Is there, or has there been, a Republican you could or did vote for?

[Jiyah]

My husband voted for Charlie Gedell in NY in the 1970s.

Is there a republican you could vote for at all?

could you vote for Snowe or chafee if the neo-cons weren't in control?

[Deep13]

1. Some local judges.

Some of them are only Rs so they could get a judicial appointment from the outgoing R governor.

[skipos]

2. I voted for some Rs in the past, but not any more. Anyone who still still wants to be an R

(after what the party has become in the last few years) needs to be voted out.

[Tarc]

3. Bill Weld in Mass.

His breed of Republican is pretty much extinct now, though.

[hughee99]

30. I voted for Weld against John Silber back in 92 (I think).

I know I voted for Weld, I just can't quite remember the year. Silber seemed far more conservative than Weld.

[Warren Stupidity]

46. Yeah that was a no brainer. Silber was a nutter.

[brer cat]

4. John Lindsay

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. I've voted for some

a local judge I knew personally. And I think John Anderson was still considered a Republican when he ran for President.

[Skittles]

6. no, absolutely not

whatever their personal attributes they are the party of bigotry

[Deep13]

8. Because of Nixon's Southern strategy?

:shrug:

[etherealtruth]

7. One time

I voted for the (R) running for Sherrif of Spotsylvania County VA ... there was no (D) running and the incumbent independent was a very scary "good ol' boy"

[Bobbieo]

I voted for Barry Goldwater for Congress in the1960's

[IdaBriggs]

9. I used to vote for the *person* not the party (because I'm an Independent).

I now use the "R" designation to identify stupid, incompetent traitors to America. Anyone who supported George W. Bush for President will *NEVER* get my vote *EVER AGAIN* unless/until they clean up the disastrous mess that is this vile, corrupt, incompetent administration.

[lonestarnot]

10. I don't vote for criminals, serial killers, thieves, liars, dumb asses, baby rapers, constitution

killers, bigots, promotion of the richies, so why would I EVER vote forone of those freaks?

[EFerrari]

23. That's what I was thinking.

lol

[lonestarnot]

68. HAPPY NEW YEAR SFEXPAT2000!

:hug:

[EFerrari]

75. Happy New Year lonestarnot!

:hug:

[NNN0LHI]

72. Me neither. Never have. Never will n/t

[lonestarnot]

95. HAPPY NEW YEAR NNNOLHI!

:hug:

[question everything]

11. The only Republicans that I voted for were running for non-partisan

seats at a city and county governments.

And the issues on which they were running were local that were important to me.

[AlinPA]

12. Never. (I voted for JFK). Never voted for an R in all that time. Not even a local R.

[FormerDittoHead]

13. Absolutely.

I will not list the Republicans I've voted for, there have been many! ...but I am NOW a loyal Democrat.

It wasn't until March 2003 that I held both parties in healthy disdain. The failure of the Republicans to stand up in unison against this administration has sworn me off that party until a candidate were to rise up and condemn Nixon, Reagan, and especially THIS criminal in the White House.

But don't take that as a blind endorsement for the Democratic party.

In both parties I've seen corruption, cronyism (hell, Democrats practically invented it), ineptitude, elitism, pro-corporatism / anti-consumer, favors for the rich, etc.

Democrats do not have license to assume I will vote for them regardless of who runs and what they do!

[4nic8em]

14. In 2000

I voted for Joe Lieberman...

[Crunchy Frog]

53. I voted for Nader. Does that count?

[Bjornsdotter]

15. Never

If my only choice is a republican candidate, I leave it blank. It happens often in our local races.

Cheers

[cali]

28. I voted happily for a Republican for U.S Senator in 2000

I also voted for him in 1994 and 1988. Jim Jeffords was a decent honorable man who came from a sadly now defunct line of Vermont repub Senators who championed education, the environment and getting out of Viet Nam.

