " you would acknowledge one if it happened wouldn't you"



I had to stop and think...

I guess I would but it hasn't happened

[xmas74]

1. Do they have to be living to

be decent?

[greenbriar]

5. I was thinking in her lifetime

of course Lincoln..

but the party was different then

[xmas74]

7. Look for someone local.

Occasionally you can find a decent one locally.

We have a couple of decent ones who are in county offices but at that level they tend to run with whoever will take them.

[greenbriar]

14. good advice

wasn't even thinking local

becasue we were watching the super tuesday msnbc coverage

[xmas74]

15. Locals tend to go

for whoever will take them.

Look for a sheriff or a coroner. Often they'll switch parties as needed.

[frogcycle]

2. there was A. Lincoln

[FreepFryer]

Not any more. Lincoln, however, was pretty cool, as was Barry Goldwater. (n/t)

[DavidDvorkin]

19. Goldwater was far from cool in 1964

He improved as he got older and by contrast with the even worse nutwingers who followed him.

[usrbs]

3. Any decent Republican would have left what the party became in the last decade. n/t

[stillrockin]

4. None that are living anyway. Eisenhower is only one on my very short list.

Oh yeah, and Bill Clinton.

[graywarrior]

6. The only decent republican is a....

:rofl:

[Glorfindel]

8. Teddy Roosevelt, for his "trust-busting" and conservation efforts

I can't think of any live ones; Senator Lugar of Indiana would probably come closest.

[aquart]

9. Tell her to check out the attorneys Bush fired.

Every one of them was a Republican.

[Warpy]

10. There are a lot of good people who are GOP

either because that's how their family always registered or because they've been gullible enough to buy the party line and are too embarrassed to admit they've been bamboozled by the slickest bunch of thieves and liars in the history of this country. They're decent enough in their everyday lives, they just believe a lot of things that aren't true and vote that way.

That's how I'd answer it. One of my coworkers at my last job turned GOP when she snagged a yuppie husband. She wasn't dumb or self centered, just blinded by true love.

His job has gone west with the real estate boom here, so I'm thinking she's rethinking her commitment to that party.

[treestar]

11. Dwight D. Eisenhower wasn't all bad

He did warn us against the military-industrial complex.

Then again, he let Nixon be his VP. :rofl:

[patrick t. cakes]

12. teddy roosevelt

kinda.

[Rosemary2205]

13. I know several

one of them as asked by the county Republican party not to participate anymore because she voiced concerns about a county party platform that included pushing to get creationism declared a scientific fact and evolution to be declared a baseless theory by the local school system. She also objected to a local campaign strategy of pushpoll calls asking voters how they would feel if they knew a certain Dem town candidate had had 4 abortions and was on drugs. (outright lie)

There are decent people out there who believe in small government, empowerment of the individual but also compassion for the disabled etc and simply do not even recognize the monster the Pukes have turned the Republican party into.

[seabeyond]

16. there is one on the east coast not bad. wink. i forget his name. n/t

[greenbriar]

18. who?

I can't think of any

[seabeyond]

21. chafee is the one i was thinking of, per poster below me.

[Bozita]

17. Decent Republicans were placed on the endangered species list in January of 1981.

Efforts to preserve the species went awry due to funding cuts.

[renate]

20. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island

I was really sad when he lost his election because he seemed like a genuinely decent guy.

Of course, if he'd won, the Senate would still be in the hands of the Republicans, so I'm okay with it now. :)

(On edit: I took out the part about his party's voters not liking him, because I remembered it wrong. It's just that more voters voted for a Democrat, so I retract my statement about how he was punished for being a good guy.)

[Cleita]

22. There's a few like Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine. I don't

have a list but she stands out in my mind. I think she has also been treated rather shabbily by her party for being decent.