On 6/23/12 8:15 PM, Tim wrote:
I'm registered under Republican but I've never vote a straight ticket
and probably never will.

If i was registered as a Democrat, I'd still never vote a straight
ticket.... probably


I vote for the Republican who is the sheriff here. He's a good, honest,
law enforcement official. The local county government types of either
party make no effort to reach out to voters during the election season,
so I simply don't vote for any of them. In our congressional district,
the Republicans run either bat**** crazy tea party types or people with
absolutely no political experience. I'm certainly not going to vote for
a Republican candidate for U.S. Senator or Governor. The third-party
candidates who run in our district for federal office tend to be beyond
bizarre.

My mother was a minor political functionary in the GOP in my hometown,
and got me involved in politics when I was 16. I called voters and
arranged rides to the polls. But in those days, the GOP was a
progressive party, not the collection of crazies that began taking it
over for real in the 1980's.