If you had to be a Republican ..what kind would you be...

[TheCoxwain]

Just an interesting exercise ..

[lame54]

1. Suicidal

[HeresyLives]

2. An Eisenhower Republican. n/t

[pansypoo53219]

24. i'd be a teddy roosevelt one.

TRUST BUSTING!

[mikeiddy]

25. How about a Lincoln Republican? (nt)

[joeybee12]

3. How about lapsed, as in lapsed Catholic, still have the name,

but don't believe?

[Warpy]

10. I'd be my mother's type of New England pubbie

She consistently registered pubbie but would never vote that way because, as she said, "they always run such putrid candidates!"

She voted socialist if they were on the ballot and for Democrats if they weren't.

She was sort of a Fifth Columnist Republican.

[robinlynne]

4. blegggh.... exercise? just blegghhh. I dont even know any. well, maybe one.

[madokie]

5. If I HAD to be a puklicon I'd be one pissed off madokie

that's what I'd be :-)

[TheCoxwain]

6. OMG .... This poll is being Freeped .. I can see one troll vote

[Cant trust em]

7. Fiscally conservative, socially liberal.

But, you know, not the hypocritical kind.

[Wapsie B]

8. One who'd do anything to piss off the gop leadership.

Railing about the fundies and birthers, gun freaks running the show while leaving mainstreamers on the sideline.

[RT Atlanta]

9. Bat shit crazy republican

Because they barely seem to be self-aware - thus, I would likely not know the state of my depravity

[LeftishBrit]

11. Fortunately in the UK that would mean just being anti-monarchy...

if I *had* to be a member of any sort of conservative party, I'd definitely be the leftist who sabotaged it from within. Probably I'd be a dead one, not as a suicide, but because the party leadership would murder me!

[VMI Dem]

12. Financially progressive, socially conservative.

[Speck Tater]

13. Other: A non-voting, politically apathetic one. nt

[Arugula Latte]

14. Hopefully not the kind who straps dogs to the top of my car, wears diapers around prostitutes,

solicits sex in the Minneapolis airport bathroom by tapping my foot, or rails against homosexuality while engaging in same gender sex on the side.

[hamsterjill]

15. I'd hope a quiet one

Because it's better to remain silent and thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt!!! (Old adage, but SO true).

[peace13]

16. To be a rethug I would have had to have my brains sucked out...

hence a dead one but not by my own hand.

[OswegoAtheist]

17. "Other"

I can pick Lincoln-Era Republican, right?

Oswego "My second choice is Plato slash-fic writer" Atheist

[NYCGirl]

18. A former Republican. NT

[placton]

19. I'd be an Obama Republican

and pretend to be a Democrat

[Mudoria]

20. Other

Financially conservative and Socially Progressive

[TheCoxwain]

21. That would make you a Democrat my friend !!!

Tax cuts are not Fiscal conservatism

[PVnRT]

22. Well, if I were to go GOP, I'd go full evil

Fundamentalist, hate the poor, love war, hate freedom, etc.

[Faryn Balyncd]

23. a repentant, recovering, former Republican

[and-justice-for-all]

26. I will not be assimulated into the collective...nt

[elocs]

27. Do we really believe that ours is the only valid viewpoint?

Sometimes I wonder if Democrats/Liberals had absolute Taliban-like power how we might run things and how open we would be to those who do not support our rule and we would feel noble and self righteous and justified in our actions.

I do not agree with the Republican political point of view, but I do believe and know that there are rational Republicans who have a valid point of view. If I were to be a Republican I would be fiscally conservative (nothing wrong with making sure the money is well spent) and socially compassionate (I do know Republicans who are compassionate toward others).

We don't like the broad brush used on us, so why is it that we feel OK in applying it to others? To be honest, there are Democrats with whom I agree politically that I would not want to spend 5 minutes in their company, but there are Republicans with whom I disagree politically with whom I could actually enjoy spending time. Maybe I am privy to the Ted Kennedy secret because I am sure he felt the same way.

[TheCoxwain]

28. Well said..... sir/madam.....well said.

nt