melon said:
Having seen Midwestern, Western, and Southern Republicans, though, I can say that I'd never vote for Republicans in these regions.
Melon:
If you had seen the choices we had in the Republican and Democratic primaries in this state on Tuesday, you may have actually favored one or two of the Republican choices over anyone else.
There is the Democratic incumbant, who not only strongly supports the death penalyt but proposes expanding it to repeat child sex offenders; constantly campaigns on the platform of "an education lottery;" recently said "if God meant for boys to wear earrings, he would have made them that way," and supports the Ten Commandments being posted in public schools;
His main Democratic opponent, who once ran on the campaign slogan "The Conservative Choice;"
An unknown Democrat who had his name listed on the ballot as "Rodeo Clown;"
Another Democratic candidate, who serves on the Board of Pardons and Paroles after being nominated by a Republican governor, controversial because she wante to give early parole to 3 rapists, because after 20 years, she doubts the victim's soworn testimony and thus did not notify her of the early parole hearing (she ran as a Democrat because the Republicans wouldn't give her enought support, but then neither would the Democrats);
A Republican U.S. Congressman who wants to lower and/or eliminate taxes on the poor and refor our antiquated, post-Reconstruction state cnostitution, but is an outsider to state politics;
A Republican Lieutenant Governor who served as a Clinton-Gore delegate to the 1992 and 1996 Democratic Conventions; successfully pushed legislation through the state Senate in 2000 to raise teacher pay to the national average; supports a full rewrite of the state Constitution via a citizen-based constitutional convention; and campaigned successfully against the Governor's "education lottery" in 1999;
Or, a fringe, religious right Republican candidate, son of a former fringe, religious right Republican governor, who opposes any form of state constitution reform and sees it as an attempt to raise taxes (which it isn't), legalize gambling (which it would likely make MORE difficult to legalize), and remove God (he must have a lot of faith in state powers).
I don't know, but you might have favored the Lieutenant Governor or the Congressman on this one, if you were to vote on issues over party; just my guess.
~U2Alabama