Have you ever voted for Republicans . . .

[defendandprotect]

and please add what changed for you --- ????

[Beregond2]

1. Once

Dan Evans had been a fine governor in WA state, and I had been impressed when I met him once, so when he ran for Senator I voted for him. He went to DC and turned into Ronnie Raygun's little lap-dog, turning his back on everything he had stood for in WA. I learned my lesson; never again!

[grantcart]

3. I worked for Evans campaign (we ran a parallel McGovern campaign on college campuses)

and had a lot of contact with him. He all but publicly renounced Nixon/Agnew. I was overseas during his short time in the Senate so I cannot comment directly on your experience but would note that his experience with Republicans at the national level was so unhappy for him that he simply walked away rather than continue as a United States Senator which he had won with a landslide victory (with your help). Maybe he just realized that it was hopeless to try and have an impact on these dinosaurs and just decided to count the days and leave.

[flyarm]

2. never..eom

[XOKCowboy]

4. Never...

In the 38 years that I've been eligible to vote, I've never seen a Republican that I wanted to vote for. Now considering that I'm an old hippy who almost had to go to Vietnam I might be a little prejudiced. In a good way.

[Political Heretic]

5. I have voted for republicans at the state level, and will again.

Before you judge, Idaho is a strange state.

Right now I live in District 19, which means I have the privilege of voting for the states one and only openly gay legislator who is also - as you might have suspected - a democratic. So the pressure's off for a while.

But there are republicans in some districts that we, as community organizers and actives, urge people to support. They are good on our issues. Many times no democratic is running against them, BUT in our state you can sometimes have crazies from other parties running for their seat -- sometimes the republican is the lesser of two evils.

You can't take a "scorched earth" policy of zero-tolerance for republicans in this state. You have to find ones you can work with and support them against the crazy extremists that are always trying to unseat them.

[proud patriot]

6. nope

[dysfunctional press]

7. not even once, and i've been voting for 30 years.

nt

[Zookeeper]

8. Once for Governor, because the Democrat was anti-choice.

And once for County Sheriff.

That's it.

[KharmaTrain]

9. Fun With Repugnicans...

At one time, my area was so red there was no real Democratic party. When my wife and I would go vote, they were hard-pressed to get us a Democratic ballot...one precinct captain once told us..."we've never had a Democrat walk in here". In many cases, the GOOP primary WAS the local election (just as is the case with the Democrats in many large cities).

On a couple of occasions when there was no real race of importance on the Democratic side, I've "hopped the fence" to have some fun voting for the most objectionable GOOPies possible. I was tempted to vote in the GOOP primary this year, but my man, Tom Tancredo, bailed on me. :rofl:

There's no way I'd ever vote for a Repugnican in a general election, only in their primaries.

[ExtraGriz]

10. Bill Cohen..

voted for him when he and George Mitchell were our senators

[Kitty Herder]

11. I voted for McCain in the 2000 primaries.

Just to vote against Bush.

[aquart]

12. For John Lindsay and Rudy Giuliani.

The Rudy vote was a favor to my sister, a shopkeeper. He curbed the rent tax.

[HardWorkingDem]

13. Only when...

it was local races where I absolutely knew the Republican was a better candidate than the Dem....

[east texas lib]

14. Never Republican...

But I did vote for Perot once. Doh!:eyes:

[Gore1FL]

15. In a mock election in high School

I voted for John Anderson. He was a Republican before he went third party.

[CANDO]

16. Yes when I was very young and stupid.

It was my first time voting and I was in the Navy and all I cared about was the second amendment. That was what I thought politics was all about at the time. Understand I'm from rural north-central PA and you grew up hunting and fishing and all that sort of thing. That was 1984. Got out of the Navy and soon learned hard economic realities and then landed in a Teamster represented trucking career. I've now been a Teamster for 19 years and counting. After 1984 I never voted R again.

[Dark]

17. At the local and county level, the D/R isn't a distinction.

I voted for a republican prosecutor who wanted to tackle gun crimes over a dem who wanted to go after drug crimes.

[LoZoccolo]

18. I voted for Peter Fitzgerald in 1998.

Eventually succeeded by Obama, lol.

There was also an interesting gubernatorial election that year where the Republican George Ryan was actually more liberal on a lot of issues than his Democratic challenger, Glenn Poshard, but I still voted for Poshard.

[NuttyFluffers]

19. y'know, this sounds odd 'cuz i'm registered as one, but besides primaries i never have

primaries kinda don't count because after all those positions to vote for eventually i just don't care about certain small fries after awhile. it's just a preliminary round for the most part, and writing in everyone eventually gets tiring. do you care who wins the GOP primary of county dogcatcher? i know i don't at that point. in the general, yes, but not the primary.

but after that, nope. for some reason my party puts up really bad candidates year after year. i'm beginning to think there's some sort of conspiracy to choose the least qualified yahoo.

perhaps the powers that be are testing whether there's a segment of the population so well conditioned that they can fly anything up the flagpole and they'll salute it. i know i'd test that out with bigger jackass puppets every time just to watch with humor a sure thing; i mean, Reagan and Bush Jr. was elected, you think someone out there is laughing his ass off!

[Eurobabe]

20. No, not since 1992

Not for Pres., Senate, Congress. What changed me? Higher education. :hi:

[cyclezealot]

21. There might be a handful who are not Repuke zombies

Did you read, ex GOP Sen. Lincoln Chafee endorsed Obama. Must admit my first vote fo, r prez. Humphrey, Nixon. I regret being sucked in thanks to LBJ's VietNam record and the idiotic stick of Nixon's 'bring us together. ' I was stupid. But, think of a couple of decent Republicans who now would likely not be Republicans. Jacob Javits, Edward Brooke, John V. Linday,MI governor, William Milliken, Clifford Case. Pete McCloskey. I at present tho, can't think of one congressional Republican who adhere to such principals.

[Orsino]

22. I think just once.

George Bush '88. I bought into the spin, and thought Dukakis a weasel. Now? The Democrat hasn't been made that can match the apocalyptic corruption implicit in the "R" after his/her opponent's name.

This is not a good thing. I don't like not having a choice. I want my Democrats to have to do more than simply be the lesser of two evils. Real, fightin' Dems are rare these days, though.