Any other former Republican voters here? (My Story)

[lees1975]

31. I always got the same message, that if you were Christian, that went hand in hand with voting Republican.

It didn't resonate with me, though, because my West Virginia born and raised parents were died in the wool, yellow dog Democrats. My Dad said that it was sin to vote Republican because a vote for a Republican was a vote against everything Jesus preached.

The only reasoning ever given to me was abortion, abortion, abortion, as if things like greed, racism and corruption didn't count as political issues.

I never voted for a Republican candidate for President, though I did vote for an independent, third party candidate in 1984, when the Democrats nominated Walter Mondale, and again in 1988, when they nominated Michael Dukakis. Then I realized, with the way the electoral college was configured at the time, a third party vote was for the party in power, and I stopped that. I did vote for a Republican candidate from my district, Jim Kolbe, in Arizona. And I voted on two occasions for John McCain for Senator. But I wouldn't vote for a Republican now, under any circumstance.