Posted on 08/19/2018 9:08:25 AM PDT by Kaslin
That is somewhat inaccurate. The Republican Party was THE tariff Party until the gloBULLists took it over in the mid 20th century. I stopped reading at that pint.
He is finally coming around on trade and tariffs and starting to see it Trump’s way. It has taken a while.
I am ashamed to admit this, but my first ever vote as a dumb kid was for George McGovern in ‘72. I never repeated that mistake, though I did vote for Arlen Spectre (not a typo), which is the same thing as voting for a ‘Rat.
From 1972 to 1988, I was totally apolitical, and didn’t vote at all.
I am proud to have voted for Perot twice as a protest. Like millions of others, the excitement of the Perot phenomenon brought me out of my apathy. Perot, it turns out, was the prototype for the Trump movement.
Both major party candidates sucked in 1992. The notion that Perot put Clinton in the White House is BS spread by people who can’t accept the fact that GHWB was a bad, bad choice (and Reagan’s biggest mistake), IMHO.
I voted for W twice because Algore and Kerry are both repulsive.
I voted for Ron Paul in the 2008 primary (he was the only one left other than no-name at that point), and Palin in the general. I voted for Romney because he wasn’t Obama.
I was an early supporter of Cruz in 2016, but that support evaporated after Iowa. Though I had some misgivings about Trump early on, it became increasingly clear over time that he was the only one on the R side who had a chance to beat The Wicked Witch of Chappaqua. It is now totally obvious that he was the right man for the job at that point in history, and ‘till the day I die, I will never regret that vote.
Today, if I can’t stand the Republican, I will consider the third party alternatives, if any. I will never vote for any DemocRat.
Sure.
I would unhesitatingly vote for a Pro-Life, Pro-Gun, Pro-Private Property, Pro-Free Enterprise, Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-Limited Government, Pro-Fair Tax Democrat over a liberal swamp dwelling RINO any day.
But I’m more likely to find a unicorn than I am to find that Democrat.
And everybody knows there no such thing As Unicorns.
Yes exactly, I just read about Truman’s 1948 spiel in 2000 and noted it was near identical to the garbage Al Gore was saying.
As far as I can see the democrats were always in favor of immigration and pandered for the votes of new citizens. The exception being their broad support for the Chinese exclusion act.
Swing voters traditionally are not politically intelligent and when the economy is bad they vote for the party out of power, simple as that.
Only a schizophrenic or idiot would split his ticket today. I probably have more respect for a committed commie than some slack-jawed fence sitter.
I can give you a pass on Simon since it was before the internet made it easy to look up voting records. But if you had you would have noticed that as awful Percy was (American Conservative Union lifetime rating 30% same as IL Dem Senator Dixon at the time, 50% for 1984) Simon was a hardcore leftist (ACU lifetime at the time, 6%) not to mention wanted Bob Byrd back as a Majority Leader. I remember fondly how my late grandma detested that bow-tied freak. Basically it was just like Mark Kirk vs. Suckworth except Simon could walk and wasn’t pregnant with a change of life baby.
I was a just a wee HS freshman in 1998 but I recall being glad Poshard won the rat nomination, my libtard teacher was only “reluctantly” supporting him over Ryan and I recall a young Black student parroting his mother in decrying how shocking it was that the man opposed abortion! How uncivilized!
Of course I had no idea what RINO Disaster Ryan would be or I would likely backed Poshard. Redistricting however would have given me serious pause as the Governor elected that year was gonna preside over it and the GOP taking back the State House to enable full control was a district possibility. Alas while Ryan won the rats kept the State House in both 1998 and 2000 and won redistricting by drawing a name out of a hat, there may never be a Republican legislature here again.
You make good points. I was so pissed at Percy that I naively ignored the gravity of control of the senate.
Poshard v Ryan was another low point in illannoy. We are still paying for it.
Percy would have pulled it out if not for his despicable Israel hating causing the AIPAC to pour money into the Simon campaign.
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