[JI7]

16. i "could" maybe vote for someone like Lincoln Chafee

of course i'm not from his state so it wouldn't be an issue. but not in this last election where it was very important for us to have a majority. if Chafee had just switched parties, and he didn't even have to become a Dem, an independent would be ok. but he had to caucus with us.

but i "could" vote for someone like him depending on the circumstances.

[JerseygirlCT]

26. That's it. During another time, were I from RI, I could

have considered him.

Right now? Nothing that would hand control over to his party is acceptable. Even someone who seems to be a decent guy.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

17. I would have voted for Lincoln.

But, since I started voting in 1966, I've never even considered voting for a Republican. I have voted to the left of Dems on several occasions.

[yurbud]

76. the Republicans seem to have taken a wrong turn after Abe. I liked HIS southern strategy

[tinfoil tiaras]

18. We have to vote republican in the Secretary of State race next year

because the current one (a democrat) is like DINO to the max. He's freakishly religous, like fundie (my mom used to work for him) and is not a democrat at all, imo. I'd vote for Joe Lieberman over him.

[tritsofme]

19. I voted to reelect Jim Edgar for IL governor in 1994.

I probably would have voted for him if he ran against Blago last November too.

I came very close to voting for George Ryan over Glen Poshard for governor in 1998 because Ryan was the only pro-choice candidate, but I ended up going with Poshard.

My state rep is a Republican and usually runs unopposed, this year he had a Dem opponent, but I still went with the incumbent Republican, he's a good man and I know him personally, I think he's doing a good job.

I don't think I've ever voted for a Republican on any federal ticket however.

[Critters2]

22. I voted Green in the gubernatorial this year. I think Blago is corrupt

from top to bottom.

In '98, I didn't vote in the gubernatorial. I couldn't stomach either candidate. Poshard was too far to the right on too many issues, and the stories about Ryan's corruption were already making news. Besides, I knew by then that I'd be moving to Iowa in a few months, and couldn't bring myself to saddle Illinoisans with either one of them. I voted in other races on the ballot, but not that one.

As long is the Illinois Dem Party doesn't do a better job of policing itself in terms of corruption, bribes, connections, etc, I reserve the right to vote for non-Dems in statewide elections.

But, like you, I can't see myself voting for a Repug at the federal level.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

74. me too. Ryan at least ran a clean state.

AND he listened to both sides of the aisle.

When bloggo goes to jail, how many governors will we have convicted?

[theoldman]

20. I think I could still vote for Colin Powell if he admitted

his mistakes. No one is perfect and we all make mistakes.

[Monkeyman]

21. No not till hell freezes over

[JerseygirlCT]

24. I voted for Lowell Weicker, against Lieberman

Would do that again in a heartbeat.

I think I voted for Nancy Johnson once, way, way back. She was far less nasty then and this was before her dalliance with Newt and shaky ethics.

(In HS I actually worked on the Ford campaign. I know. Terrible to confess. But if I had to have thought I should work on a Republican presiential campaign, Ford is still the one to have been it.)

These days, I cannot imagine what it would take to make me vote for any GOP candidate. But I grew up in the Northeast, where we used to grow Republican moderates (real moderates, not John McCains) -- you know, fiscally responsible, socially moderate (MYOB really), careful in foreign affairs. We'd be in better shape if the Republicans were more like that now. We being the country, that is. Now the GOP is so far to the right, so reactionary and out of touch with reality, so unconcerned with justice or human rights... No, right now there isn't a Republican I could vote for.

[Crunchy Frog]

50. I would have done the same.

There were still some decent Republicans in those days. In another era, I might have voted for Lincoln Chafee, but not now, unless he were to switch parties.

[JerseygirlCT]

66. That's it. The party he chooses to belong to is so wrong, so

ugly, that it makes you think badly about him, even if he's a nice guy.

That's not a club I'd want to belong to, and I have to question anyone who does, in this day.

[AnnieBW]

25. Sen. John Heinz

A genuinely nice guy, cared a lot about the environment and women's rights. Besides, he had GREAT taste in women! :D

[Itchinjim]

27. Jim Leach

I'd do it again too.

