Posted on 08/29/2023 7:21:52 AM PDT by Phoenix8
Raises hand. Voted Clinton in '92. I was a young, dumb college student.
I have many reasons why I'm not supporting Vivek Ramaswamy. This is not one of them.
Incidentally, I would vote a straight (R) ticket in the '94 midterms because I was pissed over the gun ban and the encroaching political correctness and "blame whitey" environment that had taken over my college campus and was embraced by the Democrats.
I've voted a straight (R) ticket ever since.
Looks like RamaSwampy is actually a “Deep Swamp” plant.
Post #4, so true!
Thanks for sharing your experience.
People can change as they go through life, and the implication that we are supposed to be shocked, just shocked, about something Vivek said when he was 19, is frustrating.
Why is this “suddenly unearthed” video even circulating in the first place? Someone, somewhere, wants us all to be shocked and awed by it.
2004?... we had Trump hanging out with Bill and Hillary back then....
Trump was once a Democrat. Is he a deep state plant?
“But now he wants to be the GOP nominee?”
No, I don’t think he’s dumb enough to think he can get the nomination. He’s probably just in it for publicity, a higher profile.
And he’s smart enough to know that just by not attacking Trump, he can get a lot of free goodwill from many millions of people, something that most of the other GOP candidates seem too dumb to figure out.
I think in 2004, he was 20, 21 tops. I know i was a conservative before i learned to spell, but for RINOs like Ronald Reagan and Charleron Heston...the conversion was much much later. The frontrunner of the also rans making desantis irrelevant figuring it out before 30 puts him ahead of some all time favorites.
If you’re talking about Trump, he let Hillary skate the week after he was elected. Rapperphony boy now says he wants to do the same for the Bidens. So they have at least that in common.
https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky/status/1693819775464382897
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ramaswamy-wont-prosecute-joe-biden-family
I voted in my first election in ‘92 for Bill Clinton. Regretted that. Second presidential election I voted Libertarian. Held my nose and voted for the Republic in every election since.
We all pass through the young and dumb phase. I was raised in a strongly pro-union, Democrat family. I was the first to quit the Democrat party and the first to register as a Republican. Ramaswamy comes from an immigrant family, a key demographic of Democrat voters, so voting Democrat in his first election is not unexpected. What is unexpected is his evolution away from the Democrats.
He has a good story for his political evolution. I would certainly be a hypocrite to hold it against him.
He is a lot more trustworthy than snakes like DeSantis, Christie and Pence.
Sounds like the Trump path in some ways.
And another one who was an actor, a Governor then also became President.
“Wasn’t there another billionaire who was a democrat and gave money to them, partied with them and then ran as a republican? Hmmmm”
Yep, looks like Vivek is following in Trump’s tracks.
Some truth to that (1st part I mean) but one has to admit something. That is we don’t really know the character of a person based on what they say because lies are cheap. So we can only go back and see what they have said or done in their past.
The best predictor of a person future behavior is their past behavior which is still true.
Finally I have a distant cousin that is a 2x murderer. Out now and a changed man…yet I would not trust him as far as I could throw him. Why? The past matters.
rama....this was 20 years ago..
What total crap.
Seems to me there is another Republican who was voting democratic back 20 years ago. A Hillary Supporter.
Hmm. Who WAS that man?
Oh yes.
DONALD TRUMP.
Having a history in politics is disqualifying. The history in politics crowd are the Swamp.
So that leaves this guy as the only one qualified among the also-rans.
You don’t have to support him. But there is no alternative. When the Swamp with GOPe complicit assassinate Trump, this is the last man standing.
He is REALLY good at saying the right things. The DS really wants to get in the white house under the face of a republican.
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