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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP back again.

Yes, indeed this has been an illuminating thread. Lots of people who say on other threads that both parties are the exact same thing. So I took them all at their word and have asked those people, as well as reliable Republicans, to make the case for why I, as a moderate, should vote for the GOP. We’re eight pages in and not one single Republican/Moderate/Independent has been able to make a case for their party.

Lots of people pretending not to understand what I meant, lots of people halfway to insulting me, but not a one of you can make a cogent case for why I should cast a vote for a Republican candidate at any level. [/quote]

Why should they bother? You were obviously disingenuous. I’m not voting Republican but wouldn’t answer you either. [/quote]

+100000[/quote]

And yet you couldn't bother to answer the question. It's not disingenuous. I don't even know what the GOP's platform is these days. What are you running on other than being against the Democrats?[/quote]

Stop running on the hamster wheel that any criticism means someone must not be voting for a democrat. That is the real bugaboo here. If someone isn’t goosestepping to all your points, they must be an enemy.

Op should vote Dem, no question. She needs no convincing to vote GOP. There is no debate to be had except to stop painting people with broad brushes. What OP really wants to do is shame people for having positions that are not 100% in line with the Dems.

If someone were to say:

Well, i usually tend to vote Dem. I don’t agree with many GOP candidates on opposing abortion outright. I am open to abortion up to the point of viability outside the womb and life of the mother.

Then the response here is typically either, “MAGA!!!!” or “you MUST support all abortions at anytime. We give no quarter to any restrictions.”

So, then the usual Dem supporter is out in the position of having no party, because the party they usually support doesn’t want to listen to her position, and she doesn’t agree with the other party on this issue or many others.

This is just one example I’ve heard from a few moderates. OP is not one of the people who finds herself torn between the parties. [/quote]

Nice straw man. I didn't ask for an absolute set of positions. I asked for a platform and what the GOP's policies are. How are they intending to make this nation better? And by the way, there is a party of fascists and there's everyone else. Right now, that means most people have to vote Democrat because there isn't an alternative. I include myself among them.[/quote]
Once again, the above post wasn’t me, the OP, but I agree with them. I asked Republicans, Moderates and Independents to make the case for why any Republican deserves my vote.

Crickets. [/quote]

I'm the PP and think someone like Lisa Murkowski could deserve your vote. I'm a Democrat that voted for Larry Hogan. He governed reasonably well, focused on fiscal prudence, and generally acted as a check on the excesses of the Democratic party in Maryland. He was not above criticizing Trump but at the same time, couldn't bring himself to actually vote for a Democrat. It shouldn't be apostasy to do that when Democracy is literally on the line.[/quote]

Hogan had an agenda of increasing infrastructure for property owners, including himself, in the mostly red area of the state. He also suspended the metro red line and the DC area purple line wasting billions of dollars of investment which would have been catalytic for both areas. Now, those projects are back on trach, but to a ridiculous additional expense. That isn't fiscal prudence.[/quote]

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