Question about voting:

[Nocturnal]

I really haven't voted much but plan to do so next year. Do I have to re-register myself as a Republican or can I just go to the booth and vote for Ron Paul?

 

[blackangst1]

Nope Vote for whoever you want. I would venture to guess most on here, myself included, never vote along party lines.

 

[Nocturnal]

Thanks blangangst1. I appreciate it.

 

[nageov3t]

in the general election? it doesn't matter.

in the primaries, it depends on your state... here in NJ, you can only vote in primaries for candidates affiliated with your registered political party.

 

[StageLeft]

here in NJ, you can only vote in primaries for candidates affiliated with your registered political party.

wtf is the point of that?

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

here in NJ, you can only vote in primaries for candidates affiliated with your registered political party.

wtf is the point of that?

what's the point of nominating a candidate in a party you don't belong to?

 

[badkarma1399]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>here in NJ, you can only vote in primaries for candidates affiliated with your registered political party.
</end quote></div>wtf is the point of that?

Um...because democrats don't want republicans choosing their presidential candidate, and vice versa.

But yea if your totally set on Ron Paul, register republican and vote for him in the primaries. I like the guy, but i don't think he stands a good chance of getting the Republican nomination.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Originally posted by: loki8481
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: Skoorb
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>here in NJ, you can only vote in primaries for candidates affiliated with your registered political party.
</end quote></div>wtf is the point of that?</end quote></div>

what's the point of nominating a candidate in a party you don't belong to?

A better quesation would be whats the point in wasting a perfectly good vote on Ron Paul of all people???

 

[bamacre]

The only reason Ron Paul doesn't stand a chance is because people keep saying he doesn't have a chance.

 

[db]

Paul sounds more like a Libertarian than a Republican.

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: bamacre
The only reason Ron Paul doesn't stand a chance is because people keep saying he doesn't have a chance.

I blame the crazy eyes

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: badkarma1399
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: Skoorb
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>here in NJ, you can only vote in primaries for candidates affiliated with your registered political party.
</end quote></div>wtf is the point of that?</end quote></div>

Um...because democrats don't want republicans choosing their presidential candidate, and vice versa.

But yea if your totally set on Ron Paul, register republican and vote for him in the primaries. I like the guy, but i don't think he stands a good chance of getting the Republican nomination.

Heh, must have not been paying attention to that part of civics class, although it was in a diff country

 

[Nocturnal]

Originally posted by: db
Paul sounds more like a Libertarian than a Republican.

That's certainly the case but he claimed to be a Republican in order to get voted into office in his state.

 

[blackangst1]

Originally posted by: JEDIYoda
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: loki8481
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: Skoorb
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>here in NJ, you can only vote in primaries for candidates affiliated with your registered political party.
</end quote></div>wtf is the point of that?</end quote></div>

what's the point of nominating a candidate in a party you don't belong to? </end quote></div>

A better quesation would be whats the point in wasting a perfectly good vote on Ron Paul of all people???

An ever better question...why vote for anyone in the presidential race? Unless of course youre an elector

Off topic though

 

[dmcowen674]

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: Nocturnal
Topic Title: Question about voting:
Topic Summary: I plan to vote for Ron Paul but I am a Democrat
</end quote></div>

No you are not.

Anyone that can vote for another Texas R.........n after Bush has no love for this country.

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
<div class=FTQUOTE><begin quote>Originally posted by: Nocturnal
Topic Title: Question about voting:
Topic Summary: I plan to vote for Ron Paul but I am a Democrat
</end quote></div>

No you are not.

Anyone that can vote for another Texas R...........n after Bush has no love for this country.

You are pushing the limit to the edge.

Posting priviledges will be suspended with a push of the button.

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Crap, I forgot, I am not allowed to use the R word I guess?

Or is it something else???

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
No you are not.

Anyone that can vote for another Texas Republican after Bush has no love for this country.

Ok, we got it. We are all idiots and the country is crashing. I picture a huge constant frown on your face at all times.

 

[highwire]

In my circles, we are watching the media black-out of Paul with concern. It is something to behold. In the major media, they march their candidates before the public, then do self-serving polls that amount to measuring the name recognition that they induce. In contrast, polls that judge the candidates on their debates and positions, have had Paul ahead or a front runner. I have been watching politics for a very long time, over sixty years. It is only in recent years, though, that I have understood the real power of the media. Because of this, my country is already so sovietized that I and others feel great caution explaining it fully.

The needs now are simple. The restoration of the republic depends on having candidates like Ron Paul, not more media candidates swearing allegiance to them and their tribe.

I am not a Libertarian. But, I believe everyone should restrict their choices to patriots, not sell-outs like most of the republicans and all of the democrats. Ron Paul is a patriot.

We need all of the thinking people there are as well as the few dmcowens, who mentioned love-of-country, to get our country back.

Welcome OP.

 

[imported_Shivetya]

Originally posted by: JEDIYoda
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: loki8481
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: Skoorb
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>here in NJ, you can only vote in primaries for candidates affiliated with your registered political party.
</end quote></div>wtf is the point of that?</end quote></div>

what's the point of nominating a candidate in a party you don't belong to? </end quote></div>

A better quesation would be whats the point in wasting a perfectly good vote on Ron Paul of all people???

if it is the candidate of your choice it is not a wasted vote.

 

[imported_Shivetya]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: Nocturnal
Topic Title: Question about voting:
Topic Summary: I plan to vote for Ron Paul but I am a Democrat
</end quote></div>

No you are not.

Anyone that can vote for another Texas Republican after Bush has no love for this country.

anyone who is ignorant enough to make voting decisions on home state or political party has no love for this country.

