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In 2016, will you vote for your party no matter who is it's candidate?

In 2016, will you vote for your party no matter who is it's candidate?

  • Yes

    Votes: 4 10.8%
  • No

    Votes: 23 62.2%
  • Unsure

    Votes: 7 18.9%
  • No comment

    Votes: 3 8.1%

  • Total voters
    37

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In 2016, will you vote for your party no matter who is it's candidate?
 
In 2016, will you vote for your party no matter who is it's candidate?

I've decided that if Rand Paul gets the GOP nomination I'll vote GOP for the first time ever. I'd prefer someone running under the libertarian platform but I'd be tickled to death that a candidate that matches my beliefs 75+% actually has somewhat of a chance of winning.
 
I've decided that if Rand Paul gets the GOP nomination I'll vote GOP for the first time ever. I'd prefer someone running under the libertarian platform but I'd be tickled to death that a candidate that matches my beliefs 75+% actually has somewhat of a chance of winning.

I agree.

Or, we could convince Gary Johnson to have massive plastic surgery to look like Rand Paul, change his name to Rand Paul and have him takeover Rand's life.

Oh, we would have to kidnap the real Rand, wipe his memory and put him on a deserted island with food, money, some essential medicines and the first ever, gorgeous female android that is undetectable from the real thing (seems an alright guy, gotta give him a good life).

Actually screw that...leave every one as they are and I'll move to the deserted Island with the above mentioned provisions/android.
But give me a satellite phone...just in case the android drives me nuts and I want off the island. Either that or a volleyball made by Wilson.
 
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I could vote Republican but it would have to be one that did not spout the really stupid stuff all the time. Maybe if Christie makes a comeback....
 
I have certain litmus tests that a candidate must pass before even having a shot at my vote, this time around. One of them has to do with domestic spying. Most of them have to do with upholding the principles of The Constitution as I see them.

I find that I have diverged too much from either major party to be likely to vote for a candidate from one of them. For example, they love power so much that they will never agree with me that it is more important to preserve and restore domestic liberty and it's trappings than to be a superpower. The conflict between the two probably doesn't even register for them. Indeed, they think that being a superpower preserves liberty. Admittedly, that notion has a ring of truth to it because it was true that it did in fact make liberty more secure for a time. But that type of security itself has a shelf life, and now that it has run its course spoilage has morphed it into the thing to be feared. It was a seduction most complete, though not one for which we had no warnings.
 
The last few POTUS elections I've voted for the GOP candidate, mostly because I simply *could not* have voted for the alternative.

In 2016 it all depends.

There are a few Dems I would actually vote for - Joe Manchin, Evan Bayh (even though he's no longer in DC), even the guy who was the Democratic governor of my state until 2012 (I voted for him more than once). And some who are being discussed as possibilities who I wouldn't vote for - Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, for example.

There are a few Republicans I would vote for - Jon Huntsman quickly comes to mind. Some I won't consider - such as Mike Huckabee.

LMAO that was a long answer. I guess the answer depends on who is the nominee for each party.
 
The problem is that in the past the qualities that I like in a candidate are not the qualities that the GOP primary voters like in a candidate. For example, in the last election I wrote a contribution check to the Jon Huntsman campaign when he announced only to watch him go absolutely no where in the primaries. Maybe it will be different this time around, but I am not getting my hopes up.
 
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I voted no but I am more likely to vote republican thou. we always have the option of not voting for any of candidates.
 
I could vote Republican but it would have to be one that did not spout the really stupid stuff all the time. Maybe if Christie makes a comeback....

You complain about Republicans spouting stupid stuff, and then hope that Christie makes a comeback? :lamo
 
I've decided that if Rand Paul gets the GOP nomination I'll vote GOP for the first time ever. I'd prefer someone running under the libertarian platform but I'd be tickled to death that a candidate that matches my beliefs 75+% actually has somewhat of a chance of winning.

I'm not so sure I trust him. He's not the same man his father was, he's been a huge political chameleon lately.
 
He is the least stupid as far as I can tell. I have never heard him say birth certificate or any of the other amazingly stupid stuff that comes from the right. He seems sane. Who else is there at deals mainly in facts instead of fantasy?
You complain about Republicans spouting stupid stuff, and then hope that Christie makes a comeback? :lamo
 
In 2016, will you vote for your party no matter who is it's candidate?

