It is pretty simple. Vote everything and everybody Democrat this upcoming election…
Criticisms:
I don’t want one party deciding everything.
The democratic is totally unlike the Republican Party. It is not… repeat not one party, even though it is under the same umbrella. Ask any Progressive. They will tell you there are Democrats who are more conservative than Republicans… Chances are if you are voted in by a progressive district, you will be progressive; after all you represent your people. Likewise, if you are voted in by a conservative district, you will be conservative. Nothing else makes sense.
The battles will be the same on the House and Senate floors. Nothing will change. The only equation that changes, is that if a conservative brings up a good idea, I don’t have to vote no because it might help them win re-election… If everyone is of the same party, there is no pressure NOT to compromise, NOT to give and take in order to get things done. That will be the only difference. In fact, after one cycle, the party will split into two factions. and we will have a two party system.
Some Republicans are good candidates, I don’t want to throw out the baby with the bath.
(By good, my definition is that they are loyal to their constituents, either conservative or progressive, and they don’t sell their district out for corporate dollars… That is the congressional definition of “good”…)
Good people can switch their party affiliation. They can run for the same office and be themselves, just not “call” themselves Republicans. The difference again, is that when they pursue their agenda, they can do so for the right reasons, and not for the reason that it will bring more of the one percenter’s dollars into their coffers.
Again, good people need to switch their affiliation now before the deadlines start lining up…. You might as well have your voice in the party of power; not lost backing candidates of a lost cause….
I don’t want to be responsible for the killing off of the Republican Party.
You don’t kill off a party. A party commits suicide by taking a course, a road, a path where voters do not want to go… Republicans chose to to pursue the interests of giant money, over those of the middle class of American people. A government is not a business. No business stays open for long if it is more concerned with taking care of its customers, or is more concerned over the happiness quotient of their employees, than they are with making money.
That is governments function. Taking care of its citizen’s needs…. When we tried anarchy under the Articles of Confederation, we got in deep shit. No one was there to take care of our needs. And not liking the models of government that had come before us… as a new nation, we invented our own.
It was not invented to be run like a business.
Americans must look at the Republican party before them. They have a candidate Mitt Romney that no one likes. All the challengers had bursts of popularity, until something or other came out about them…. Michelle Bachmann had a gay husband, Herman Cain had an ejaculation problem. Rick Perry had a race problem, Newt Gingrich and a threesome problem, Rick Santorum wound up being the last challenger of merit, and he… was about to lose his own state to someone who almost every Republican has told me… is not “a real Republican”.
So, if none of your parties’ good candidates are willing to run, in truth, doesn’t that tells you a lot about the lack of strength to your party?… Especially when contrasted to the Democratic Primaries of 2008, where Obama and Hillary Clinton, the two best the party had to offer, went toe to toe until the voters chose to end it…..
So a party of stars faces off against a party of jokers… Isn’t it time to switch to the real conservative party, the Democratic one?
Drop all pretensions of being haughty. Come over, lose your party, vote in the Democrat that most represents your views, or if you’re a candidate, pull an Atkins, change your party stripes. … Bottom line, as we saw with the Republican takeover in the House, where there are Republicans, you get stand up comedy. Leave the comedy to John Stewart on The Daily Show.
Let’s have some real government for a change…….
(In Delaware party affiliation may be changed this year, between April 25th and May 25th… )
kavips 
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April 12, 2012 at 10:31 am
anonymous
The choice: Vote Democrat -or- vote
Republican to support global extermination
Republicans put Americans’ children in $5 trillion debt, leaving the
Not only did republicans bring the country to a state of economic collapse, republicans deny the science
of anthropogenic climate change and have for decades, in favor of
corporate profits, fighting clean energy solutions, until the global
condition is too dire for next generations. Let’s not forget the lies,
corruption, fraud, the Supreme Court 5, that put Bush in the White
House, to plunder the treasury, poison the planet, go to an oil war
for no weapons of mass destruction, but cultural destruction and
bloodshed, continued chaos instead, as Ben Laden fled. Due to
republican denial, suppressed development, lack of clean alternatives,
lack of sustainability, academic fund cutting, as republicans instead
furthered the efforts of fossil fuel interests (as well as other
corporate interests) and clung to supply side, trickle down deficits,
as low tax for corporations and the ultra rich produced no new jobs or
industries, lowering America’s ranking behind countries such as
Ireland, Norway, while existing on borrowed money from China, while
republican politicians still call climate change a hoax, just as they
ignored AIDS for too long, calling scientists and journalists brain
washers, resisting IPCC findings, while going on to collapse family
incomes, still defending tax cuts for the wealthy, jobs overseas, the
present climate conditions of forest fires, droughts, extreme storms,
rising sea levels, lost wetlands, sinking coastal areas, towns and
cities, (island and low lying nations around the world,) threatened
drinking water supplies, vital infrastructures, as CO2 readings have
rapidly risen to 394.65 ppm, whereas (280 is normal) 300 ppm is now
considered sustainable,even though CO2 GHG effects last for 100+
years, which is causing global heating, which is now releasing
permafrost feedback methane, that is disastrously 70 times more
powerful a GHG then CO2 and which is in catastrophic supply and
unstoppable, except by the immediate curtailment of CO2 over
releasing; as republicans still fight in favor of polluting industries
and promise to shut down the EPA, governmental regulations, which
destroys natural resources, adding trillions to lost time, corrective
costs, (destroying financial systems,) while dumbing down the
educational system, so that too many Americans can’t make
knowledgeable decisions or take responsible actions, with republicans
still calling science a hoax, while republicans claim to be the
‘family’ party, yet they are leaving their children a runaway chemical
planet, with court systems that ignore crimes against children,
(planetary extermination being the ultimate crime,) while also
breeding a culture of intolerance through media extermination
campaigns against, women, motherhood, immigrants, coastal
communities, cities, the highly educated, artists, intellectuals, not
to mention nature and all life as we know it on the planet, while
fostering an invasive destruction of human rights, on non livable
wages, with restrictive or no health care, while lacking honesty,
integrity, empathy, denying reality, denying the true source of
federal debt – republicans; calling the President of the United
States of America, a non American, their fellow Americans socialists,
communists, traitors, while being blatantly dishonest in matters of
survival such as CO2 over pollution now wrecking the atmosphere, for
immediate corporate polluting profits vs their childrens’ survival,(as
well as children around the world,) demanding Americans ignore
science, sound judgement for unprincipled ‘so called’ patriotism as
would tyrants, while becoming a party that does not deserve loyalty at
all, as a party that has abandoned the principles of Lincoln, with a
following of people (shutter) one shall not mention here, who bully
and in a dumbed down manor, repeat republican corporate lies;
whereas,
It is the democrats who have and will achieve most through science and
technology as the scientists, as they have as leaders of the computer
industry; the democrats who bring peace and prosperity, as they have
through balancing budgets, producing meaningful jobs; the democrats
who will reduce crime, as they have provided teachers, journalists,
social workers, workers’ right, civil rights, women rights; the
democrats who will protect health care, social security; as it is the
democrats who have won wars I and II, and captured Ben Laden; and it
is the democrats who are needed now to fight the battles of, by and
for the people, to continue, if children are to even have a future,
the very future lied about and presently being denied by republicans.