# My job as a Republican **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [June 25, 2022, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-job-as-a-republican/966838 "2022-06-25T14:29:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 165
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2023, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-job-as-a-republican/966838/165 "2023-06-05T11:48:21Z")
> [@slicedalone](#): > > I’m asking why he’s so dead set against identifying as a Democrat, since most of his positions seem fairly closely aligned to the Dems and not at all to the GOP. I’ve been an independent for years after having registered first as a Republican (I was a Bob Dole fan for a while) and later as a Democrat, because I have issues with both parties (albeit not equivalent ones - to paraphrase the late PJ O’Rourke, the Dems are at least wrong within normal human parameters). Rejecting the GOP doesn’t require a default jump to the Democrats. I mean, at present I tend to vote pretty much straight Democratic because as little as I think of some of their candidates, the current GOP crop is so, so much worse. But that’s a “vote for the least bad option” approach, really. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-job-as-a-republican/966838)._