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DaddySatyr -> RE: Republicans for President!! (5/27/2015 12:47:14 PM)
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ORIGINAL: HunterCA
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ORIGINAL: bounty44
that's fascinating---
and im not altogether in disagreement with the premise behind your statement---democrats would rather vote for someone who is incompetent and untrustworthy because she is a democrat as opposed to any number of republicans who have been successful (competent) as governors, senators, or in their private careers, and have done nothing to undermine the public trust, because they are republicans.
in short its, "i'll take the incompetent and dishonorable person because I like her politics over the competent and honorable person because I don't like his." I cant imagine myself voting for a democrat no matter how bad the republican candidate would be.
its a rock and a hard place which I imagine, can only be solved by someone else winning the democratic nomination.
At least this one was honest. Most little kool aide drinkers won't even admit Hillary is a thief and a liar. So perhaps what will happen is people who are yellow dog democrats (they'd vote for a yellow dog before they'd vote republican) just won't vote. I'm fine with that.
I've voted for three democrats (local) in the last two years. Only one of them won.
One of the ones that didn't win was a guy I really liked. I offered to work for his campaign for free. When I met him, he was going door-to-door, shaking hands of anyone he found outside their house.
I told him I was a Libertarian and couldn't help him in the primary, but we started chatting, anyway. I told him I was a journalist and asked if he minded talking to me. he was cool with it so, we talked for about 45 minutes. Truth be told, he didn't profile like a democrat. He was more of a centrist, like myself and is only the second democrat that I ever heard say, flat-out, that he would vote against any law that promotes or expands abortion.
I think this speaks to a couple of different issues:
He was mis-branded - He wasn't really a democrat, but his mom and dad were democrats (back when "liberal" meant "free-thinker") and he just "followed in their footsteps".
He was running in a place that is so democratic, it's a crime to turn right on red - (Okay that was a joke, but you get my point) Anyone calling themselves "Independent", "Libertarian" or (God forbid!) "Republican" can't get elected because most people here were raised just like this candidate of whom I speak.
A funny thing is happening, though. I go to the local community college and I get to talk with a lot of the kids, on a daily basis. There's an up-swell of growing independent thought. I don't think it's being taught, at the school, per se, but it's out there and it's palpable.
The dems (here, at least) are losing some ground.
Michael
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