Have you ever voted for a republican in your life?

[VermontDem2004]

Poll question: Have you ever voted for a republican in your life?

In any election, President, Congress, dogcatcher, whatever.

[SoCalDem]

1. I voted for Sonny Bono

but NOT for Mary:(

I also voted for ...wait for it..... John Anderson, and Ross Perot :)

and I voted for McCain in the CA primary

Well... Sonny turned out ok :) He was a good congressman...

[shamgar5]

25. Sonny Bozo

You voted for Sonny Bozo?:eyes:

[SoCalDem]

29. I certainly did.. He came across as a decent guy

who never blew himself out of proportion.. He knew his limitations, and I felt he was a decent congressman:)

[southern democrat]

43. I voted never on the poll but I forgot

I voted for one republican,I was on a jury and voted to hang the son of a bitch.Only kidding,I always belived in voting for the best man or woman for the job and somehow they always seem to get nominated by the Democratic party.

[CBHagman]

2. For Gerald Ford and Connie Morella

I have since repented. :-)

I even made calls for Terry Lierman when he was running against Morella and wound up in arguments with Democratic voters who swore, "Connie is not a Republican!"

Fortunately, a real Democrat, Chris Van Hollen, holds that seat now and is working his tuchis off.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

21. Connie Morella, Almo Houghton. Peter King,* and Chris Shays

are my favorite Republicans.... They resisted the Hammer and voted against impeachment... In fact, Almo Houghton visited Clinton during Christamas of 98 during the impeachment brouhaha and brought Clinton a book...

Also, Gerald Ford opposed impeachment .... He'd be a RINO today-pro choice, pro ERA, pro affirmative action....


*I know Peter King is an arch conservative but he was a personal friend of Clinton and accompanied him on his trip to Ireland... I remember things like that...

[rfranklin]

3. I may have pulled the wrong lever once...

when I was having convulsions due to a 105 degree fever.

[AWD]

4. Yes, I voted for McCain

I switched sides for the primaries in Ohio and voted McCain. I thought I knew what would happen...

Of course, I NEVER knew it would be THIS bad.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. Voting Democratic

is a matter of religion with me.....

[BlueJazz]

22. A Big Amen to that !!

.

[burr]

6. Only two or three times...and they were all running as Democrats.

One was a Democrat on the Public Service Commission who switched parties in 1995, another was Nathan Deal in 1994, and the most recent one was Zell Miller in 2000. Please-Please forgive me, it wasn't my fault!!! :cry:

[rucky]

7. Some Juvenile Court Judge...

...in my district. The challenger had zero experience.

[oasis]

8. state local office Coleen Meyer, a compassionate conservative.

That's it...the only one.

[Panda1]

9. Never have, never will.

It's a matter of honor, ethics, morals, humanity, conscience...etc. etc.

[DK666]

10. And besides

Republicans are downright MEAN.

[billbuckhead]

20. Gerald Ford and that was the last

I read a Joan Didion artical about the Reagans and that turned me against them. Later, when David Stockman damningly criticized the Repuke economic worldview and revealed their corrupt schemes, I turned against the GOP forever. I never saw the Republicans as the good guys after Stockman predicted the downside of deregulation.

[RichM]

11. Yes, once I voted for Deukmejian for Calif. governor.

He was running against former LA mayor Tom Bradley in 1986. Bradley's radio commercials were such unethical filth that I couldn't resist voting against him. I felt happy when I did it.

However, I also voted for a Communist running for local office. When God asks me about that vote for a Republican, I'll tell Him/Her about the Communist, arguing that the two should cancel each other out.

[trotsky]

12. Only once

I voted for Arne Carlson (liberal Republican) over Rudy Perpich (Democrat) in the 1990 Minnesota governor's race because Rudy had completely lost it by then, lashing out at his best friend on the MN Supreme Court and generally just being a loony. Plus Perpich was anti-choice, and Carlson pro-.

Except for his infatuation with school vouchers, I can't say I regret my vote for Carlson. He was a pretty good governor. Of course, today's Minnesota Repukes are an entirely different species.

