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guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
Tue Feb 16, 2021, 06:00 PM Feb 2021

I have never voted for a GOP candidate in my life.

I have never voted for a GOP candidate in my life. Mainly because I am a values voter.

I value freedom, and liberty, and democracy, and equality. So for those reasons, I cannot vote for a Party that values none of those things.

Convince me that I am wrong, but be warned, I am perfect, and thus cannot be wrong.

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I have never voted for a GOP candidate in my life. (Original Post) guillaumeb Feb 2021 OP
Can't argue with Perfection. Marie Marie Feb 2021 #1
I live in a ruby red county in central Florida mcar Feb 2021 #2
I am a strategic and retributionary voter. roamer65 Feb 2021 #3
I voted for John McCain in an open primary once because George W. Bush was frighteningly Vinca Feb 2021 #4
Think about this BeerBarrelPolka Feb 2021 #5
Back before I really paid attention to politics I voted for Ronald Reagan for CA governor. Binkie The Clown Feb 2021 #6
Many, many years ago I voted for a republican PatSeg Feb 2021 #7
I have voted for one Republican. marie999 Feb 2021 #8
I sure have, and I was glad to do it. DFW Feb 2021 #9
Understood. guillaumeb Feb 2021 #12
And that's putting mildly. DFW Feb 2021 #13
I have, a handful of times, when I felt the Republican was the PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2021 #10
Me neither, but I dunno what about those... tandem5 Feb 2021 #11

mcar

(42,210 posts)
2. I live in a ruby red county in central Florida
Tue Feb 16, 2021, 06:27 PM
Feb 2021

The government is 100% Republican.

I have voted for 2 Republicans in my lifetime, our recently retired Supervisor of Elections and her successor. The first was elected a few years prior to 2000 and got the county commission to get rid of the old punch card (chad) system for paper trail scanners. Our county was the first one to recount and recertify the results in 2000.

She also has been responsible for registering many, many young voters (including my youngest son). Each year, she and her team would visit the local high schools and talk to juniors and seniors about voting. In 2015, my youngest was dead set on not registering to vote "because it didn't matter." After she visited his school and talked to him and his cohort, he registered and has voted ever since.

She was the guest speaker several times at my local Democratic Women's Club, talking about voting security. She worked with both parties to help register voters, get vote by mail applications filed, etc.

In short, she didn't do her job as a Republican, she did it as a public servant. The new SOE is her hand-picked successor who has worked by her side for a few decades. The successor ran unopposed.

roamer65

(36,739 posts)
3. I am a strategic and retributionary voter.
Tue Feb 16, 2021, 06:32 PM
Feb 2021

I voted for John Mc Cain in the 2000 Michigan Repuke primary in order to fuck over Shrub. I enjoyed that one immensely.



If they didn’t want me voting, they should have made it a closed primary.

Vinca

(50,172 posts)
4. I voted for John McCain in an open primary once because George W. Bush was frighteningly
Tue Feb 16, 2021, 06:33 PM
Feb 2021

stupid. In the main event I voted for the Democrat, of course. I didn't do that in the first Trump election because I didn't think there was a chance in hell they'd actually want someone who made George W. Bush look like Albert Einstein. By the second election they all had their lips implanted on his ass so there was no competition in the primary.

BeerBarrelPolka

(1,202 posts)
5. Think about this
Tue Feb 16, 2021, 06:39 PM
Feb 2021

Maybe the repubs actually do want functionally illiterate candidates. Without question Trump was the stupidest in American History.

Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)
6. Back before I really paid attention to politics I voted for Ronald Reagan for CA governor.
Tue Feb 16, 2021, 07:02 PM
Feb 2021

Probably because he toured my workplace and shook everybody's hands. Made me feel important I guess.

There was a time when he was a "Hollywood Democrat".

Anyway, once I started paying attention I realized the mistake I'd made.

PatSeg

(46,804 posts)
7. Many, many years ago I voted for a republican
Tue Feb 16, 2021, 07:12 PM
Feb 2021

for mayor of Chicago. I don't even remember who the candidate was anymore, as it was a vote AGAINST Richard Daley who was a tyrant.

Other than that time, I can't say I can even imagine voting for a republican for any office.

DFW

(54,057 posts)
9. I sure have, and I was glad to do it.
Tue Feb 16, 2021, 07:40 PM
Feb 2021

Mainly because I am a values voter.

I value freedom, and liberty, and democracy, and equality. So for those reasons, I cannot vote for a candidate that values none of those things. And such was the Democratic candidate for mayor of Philadelphia when I first registered to vote there at age 19 in 1971. I was in college, and living there year round.

He was the loutish police commissioner, Frank Rizzo, a brutal, corrupt sadistic oaf, who figured there was more money to siphon off the city as mayor than as police commissioner. The Republican candidate against him was some mild-mannered, if well-spoken, straight-laced city bureaucrat who was being sacrificed as a token opposition candidate, since no Republican was ever going to win as mayor of Philadelphia.

Rizzo nonetheless bragged about being Nixon's "friend," soon switched parties, and when down to DC to publicly hang with Nixon, who was visibly uncomfortable in Rizzo's presence. I think he preferred Brezhnev or Mao. I don't blame him.

And so my very first vote went, for the last time ever, to a Republican. Rizzo was the kind of cop who would have celebrated the killing of unarmed male minorities today. I didn't regret my vote against him then, and I don't regret it now.

tandem5

(2,072 posts)
11. Me neither, but I dunno what about those...
Tue Feb 16, 2021, 08:21 PM
Feb 2021

undeclared local and judicial races? Maybe a few slipped by? In the early days it was a lot of parsing word choice in their booklet statements to glean leanings and these days Google and Facebook scrutiny and trying to figure out party affiliation from things like an odd affinity for Dalmatians in sweaters.

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