[mcscajun]

29. Only one that I can recall: John Anderson.

For those who don't recall, he was a liberal Republican who mounted a third-party challenge in the 1980 Presidential election (along the lines of Joe Lieberman, which surprises me now). He got my vote, along with 5,719,849 others, but got not one electoral vote.

Why did I vote for him and not for Carter? 26 years later, I cannot recall. :shrug:

FWIW, here's my primary support and voting record for President:
'68 - McCarthy (supported, couldn't vote yet)
'72 - McGovern (first Presidential vote)
'76 - Carter
'80 - Anderson
'84 - Supported Hart, voted Mondale
'88 - Supported Gore, voted Dukakis
'92 - Clinton
'96 - Clinton
'00 - Supported Bill Bradley, voted Gore
'04 - Supported Clark, voted Kerry

[Mz Pip]

32. Wow

This is nearly an exact duplicate of my voting record. I think I probably voted for Jerry Brown in the 76 primaries and voted for McCain in the '00 primaries.

Had no intention of actually supporting McCain in the general election but really couldn't stand Bush and wanted him gone even back then.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[mcscajun]

36. I had some positive thoughts about McCain back then, too.

And hoped he'd get the nod rather than Bush. :puke:

I wouldn't touch McCain with a ten foot pole now. I have higher standards about who I hug.


:thumbsdown: :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown:

[Mz Pip]

61. I'm not sure my thoughts were

all that positive, but I thought that if it were the Republicans turn to occupy the White House I'd much rather see McCain there than Bush.

If McCain were President I don't know if there would really be a whole lot of difference. Maybe we would have focused on geting bin Laden as opposed to this revenge match that Junior had going with Saddam. And, for all of his RW pandering, I doubt we'd have Alito on the SCOTUS.

McCain's pandering to BushCo after the smear job they did on him in the '00 primaries shows me he is not the 'maverick' that he pretends to be. He's always caved and for that he gets no snaps from me.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Zensea]

35. About the same here

except I think I ended up voting for Carter in 1980 despite caucusing to vote for Anderson in the primary.
And I voted for Nader in 96 since I was in New York and Clinton didn't need my vote in New York's Democratic stronghold.

[vireo]

48. Only R I've voted for as well

But it was in a congressional primary, when Anderson still was a Republican and a RW minister was running against him.

[liberalpragmatist]

63. Outta curiosity why'd you flip from Gore to Bradley between '88 and '00

I know that Gore was considered a pretty right-wing Democrat back when he first ran for president (sort of an '80s Joe Lieberman, though not as hated or as divisive).

What made you support Bradley in '00?

[mcscajun]

82. A few things that I can recall...

He ran to the left of Gore in many ways, he had some innovative proposals on education and incentives to create new teachers, and he had a number of good endorsements from prominent politicians in the Northeast (where I've lived all my life - mostly NYC and now NJ) including US Senator Moynihan and former NYS Governor Mario Cuomo. He was a fresh face in Presidential politics, and to my mind, he provided what was needed: a clean break from anyone connected with the Clinton Administration's troubles with the Republicans. If the McCain challenge on the Republican side hadn't sucked all the air out of the room, so to speak, his challenge might have gotten more media attention than it had, and who knows?

At any rate, I'd support Gore again in a heartbeat; he's changed a bit since 2000, and so have I. :)

I still hope for a Clark candidacy, but I'm keeping an open mind as it's still far too early to know how things will shake out.

[liberalpragmatist]

88. So why Gore in '88?

Most electable maybe? Or the fact that he was a fresh face?

[mcscajun]

93. Don't recall much in detail about '88. I know I was initially attracted to the

Hart candidacy, but we all know what happened to that. The field wasn't that impressive to me, overall (that was the year the phrase "Seven Dwarfs" got used for the Democratic field of Presidential candidates). Electability might have been very much on my mind in that atmosphere.