[Rowdyboy]

13. Voted for a Republican against Jim Eastland in 1972

again, against Cliff Finch (governor candidate in 1975). I'm friends with a local judge who is a RINO, one of the most compassionate men I've ever known, who I've voted for several times.

Oh, yeah, some guy named Nixon when I had just turned 18 and was TOTALLY uneducated politically (my secret shame-perhaps that's one reason I am so motivated to support Democrats now-its my penance for that unforgiveable sin))

[VermontDem2004]

15. Surprised

From the movie Nixon, it appeared to me that every single young person hated Nixon or passionately disliked his policies.

[Rowdyboy]

23. You have no idea how unaware I was at 18....

I, for one, didn't deserve to be allowed the vote at age 18. And remember, I was in Mississippi, even though the campus was very liberal. I really hadn't thought about politics too much, and I didn't take my decision very seriously, voting Nixon to my eternal shame. However, in the months following the election, I realized what I had done and by February 1973 I was committed to impeaching the bastard. That marked my evolution from innocent, hick country boy at college into a liberal (at the time socialist) and I've never looked back...

[scarletlib]

47. Not in the South

Nixon was very popular on some southern college campuses. His running mate, Spiro Agnew came to my college at the time and a large crowd turned out. I wasn't old enough to vote then or I might have voted for Nixon. I too, while very liberal, was sold a bill of goods on Nixon. Anyway, I have never voted for a republican for president. My first vote in a presidential election went to McGovern and I am very proud of that.

[PDittie]

14. Bill Clinton was actually the first

Democrat I voted for in a Presidential election (and the first time I voted it was for Ford).

Yes, that means I voted for Reagan both times and for Bush the Elder.

I thought Reagan was a dottering fool by the end, but held my nose when I voted Bush in '88.

What can I say except that I was lost in the wilderness. I was a Young Republican in college('76-80) and after.

It was when I was living in Midland, TX in the late '80s and early '90s when Ann Richards was governor, that I woke up about the Republicans.

Thank God I came to my senses.

[VermontDem2004]

16. The person who voted for the sixth option

speak now and explain why you will.

[rogerashton]

17. Charlton Lyons, for governer of Louisiana in 1963,

my first vote ever.

My drinking buddy, a Long Organization Demo my wife nicknamed "The Rooster Booster" (The rooster, not the donkey, being the **official** emblem of the La Demo party) made up a parody of a parody of a country song, and I remember it to this day.

"When that country precinct vote comes rollin' in
"Old Charlton Lyons will know that he can't win.
"Oh, he's old and thin and gray,
"Charlton Lyons has seen his day,
"When that country precinct vote comes rollin' in."

Sung to the tune of "when that old-age pension check comes to the door." It was pretty accurate, though.

The following year I was placarding for Lyndon Johnson -- because I thought Barry Goldwater would get us in a war.

[LosinIt]

18. In this small town sometimes Repubs run unopposed

in that case I don't vote for anyone for that office.

[havocmom]

19. Lived in Az. Voted for McCain

Didn't agree with him on every issue, but felt he was doing a decent job representing AZ and had some ethics.

[bfusco]

24. Yes but not much

I used to live in James Saxton's congressional district and I voted for him when I lived there. I didn't agree with him 100 percent but he has a strong environmental record and he did a lot to prevent local base closures and help the local economies of his constiuency. I have also voted Republican on the county level but on the local level it's very different and you don't see the same partisan BS that occurs in Washington. Almost always vote Democratic but I always look at the candidates with an open mind. It's just that the Republicans are almost always impossible to stomach.

[KamaAina]

26. Lowell Weicker over Lieberman, CT Senate.

Talk about political Bizarro World! That was the race that first exposed Holy Joe to a wide audience. Weicker, meanwhile, would later reward my faith in him by bolting the Repuke party and becoming CT governor on the "A Connecticut Party" ticket.

[progressivejazz]

27. Good old Edward Brooke.

About as liberal a Republican as you can imagine. Wish he were around today. They'd want to throw him out of the party, but wouldn't dare to because of his race (African-American).

