I’m changing my party affiliation

anonymoose

anonymoose

Classical Liberal
Been a card carrying Libertarian for about 23 years now and haven’t voted for a winner in a national election during that time.
I will register as a democrat or a Republican but can’t decide.
If democrat I could vote for the most qualified candidates and help out the party. E.g., I liked Tsongas back in the day. When I was a kid too young to vote I liked Eugene McCarthy, the anti-war candidate. O’Malley was far better than hrc (who wasn’t?). Maybe woulda voted for him over Johnson had he been the nominee. Or I could hurt the party and vote for the worst possible but dems already are very consistent in doing that without my help.
If I register as a Republican I can be part of a real and positive change that’s seems to be occurring within the party.
What to do? :dunno:
 
What change do you think you see in the Republican party? And why register for any of them? Why not just vote your conscience, vote for the best candidate no matter what letter comes after his/her name?
 
anonymoose said:
Been a card carrying Libertarian for about 23 years now and haven’t voted for a winner in a national election during that time.
I will register as a democrat or a Republican but can’t decide.
If democrat I could vote for the most qualified candidates and help out the party. E.g., I liked Tsongas back in the day. When I was a kid too young to vote I liked Eugene McCarthy, the anti-war candidate. O’Malley was far better than hrc (who wasn’t?). Maybe woulda voted for him over Johnson had he been the nominee. Or I could hurt the party and vote for the worst possible but dems already are very consistent in doing that without my help.
If I register as a Republican I can be part of a real and positive change that’s seems to be occurring within the party.
What to do? :dunno:
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Your choice is between a Democrat party that is becoming a party of the Left and a Republican party that at the moment is a bit schizophrenic because of Trump but is normally somewhere just Left of Center.

The Left has a long and thoroughly documented history of fucking EVERYTHING they touch up and causing untold woe and misery to hundreds of millions, even billions, worldwide. With the Left in charge in the US, America as it was intended by the founders is dead and finished. At least with the Republicans we can put that off for a maybe as much as another 50 to 100 years.
You are seeing the Left in action in the US today and they don't even have full control. Open borders, increasing poverty, shortages of goods, the lowest labor participation rates in history, more rules regulations, rampant crime, increasing black markets, inflation, and every other negative a society could not want. But they're all there and in just a year of having Biden in office.
Your registration really doesn't matter as much as who you vote for. If you intend to vote Progressive Leftist, then you are voting to doom the nation and yourself to a life of deprivation and misery even as the top 1 or 2% continue to live in opulence.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Your choice is between a Democrat party that is becoming a party of the Left and a Republican party that at the moment is a bit schizophrenic because of Trump but is normally somewhere just Left of Center.

The Left has a long and thoroughly documented history of fucking EVERYTHING they touch up and causing untold woe and misery to hundreds of millions, even billions, worldwide. With the Left in charge in the US, America as it was intended by the founders is dead and finished. At least with the Republicans we can put that off for a maybe as much as another 50 to 100 years.
You are seeing the Left in action in the US today and they don't even have full control. Open borders, increasing poverty, shortages of goods, the lowest labor participation rates in history, more rules regulations, rampant crime, increasing black markets, inflation, and every other negative a society could not want. But they're all there and in just a year of having Biden in office.
Your registration really doesn't matter as much as who you vote for. If you intend to vote Progressive Leftist, then you are voting to doom the nation and yourself to a life of deprivation and misery even as the top 1 or 2% continue to live in opulence.
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LOL. See Anonymoose? This is the message from the Republican party. :laugh:
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Your choice is between a Democrat party that is becoming a party of the Left and a Republican party that at the moment is a bit schizophrenic because of Trump but is normally somewhere just Left of Center.
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I believe that’s changing. But yes they’re a bit schizophrenic due to the change. Jeb! was the early favorite in ‘16. Left of center and left behind.

T. A. Gardner said:
Your registration really doesn't matter as much as who you vote for.
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It would only matter in primaries.
T. A. Gardner said:
If you intend to vote Progressive Leftist,
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Stop there. I’d never do that.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
What change do you think you see in the Republican party?
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They’re finally standing up to wokeness, the new extreme form of “political correctness “.
After Romney lost the Republican leaders got together, wringing their hands saying they had to be more “inclusive “. Then Trump came along and blew that up, vaporized it.
And look at the result. More blacks voting Republican than ever. More hispanics than ever.
 
anonymoose said:
What to do? :dunno:
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anonymoose said:
They’re finally standing up to wokeness, the new extreme form of “political correctness “.
After Romney lost the Republican leaders got together, wringing their hands saying they had to be more “inclusive “. Then Trump came along and blew that up, vaporized it.
And look at the result. More blacks voting Republican than ever. More hispanics than ever.
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What exactly is "wokeness"?
 
anonymoose said:
They’re finally standing up to wokeness, the new extreme form of “political correctness “.
After Romney lost the Republican leaders got together, wringing their hands saying they had to be more “inclusive “. Then Trump came along and blew that up, vaporized it.
And look at the result. More blacks voting Republican than ever. More hispanics than ever.
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:laugh: Okay then, Skippy. :laugh:
 
anonymoose said:
Been a card carrying Libertarian for about 23 years now and haven’t voted for a winner in a national election during that time.
I will register as a democrat or a Republican but can’t decide.
If democrat I could vote for the most qualified candidates and help out the party. E.g., I liked Tsongas back in the day. When I was a kid too young to vote I liked Eugene McCarthy, the anti-war candidate. O’Malley was far better than hrc (who wasn’t?). Maybe woulda voted for him over Johnson had he been the nominee. Or I could hurt the party and vote for the worst possible but dems already are very consistent in doing that without my help.
If I register as a Republican I can be part of a real and positive change that’s seems to be occurring within the party.
What to do? :dunno:
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From a practical standpoint it seems the biggest variable in party registration is how does your state handle primary voting? If it's an open primary then seems like there's less importance on party registration. If it's a closed primary then you want to be registered to the party whose primary you want to vote in.

Otherwise I don't think it means all that much other than the importance you feel it has in telling others how you are registered.
 
cawacko said:
From a practical standpoint it seems the biggest variable in party registration is how does your state handle primary voting? If it's an open primary then seems like there's less importance on party registration. If it's a closed primary then you want to be registered to the party whose primary you want to vote in.

Otherwise I don't think it means all that much other than the importance you feel it has in telling others how you are registered.
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TBH, the OP is somewhat trolling. My point being that the Democratic Party has had good people in it that run for president but they’re never given a chance. Another point is how the Republican Party is changing. Gardiner stated that in the past the party was center left and I agree. Now they’re the anti-woke - which is a good thing.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Your choice is between a Democrat party that is becoming a party of the Left and a Republican party that at the moment is a bit schizophrenic because of Trump but is normally somewhere just Left of Center.

The Left has a long and thoroughly documented history of fucking EVERYTHING they touch...
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Like World War II.

Could give you a nice list of others from then forward. Let me know if you want it.
 
cawacko said:
From a practical standpoint it seems the biggest variable in party registration is how does your state handle primary voting? If it's an open primary then seems like there's less importance on party registration. If it's a closed primary then you want to be registered to the party whose primary you want to vote in. Otherwise I don't think it means all that much other than the importance you feel it has in telling others how you are registered.
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And in open primary states there's a good chance each registered voter could receive multiple ballots in the mail.
 
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