Party has never been important to me. I always voted for the candidate which I thought would make the best president and be good for America. My first vote was cast for Barry Goldwater back in 1964 and beginning with that vote I have voted for 5 Republicans, 2 Democrats and 6 third party/independents. As the years went by, I became more and more dissatisfied with the choices the two major parties offered and I decided I would never vote for the least worst candidate as if you do, no matter who wins you still end up with a bad president.
 
He is the least stupid as far as I can tell. I have never heard him say birth certificate or any of the other amazingly stupid stuff that comes from the right. He seems sane. Who else is there at deals mainly in facts instead of fantasy?

Among the Republican bunch? None. Ron Paul is the only one I can think of and, well, he's retired so he doesn't really count.
 
I could vote Republican but it would have to be one that did not spout the really stupid stuff all the time. Maybe if Christie makes a comeback....

Christie has time, but he it will have to be the investigation committee committee head by NJ Assemblyman John Wisniewski which clears him or finds no wrong doings on Christie's part. His own internal investigation really means nothing in the grand scheme of things.
 
Sensible people vote for candidates. Brainwashed idiots vote for parties.
 
Christie has time, but he it will have to be the investigation committee committee head by NJ Assemblyman John Wisniewski which clears him or finds no wrong doings on Christie's part. His own internal investigation really means nothing in the grand scheme of things.

my guess is that the investigation will run well into 2015 to about the time when a candidate should announce they are running for president. a agree with you on the last part.
 
I'm not so sure I trust him. He's not the same man his father was, he's been a huge political chameleon lately.

I agree. I liked his father a lot more but his father was a straightforward, honest man with convictions, which means he never stood a chance of getting elected. I think of Rand Paul as Ron Paul lite but with more of the BS political appeal that wins elections.

I would obviously much rather have a pure libertarian candidate, but I simply can't pass up the chance to support what could possibly be the GOP's most libertarian candidate to date.
 
I agree. I liked his father a lot more but his father was a straightforward, honest man with convictions, which means he never stood a chance of getting elected. I think of Rand Paul as Ron Paul lite but with more of the BS political appeal that wins elections.

I would obviously much rather have a pure libertarian candidate, but I simply can't pass up the chance to support what could possibly be the GOP's most libertarian candidate to date.

I think you nailed it...that is Rand Paul to me...Ron Paul lite...I like that.
 
For the record, I would not vote for either major party unless you put a gun to my head...though I did not always feel that way.
 
In 2016, will you vote for your party no matter who is it's candidate?

Nope.

If I feel that I can't honestly support the candidate my party nominates because I believe he has a high chance of actively damaging the country in some fashion, rather than simply doing some things I disagree with, then I will end up voting Democratic (highly unlikely, but impossible to completely rule out without seeing their candidate), 3rd party, or write in.
 
The problem is that in the past the qualities that I like in a candidate are not the qualities that the GOP primary voters like in a candidate. For example, in the last election I wrote a contribution check to the Jon Huntsman campaign when he announced only to watch him go absolutely no where in the primaries. Maybe it will be different this time around, but I am not getting my hopes up.

If I ever meet his primary campaign strategist in person I'm going to desperately want to reenact the slap scene from Airplane with me playing the part of every individual in the line.
 
I agree. I liked his father a lot more but his father was a straightforward, honest man with convictions, which means he never stood a chance of getting elected. I think of Rand Paul as Ron Paul lite but with more of the BS political appeal that wins elections.

I would obviously much rather have a pure libertarian candidate, but I simply can't pass up the chance to support what could possibly be the GOP's most libertarian candidate to date.

I can understand that. I just don't think I could stomach voting for yet another politician who plays the game. Maybe I'll feel different when 2016 rolls around, but right now I maintain that I don't trust him to do the right thing when he's in office.
 
For the record, I would not vote for either major party unless you put a gun to my head...though I did not always feel that way.

When I went to work for Perot back in 1992 I started to feel the same way you do now. One of the reasons was that Perot told me to take a few steps back, put cotton in your ears to block out all the rhetoric, slogans, talking points etc. Then just watch how the two parties govern. I did that, I found out both parties govern just about the same. It is the noise they make, their rhetoric that is polar opposite, not the way they govern. Both govern in the business as usual mode.
 
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I put down "no comment" as I do not have a party. I have totally rejected the duopoly of the Democrat/Republican parties as two sides of the same coin.

In the last presidential elected I voted for Jill Stein and will continue to vote outside the duopoly for national and local elections.

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As my party has pretty much abandoned me (along with what it once stood for), and will likely create a repeat of the last cycle in the primaries I find it unlikely the "Last man standing" will get my vote....I will probably just sit this out, again.
 
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