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Originally Posted by Light
Can't you get it, it's not about the politician. The stance of many on this board before today was if you vote for someone that is pro choice you are a baby killer. If you vote for a democrat you support abortion. All of a sudden today it's okey dokey to vote for a pro choice politician,WHY, because he will do something you want or has the title REPUBLICAN.
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I get it. What I don't get are the blanket mischaracterizations of many who don't call people who vote for Dems baby killers. It smacks of sore-loserism.
In a perfect world everyone I vote for agrees with everything I want. If the best I can get is a coalition of fiscal conservatives with fiscal and social cons to stop this very very dangerous experiment with our way of life, I will take it over just about anything I've seen the Democrats roll out. I have voted for our Democrat governor b/c he is a conservative Dem. I voted for a Dem mayor in the town I used to live in for the same reasons.
Since Republicans more often than not are cons versus the Dem party, I tend to vote for the GOP. I DO NOT vote a straight party line ballot. I do vote a straight conservative ballot. If the candidates are not as conservative as I would like, I will vote for the most conservative/less liberal one. If both candidates are liberal I wont vote, although I have never lived in a part of the coutry where that has taken place.
The GOP is dominated by conservatives. You can't be a presidential candidate and be pro abortion. Its been that way since Roe v. Wade. You have to be a pro abortion candidate to be on the Dem ticket. And that's just one issue. There's gun rights, tax policy, military/national defense, traditional marriage, smaller government, conservative fiscal policies, school choice, and a plethora of other issues that persuade me to lean GOP.
The values of the movers and the shakers in the Dem party are liberally bent, therefore I have always voted against them nationally. In the GOP primaries I always vote for the most conservative candidate. I have never been a supporter of the eventual nominee in the primaries except for Reagan in 84. I have Buchanan, Keys and Kasich on my resume of GOP hopefuls in primaries. Once the deal was closed and the choice was a lesser conservative, but certainly much more conservative than the Dem candidate, I have voted for the eventual GOP nominee.
Look at the coalitions in the Democrat Party vs the GOP and its not difficult to understand the logic behind voting for a Republican over a Democrat in a vast majority of the cases. That is, if you are a conservative.
I remain consistent, unless consistency is defined as voting for a candidate who only agrees with me 100% of the time.
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