WHY I DUMPED OBAMA'S PARTY

Damo...there are a lot more elections that president ...

I voted for Jack Kemp for years, plus state & local Republicans

I don't see myself voting Republican for president or Senate & Congress as long as the party is controlled by far right wing authoritarians and anti American radicals like Grover Norquist...

I voted for Bob Dole in '96 (never a Clinton fan) AND Bush in 2000...that is the biggest mistake of my life (voting wise)...

The man LIED to me and the American people...

"We're going to crush labor as a political entity"
Grover Norquist - Republican economic guru
However, you do not make a point of proudly declaring how you registered republican, like a certain yellowdogger on this site. I do not believe that uscitizen has ever pulled the lever for a person with an R next to their name except one guy during a local election. If there ever were a RINO, it would be he.
 
However, you do not make a point of proudly declaring how you registered republican, like a certain yellowdogger on this site. I do not believe that uscitizen has ever pulled the lever for a person with an R next to their name except one guy during a local election. If there ever were a RINO, it would be he.

Damo...I'm a JFK liberal and a Goldwater libertarian.

When I first registered to vote, I was asked which party I wanted to be affiliated with; so, I asked "what if I don't want to be affiliated with a party?" I was told I would not be able to vote in primaries...

I decided to remain non-affiliated...guess it's the Goldwater libertarian "none of your f'n business" side of me...
 
Damo...I'm a JFK liberal and a Goldwater libertarian.

When I first registered to vote, I was asked which party I wanted to be affiliated with; so, I asked "what if I don't want to be affiliated with a party?" I was told I would not be able to vote in primaries...

I decided to remain non-affiliated...guess it's the Goldwater libertarian "none of your f'n business" side of me...
Which changes absolutely nothing about my point. You do not, in fact, run around proudly proclaiming your affiliation with a party you do not vote for.
 
Which changes absolutely nothing about my point. You do not, in fact, run around proudly proclaiming your affiliation with a party you do not vote for.

Your point does not involve ME... take it up with him/her... I was just making conversation...
 
UScit has never voted R. He says he has for some local job... but I somehow even doubt that. If there ever was a yellowdogger, it's UScit.

But really, I was just hitting that button.

I also voted for Ross. He was right. (as in correct)
 
Originally Posted by Taichiliberal
The author of this little neocon rant is the owner of the largest daily paper in Nevada. He categorizes himself as a fiscal conservative, yet the paper has been categorized as Libertarian. Bottom line: it's the same convoluted logic and supposition/conjecture laden sour grapes that the neocon driven GOP has been spewing since the 2008 elections. Only thing is that Libertarians are really pissed because to a large extent no one takes them seriously. No wonder Blabba latched onto this like a tick to a dog's butt.
:D

Cracks me up that the guy is whining about big government. Nobody grew the government bigger that bush. Check out this article, from the Washington Times yet.

"George W. Bush rode into Washington almost eight years ago astride the horse of smaller government. He will leave it this winter having overseen the biggest federal budget expansion since Franklin Delano Roosevelt seven decades ago."

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/19/big-government-gets-bigger/

Great article......the only thing they leave out is that Clinton did with weekly meetings what Homeland Security was created for. And as the article points out....Homeland Security is a money pit.
 
Your point does not involve ME... take it up with him/her... I was just making conversation...
Cool 'nuff. I do like the attitude of people who vote in their own political interest for people who are running rather than for or against a party.

However I believe that at the Federal level party politics take on more importance as the Congressional caucuses can attest to. Which platform supports your views the most is often some of the advice I would give at that level. This would concern voting for Senators and Congressmen/women as well as President (him/her particularly because of the SCOTUS appointments.)

Personally I joined the party that most closely reflected my views at the time I joined and have worked to bring that party back to where its focus was then and where I believe it should currently be, it's gone off on a tangent for the last 8 or so years, but it will come back.
 
I vote "for" the least damaging Republican in the primary.
I understand why you do it, because the R primaries are the only place you get a voice in your local government as the R is going to win. There are many here who do the same, but it doesn't make them other than RINO.
 
However, you do not make a point of proudly declaring how you registered republican, like a certain yellowdogger on this site. I do not believe that uscitizen has ever pulled the lever for a person with an R next to their name except one guy during a local election. If there ever were a RINO, it would be he.
I'll let USC defend that point. But then some idiot will start spewing some cockamamie line that if youj don't follow the hard right political line that your a Rino. What bullshit. You're a Republican if you vote and support for republican. It's incredbily stupid of the right wingers in the Republican party to question the motives of others. Alls it accomplishes is chasing people out of the party and makes it sifficult for them to win elections.
 
Cool 'nuff. I do like the attitude of people who vote in their own political interest for people who are running rather than for or against a party.

However I believe that at the Federal level party politics take on more importance as the Congressional caucuses can attest to. Which platform supports your views the most is often some of the advice I would give at that level. This would concern voting for Senators and Congressmen/women as well as President (him/her particularly because of the SCOTUS appointments.)

Personally I joined the party that most closely reflected my views at the time I joined and have worked to bring that party back to where its focus was then and where I believe it should currently be, it's gone off on a tangent for the last 8 or so years, but it will come back.
I used to think just exactly that but as the views became farther and farther to the hard right, It just got to the point where it was not in my best interest to support most Republicans. I had no choice but to switch affiliations.
 
I'll let USC defend that point. But then some idiot will start spewing some cockamamie line that if youj don't follow the hard right political line that your a Rino. What bullshit. You're a Republican if you vote and support for republican. It's incredbily stupid of the right wingers in the Republican party to question the motives of others. Alls it accomplishes is chasing people out of the party and makes it sifficult for them to win elections.
As if DINO is something you've never heard. I do note that you do not remove that mote in your own eye before pointing out the splinter in the others... Why is it crazy for the rightwingers to question such a thing, but you ignore the same activity within the party you are a member of.

If I lived in Denver, I'd be a DINO. As local elections rise and fall on the primary vote, whoever wins the D primary election will gain the seat in the end.

I wouldn't be trumpeting my affiliation as some form of "open mindedness" though. I would know exactly what I was doing and why, and wouldn't attempt to maintain that it was a sign of my non-partisanship.
 
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