Question...If Mitt Romney switched parties...

[Truth2Tell]

and declared himself a Democrat... but changed none of his positions..... and then won the Democratic nomination...

Would you vote for him over Ghouliani? Would you criticize him? Would you vote?

[Beer Snob-50]

1. wouldn't vote for him either way

i didn't in massachusetts when he posed as a democrat

[Tektonik]

2. I'd move to Canada

[jpgray]

3. Despite this having no chance of happening, at that point I would vote third party

[Warpy]

4. What positions? The ones he mouthed to make himself

palatable to Massholes or the ones he's mouthing to make himself palatable to the GOP fundies?

Forget it. In a contest between Mittens and Rudy Garland, I'd be on vacation somewhere warm and sitting it out.

[asdjrocky]

5. This is a joke right?

You kidding right? I mean, you can't be serious.

[Virginia Dare]

6. I probably wouldn't vote..

but this is just a delusional fantasy anyway.

[quinnox]

7. ok, even though it is a gigantic hypothetical that would never happen

I will answer and say I would choose Romney in a heartbeat over Ghouliani! I can't stand him, he is just as bad in my feelings as Bush is and I'm not sure why but he really rubs me the wrong way and Ghouliani is an arrogant bastard and he lies too and he is not as conservative as he is pretending but he is still a complete moron

Mitt Romney would be just OK, but much more reasonable than a Ghouliani. Romnney is an intelligent although smarmy and car salesman slick type of guy, but he isn't a crazy idiot and he wouldn't do anything drastic.

[Alter Ego]

29. You obviously did not live in MA during the Romney regime.

Gutting stem-cell research, screwing the poor, and just generally being a scummy Republican who wanted to try and turn the state into another right-wing paradise. Lucky for us he failed miserably.

[Richardo]

8. This is without a doubt the goofiest hypothetical I've ever seen....

[Truth2Tell]

11. OK... the point

is that this is how many people feel about the decision to vote or not vote for Hillary.

I wanted to try to put other Dems in the shoes of progressives who are forced to make a "lesser of evils" choice.

That's the point of this exercise if you must know :)


:hi:

[cali]

20. thank you mr. obvious.

let me point out that the comparison is absurd and clumsy.

[EstimatedProphet]

9. OK, how about if Romney came from another galaxy as a baby...

Where did this idea even come from?

[jpgray]

10. I think it's a misguided attempt to see if party loyalty rules all for people on DU

[Truth2Tell]

13. Exactamundo. But misguided? I think guided.

:)

[EstimatedProphet]

18. No, I gotta go with misguided too.

[jpgray]

19. It may have been more productive to ask "At what point does party loyalty fail for you?"

[Truth2Tell]

22. I find this more interesting

than that. Each to his own though. And thanks for the input. :)

[Virginia Dare]

24. Nope, in desperate need of a guide dog...n/t

[Homer Wells]

12. If he were to declare himself a Dem

then he would join the ranks of the Moonbat Dems like Lieberman.

If he were to be nominated by the Democratic Party, then maybe Canada would be a damn good idea. Perhaps we could arrange for Canada to annex the Blue States, and leave the Red States to destroy each other

I think it was Lenny Bruce who said, back in the '50's, that if the cold war were to end, then the Right Wing of this country would proceed to eat their own. I can't find that quote online, but I recall, vaguely, hearing this in a college class back in the 70's.

[Beerboy]

14. I'd be convinced if he cut off his woo-woo and gave it to

Hillary!:P

[Lucinda]

15. I'd write in pumpkin pie

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

16. Fortunately my ballot usually has more than 2 choices and a place to write-in.

Options that I'm not in the least averse to using.

[cali]

17. Question..... If Brad Pitt switched genders

and declared himself a woman, would you do her?

[Buzz Clik]

27. Gender is my only prerequisite.

[skipos]

21. What if Dennis Kucinich was 100% pro-life for most of his career, and then became

pro-choice right before he ran for president? Would you vote for him?

Trying to compare Hillary to Mitt is stupid, and Hillary is my last choice in 08.

[Truth2Tell]

25. Sure I will

I believe people can change their views. I have many times in my life on many things.

I also think it's OK that Edwards has turned against the war and changed his foreign policy outlook in general.

I think what a candidate believes right now is the important issue. Along with the reasoning for their changes.

I wish Hillary would change her outlook on many things, and not just because the wind changes.

[xultar]

23. Depends on when he changed. If he changed yesterday no. 30-40 years ago then yes.

Aren't people allowed to come to their fucking senses?

DUMBEST POST of the past 5 minutes.

[Buzz Clik]

26. Changed his positions? From when? Today or ten years ago?

The guy is a fucking shit head. He would say or do anything to get elected. I'd vote for him when hell freezes over.

[LanternWaste]

28. I'm afraid I don't understand...

I'm afraid I don't understand (even hypothetically) how one could run as a Democrat, yet hold no common ground with the Democratic platform.

It certainly would be interesting to see someone attempt that, but so far, all our Democratic candidates are strong supporters of the Democratic platform.

Much like asking, "If Satan called himself a Christian and said he was God, would you as a Christian worship Satan?" It's a bit of a nonsense question...

[Truth2Tell]

31. How do you define "strong supporters"

of our Democratic Platform? What % of the platform must a candidate support to qualify as a "strong supporter?"

Did you know the Dem Platform currently states that:

Democrats will "...stand up for...enforceable, internationally recognized labor and environmental standards in trade agreements. We will aggressively enforce our trade agreements with a real plan that includes a complete review of all existing agreements; immediate investigation into China's workers' rights abuses and currency manipulation; increased funding for efforts to protect workers' rights and stop child labor abuse;...," and that "New trade agreements must protect internationally recognized workers' rights and environmental standards as vigorously as they now protect commercial concerns."

Several of our current candidates don't behave as if they support this part of our platform. Or this part:

"Because our democracy thrives on public access to diverse sources of information from multiple
sources, we support measures to ensure diversity, competition, and localism in media ownership."

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:yuZQIPNpi3sJ:www.democrats.org/pdfs/2004platform.pdf+democratic+platform&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

Plenty more there, but you get the idea. And plentythere that matches Romney's views as well. So who qualifies? what's the %?

[LanternWaste]

32. I define strong supporter as:

I define strong supporter as:

Lookup the word: Strong

Lookup the word: Supporter

Put both definitions together.


Sheesh. :eyes:

[Richard Steele]

30. "If monkeys flew out of my butt, and won the Democratic Primary...."

N/T

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

33. Even if the monkeys looked like yellow dogs

They'd be preferable to Giuliani