Have you *ever* voted for a GOP candidate? If so, why?

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217. I kinda miss voting mixed tickets

Back in the day, we used to vote for the best person, regardless of gang colors. Nowadays, virtually all the Republicans are nuts, so the only real choice left is Democrats (there is virtually no third-party movement here in Wisconsin).

So yeah, I have voted for Republicans. When I lived in Minnesota two decades ago, I voted for a Republican, Arne Carlson, for governor, the same year I also voted for Paul Wellstone for the Senate. Why Carlson? His Democratic rival, incumbent Rudy Perpich, was an idiot and Carlson was essentially a moderate anyways (he later left the GOP). I had no reservations about that vote. Whenever I had the opportunity to vot for a good moderate Republican over an incompetent Democrat, I did. I figured having more moderate Republicans to counter the extremist ones would be a good thing.

A few years back, in my current hometown of Milwaukee, I voted for a Republican for county sheriff over incumbent David Clarke, a total DINO who is really a Republican but runs as a Democrat because that's the only way he could win in Milwaukee County. His Republican rival was non-political, and only ran with that party because they had an opening. I think any real Democrat would understand that vote.