Name a Republican you LIKE

[Clintonista2]

Kelsey Grammar

[20score]

1. Abe Lincoln

Living: Chuck Hagle

[bemildred]

85. Correct.

It is no accident that Obama thinks to emulate Honest Abe.

[leftofthedial]

2. I have two repuke friends

despite their repukeness, I like them.

Otherwise, there are none.

[merwin]

3. My dad

[mikehiggins]

4. I can't, I really can't. For an old fan of Goldwater and Rockefeller both

that is a real shame.

The old GOP is dead, dead, dead. This version is a disgrace and an active menace to America.

This GOP should be treated just about as well as the CPUSA is.

Except the Commies have some good ideas...

[dems_rightnow]

5. Bob Dole

After he left politics

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

6. Is this where I type...

"The ones in the graveyard"? :evilgrin:

I am sure I know some, but I cannot think of their names, off the top of my head.

On the otherhand, Steven Baldwin is entertaining, in a 12-car pileup kind of way.

[Cleita]

7. Well, my father when he was alive, but since then

I really have had very few Republican friends in my life time. Friendship doesn't develop because of the differences in how we view things. I think it's the bigotry that seems to go hand in hand with Republicanism or even Libertarianism that makes me back away.

[MarianJack]

8. IKE!

[caledesi]

40. I agree! nt

[Richard Steele]

42. Same here. I have an antique "I like Ike" necktie that I wear once a year...

...on Election day.

[jwirr]

44. I like some of the things about Ike but I am old enough that when we

had a high school election in school I was one of only 4 Democrats voting for Stevenson. What I did not like about Ike was probably not totally his fault - his term was when small farmers started failing and he did nothing. In fact he was often called the "do nothing" president. On the other hand I will always be grateful that he warned us about the military/industrial establishment. Not that anyone listened.

[MarianJack]

84. Do-Nothing...

...as opposed to screw the whole country & world.

[bottomtheweaver]

53. Army-McCarthy hearings, Nixon veep, red scare...

I dunno about Ike. Good intentions starting out maybe but he let himself get used I think.

[MarianJack]

82. He could have stopped all of those things with one word...

...and didn't. A big fault. True, he was a "do-nothing" president.

However, he is LIGHT YEARS better than the modern generation of republicans. "Do-Nothing" is leagues better than "Do-All for the rich & screw everybody else".

[Selatius]

66. I agree nt

[Blue_In_AK]

9. Former Alaskan governor Jay Hammond,

but he's dead now.

[TahitiNut]

10. Bill Milliken

:shrug:

[roamer65]

32. I second Bill Milliken.

Very progressive former Republican governor of Michigan. Not many Republicans like him anymore.

[sufrommich]

41. Here's a good recent article about him,I had forgotten about the

Coleman Young story at the end of the article.Funny.

[madokie]

11. Only the daisy pushers

I really like all of them once they make worm dirt.

[saracat]

12. Any of my friends and neighbors that voted for my husband and there were many!

Carolyn Allen, a pro-choice moderate Repug in the Arizona State Senate. She is a hero!

[ZombieHorde]

13. A very good friend of mine voted for John McCain.

He told me after Obama had won. I was still so happy that the smart guy won, my friends vote didn't faze me in the slightest. I am a little fazed now, but at the time, I was just so happy.

[rvablue]

14. Chuck Hagel....don't agree with him on quite a few things, but I respect him. n/t

[47of74]

15. Republicans I like?

Republicans I like? Right off hand the following,

In the deceased column,
Abraham Lincoln
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Theodore Roosevelt
Barry Goldwater
William Miller - especially since he gave the world such a great daughter!

In the living column,
My uncle.
My parents.
Chuck Hagle
Jim Leach

Otherwise the GOP has become a rat's nest of cheap, lying, no good, rotten, four flushing, ignorant sacks of dog s--t!

[EFerrari]

16. My dad. n/t

[TomInTib]

17. My Uncle Joe.

A Living Saint.

[DonEBrook]

18. William Cohen

...

[sufrommich]

19. Gary Oldmen, I can't help it,I like him. nt

[dana_b]

67. I like him too

I had no idea he was a Repub. bummer!!