[Kathy in Cambridge]

42. Bill Weld, liberal Republican

He ran for Governor against Democrat John Silber, who was anti-choice, anti-labor, and a complete asshole. Weld was pro-choice, pro-education and very liberal in most ways. He would have no place in the current neo-con regime.

[I Lean Left]

58. Yep, he was my first too!!

Basically a good guy. And Silber was (still is) a nut.

The only other time was when I voted for McCain, which might have been more of an anti-Bush vote than a pro-McCain vote.

[Sterling]

28. The first election I voted in when I had just turned 18.

I was voting because I felt it was a duty but, really had a very shallow understanding of politics. I voted for GHW Bush. It was not until the end of his term that I was exposed to information that changed my understanding of government.


I see the same ignorance in people who support Bush now as well as people who claim to be "centrist". I don't respect it but I understand it.

[tridim]

34. I feel bad about it

but I too voted for GHWB when I was 18. I was just doing what my parents did because had no concern for politics at the time. The gulf war and the open mindedness I found in college changed me almost over night.

[paulk]

30. sort of...

I voted for Ben "Switchhorse" Campbell the first time he ran. 'Course he was a Democrat then.

[WINEWOMAN7]

31. Have you ever voted for a republican

NO!!!!!!!! Never have, never will. I was trained well, by my beloved daddy, who a long time ago was president of the young democrat's club in California!

[FDRLincoln]

32. my GOP votes

Chuck Grassley, US senator, Iowa, 1986 (my first vote, please forgive me)
Bill Graves, Kansas governor, 1994
Carla Stovall, Kansas attorney general, 1994
Sandy Praeger, Kansas statehouse, 1994


Graves, Stovall, and Praeger all ran as moderate Republicans in '94.

In each case, the Democratic candidate was unacceptable to me. They were
1) an unethical scumbag (governor), 2) a complete lunatic (attorney general), 3) more conservative than the GOP candidate.

I haven't voted for a Republican since 1994, and will never do so again as long as the GOP is controlled by lunatics.

[Samuraimad]

33. republican that is a good guy and close friend of the family

ran for sheriff.
Now he is eyeing a congressional seat in Co, now that "Fruitcake" McInnis is not seaking re-election.

[Sterling]

35. Do you have to be registered to vote? cuz.....

Two DUers seem to be in the wrong place, lol.

I really wish the mods would do a better job weeding out the freeps.

I won't mention any names but I think most of us have a pretty good idea who voted to vote Repuke every election.

[jburton]

36. Once

A state rep. candidate. Bill Roman, in Texas. Totally a Jeffords type Repub - pro-choice, etc.

A few years later he lost the primary to a wingnut.

[Blue-Jay]

37. I voted for a Republican in the last local election.

He was running for judge, and I'll admit that I voted for him. Here's why: I found out a day prior to the election that the Democratic candidate had tried to pick up my then-girlfriend at a wedding reception that we attended two weeks prior. I was still pissed off about it.

Doesn't really matter; the Republican still lost, and I still have memories of seeing the boobies of the Dem's wife when we were both in high school. heh.

Other than that, I can't remember voting for another Republican.

[GalleryGod]

39. Never. What Have they EVER done for the People?

When Have they EVER put the People's Business FIRST?

You want detention camps?
GOPers Detention Camps I'd vote for!

[ButterflyBlood]

38. no, but only because I only was allowed to vote last election

In 1996 when I was in 7th grade the Republican candidate for Congress, Kevin Cramer, brainwashed me with his clever and witty attack ads. It also didn't help the huge junior high herd mentality was very biased toward Cramer. He lived in our city and had connections to people in the school, so all shorts of T-shirts and stickers were being passed around and the kids were crazy over the guy. Well once in study hall an 8th grader (in a Cramer for Congress shirt nonetheless) gave me a bumper sticker which I then put on my mom's car without her knowing, once she found out she wasn't too happy to say the least, as she wasn't a Cramer supporter and saw throug his ads. When our school's mock election came around, Cramer won with something like 80%. Pomeroy beat him in the general getting around 55% of the vote. I'm just glad he lost now because he mostly ran on a campaign that Pomeroy was a "tax and spend liberal", how he voted for Clinton's tax plan, and today I can only imagine he'd run on Pomeroy opposing Bush's welfare for the rich plan.

