Yellow Dog voters

The BBQ Pit
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I really, and honestly, had thought that we’d gotten beyond this thinking.

I was reading in this thread that there are still people who do this.

Who are proud to say that “even a bad Umptysquat is better than a good Squattyump.”

And then have the gall to ask if those of us who use brains to evaluate candidates have anything we believe in?

WTF? :mad:

I believe if a fucking judge is involved in a road rage incident, and then chews out, not only a 17 yo female driver, but the cop who tries to calm him down, because he’s a fucking judge, and normal rules don’t apply to him, he should NOT be returned to the bench. No matter how good his jurisprudence, let alone what party he officially belongs to.

I believe that if a brain dead representative to the State Legislature isn’t going to risk her committee positions to try to get involved with a ‘revolt’ to end the lock the Senate Leader or the Assembly Leader has on their respective houses ( A circumstance that has lead, here in NYS, to 20 years of late budgets.) they don’t deserve to be returned to their office. After all, it’s not like they actually do anything, anyways, if they can’t get a fucking bill voted on by the full house, now is it? Or if the budget comes down to three men who won’t talk to each other, every year. No matter which party claims this person as their own.

I further believe that if the chairwoman of the state’s Assembly commission on drug and alcohol policy gets caught drunk driving with a BAC in excess of 0.12% (IIRC) and then gets a suspended sentence, AFTER pushing for mandatory sentencing and license suspension for all OTHER drunk drivers, and then makes the statement that her experience with being a drunk driver makes her a more effective person to chair the Assembly commission on drug and alcohol policy, she’s not deserving of being returned to office. Regardless of her official party affiliation.

And then this yutz who’s proud to be one of the brain damaged sheep who has helped make NY State politics the abortion it is, is challgening people who might vote against a specific candidate when someone gave answers for why someone might not care to be affliated with a specific party?

This sheep, this voter masquerading as a socially conscious person, then whines about people who might potentially vote for a specific candidate - and basing his criticism on the candidates actions in office. If he’s not going to look at his candidate’s actions in office, why should anyone else?

What the HELL is this moron smoking? Where the HELL does he or she get off actually criticizing anyone else for their fucking choices in the ballot box?

I really don’t care what party one supports. Nor am I railing against anyone who ends up choosing to vote for candidates of all one party or another in this, or any other specific election - that is not yellow-dog voting behavior, that’s someone who’s chosen the candidates they support. Being a yellow-dog voter is a bad thing for democracy: It gives elected officials a guarantee of being returned to office time and time again, no matter what they’ve done. Hell’s Bells, folks, even Liberal admits to varying his vote to candidates outside his party.

(Lib, I hope you don’t think I’m picking on you, I’m just choosing you as someone who’s known for supporting a third party over one of the two major parties.)

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I knew that thread would cause some reaction if it got out of hand. I congratulate you on not letting your feelings colour the opinion only thread. Thanks.

As for the rant, while I couldn’t do it, not anymore anyways, I do think it’s possible for someone to hold to their chosen party’s platform to the point of exclusion of anyone outside their party.

Do I think it’s a wise choice? No. But, it’s not my call, man. I go the way I see, they go theirs.

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NoClueBoy, you’re quite welcome.

And, really, I was going to keep quiet, beyond my own views in the opinion only thread you’d opened, until the same person boasting of going straight for one party was trying use specific actions of a candidate in office to question why someone would vote for that candidate.

If that person wasn’t willing to consider a candidate’s actions if they were from the ‘right’ party, why should they be upset if someone chooses to do the same for a candidate belonging to the other party?

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Valid point, when stated that way. But, still, if someone believes a party line that completely, than it would work for them regardless.

Hypocritical? Maybe. But then again, maybe he feels so strongly about those issues to overlook it. This is one of the reasons why I usually don’t participate in political debates.

Quite frankly, I would urge everyone to find out as much as possible about every person or issue on the ballot before voting. IMHO, the worst vote is an uninformed vote.

I’m not disagreeing with you. T-Bon was out of line for that thread. But, he stopped when I asked him too.

as for his personal platform, well, I’ll let you guys debate that.

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My spell check is drinking again. :rolleyes:

No wait, that’s me.