poll: Dem., Rep., Indie., none?

[Divinus Arma]

Lemur:

When did Dr. Rice attack homosexuals?

[Lemur]

When did Dr. Rice attack homosexuals?

Never. In fact, she is on record as being very supportive of transgendered staff while at Stanford. She is rather more tolerant than the average American. Likewise, Laura Bush is known to be kind and tolerant to gay staff. And El Presidente himself is on record being kind, supportive and understanding to gay couples.

Which makes the every-two-year saber rattling about the evils of the homosexual agenda and the Assault On Marriage rhetoric even more amusing. I suspect that the Religious Right is catching on to how thoroughly it has been duped.

[Lorenzo_H]

If I lived in the US I would be a moderate Republican.

[ajaxfetish]

There is no party that matches my position on assorted issues, and I often change my mind or get more or less convinced of my position on issues as I hear new information or points from the other side, so I try to choose on a case-by-case basis instead of subscribing to any party line. Unfortunately, since I don't focus enough on politics to know most individual candidates' positions or ideals, and since most of what they publish is meaningless platitudes, I don't consider myself able to vote intelligently.

Ajax

edit: as an aside, a friend and I have talked about gathering signatures to start an 'Imperialist' party by the next local elections for kicks and giggles, and apparently one of the teachers at my school, after hearing about the success of the 'Individual Choice' party in the last elections (which gained many more votes than expected from people who mistakenly thought they needed to click on it to choose candidates individually), is considering starting a 'Click here to continue' party.

[Reenk Roink]

None.

Voting and politics suck and are useless. It doesn't matter who is in the White House, what significant difference between Democrats and Republicans?

Go out with you friends on election day.

[Lemur]

Voting and politics suck and are useless. It doesn't matter who is in the White House, what significant difference between Democrats and Republicans?

Or as a particularly cynical friend of mine used to say, "If voting made a difference they'd outlaw it." I didn't agree, but I thought it was funny.

[Xiahou]

I don't get the point of being registered "independent"- particularly in states where you can only vote in primaries for the party you're registered in. There's no binding commitment, you can change affiliation at will and you get to participated in primaries.... Seems like a big trade-off just to be able to claim you're "above" party politics.

Hell, I've considered registering Democrat so I could try to help keep their next nominee from being another total ass-clown. At least when there are no particularly appealing Republicans in the running, I could try to keep the most unsavory Dem from getting the nod.

[Reenk Roink]

Or as a particularly cynical friend of mine used to say, "If voting made a difference they'd outlaw it." I didn't agree, but I thought it was funny.

Voting (in political elections) is the opiate of the masses.

By the way, not all voting is bad...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In8UZ4ZFg7k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wMzSbFQ5x4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL0ZTcPnMIo



I love Lidstrom, but if this guy starts the All Star game, the novelty will make up for it.

[Divinus Arma]

Never. In fact, she is on record as being very supportive of transgendered staff while at Stanford. She is rather more tolerant than the average American. Likewise, Laura Bush is known to be kind and tolerant to gay staff. And El Presidente himself is on record being kind, supportive and understanding to gay couples.

Which makes the every-two-year saber rattling about the evils of the homosexual agenda and the Assault On Marriage rhetoric even more amusing. I suspect that the Religious Right is catching on to how thoroughly it has been duped.

Then why did you say this:

Republicans: Closet tolerants who attack gays during election years (see Bush, Rice, etc.)

You are correct about Bush and other social conservatives, but lumping Rice in there was not exactly accurate.