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[quote=Anonymous]OP here.  I'm not a party-line voter.  I don't identify as "I'm a Democrat, my party, right or wrong."  I grew up in a state where everyone voted Republican, and if Republicans lived up to their claimed values of individual liberty, small government, fiscal responsibility, etc., I might still vote for them.  In my first election, I actually voted for a Republican for Senate and for another for statewide office.

But since that time, I have voted Democrat every time, not out of party loyalty, but because the Republican party has grown more and more extreme, and more and more corrupt, until they're too irresponsible even to speak in public, much less govern.

It's a considered choice, every time.  And every time, in my adult voting lifetime, Republicans have proven themselves unworthy of my vote or my trust.  To the point that it would be irresponsible to even consider voting Republican.

Those who vote for third party candidates, or who in this day and age "vote for the candidate, not the party," are naive and their votes are ineffectual.  There are only two parties in power, and the only votes that matter in Congress are the organizing vote on the first day.  Everything else is done in lockstep and it's absolutely naive to think that any vote by your representative counts other than that first one.

The point of my statement was not that I'm a loyal Democrat.  I'm not.  It was that Republicans can't be trusted under any circumstance.

Which is why this guy's personal appeal scares me.  I'm afraid of the large part of the electorate out there for whom personality matters.  The "Reagan Democrats" and the people who think it's important to like your President or want to have a beer with him.  I'm not one of those voters, but I'm scared of the ones who are.  
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