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Vanity: When was your first time and how was it?
11/6/12 | Self

Posted on 11/06/2012 3:14:18 PM PST by DManA

I'll go first. Mine was Richard Nixon 1972. I felt cheap and used. I wish I'd waited for a better man.


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To: DManA

Dang, my commentary didn’t show. Just meant my first time was 1984.


81 posted on 11/06/2012 3:39:25 PM PST by ConservativeStatement (Obama "acted stupidly.")
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To: OrangeHoof
Mine was Gerald Ford in 1976. Good thing Reagan showed up in ‘80 and ‘84 so I’d know what it felt like to win these things.

Reagan showed up and ran in 1976. He was defeated by Ford in the Republican primary 53.3% to 45.9%.

82 posted on 11/06/2012 3:39:26 PM PST by South40 ("Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance." - Barack Hussein Obama - Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009.)
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To: DManA
Mine was for the uber lib ("Great Society") LBJ in 1964, but I have an "excuse" as it was my first time and I was serving (in beautiful Hawaii) in the USAF at the time.

Never voted again for a RAT although after Ford wussed out on standing up to Congress and upholding his oath of office by refusing to help our ally So. Vietnam (as was laid out in the Paris Peace Accords) I became an Independent (albeit a Conservative one) and have remained same since.

83 posted on 11/06/2012 3:39:47 PM PST by neveralib
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To: DManA

Mine was Richard Nixon in 1972, as well.


84 posted on 11/06/2012 3:40:33 PM PST by Shery (in APO Land)
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To: rusty schucklefurd

Nixon was the prototype RINO.


85 posted on 11/06/2012 3:42:27 PM PST by DManA
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To: DManA

We’ve all messed up. I myself once bought a Chevette.

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My brother bought a new Chevette. In 1976. He kept that bugger for 20 years. Of course he replaced the engine twice and every other part numerous times too.

But my brother was (and still is) cheap. Not much smarter with cars either. Nowadays he drives a Neon.


86 posted on 11/06/2012 3:43:24 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: DManA

Anderson 1980. Hated Carter, but was not quite ready to vote for Reagan. I fixed that in 84:)


87 posted on 11/06/2012 3:44:12 PM PST by LongWayHome
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To: DManA
Goldwater

Still proud of it!

88 posted on 11/06/2012 3:44:42 PM PST by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: DManA
I was old enough to stay up late and watch the returns for both the '60 (Kennedy/Nixon) and '64 (LBJ/Goldwater) elections, a real thrill at the time.

My first vote was in '68 (Nixon/Humphrey) in Fla.; I won't embarrass myself by telling you who I voted for. Let me explain that my politics changed a couple of years after leaving university and have remained conservative ever since. [ now retired ]

89 posted on 11/06/2012 3:45:47 PM PST by Scooter100 ("Now that the fog has lifted, I still can't find my pipe". --- S. Holmes)
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To: DManA

Ronald Reagan in 1984 and it felt great. I’d liked him since I saw his speech at the 1976 Republican convention, when he challenged Ford when I was 10 years old and would have voted for him in 1980 had I been old enough to vote. I never went through that stupid liberal phase a lot of kids go through.


90 posted on 11/06/2012 3:46:27 PM PST by Question_Assumptions
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To: lonestar
Goldwater Still proud of it!

Didn't you know that if you voted for Goldwater, that we would get riots in the streets, and get into a long, unwinnable war?

91 posted on 11/06/2012 3:47:15 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: DManA

Ronald Reagan, 1984. I wanted to in 1980, but he told me I was only 17, and that I should wait until I was ready.


92 posted on 11/06/2012 3:47:23 PM PST by Melas (u)
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To: DManA

Ronaldus Maximus in 1980 (age 19) and I’ve never been prouder of any vote I’ve cast since then.


93 posted on 11/06/2012 3:47:31 PM PST by YankeeReb (The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” B.H. 0bama)
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To: GeronL
Oh, sure...
94 posted on 11/06/2012 3:47:48 PM PST by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
Dukakis 1988. But even though I was a mush-headed liberal at the time, I would have voted Reagan if I was old enough in 1984.

Even I could see America was riding high under his leadership.

But my transformation to conservative didn't happen until 1993. I voted Perot in 1992. Clinton made me read everything about the conservative point of view. Since then I've never voted democrat.

95 posted on 11/06/2012 3:49:15 PM PST by boop ("I need another Cutty Sark"-LBJ)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Of course he replaced the engine twice and every other part numerous times too.

LOL. My dad used to joke about Grandpa's hammer. The very hammer he used to build his barn. 'Course I've had to change the handle twice and the head once but this is Grandpa's very hammer.

96 posted on 11/06/2012 3:49:27 PM PST by DManA
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers

1984. I was in the Army and voted absentee ballot. Wrote in Richard Nixon because everyone knew Uncle Ron had it in the bag.


97 posted on 11/06/2012 3:49:55 PM PST by g.i.joe
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To: DManA

voting in my first election in 1958 was no different than today!!!

The big diference was all ballots were counted in the precinct with observers so there was no cheating!!!


98 posted on 11/06/2012 3:52:06 PM PST by dalereed
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To: DManA
My very first presidential vote was an absentee ballot cast in the California primary for Rep. John Ashbrook (R-Ohio), who was running for president as a Republican in 1972. I was in Saarbrücken, Germany at the time, and had to raise my right hand and swear an oath before the US consul when I registered to vote. I felt proud after having done that.

In November, I voted for Rep. John Schmitz (R-Calif.), the American Independent Party candidate. But by 1974, I was back on the GOP reservation, and my next presidential vote was for Ronald Reagan in the 1976 California primary.

99 posted on 11/06/2012 3:53:09 PM PST by Fiji Hill (Deo Vindice!)
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To: illiac
Back seat of a ‘56 Ford with a girl from Canada....GREAT

Thanks for telling us something that nobody was interested in knowing.

100 posted on 11/06/2012 3:53:23 PM PST by Isabel C.
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