Any Republicans Turning To Obama in This Election?

[Anonymous]

As a Republican I would not under any circumstance vote for Obama. Even with a watered down Republican like Obamney, at least a Republican would be, in general, more favorable to putting Republicans in influential positions and on the judiciary panels as opposed to a Democrat who would, of course, put Democrats in those places.

There is more to just the presidency, there are the offices that are staffed to consider.

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Anonymous wrote:Not OP but she didn't vote for Sarah Palin. She voted for John McCain. PP's comment is just ignorant. Did all Democrats vote for Joe Biden in the last election? I doubt it.

I'm pretty sure her name was on the ballot along with McCain's. And I could not bring myself to vote for her even though I liked McCain.

[Anonymous]

OP here - are you saying that if the "Saintly Rectum" turns out to be the nominee that you be okay with him choosing cabinet officials and supreme court judges? Are you sure that "any" Republican would be better, and "any" Republicans that make into those offices would be better than current people in those positions?

[Anonymous]

If being pro-choice is your #1 issue then you aren't a Republican even if you think you are.

[Anonymous]

No way in hell I will vote for Obama. This country can't survive another 4 years of his policies. Are we better off than when he came into office? No. Hell no!

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Anonymous wrote:If being pro-choice is your #1 issue then you aren't a Republican even if you think you are.

It's always amusing to me when people question a person's self-given label. If a person says s/he's a Christian, liberal, Republican, or fill-in-the-blank, why can't you take them at their word?

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Anonymous wrote:If being pro-choice is your #1 issue then you aren't a Republican even if you think you are.

I don't think it is my #1 issue.....it is probably down there as #4 or #5. I think there is more to being a Republican than being pro-life isn't there? I mean I am a woman and a mother. It is important to me to have control of my own body. That doesn't mean that I have to support wasteful spending, expansion of government into areas it has no business being in and out of control political correctness?

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Anonymous wrote:If being pro-choice is your #1 issue then you aren't a Republican even if you think you are.

It's always amusing to me when people question a person's self-given label. If a person says s/he's a Christian, liberal, Republican, or fill-in-the-blank, why can't you take them at their word?

Because the actual party planks are different than how the person feels. That is why you can be gay and a Republican or pro-choice and a Republican. But to say you vote would change based on the personhoold issue in VA -- yeah, not a Republican (states rights trumps well just about anything). It isn't a bad thing but if you are going to pick a label at leat pick the right label.

[Anonymous]

Did Obama keep us from sinking further? Maybe.

I think Tim Geithner and Fed Bernanke were more effective though, at our cost and to banker's delight "nobody goes to jail".

Santorum? American Taliban

Romney? I'll say whatever to get me elected. Then what?

Gingrich? I'll keep talking till you tell me I'm Jesus/Adam Smith/George Washington/and greatest thing since sliced bread.

Honestly, Obama's the least likely to make me feel like barfing at the leadership of America. And that's just sad.

Get govt out of markets, get markets out of our political process, and throw the bankers in jail for breaking the law, not this $25billion payoff crap. It should be 2.5 trillion.

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Anonymous wrote:Lifelong conservative who voted for Obama last time around, mostly because Sarah Palin scared the crap out of me. Except, I'm so displeased with so many of his choices that I will probably vote Republican or honestly not vote for the first time since turning 18.

+1, except I did it because I detested McCain. Have crossed party lines before, I voted Clinton over Dole (but not over Bush the Elder, an underrated president). After Obama's first term, I can't imagine ever voting D again, in any election, for any candidate. Might stay home if Santorum is the R nominee. I think that remains relatively unlikely, however.

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Anonymous wrote:I regularly read a military intelligence blog by a man who seems to be a fairly moderate Republican (are there any left?). I think he will end up voting for Obama. Not because he likes him, mind you. He doesn't. But because he's terrified of what the Republican ticket will likely offer.

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which blog? ....

[Anonymous]

To 15:49, what did Democrats do that makes you totally against ever voting for D? I don't see Republicans doing anything helpful in this economy except no new taxes, tax cuts, and doing what Catholics want.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If being pro-choice is your #1 issue then you aren't a Republican even if you think you are.

It's always amusing to me when people question a person's self-given label. If a person says s/he's a Christian, liberal, Republican, or fill-in-the-blank, why can't you take them at their word?

Because the actual party planks are different than how the person feels. That is why you can be gay and a Republican or pro-choice and a Republican. But to say you vote would change based on the personhoold issue in VA -- yeah, not a Republican (states rights trumps well just about anything). It isn't a bad thing but if you are going to pick a label at leat pick the right label.

So that's what it means to be Republican? States' rights trump almost everything? Even the Constitution itself?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If being pro-choice is your #1 issue then you aren't a Republican even if you think you are.

It's always amusing to me when people question a person's self-given label. If a person says s/he's a Christian, liberal, Republican, or fill-in-the-blank, why can't you take them at their word?

Because the actual party planks are different than how the person feels. That is why you can be gay and a Republican or pro-choice and a Republican. But to say you vote would change based on the personhoold issue in VA -- yeah, not a Republican (states rights trumps well just about anything). It isn't a bad thing but if you are going to pick a label at leat pick the right label.

OP here. What? My vote doesn't hinge on the personhood issue in Virginia. It is important to me, yes. My vote is also based on embarrassment at the poor choices available in the Republican party. Are you saying that I can't be a Roman Catholic if I am divorced and use birth control? Aren't those actual planks in that domination? So, to be a Republican I have to embrace the personhood issue in Virginia?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If being pro-choice is your #1 issue then you aren't a Republican even if you think you are.

It's always amusing to me when people question a person's self-given label. If a person says s/he's a Christian, liberal, Republican, or fill-in-the-blank, why can't you take them at their word?

Because the actual party planks are different than how the person feels. That is why you can be gay and a Republican or pro-choice and a Republican. But to say you vote would change based on the personhoold issue in VA -- yeah, not a Republican (states rights trumps well just about anything). It isn't a bad thing but if you are going to pick a label at leat pick the right label.

OP here. What? My vote doesn't hinge on the personhood issue in Virginia. It is important to me, yes. My vote is also based on embarrassment at the poor choices available in the Republican party. Are you saying that I can't be a Roman Catholic if I am divorced and use birth control? Aren't those actual planks in that domination? So, to be a Republican I have to embrace the personhood issue in Virginia?

Oops - I meant denomination.....Freud - hello?