[sockmonkey]

When the 2008 election happen, you know damn well you will push the lever for the guy with the R next to his name because the person with the D is 1000 times more dangerous.

Not everyone on FR was a born and raised Republican. Some of us got here when the Democratic party went totally left, with the exception of what I'd call the few remaining moderate Democrats.

Now that a lot of the Republican candidates are further left than than what some Democrats used to be, and many elected Republicans, especially in my home state of Texas, seem to have turned into Democrats despite the R behind their name, it leaves me in quite a quandry as far as casting my vote for a candidate who is in step with issues that are important to me.

[narses]

Well said.

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Not everyone on FR was a born and raised Republican. Some of us got here when the Democratic party went totally left,

Bingo. Left is left no matter the letter behind the name.

[Lazamataz]

many elected Republicans, especially in my home state of Texas, seem to have turned into Democrats despite the R behind their name, it leaves me in quite a quandry as far as casting my vote for a candidate who is in step with issues that are important to me.

Truth. We seem to have a choice between a tub of sh*t and a swimming pool of sh*t.

All that differs is the quantity.

[El Gato]

many elected Republicans, especially in my home state of Texas, seem to have turned into Democrats despite the R behind their name,

Many of them *were* Democrats, albeit South Democrats, before the Reagan Revolution. Including our current Governor, Rick Perry. He was first elected to the State Board of Education (1978, one year out of the Air Force, where he flew C-130s) and to the Texas Legislature (1982) as a Democrat. He shifted to Republican in 1989, and was elected as Ag commissioner, as a Republican in 1990, unseating Jim Hightower.