Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the Republican Party?

[hootinholler]

I'm thinking we need to just say screw it and go McCarthy on their asses. The DOJ is totally obstructing everything in sight, the GSA is being used as campaign central, yadda, yadda...

It, the republic party, is a fucking corrupt organization, the kind RICO statutes were developed to prosecute. Since Justice won't break out of the just us mode, the only alternative I see is a tribunal.

-Hoot

[magellan]

1. My favorite worst insult now

I call the person a Republican. Rarely use it, but it sure fits in some extreme cases.

[tubbacheez]

2. I didn't mind them so much before the neo-cons took 'em over. n/t

[hootinholler]

4. Considering I was like 8 when that happened.

in 1968, I'm pretty tired of this shit.

-Hoot

[tubbacheez]

16. Well, by whichever route we got here, I agree now. n/t

[Colobo]

3. I used to be a member of that party

Until 2005.

[NJCher]

5. no, not ever. Ever!!

I have always loathed this party. Even when I was a little kid and my parents told me they were voting republican, I said I wasn't a Republican.



Cher

[Sanctified]

6. I was till 2001...

Then I switched to Independent and since then have moved more left.

[Zomby Woof]

7. No

I knew I was a Democrat when I watched Mario Cuomo's keynote address to the 1984 Democratic Convention. I never liked Reagan and distrusted Republicans in general, but by then it was articulated why. Better yet, I knew what I was for, and not just against.

In 1988 I voted in a primary (Super Tuesday) for the first time and proudly registered as a Democrat. :kick: I voted at my old junior high school, which was also Pat Robertson's voting location. He was my neighbor - the CBN complex being just a mile from our working-class subdivision.

The Republicans have been downhill since Teddy Roosevelt gave them the heave-ho in 1912. In my lifetime it was brought further shame and dishonor through Nixon, the rise of the Religious Right, and of course, their patron saint, Ronald Reagan. The utter depths they now penetrate almost make the Nixon years look quaint and innocent.

[burrowowl]

8. Hell NO!

And never will be.
I congradulate those who have seen the light.

[emilyg]

17. Double Hell NO!!!!!

[Zoigal]

9. Registered Republican

for a brief time so i could vote for Tom McCall (Oregon governor) in the primary. McCall was a not the typical
Republican IMO. Always a Democrat before that; always a Democrat after.

[in_cog_ni_to]

10. NO. I was born a Democrat.

:7 I have been a Democrat since I started voting at 18 years old.

[Cobalt Violet]

11. I would love to see that sometime in my life time.

A day when no one would want to admit to ever having been a (R).

[Xenotime]

12. My dog is...

That's why he eats his wheat gluten...LOL

Sorry... it's late and I'm punchy

[Kelly Rupert]

13. The minute the Democrats start "going McCarthy on their asses" is the minute

I become a Republican.

[hootinholler]

19. Finally someone read the OP!

Thanks.

-Hoot

[Hippo_Tron]

14. The last time I voted for the Republic Party ticket was 1864

The party had a few good years and then after Lincoln was assassinated it was kinda downhill from there.

[bonito]

15. NO!

[nancyr]

18. Republicans used to be democrats and vice versa.

Both parties changed radically back in the early 60's. I remember when the Democrats were the southern bigots and the Republicans were the civilized party of Lincoln. Today's rabid right-wing is the off-shoot of the southern segregationist religious nut of the old days. You who are fairly young might disagree with me on this one, but as a senior citizen...I assure you this is correct. My dad was a southern Baptist bigot who was an avowed Democrat. My mother was a Republican who saw the light when Reagan opened his mouth. She bcame a bigger liberal than I in her old age. What goes round comes round, I'm afraid. Today's right-winger is merely yesterday's Democrat bigot in sheep's clothing. Sad, but true.