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Saw the trend of responses to me this week. Apparantely, the GOP gives a standard issue set of opinions. Issued to every right winger, from which he or she will never falter. Never question. Never EVER publicly denounce. That no matter what happens in politics, if it is being done or suggested by a GOP/Tea Party candidate, one must agree with it or silently shut the fuck up. And God forbid entertain the idea of making these TP candidates EARN my vote....or if not....vote against them.
My principles are fairly simple. Politicians are elected representatives. Root word REPRESENT.
People hammer them all the time for flip flopping. Saying one thing one day, then doing another. WHY? If their job is to be a sole voice of the whole, what if the whole tends to change their minds? What if the mayor of Anytown, USA represents his people who want a smoking ban. And he says he supports it. Then, over a couple years, over 50% of the citizens in that town change their mind. HIS job is to represent that view of the people.
So, is it possible that a candidate or movement, like the Tea Party, at one point represented MY views? Yes. And is it possible that the movement or it's candidates, over a few years, evolved and it's views and stands became less and less a mirror of mine? Yes.
I've changed a bit. So has the GOP, Tea Party and right wing in general.
My principles are NOT that I'll vote for the Red Team no matter what. YOU should also not allow yourself to just be issued a set of morals by a party, and follow them no matter what. If you find that your party or voting tendency no longer fits what you believe in, vote for what does, or vote in protest against it to send a message.
But being a robot is hardly principled.
I hear you bud. The only reason I'm still registered republican is because there's a lot of really GOOD conservatives at the local and state level that run republican. And I usually always have a good candidate to choose everytime my shitty ass congressman is up for reelection.Thats pretty close to accurate. Although I wouldn't say I'm "confused" as much as just pissed off a bit, disappointed a lot, and just open to changing my vote now.
And it's true. The far right is still fighting tooth and nail on two issues that are just plain fucking stupid: Keeping weed and gay marriage illegal. Im neither gay, or a weed smoker. But will all the issues we have today, the fact that they'll still fight that hard against those is plain old country dumb. We're bombing too many shithole countries and getting almost nothing in return. And I'm sick of the Tea Party labeling all govt and all govt employees as evil leeches on society, including cops and firemen.
Don't vote dem though. You might identify with dem VOTERS, but you're going to find that you won't match up real well with dem policy makers at the end of the day.
Yeah, we'll see. I know for certain though that the Tea Party has driven me away from the GOP for this 2012 election cycle, and I refuse to just not vote, so I dont have much choice. Maybe 2014 will be better, but I doubt it.
Or maybe the Mayans were right, and this shit will all be over on 12-21-2012!!! I mean...would it be that bad of a thing?
So having "principles" means I can never NOT vote GOP???
Saw the trend of responses to me this week. Apparantely, the GOP gives a standard issue set of opinions. Issued to every right winger, from which he or she will never falter. Never question. Never EVER publicly denounce. That no matter what happens in politics, if it is being done or suggested by a GOP/Tea Party candidate, one must agree with it or silently shut the fuck up. And God forbid entertain the idea of making these TP candidates EARN my vote....or if not....vote against them.
My principles are fairly simple. Politicians are elected representatives. Root word REPRESENT.
People hammer them all the time for flip flopping. Saying one thing one day, then doing another. WHY? If their job is to be a sole voice of the whole, what if the whole tends to change their minds? What if the mayor of Anytown, USA represents his people who want a smoking ban. And he says he supports it. Then, over a couple years, over 50% of the citizens in that town change their mind. HIS job is to represent that view of the people.
So, is it possible that a candidate or movement, like the Tea Party, at one point represented MY views? Yes. And is it possible that the movement or it's candidates, over a few years, evolved and it's views and stands became less and less a mirror of mine? Yes.
I've changed a bit. So has the GOP, Tea Party and right wing in general.
My principles are NOT that I'll vote for the Red Team no matter what. YOU should also not allow yourself to just be issued a set of morals by a party, and follow them no matter what. If you find that your party or voting tendency no longer fits what you believe in, vote for what does, or vote in protest against it to send a message.
But being a robot is hardly principled.
Buc your problem was you said you were going from Straight Republican ticket to straight Democrat ticket....how many people on either side do that just like that?.....that's telling me you don't give a shit what the Democrat may represent .....and he might be just as bad as those Republicans you don't like.....when i left the Democrats in the middle nineties because assholes like Dean and Chris were taking over....i still voted for the Democrats i felt were still "Democrats"....i voted Clinton over Bush and the old guy Dole.....now 15 years later i cant stand both parties and just about every politician in them.....save yourself the frustration of bitching about the same shit next year that your bitching about now and vote for someone who wont follow the same old tired script....vote 3rd party.....like you said ....being a robot is hardly principled.....and people who blindly follow the Democrats are just as much of a robot as are those who blindly follow the Republicans....and we see them here all the time......
Your problem is the facts.
the democratic party changes to follow the facts.
We do not follow blindly hense the old phrase "I dont belong to any organized party Im a democrat."
FACTS are the friends of democrats.
the republican party has Become ( there was a time when republicans did follow the facts) the party of anti sceince, anti education, anti intellectual, anti history, anti democracy, anti anything but tax cuts.
Saw the trend of responses to me this week. Apparantely, the GOP gives a standard issue set of opinions. Issued to every right winger, from which he or she will never falter. Never question. Never EVER publicly denounce. That no matter what happens in politics, if it is being done or suggested by a GOP/Tea Party candidate, one must agree with it or silently shut the fuck up. And God forbid entertain the idea of making these TP candidates EARN my vote....or if not....vote against them.
My principles are fairly simple. Politicians are elected representatives. Root word REPRESENT.
People hammer them all the time for flip flopping. Saying one thing one day, then doing another. WHY? If their job is to be a sole voice of the whole, what if the whole tends to change their minds? What if the mayor of Anytown, USA represents his people who want a smoking ban. And he says he supports it. Then, over a couple years, over 50% of the citizens in that town change their mind. HIS job is to represent that view of the people.
So, is it possible that a candidate or movement, like the Tea Party, at one point represented MY views? Yes. And is it possible that the movement or it's candidates, over a few years, evolved and it's views and stands became less and less a mirror of mine? Yes.
I've changed a bit. So has the GOP, Tea Party and right wing in general.
My principles are NOT that I'll vote for the Red Team no matter what. YOU should also not allow yourself to just be issued a set of morals by a party, and follow them no matter what. If you find that your party or voting tendency no longer fits what you believe in, vote for what does, or vote in protest against it to send a message.
But being a robot is hardly principled.
you dont care about freedom or you wouldnt back the republican efforts to keep people from voting
you dont care about freedom or you wouldnt back the republican efforts to keep people from voting
You don't care about anything except the partisan interests of liberal Democratics or you wouldn't back the liberal Democrat efforts to support voter fraud.
Why do shit brains like you hate everything about liberty, freedom, and a democratic republic?
you dont care about freedom or you wouldnt back the republican efforts to keep people from voting
You don't care about anything except the partisan interests of liberal Democratics or you wouldn't back the liberal Democrat efforts to support voter fraud.
Why do shit brains like you hate everything about liberty, freedom, and a democratic republic?
ahhhh the "your a poopy pants " debate again.
Your party doesnt want everyone to vote so they can win elections
you dont care about freedom or you wouldnt back the republican efforts to keep people from voting
You don't care about anything except the partisan interests of liberal Democratics or you wouldn't back the liberal Democrat efforts to support voter fraud.
Why do shit brains like you hate everything about liberty, freedom, and a democratic republic?
ahhhh the "your a poopy pants " debate again.
Your party doesnt want everyone to vote so they can win elections
