Have you *ever* voted for a GOP candidate? If so, why? [View all]

[Smarmie Doofus]

(Inspired by DUer Hubert Flottz' thread further down in GD.)

I did. Rudy Giuliani. Must have been his first -- unsuccessful-- (1989?) run for NYC mayor vs. David Dinkins.

Technically... I voted for him on the Liberal ( third party) Party line, which occasionally endorsed liberal/moderate Republicans. But he was running as a Republican.

I thought Dinkins was a machine DEM and probably therefore corrupt and at that point Giuliani had made a name for himself by indicting DEM party bosses for corruption. ( Most of them were RW, so I basically favored favored the prosecutions. Also, I thought they were guilty.)

Giuliani also lacked a clear ideology at that time . He had voted for McGovern in '72. ( Me too.)

As it turned out Dinkins was a good mayor... in some ways a GREAT mayor and I voted to reelect him in '93. ( Worked for him too.) Unfortunately he got relentlessly bad press coverage throughout his mayoralty from the megabucks media barons that run this town and he lost the '93 matchup to Giuliani by a narrow margin.