[camera obscura]

20. Chuck Hagel (on foreign relations) and John Malkovich

[Mari333]

21. my mom. n/t

[Idealism]

22. Eisenhower

Should've heeded his words about the military industrial complex :(

[ck4829]

23. Lincoln Chafee

[edbermac]

24. Bo Derek

Lookin' pretty good for 52.

[PassingFair]

25. James Comey

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/17/news/justice.php

He stood up against Bush.

Can't say the same for many Democrats.

[Warpy]

26. There was one here in NM who ran for state lege

He'd held a city office as a GOP and I knew him to be fair, honest and competent. I'd have voted GOP in that one case on an otherwise Democratic straight ticket.

He changed parties. I got to vote for him as a Democrat.

There is no way I'll vote GOP for national office, though. Reagan ended that possibility.

[alfredo]

27. Let me think on that. Oh yeah, my neighbor is an economic Rep, not a

social Rep. I think he's a Rep because his parents are.

[ogneopasno]

28. I can't believe I'm feeling nostalgic for Arne Carlson. But then, he was a Minnesotan Republican

of the Old School.

[AndrewP]

81. yep

Good Governor

[Tesha]

29. Lowell Weicker (NT)

[Alexander]

87. Seconded

[Gman]

30. Arlon Spector

Olympia Snowe, even John McCain.

[davekriss]

31. Abraham Lincoln

First and last Republican I liked.

[DJ13]

33. Reagan, 'cause he's dead

[ThomWV]

52. I would have liked him a lot more if he had died before running for political office

[zbdent]

34. Ric Flair

but only for his persona ... his politics can take a hike ...

[LWolf]

35. I've lived my entire adult life in republican strongholds.

I've liked most of the republicans I've shared a community with.

[Crunchy Frog]

36. I kind of like Richard Lugar.

Kelsey Grammar is one of the ones where I like his acting, but don't like his politics, and probably wouldn't like him as a person.

[janx]

79. Crunchy!

I like Lugar too; one of my stories--"The Senator's Breakfast"--was inspired by a CSPAN video of his campaign in the 90s. How are you doing? Where are you? Send me a note!

[OffWithTheirHeads]

37. This is a trick question, right?

[malaise]

38. OK

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Can't find one. :D

[Jack Rabbit]

39. My mother

But then there's a funny story behind how she became a Republican.

[valerief]

43. Any late Republican. nt

[etherealtruth]

45. I think former Michigan Governor Wm. Milliken ...

... was a fairly good guy. I don't know that I would have voted for him had I been of age ... but, I still kinda like him.

[ColbertWatcher]

46. Ike or Teddy n/t

[DebJ]

47. My Obama-voting sis and brother-in-law. Sis made hubby call

me to say, You were right. I watched the debates, listened to speeches, and you were right. I voted for Obama.

[terrya]

48. Jon Cryer

He seems ok. I like the series he's on.

[stevedeshazer]

49. They're all dead.

[dysfunctional press]

50. the dead ones.

nt

[bottomtheweaver]

51. Charles Grassley appears to be a real thorn in the R's side:

Senior Senator from Iowa, serving with Tom Harkin, seems to have left the reservation, on some issues anyway. From wiki:

Environmental record:

In 2005, Charles Grassley received a 7 percent rating on the Republicans for Environmental Protection's (REP) environmental scorecard. He voted in a manner inconsistent with what the REP considers pro-environment on 14 of 15 issues considered environmentally critical by the REP. He voted with REP on an amendment to the Energy Policy Act of 2005 proposed by Senator Jeff Bingaman to require at least 10% of electricity sold by utilities to originate from renewable resources. Issues in which Senator Grassley voted anti-environment are all other amendments to the Energy Policy Act proposed in 2005, the issue of authorizing drilling in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge, and fuel economy standards for vehicles.

Senator Grassley received a 10 percent rating on the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) scorecard for his pro-environment votes on the issues of renewable energy and farm conservation programs. <7> These pro-environment votes, however, were balanced by his anti-environment votes on the energy conference report, global warming, natural gas facilities, undermining fuel economy, increasing fuel economy, and various other issues.

