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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (142717)	11/7/2019 1:54:01 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 356133

you said you voted for him the first time but not the second. I voted for Reagan the second time but not the first. Perhaps that's what you remember. I had the impression you supported Romney back in 2012 I would have been OK with Romney as president. I would be OK with Romney now. Romney is a smart, experienced, and decent fellow who lives between the 40 yard lines. He may or may not be my first choice but he would be acceptable. The thing you may not get about partisans, first of all, is that I am not one. I don't much like either party. The R's are bad on liberty and the D's are bad on free lunch. Partisans vote for whomever their party nominates. I have to make a complicated choice each time, one that includes none of the above as an option. I posted the other day about taking into consideration how much of their platform a candidate might actually accomplish rather than just what he's running on. At the time my comments were in the context of Warren and MfA. If MfA scares you, you can still vote for Warren to get rid of Trump because MfA ain't gonna happen so it's safe to vote for her. In the case of Reagan, I thought it safe to vote for him on women's rights because, while the party platform was scary on that, Reagan, himself, gave no indication of being into that. Since there was no negative action during his first term, he seemed safe for a second term and he was. Back to Romney. I would consider him, personally, safe on both counts. Problem is that candidates come with parties and parties have bases. Romney comes in a package with Nunes and Meadows and Jordan. The R base is too strong and too strident right now and the electoral structure too favorable to disproportionate R representation to risk voting for any Republican. The D's have been safe given that the R's controlled Congress. That was when the R's were conservatives. Now that they are Trumpists, Katy bar the door. I haven't voted for a Republican since Reagan and am unlikely to ever do so the way things look from here.