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View Poll Results: Are you [still] a Republican?
Yes 20 40.82%
No 29 59.18%
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Old 8th May 2009, 03:15 PM   #1
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Question "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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Old 8th May 2009, 03:15 PM   #2
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Old 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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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.
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Old 8th May 2009, 03:27 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by Bombastic Penguin View Post
We all know what Oliver thinks a Republican is.

Huh? What is a Republican in my mind?
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No. I was just saying Brainster's a Republican. I havent' been one since 2002.
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Old 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".
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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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Originally Posted by Ferguson View Post
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.
As a former Christo, my apologies for that. We were trying to take over Cleveland.
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As a former Christo, my apologies for that. We were trying to take over Cleveland.
So that's why you went the full Monte? You were just trying to make your vote count.

Get it? Count. Monte. Christo. (Oh never mind...)
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Originally Posted by Roadtoad View Post
As a former Christo, my apologies for that. We were trying to take over Cleveland.
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So that's why you went the full Monte? You were just trying to make your vote count.

Get it? Count. Monte. Christo. (Oh never mind...)
Further evidence the whole enterprise was nuts.
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Invalid poll - no Planet X option.

Close the thread.
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Old 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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Old 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...


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Old 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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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.)

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Old 9th May 2009, 01:28 PM   #20
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As a former Christo, my apologies for that. We were trying to take over Cleveland.
Hell, they can have Cleveland. Nobody else wants it.
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Old 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.

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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.
How would you structure such a system? I mean, we don't have these two parties simply by choice. Our electoral system grew them the way they are.
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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.
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.
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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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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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http://modernwhig.org/
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How would you structure such a system? I mean, we don't have these two parties simply by choice. Our electoral system grew them the way they are.
If it's Our electoral system we can change it.
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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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Invalid poll - no Planet X option.

Close the thread.
truly...it shoulda been something like:

On Planet X we shot all the republicans

Just for the irony

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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.
Just because Ron Paul is in the party, it doesn't automatically mean they are NAZIs.
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Just because Ron Paul is in the party, it doesn't automatically mean they are NAZIs.

Mhmm, Ron Paul actually is the only thing that prevents me from calling Republicans Nazis.
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Just because Ron Paul is in the party, it doesn't automatically mean they are NAZIs.
What makes Ron Paul a Nazi?
quoting Marthin Luther King Jr. or Mahatma Ghandi?
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Mhmm, Ron Paul actually is the only thing that prevents me from calling Republicans Nazis.
Ron Paul is the only republican the NAZIs will vote for.



Ron Paul, pictured with former KKK Grand Wizard and member of the American Nazi Party, Don Black and his spawn, Derek. Black donated to Pauls campaign and endorsed his candidacy.

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Originally Posted by Sword_Of_Truth View Post
Ron Paul is the only republican the NAZIs will vote for.

http://www.internationalskeptics.com...mg&imgid=10171

Ron Paul, pictured with former KKK Grand Wizard and member of the American Nazi Party, Don Black and his spawn, Derek. Black donated to Pauls campaign and endorsed his candidacy.
you have links to that? or some evidence?
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What makes Ron Paul a Nazi?
Probably his blistering hatred of jews and blacks is what the swastika swingers find most attractive about Herr Doktor Paul.

Originally Posted by Dictator Cheney View Post
you have links to that? or some evidence?
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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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.
mhh i never heard anything from Paul that would made me think he hates Black people nor Jews. Actually the opposite.

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from your link .........

Quote:
Ron Paul is NOT a White Nationalist. His Libertarian policies will also conflict with National Socialism, something that a good number of Stormfront members support.
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from your link .........
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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Are you [still] a Republican?
When did you stop beating your wife?

(Just teasing my conservative friends. Don't take that seriously.)

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