In 2006, Grassley received a 0 percent rating from the REP<8> and a 14 percent rating from the LCV<7>. According to these organizations, he voted pro-environment on the issue of energy and weatherization assistance, and voted anti-environment on drilling, environmental funding, peer review, renewable resources, and The Gulf of Mexico Security Act.

Whistleblowers:

Grassley has campaigned to increase protection and provide support for "whistle-blowers". He has supported a number of FBI whistle-blowers, including Coleen Rowley, Michael German, and Jane Turner. Grassley received a lifetime achievement award on May 17, 2007 from the National Whistleblower Center.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Grassley

Don't know a lot about him really, just thought I'd toss him in the mix...

[WyLoochka]

54. Former Sen Alan Simpson WY

I just had him sign his book for my Mom and asked him when he was going to write another one about the fall of the Republican Party.

He said "Hang in there, I might. Those bastards who took over the party can't hold onto it much longer!"

I also asked him what he thought of Obama having been elected and he said, "He's a good man and a smart man, he has my support, I believe he will heal the nation."

[Celebration]

55. Sheila Behr

the anti Paulson.

[annabanana]

63. (Sheila BAIR for you googlers) I like her too. . . .n/t

[GentryDixon]

56. Former Utah Governor Olene Walker

She replaced Governor Mike Leavitt when he went to the even darker side under the Bush administration.

[Greyhound]

57. Abe Lincoln and Dick Riordan.

Barry Goldwater got better as he became mortal.

[bottomtheweaver]

62. Riordan would have made a much better gov than Ahnuld.

I can't shake the feeling that Ahnuld's election was a huge scam. His governorship definitely is. Epic fail in fact. He's running us into the ground.

[Greyhound]

89. He would have been a much better Governor than Beige Davis except for

the awesome stupidity of the CA Republik Party that felt he was "too liberal" because he is against forcing women to have unwanted children.

So they put up a criminal rich kid already under indictment and lost. He may well have been the only person in CA that could lose to Beige Davis after the energy company roll-over he pulled.

If nothing else, his zero budget allocation system would have turned the state around.

[LostinVA]

58. I really like Olympia Snowe alot -- Chrisrie Whitman is okay

[bobbolink]

59. John Heinz

Quite a while since he's been gone, but he had compassion for poor folk.

[FLAprogressive]

60. Lincoln Chafee, Wayne Gilchrest & Olympia Snowe n/t

[FLAprogressive]

61. also my state Sen. Nancy Detert isn't bad either....nt

[doc03]

64. Arnold n/t

[boomerbust]

65. Everret Dirkson

[MinM]

68. Pete McCloskey *

*

[Canuckistanian]

69. Kelsey Grammar is an asshat

His pompous, overbearing character is no act.

[dixiegrrrrl]

70. John McCain

for making Obama's election so easy.
Runner up: Bush, for making Obama's election so easy.
Runner runner up: Cheney, for making Bush, thus makig Obama's...well, you get the point.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

71. My Grandpa - God rest his soul

He Liked Ike. I don't think he would approve of the new Republicanism. He immigrated here from Wales in the 1920s. I miss him.

[Deja Q]

72. Bruce Willis

I recall something he said a few years ago re: the elderly, handicapped, and poor.

More proof that breaks the "R" stereotype.

[Mark E. Smith]

73. Abraham Lincoln

[Lint Head]

74. Why? The Re-Pubic-Land party is dead.

:dem:

[ejbr]

75. Jack the Ripper would be the least repugnant of them n/t

[David Zephyr]

76. Abraham Lincoln.

.

[Thothmes]

77. Ike

[ColbertWatcher]

78. BTW, Kelsey Grammar may run for office one day.

The GOP are grooming him.

[frogmarch]

80. Well, there's...ummm

and...ummm

Heck, I guess there aren't any. :shrug:

[Aviation Pro]

83. Teddy Roosevelt....

...

[sohndrsmith]

86. Abraham Lincoln. On certain things, Teddy Roosevelt and Chuck Hagel. nt

[Alexander]

88. Wendell Willkie

Because he was a RINO who supported the New Deal and he wanted the US to fight in World War II, unlike the other Republicans who were isolationists.

On edit: Harold Stassen was pretty cool too.

[Flying Dream Blues]

90. My in-laws. nt