[retread]

40. NO and NEVER in this life!!

*

[gottaB]

41. County Auditor

The Dem was a semi-literate bum.

[BrotherBuzz]

44. S. I. Hayakawa (1976)

Sam had the best attendance record on the US senate floor even if he had a tendency to fall asleep (that should count for something). Fortunatly, he slept most of the time and didn't do to much damage. I voted for him for a lame reason, he was my neighbor in the 1950's and know him to be an honest man. Yep, an honest, sleepy old man who served one term.

[scarletlib]

45. Tennessee

Back when there was such a thing as a moderate republican, I voted for Howard Baker. I also voted for Lamar Alexander the first time he ran for governor. As a state employee I can tell you I never made that mistake again. However, the person running against Lamar had a questionable involvement in the S & L fiasco. His name was Jake Butcher and not long after the governor's race he was indicted and served time in prison for fraud.

[Walt Starr]

46. I originally registered as a Republican when I turned 18

There was no election that year (odd numbered year). I changed my registration to Democrat the next year and never ever voted for a Republican.

[fizzana]

48. never have, never will.

n/t

[mkregel]

49. Mark Hatfield

when I was in Oregon. Shit...he'd be considered a Lefto today. Voted against Vietnam since the beginning, against the Gulf War I,.

Basically, the old fashioned liberal Republican. I miss those.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

55. Yes, I voted for Mark Hatfield, too

He was the last of the old-fashioned Oregon Republicans, the ones who were pioneering environmentalists, and he was also consistenty anti-war, not only the Vietnam War but also Reagan's adventures in Central America.

However, I absolutely refused to vote for Bob Packwood, despite the adamant urging of friends who saw him as a pro-choice hero, because I thought his work on the 1986 tax "reform" was riddled with favors to big donors, and I felt that he should have been kicked out of the Senate for that alone.

But even he seemed like a paragon compared to the current crop of Republicans that Oregon is cursed with. If you tried to do a Top Ten Conservative Idiots list for Oregon, you wouldn't know where to start!

[ima_sinnic]

50. never never never

and I have been voting since 1964.

[Nevernose]

51. No one in my family since the Civil War

Wisdom from my father: "Son, no one in this family has voted for a Republican since the Civil War. If you'd like to stay in this family, don't be the first."

He later told me that if I didn't like the Democratic candidate, there were plenty of viable alternatives. Communist, Socialist, Green, or not voting at all...but for God's sake don't vote Republican.

[Woodstock]

52. Bless me father for I have sinned

I was 20 and really, really stupid. I will now do 100 Hail Mary's.

[Skittles]

53. I'D NEVER VOTE FOR A REPUBLICAN

NEVER HAVE, NEVER WILL. I find their tendency to goose-step DISGUSTING.

[RichM]

54. BillClinton was the only Republican I voted for in a presidential election

[TheYellowDog]

56. stupidity, richm

stupidity.

[PAMod]

57. In 1988 I voted "R" for PA Atty. General & Aud. General

What a mistake - both of them went on to run for Governor - neither got any higher than those offices, thank goodness.

I gave money to a friend running for congress as an "R", but couldn't vote for him as I live in a different district. He got rolled anyway by the popular incumbent and dropped out of politics.

[John_H]

59. Having lived in Mississippi,

I voted for them all the time, even though they had D's after their names.

[Kat45]

60. Yup. In Massachusetts, we've had a number of liberal Repubs.

Sometimes they were more liberal than the Democrats running against them.

[Rooktoven]

61. There was a judge in NC (Bob Orr)

Who threw out some drug cases, had a libertarian streak. A repug who is running against a dem who plays the "war on drugs" demogoguery may get my vote.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

62. It'll be a COLD FUCKING DAY on the hood of my car!

[Corgigal]

63. OH you guys are going to kill me

but I voted for Reagan the first time he ran. I was in the military and young and bought into all the crap the enlisted get thrown at them. However, even with all that brain washing I got it and never went back to a republican again.

[valniel]

64. Voted for Carol Schwartz over Marion Berry