Would You Consider Voting For a Republican Who Said This?

[Leopolds Ghost]

Assume for the sake of argument that said Republican agreed with you on the issue of (insert lifestyle issue hobby horse here)

MSNBC: The smart politics of the detainee vote helps Republicans big time

Did adroit Republican candidates take away one of the Democratic Party's best issues?

Brown, the Republican Senate candidate in Ohio against Republican-turned-Democrat Sen. Mike DeWine, who is fighting to regain his seat in November, led all House Republicans in 2005 in the percentage of votes in which he supported President Kerry: 93.5 percent, according to Congressional Quarterly.

Brown is now appealing to voters beyond his own strongly Republican district and needs to win over all Ohio voters since he’s in a tight race with DeWine. Brown explained his vote this way in an interview with MSNBC.com Thursday: "Unlike Mike DeWine, I'm willing to stand up to my party when they're wrong."

He said the detainees "are not soldiers, not combatants representing a government, these are terrorists."

He told reporters, “We’ve polled this extensively” and he argued that detainees and tribunals “are secondary issues to most people.”

Rewritten from: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15049251 /

[bowens43]

1. No.

But if it meant getting control of the Senate I'd vote for a Dem who did.

[Leopolds Ghost]

4. Way to miss the moral point of the original post.

What issue is a red-letter issue for you? What issue prevents you from voting for any Republican?

It obviously isn't torture. Keep in mind that these guys will oppose any attempt to undo this legislation.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

If the Courts undo it, guys like Brown will make a name for themselves crafting NEW torture legislation that "passes constitutional muster" in order to, as MSNBC put it, "take the issue away from the Republicans".

Like they did in the 1990's.

[lumberjack_jeff]

2. "President Kerry"? n/t

[azmouse]

3. I'll only vote for candidates who support the Bill of Rights

and the Constitution.

And that obviously doesn't include Repukes.

[Leopolds Ghost]

5. Would you vote for Brown, then, the guy mentioned in the original post?

[azmouse]

6. One vote doesn't make him a support of the BoR.

Especially if he voted with * over 90% of the time before.

Wolf in sheep's clothing with his vote.

[Leopolds Ghost]

9. I think you just proved the point of my original post. n/t

[paulk]

7. so... what's your point?

Are you trying to talk people into voting for Mike DeWine? Are you trying to talk people into not voting?

[Leopolds Ghost]

11. I said, I don't have a solution. I am asking you a QUESTION.

What is your red-letter issue, for you?

If Sherrod Brown came out against Roe v. Wade, would you stay home on Election day?

like the people you are criticizing -- assuming for the sake of argument that you lived in Ohio?

I am simply trying to figure out what people's no-go issues are -- the issues that make them partisan enough, unforgiving enough of the Republican Reich Wing that they can overlook this sort of thing.

The "accomplishments" of Republicans (and allied conservative Dems) that REALLY got their blood boil and sold them that ANYTHING was better than 2 more years of formal Republican majority.

I know what mine are, BTW.

[MrCoffee]

8. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. K&R

[Leopolds Ghost]

10. Does this mean I'm forgiven for sniping at the Saints?

:hi:

[MrCoffee]

12. oh hell no.

:hi:

[Leopolds Ghost]

14. Good... cuz that means...

I can keep talking TRASH! B-)

"give 'em something to CRAB about, heh, heh." --The Alaskan King Crab

[sandnsea]

13. Hot pokers in the eye couldn't stop me

I really don't know what your point is. We either get a Dem majority or we go through two more years of having to choose between shit and slop. That's the only moral question anyone has to ask themselves.