:shrug:

[Zensea]

31. I registered as a Republican once to caucus for John Anderson

not your average Republican I admit.
The only time I did something like that also.
Figured it was worth it to throw a wrench into the works.
I may have voted for a Republican some other time, but never on the national level.

[NYCGirl]

33. I've never in my life voted for a Republican, and I don't intend to start now. NT

[Ioo]

34. Yah, there are many...

And I may again if the Dems do not stop shooting us in the foot with the likes of Kerry...

I voted for a Republican for Mayor of DC

I voted for a few locals...

[Warren Stupidity]

37. Jim Squires here in southern NH

got my vote a while back. He was that rare duck: a progressive new england republican. Otherwise no.

[Raine]

38. I voted for Ford

I was a repug at the time. By the time Carter ran for re-election I had become a Democrat and voted for him. After the theft of 2000 I could never see myself ever voting for a repug. The Democrat would have to be pretty horrendous but odds are I would leave it blank rather than vote for a repug.

[BrotherBuzz]

39. Pete McCloskey

Endangered Species Act and outspoken opponent of the war in Vietnam. He was (and still is) an honorable man.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

40. Only local judges that weren't too whacked out

I have never voted for a Republican for a political office, only for judges that were reasonable.

Now they've taken over the judiciary in Harris County and it's sad.

[zonmoy]

41. I think I voted republican in the first presidential race I voted in

before I broke from my families fundamentalist christian brainwashing and became the maltheist I am today. other than that I have only voted republican for local races where there were no other candidates running although now if I see that I will write my own name in.

[originalpckelly]

42. No.

Very simple.

[upi402]

43. no, can barley stomach DINO's -usually don't n/t

[Nicole]

44. I haven't yet

I don't see it ever happening.

[Justyce]

45. I have NEVER voted for a single republican --

if there hasn't been a democrat running, I vote for an independent or leave it blank. I think it would be a cold day in hell before I'd vote for a republican.

[Junkdrawer]

47. Abe Lincoln...and a lot of the Reconstruction Republicans...

Once you get to the 20th century, I'm kind of gone from the Republican fold.. :evilgrin:

[Crunchy Frog]

49. I voted for the oral surgeon who did my wisdom teeth.

For University Regent. It was a mistake though, as he supported the continuing use of dog labs at the medical school.

[illinoisprogressive]

51. I haven't except for county judges, ect.

low level local stuff when no one is running against. As for anyone of note, not yet. There have been some I would but, they were not in my state or district. I am a die hard dem but, I don't think you are evil if you are a republican. Most are but, there are some good guys.

[Solon]

52. Abe Lincoln, and the Radical Republicans of that era...

Abe Lincoln would be a compromise, but those Radical Republicans were the "leftists" of their day. Grant I would have voted for, then complained about his cabinet, he was a good guy, but hired corrupt assholes to surround himself with, in his ignorance, unfortunately.

[SeaBob]

54. To Die For

There was one republican I would have died for.... Dwight David Eisenhower

[OutNow]

55. Hmmmm - NO

I've voted for socialists and greens and democrats. I've contributed to every national campaign Bernie Sanders has run. I've supported Dennis Kucinich in 2004 and will in 2008.

I have never even thought about voting for a republican. My father was a union man all his life and would rise from his grave, walk all the way to my house and smack the crap out of me if I ever voted for a republican. And I'd deserve it.

Bring the troops home now!

[Rex]

56. Back in the day I would have voted for Ike.

I wouldn't trust any of them today.

[jwirr]

57. Never. I am from the old school when it comes to dividing my ticket.

[Raksha]

58. That's a no-brainer: NO, and NO again, and NO on top of that! n/t

[VelmaD]

59. Nope...they support a party...

that doesn't consider me fully human because I was born female. So I wouldn't vote for any of them.

[Blue_In_AK]

60. I voted for the late Jay Hammond for governor of Alaska

back in the '70s, an exceptional human being. I have no regrets.

[Sapphire Blue]

62. Abraham Lincoln (if I had been alive then) is the only one that I can think of.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

64. Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon

He was against intervention in Central America and for the environment. I don't think they make Republicans like him anymore.

