Have you switched political parties within the last 10 years?

Question

If so, from what to what, and why?

Answer 1

Yes, I used to be a Republican, and I switched to Democrat. I switched because the GOP always promised tax cuts, yet my taxes kept going up, and they kept spamming me and I would get recorded telephone calls.

Answer 2

No, I switched in 1972 or so, Richard Nixon helped me with that decision, I went from repuglican to democrat. I didn't like that every decision and law that Nixon made was to favor the rich. I was and am a working man and he hurt the country and the economy with his decision of taking the dollar off of the silver standard and allowing it to float and allowing private ownership of gold, these things are still being felt to day and have contributed to the shrinking middle class and the division between rich and poor.

Answer 3

Yes I did, from Republican to Independant. I voted for Bush the first time, but not the second time, as, even as a Republican, I'm pretty sure:

1. He had some tricky voting schemes going on in Florida, I mean cmon its the state his BROTHER is governor of. After the massive disdenfrachising of certain, shall we say, darker voters, who didn't vote for Bush, all of a sudden their votes didn't count. There is no rational dispute about this; This is fact, reported in newspaper and on TVs all over the globe. Some here on YA think it's only a bunch of libtard looneys who think Bush stole the first election. Fellas, the whole WORLD believes that. A GREAT portion of the world believes the Jews are responsible for the attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon and honestly cannot understand why the US protects Israel so. I understand, every President who backs Israel, right, wrong or indifferent, is averting a Middle East genocide. Israel DOES have nuclear weapons, and they DAMN sure have the will to use them if necessary; this is the case of the poodle who barks from the porch, with the rabid rottweiler right behind him.

No offense to Israel with the poodle remark, poodles are vicious little bastards, I certainly wouldnt want to tangle with one holding a thermonuclear detonator.

2. Our new president spent almost 45% of his first 10 months in office officially "On Vacation" in Crawford, TX., the same 10 months he took NO Intel meetings regarding terrorists, the same timeframe when he CUT funding for the FBIs counterterrorism task force, this is considered the President most concerned with Homeland Security? He opposed the formation of the OHS for almost a year, then tried to take credit for it in the media.

3. Was opposed to the formation of an independant 9/11 commission to determine what happened and who was responsible. Would not testify under oath to that commission, and actually had to be SUED to produce paperwork to the commission. Finally after an public outcry, he agreed to sit down informally with the commission, no notes could be written, no recording done, completely off the record, never to be repeated.... tell me, as a Republican, WHY? His dad NEVER would have tried to get away with something like that.

4. Sent a token force into Afghanistan, supposedly to go after the confessed architect of the attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon, Osama bin Laden. To date, his whereabouts are completely unknown and the President has been quoted as saying, "I don't think too much about him." This is the man who personifies the horror for all those families who lost loved ones on September 11 and this President says he doesn't think about bin Laden very much. It's downright shameful and makes me wonder if Osama is as guilty as we've all been led to believe?

5. Invaded Iraq on the flimsiest of pretexts, which changed every time Bushs predictions didnt jibe with the facts. Its for WMDs, there are no WMDs he sent em to Iran (how convenient) its the whole "Reason of the Day" while soldiers are being killed which sickens me.

6. Considers himself a "war President", even though we were not at war when he took office. Incidently, he also is the first President who had a criminal record (one assumes they mean BEFORE he took office). He was arrested for DUI in Maine (WHAT?? You mean like TED KENNEDY?? UH oh, better hush THAT up) He was investigated and never cleared in the Harken Oil Stock scandal, where he sold $848,000 in Harken stock (after receiving a letter from Harkin lawyers NOT to sell, if the seller knew anything bad was coming at the upcoming Harkin quarterly report [which Bush did know, being a Harkin VP], BTW), because Bush Sr was President, this investigation died a quiet death.

Answer 4

Yes...I went from Democrat to Constitution Party. But I do vote for other independent parties.

Answer 5

Not me. Registered as a Democrat in 1969 and stayed one since. Mind you, I have little resemblance to modern Democrats in my viewpoint though. They're making me wish there was a new party I could identify with. Mainly I registered so I could vote in the primaries.

Answer 6

Yes - Democrat to Republican.

My views on issues changed as I got older. Plus, after Clinton's actions, I asked myself what I was defending him for. the fact that the whole party followed suit was enough to get me to switch my (up till then) lifelong allegiance.

Answer 7

No, my political awakening was during the carter years. So I have pretty much learned my lesson and stayed Republican ever since.

Answer 8

No, I will never change my mind after what Jimmy Carter did to our country.

Answer 9

yes, from oblivious to Democrat (I was only 16 10 years ago :P)

Answer 10

Yes. When I was in high school, I was a die hard liberal. Legalize pot, let me be free, I was on the verge of being a hippie.

However, after high school, I grew up. I went to college, got a job, and then realized life wasn't that simple.

As the saying goes" We are all born liberal. Some of us just grow up"

However, I wasn't old enough to vote, so I wasn't TECHNICALLY a Democrat, but I would have been.