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: highwire
In my circles, we are watching the media black-out of Paul with concern.

In my circles, we are watching the tin foil hat brigade with concern

I think Ron Paul is getting more coverage than he deserves with his poll standings... really, no major media outlet is covering any of the non-top 3 candidates in each party. which is not to say that's a good thing (or that it even matters in the long run... who knows how this is coming up in the local coverage in iowa/nh), but it's hardly limited to Ron Paul.

 

[Craig234]

Originally posted by: loki8481
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: highwire
In my circles, we are watching the media black-out of Paul with concern.</end quote></div>

In my circles, we are watching the tin foil hat brigade with concern

I think Ron Paul is getting more coverage than he deserves with his poll standings... really, no major media outlet is covering any of the non-top 3 candidates in each party. which is not to say that's a good thing (or that it even matters in the long run... who knows how this is coming up in the local coverage in iowa/nh), but it's hardly limited to Ron Paul.

You have to err on the side of public opinion, not the media. This is a catch-22, where a little-known candidate to the race is shut out because his starting poll numbers are low, which is a hindrance to his getting better polling numbers. All the while, the media can pick and choose who with low poll ratings to give lots of coverage to, which lets the media 'make' front-runners as virtually anyone the media pushes gets big poll boosts. Consider the Obama phenomenon - the media played no small part in his becoming a major candidate.

When Paul is shown as winning the republican debates among republican viewers, if that's the case, that's a big red flag that he deserves media attention.

It's not in democracy's interests for the monied media owners to have too large a voice in who can get elected, as it is now.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: Shivetya
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: dmcowen674
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: Nocturnal
Topic Title: Question about voting:
Topic Summary: I plan to vote for Ron Paul but I am a Democrat
</end quote></div>

No you are not.

Anyone that can vote for another Texas Republican after Bush has no love for this country.</end quote></div>

anyone who is ignorant enough to make voting decisions on home state or political party has no love for this country.

Why is the statements made by this guy perfectly oK while I am getting slapped?

 

[Craig234]

Originally posted by: Shivetya
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: dmcowen674
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: Nocturnal
Topic Title: Question about voting:
Topic Summary: I plan to vote for Ron Paul but I am a Democrat
</end quote></div>

No you are not.

Anyone that can vote for another Texas Republican after Bush has no love for this country.</end quote></div>

anyone who is ignorant enough to make voting decisions on home state or political party has no love for this country.

No, the Texas republican organization is a cesspool IMO. Not all its members, but the leadership.

I think it's a pretty fair likelihood that any nominee to get the backing of the leadership has two and a half strikes against him.

Texas state politics has a long and sordid history - some on the democratic side in the past. Remember how the Bush National Guard favor was 'laundered' through the state GOP system, through a contact who passed it on to the Lt. Governor, with the whole sordid story of how the person helping had his silence bought by the fact that the company he was lobbying for to keep the state lottery, GTECH, who the public wanted replaced and who George W. Bush said he wanted to replace in the campaign he was in for governor, then suddenly had Bush reverse himself to let them keep the state contract, which resulted in a $23 payout to the Bush protector - and the director of the lottery who made it happen for Bush was Harriet Miers, who was suddenly welcome to some appointments, eventually to the US Supreme Court - the same Miers who recommended to Bush to hire Alberto Gonzales, the same guy who covered up Bush's drunk driving arrest and is now a disgraced US Attorney General... or the scandal with Bush paying games with the state University's funds for political gain, and on and on, and these are just off the top of my head.

(Let's also remember the strong role as well of Tom DeLay, who had their cooperation in very corrupt, anti-democratic actitivities to boost the Texas GOP.)

When they change their ways, their reputation can change. Don't hold your breath.

But expect apologist Shivetya to pull the blinders on for them. Oh, no, Bush and DeLay are just two randomly selected people who are no reflection on the group.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Shivetya

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
Topic Title: Question about voting:
Topic Summary: I plan to vote for Ron Paul but I am a Democrat

No you are not.

Anyone that can vote for another Texas Republican after Bush has no love for this country.

anyone who is ignorant enough to make voting decisions on home state or political party has no love for this country.

Why is the statements made by this guy perfectly oK while I am getting slapped?

There are Texas politicans that are good and bad. Would you have a problem with LBJ.
After all he dragged this country into Vietnam.
Yet it was a California Republican that extracted us from it.

It is not the state nor the party that makes a difference; jsut the person itself.

People can love their country no matter what their party is. To accuse someone of not loving their country because of political ideals is just you not looking in the mirror.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: dmcowen674

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: Shivetya

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: dmcowen674

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: Nocturnal
Topic Title: Question about voting:
Topic Summary: I plan to vote for Ron Paul but I am a Democrat
</end quote></div>

No you are not.

Anyone that can vote for another Texas Republican after Bush has no love for this country.</end quote></div>

anyone who is ignorant enough to make voting decisions on home state or political party has no love for this country.</end quote></div>

Why is the statements made by this guy perfectly oK while I am getting slapped?</end quote></div>

There are Texas politicans that are good and bad. Would you have a problem with LBJ.
After all he dragged this country into Vietnam.
Yet it was a California Republican that extracted us from it.

It is not the state nor the party that makes a difference; jsut the person itself.

People can love their country no matter what their party is. To accuse someone of not loving their country because of political ideals is just you not looking in the mirror.

It seems to me that Texans have finally figured out their good ol boy network of oil barons has ruined them. I say that to all Texas politicians both R & D.

Same goes for Louisiana.

At this point I'm not sure any state politicians could be trusted.

Just that I say hell no to anyone coming out of Texas after the last 7 years.