However, I'm proud to say that I was never fooled by Bob Packwood, unlike some of my one-issue colleagues, who voted for Packwood because he was supposedly such a great pro-choice kind of guy. (His Dem opponent was also pro-choice, and the one-issue voters didn't seem to care that Packwood had co-authored Reagan's cynical tax bill.)

[G Hawes]

65. Never have. Can't imagine that I ever will.

[maine_raptor]

67. I did vote for Bill Cohen once.

But that was after he wrote an Article of Impeachment for Nixon.

My wife registered as an "R" in 2000, so she could vote for McCain in the 2000 primary, but she switched back later that year.

[Hubert Flottz]

69. No.

Not a one.

[lukasahero]

70. John Chaffee RI Senator

The recent behavior and grace of his son should be enough to explain why.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

71. No. Never.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

73. John Anderson from Illinois. Chuck Percy, ditto.

then again, until the recent turn to anti-abortion, pro-prayer ultra-conservative nutjobs, the Ill-GOP was always moderate before.

[MiniMe]

77. I voted for Connie Morella several times

She was a highly popular republican in a highly democratic district in Montgomery County, Maryland. Then she was one of the deciding vote in the impeachment of Clinton. She made a big show about being undecided, but voted for the impeachment anyway. I didn't vote for her re-election for obvious reasons. She lost big time in that election to Chris Van Hollen and I haven't voted for a republican since.

[LSK]

78. No

[terrya]

79. I voted for Jim Thompson for Illinois Governor in 1976.

The first time. Didn't after that.

I also voted for John Anderson for President in 1980. But he ran as an Independent then.

[Sapere aude]

80. I voted for Jerry Ford. I was living in Michigan at the time. I bought the idea that we needed

him to save the auto industry thus saving Michigan.

[LWolf]

81. Sure.

When you live in a "red" area, there is often no other choice for local offices. You know; the "non-partisan" offices where the candidates do not reveal their political affiliation by name, but you can determine it by the talking points.

When only republicans are running, I pick the most moderate of the bunch.

:shrug:

[marions ghost]

83. A vote for R

is a vote for corruption, esp in the South.

I can't imagine voting Repuglican.

[xultar]

84. NEVER! I do write ins when only a rethug runs I will never vote rethug...I hope not to

[sniffa]

85. biLL weLd - i Loved that guy

[Odin2005]

86. Former Minnesota governor Arnie Carlson.

He's one of the last of Minnesota's Liberal Republicans (our equivalent to the Chaffee-types) and our last decent governor, a good man. He was so angered about the way his party was going he voted for Kerry in 2004.

[KharmaTrain]

87. I've Had Fun In Their Primaries

I am proud to say in over 30 years of voting, I never voted for a Repugnican in a General Election and doubtful I ever will. It's either the Democrat or a third party.

Growing up in Chicago, it still is common that the primary is in essence the General Election as the Democrat who wins one wins it all. This was also the case, but in reverse, in the suburbs. In the 80s, I lived in an area where the Democratic party was virtually extinct, thus the real local election was the Repugnican primary. For several elections I voted in the GOOP primary and had a blast. In '88, I gladly voted for Pat Robertson to win the nomination and then for every radical fringe nut that I could.

Then I could run around to my wingnut "friends" and claim to be one of them since I voted in their primary...then give them an evil laugh.

:rofl:

[SaveElmer]

89. John Warner...

When he was running unopposed...

[wicket]

90. Jim Jeffords

n/t

[RebelOne]

91. I did vote for a Republican this past election.

He is big on animal rights. Actually, it didn't take my vote away from a Democrat because he was running unchallenged.

[Clinton Crusader]

92. When I lived in NYC...

I voted for Guiliani for Mayor 'cause Dinkins was a jackass.

Now, I hate his guts.

First and ONLY time.

[RiverStone]

94. Never have voted for a rethug...

...though I will admit Chaffee would readily get my support if he switched to the DEMS.