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.
Dang, my commentary didn’t show. Just meant my first time was 1984.
Reagan showed up and ran in 1976. He was defeated by Ford in the Republican primary 53.3% to 45.9%.
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.
Mine was Richard Nixon in 1972, as well.
Nixon was the prototype RINO.
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.
Anderson 1980. Hated Carter, but was not quite ready to vote for Reagan. I fixed that in 84:)
Still proud of it!
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 ]
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.
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?
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.
Ronaldus Maximus in 1980 (age 19) and I’ve never been prouder of any vote I’ve cast since then.
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.
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.
1984. I was in the Army and voted absentee ballot. Wrote in Richard Nixon because everyone knew Uncle Ron had it in the bag.
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!!!
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.
Thanks for telling us something that nobody was interested in knowing.
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