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View Poll Results: Are you [still] a Republican? |
Yes | 20 | 40.82% | |
No | 29 | 59.18% | |
Voters: 49. You may not vote on this poll |
8th May 2009, 03:15 PM | #1 |
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"I'm a Republican"
In light of all the Doomsday news about the sinking GOP, I seriously wonder if we still have some Republican Members hanging around.
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8th May 2009, 03:15 PM | #2 |
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Brainster.
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8th May 2009, 03:18 PM | #3 |
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It all depends on one's definition of Republican. We all know what Oliver thinks a Republican is.
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8th May 2009, 03:19 PM | #4 |
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You're a brainster?
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8th May 2009, 03:27 PM | #5 |
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RINO. Republican In Name Only.
I am convinced the Republicans have no place for me. I don't trust their social agenda, and they refuse to adhere to their fiscal agenda. Much of what they are telling us constitutes a good social agenda has been shown to be a royal crock. Further, these are the people who helped put us into this recession, and few of them took any action to stop it. I don't trust any of the Republican leaders in California, or nationally. Frankly, they might have kept my vote and my interest if they would have worked on a far more narrow agenda, kept to secular limits, and actually stayed with it, rather than using their authority, such as it was from '94, to line their own pockets. |
8th May 2009, 03:27 PM | #6 |
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8th May 2009, 03:29 PM | #7 |
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No. I was just saying Brainster's a Republican. I havent' been one since 2002.
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8th May 2009, 04:56 PM | #8 |
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I've always considered myself an independant. Although much more liberal than conservative, I agree with some Republicans on some issues. So I guess you'd say I'm a little bit Republican and a lot more Democrat with a healthy dose of little-"l" libertarian.
Since the GOP has started to think about self examination and trying to get away from their more religious and bigotry-dominated ways, I'd guess I'm more Republican now than I've been since Ford. So I voted "yes". |
8th May 2009, 05:28 PM | #9 |
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I'm a Scorpio.
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8th May 2009, 05:39 PM | #10 |
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I was a republican, until some time during Bush's first term, when I realized the party had become completely corrupted and hi-jacked by the christos. I was elected as a republican to a local office prior to that, and still get all kinds of magazines and letters etc. as a result, which is pretty painful as an athiest skeptic, getting all of these "bible cures" and "heartfelt letters" from Sarah Palin . Not to mention all the mail I get reminding me how America is a "Christian nation." ... it's as if the Republican party has become a parody of itself.
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8th May 2009, 05:42 PM | #11 |
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8th May 2009, 05:53 PM | #12 |
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9th May 2009, 07:01 AM | #15 |
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Invalid poll - no Planet X option.
Close the thread. |
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9th May 2009, 07:03 AM | #16 |
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Whew! I saw the thread title, and thought it was the latest utterance of Arlen Specter.
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9th May 2009, 10:12 AM | #17 |
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Well, I did register as a Republican for the primaries so I could vote for Ron Paul as I viewed him as being the best for the Constitution, this Country and for American values.
I however only switched over to being a Republican for that purpose. I don't really consider myself a Democrat or a Republican however... INRM |
9th May 2009, 01:01 PM | #18 |
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I voted for Dukakis and then Bob Dole. I suck at picking Presidents. How about no political parties and we vote for the individual.
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9th May 2009, 01:15 PM | #19 |
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I hate Bush more than anybody, and I've never been a repub...
OK, ok, I cannot tell a lie - I've registered for that particular wing of the two-winged American Nationalist Socialist Party to vote for Ron Paul in the primaries. I will never vote again. (Except when it counts - with my money and with my feet.) |
9th May 2009, 01:28 PM | #20 |
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9th May 2009, 03:34 PM | #21 |
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The poll touched on what I think is an interesting subject:
What, in general are the political leanings of the JREF forum participants. Unfortunately, there were problems: 1. What is a Republican? a. People currently registered as a Republican b. People currently registered as a Republican excluding people like INRM that just registered as a Republican for a transitory purpose. c. People that are both a registered Republican and who generally vote for Republicans. d. People that are part of the Republican party leadership or who actively participate in staff level activities and not people who just happened to have registered as Republicans for voting purposes. OK, all those issues aside with the poll I still don't believe the results. By what possible definition would almost half of this forum's participants be Republicans? Of the people that participate regularly in the politics section my guess is that about 40% would be registered Democrats and maybe 20% would be registered Republicans with the rest of the participants made up of people who don't vote or who aren't registered with either party, or who are registered with a third party. My guess is that only about eight people that participate in this forum are strongly partisan Republicans that almost always push the GOP position. FWIW, I continue to be a registered Republican, however I didn't vote for a Republican for national office in the last few elections and I have voted for the Democratic candidate in the last two presidential elections. I continue to vote for Republicans for state wide offices. I voted Republican in the poll. ETA: OK, I just took a look at the detailed results for Republicans. Tricky lists himself as a Republican. Hmmm. |
9th May 2009, 03:51 PM | #22 |
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9th May 2009, 03:55 PM | #23 |
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What Tricky said.
I know I'm seen firmly on the left on this board, but I know people who are to the extreme left of me and those who are to the extreme right of me. The reason I've been voting Democrat is because I see the extreme right reflected in the Republican party. I don't see that in the Democrats and the extreme left. |
9th May 2009, 03:59 PM | #24 |
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If your question remains "What makes one a Republican?" I have no answer. The problem is that those running the Republican Party today have a rather fluid view of who should be in their party, and it's all seemingly geared towards being big fish in small ponds. By the time this is done, they'll have even less power than the Greens.
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9th May 2009, 04:19 PM | #25 |
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Our parties are decentralized. You are Republican if you say so. Though people will doubt you if you don't vote so.
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10th May 2009, 06:12 PM | #26 |
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10th May 2009, 07:09 PM | #27 |
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10th May 2009, 07:34 PM | #29 |
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I was an independent who voted pretty much equally between the two major parties, while also providing some support to the Reform Party, up until about the early part of 2001. I saw some disturbing signs in Bush's GOP about then, and when they went completely nuts after 9/11, I decided I was finished with them. I then ran squarely into the arms of the Democrats, a party which, for all its flaws, seems to have a healthy dose of sanity by comparison.
Other than that, what Roadtoad said. Until the GOP can rid its leadership of the nutters, they'll never get my support. In fact, I'll actively fight them. |
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10th May 2009, 07:37 PM | #30 |
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10th May 2009, 07:42 PM | #31 |
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11th May 2009, 02:25 AM | #36 |
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Probably his blistering hatred of jews and blacks is what the swastika swingers find most attractive about Herr Doktor Paul.
Yes... straight from the Hitler-lovers mouths. Again... just because Reichs-furher Ron is a republican, that doesn't mean that all republicans are nazis. |
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from your link .........
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11th May 2009, 02:39 AM | #39 |
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Congratulations, you successfully located the first line of the first post.
Now read the rest of the thread. And when you're done with that... you can read about the ugly hate filled rants Herr Doktor Paul used to have published in his name. Ron Paul really hates people who don't look like him... it's no wonder the NAZIs like him. |
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