Posted on 11/07/2020 10:18:29 AM PST by kiryandil
Weigh in.
Do you vote Republican as a 'Republican voter always', or do you vote Republican as 'the lesser of two evils'?
I think our Republican leaders need to get a load of the way we think on Free Republic as REAL conservatives.
And so do we at FR.
This thought came to me in the aftermath of the election.
I'm pretty active on Twitter, and I saw numerous people calling themselves Republicans who obviously believed they were Republicans - but hated Trump because they'd been brainwashed by the Media. These people are politically naive, of course - while believing that they're politically astute.
These Republicans actually believe that things will go back to the two-party system after this election.
My belief is that the 1992 Perot-type voters [deficit hawks/small government types], who were nearly 20% of the vote that year, moved to support the Republican column in the following elections. I'm one of those.
If the Republicans, who take these people for granted, lose that much of their base, they will RARELY win seats at the national level again.
I've been watching the DC Pubbie kabuki show for 20+ years. The Republicans are NOT friends of the small government, fiscal responsibility people.
President "Toto" Trump pulled the curtain back on that little game, and there's no going back.
I’m a Constitution Party member, but I vote Reflublicant as the lesser of 2 evils, except when I voted twice for President Donald John Trump (actually 4 times, I wrote him in fr the primaries).
What the heck is "GOP-lite"?
I respect that.
I vote republican as a lesser of two evils....thinking going independent.
I can’t believe there are this many stupid people in this country.
Thinking of changeing my nationality to United Statesian!!!
My dad had a picture of FDR on his mantle....later it was joined by a picture of Ronald Reagan. I use to point out the irony. He eventually conceded FDR wasn’t what he thought he was.
I also agree!!!
“in California, the Republican candidates are, in fact, the lesser of two evils - only slightly less liberal than their Democrat opponents.”
It’s worse than that. The national GOP forced Neel Kashkari on us in the 2014 governor’s race. Kashkari not only sounded like Obama on every non-economic issue, he voted for Obama twice.
Grassroots California conservatives backed Tim Donnelly in the primary. The national GOP responded by calling Donnelly every vile name that you can imagine in their campaign to keep him off of the ticket. They wanted the slot for Kashkari the Hindu Obama and they got it. He didn’t even rate “the lesser of two evils”.
I wish my Dad had lived longer. I’m sure I could have gotten him to vote Republican.
“You ever read this book? It was warning about which way the GOP was going even back in the 1950s.”
You could start with Wendell Willkie’s candidacy in 1940. He wasn’t that much different from FDR and in fact had been a Democrat as late as 1939. And Thomas Dewey the next two elections as well. Liberal internationalism had begun dominating American politics.
Keep swilling the GOPe Koolaid - Mittens and the Booshes thank you for your support.
but now a true Trumper...24/7.
my party is the MAGA party....
“My dad had a picture of FDR on his mantle....later it was joined by a picture of Ronald Reagan. I use to point out the irony. He eventually conceded FDR wasn’t what he thought he was.”
There may not have been a reason for him to do so. Ronald Reagan voted for FDR and didn’t disavow that decision later in life:
” He readily admitted he had voted for FDR four times and in 1982 wrote in his diary that he was trying to “undo the Great Society,” not the New Deal. He always said that he had not left the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party had left him. He even quoted FDR directly in the 1964 television speech on behalf of Barry Goldwater that made him a national figure.”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/07/02/reagan_fdrs_true_heir_134354.html
I am a Trumplican. Less of two evils.
Thanks for the link to the article. How nice that you have a diary of your father’s. About the only things my father wrote were the nightly railroad reports on track problems, and repairs he and his crew had completed that day. And he signed his paycheck, because there was no automatic deposit back in those days. I can still remember my Dad sitting down at the kitchen table each night after supper (which was exactly at 5 p.m.), and completing his daily track reports. He made them out in triplicate. Back then it was carbon paper. He always kept a copy for himself. That way, he had a record of every problem he had reported, and every job they did. And thank God he did, because just before he retired, they questioned him about not reporting an issue, and he had the carbon copy to prove he had reported it.
Love your opener there, kiryandil. You speak the raw truth.
I would probably don’t fit in either camp. I always thought the Republican were the good guys, the honest guys, the guys who didn’t have their hands in the cookie jar.
Then along came Trump who exploded my view of the world. Once you get addicted to Trump’s results, truth, and honesty, you can’t go back and see politics the same way.
I always have been but have felt like it was the lesser of two evils until Trump. He is a citizen leader not a politician which makes him special. He has no need to do what he is doing other than love for country. As the days have passed since election day you can see all the standard politician types falling into place ready to suck up to a Biden administration. It is pathetic. Trump voters will not take kindly to or forget it.
Neither. I never vote Dem. If the Rep is scum I vote Ind.
What better proof of what I am saying than to recognize that Trump may squeak out a win in Arizona while 50,000 Arizonans voted for the Libertarian candidate.
If Libertarians want freedom, their actions are not helping.
They don't understand that they need to pick a red jersey or a blue jersey if they want to pick Federal judges or make laws.
Yes. Perdue would be elected Republican Senator from Georgia if he had gotten one tenth of the "other candidates" vote.
We can be sure that the Democrat machine will pour hundreds of millions into the two Senatorial runoff elections in Georgia to take the majority in the Senate. We risk allowing the Dems to have the Presidency, the Senate, and the House, greatly in part to Losertarians.
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