Registered republican in VA here. I will be voting for Clinton. I am stressed trying to decide whether I should split my ticket or not. I want to send the party a message that they seem to refuse to hear.

Anonymous wrote:I will never vote D again-on ANYTHING!!!

Former bleeding heart totally left liberal. Now in recovery-Trump 2016-Drain the swamp!!!

Whatever you call yourself, you never were a liberal in policy perspective. A liberal policy supporter CANNOT support a complete anti-liberal anything Trump!

I will never vote D again-on ANYTHING!!!

Former bleeding heart totally left liberal. Now in recovery-Trump 2016-Drain the swamp!!!

Anonymous wrote:Interesting, OP.

I'm the exact opposite.

Voting pretty much R down the ballot this time, for the first time ever in my life.

R is for Russia, comrade!

Anonymous wrote:I was born and raised a Republican and have always voted straight party ticket. Not this year. The emergence of Trump is a bridge too far. It's not just that he is a brazen thug; he isn't even a Republican. But what makes it so disturbing is that millions of Republicans back this guy. I still can't totally comprehend what the party of Eisenhower, Goldwater and Reagan has become. It's unrecognizable.

This.

A million times, this.

I'm with you, OP. And with her.

I registered as an R a long, long time ago, when the party was about states' rights, economic conservatism, and rational limits on sweeping changes to the social contract.

Now it's a dumpster fire -- are they populist or not? Pro- or anti-free trade? For or against Keynesian economics?

The party of ideas has become the Reality TV party. I changed my voter affiliation and I'm voting HRC. Who, many satirists have correctly pointed out -- more resembles a Republican than most Republicans these days!

The only people I know who are voting for Trump are racist, uneducated and are suckers for his lies, or both.

I was born and raised a Republican and have always voted straight party ticket. Not this year. The emergence of Trump is a bridge too far. It's not just that he is a brazen thug; he isn't even a Republican. But what makes it so disturbing is that millions of Republicans back this guy. I still can't totally comprehend what the party of Eisenhower, Goldwater and Reagan has become. It's unrecognizable.

Interesting, OP.

I'm the exact opposite.

Voting pretty much R down the ballot this time, for the first time ever in my life.

Anonymous wrote:Ralph Reed killed the Republican Party

It actually goes back to Jerry Falwell.

Ralph Reed killed the Republican Party

me too.. ugh. weird.

It's a weird election year. I normally vote straight D. This year I'm voting all Democrat. Except POTUS.

Welcome, welcome! The water is fine!

I was reading "The Conservative Case for Hillary" in the Atlantic and the entire article made me go YAAASSSSS

Same here. I used to vote for Republican candidates because I'm more fiscally conservative. But their rabid evangelical-type ideas took over everything -- dudes, I don't care about Planned Parenthood or transgender people. I don't care about prayer in school. Can't they just be normal???

It dawned on my I filled my ballot; I realized that, for the first time in my life, it was all D, straight-ticket.

I was a moderate R two decades ago, then registered Independent.

The Tea party is when I realized something deeply wrong was happening. All the hate the Republican party allows, pursuing and condoning civil rights violations, disgust me. The misogyny and racism in the Republican party is appalling. Trump is the culmination of all that's wrong with Rs. I can no longer associate myself with that party in any way.