As A Conservative, Do You Think You Could Convince Me To Vote Democrat ? Ever?

Question

I evaluate all points of view with an open mind. If I am legitimately wrong, I want to know, pronto !... but I do feel liberals and their party (the dems ;() are doing more damage to America than our foriegn muslim destroyers and their aspirations........How could you ever make me vote for a democrat when homeland security is my top concern ? I`m all ears at this point.....

Jake- Thanks for answering..but your comments are sad.

Grown- I`m all about the third party, or at least, major change...Right now you have to vote for the lesser of two evils to matter. Sad but true.

Answer 1

If a person has his or her mind made up before hearing things through because of an allegiance to a party or ideology, then you better check your brain at the door. When a person offers obedience to a party or ideology than that’s when the party will take you for granted. You should be loyal to your own judgment and accept responsibility for your choices.

Answer 2

Because homeland security as the Republicans tell it is a red herring. How are we made more secure by deploying the entire national guard, leaving no one to watch the border? The threat of terrorism has been exaggerated. That's not to say we shouldn't take it seriously, but these guy are not a coordinated army capable of the overthrow of our government- they're a loose knit pack of criminals and individual cells, who make dramatic but tactically inefficient attacks. Lowering the mightiest Army in the world to their level is insulting, and only serves to validate the terrorists tactics and cause to the entire region. As I see it, George Bush's "War on Terror" has done far more harm than good to U.S. interests at home and abroad. In other words, he's made us more vulnerable than we already were.

At the same time, the GOP's abandoned every other tenet of conservatism. It's not a good sign when the Democrats are talking about the need for smaller government and a lower defecit, but the Republicans aren't. I voted Democrat in the midterm elections simply because they're more conservative than the Republicans at this point. The Dem's aren't what I want in a political party either, but at least an opposition congress could stall the President's degradation of the constitution. How many terrorists have been caught by illegal wiretaps, the new Department of Homeland Security, or the Patriot Act? None. I know, it's weird to hear, but none. Every single terrorist plot foiled since 9/11 has been due to the vigilance of the American People. Airline employees, photocopyists, and sales people all paying attention. We are a strong people, well capable of looking out for ourselves. We don't need a gigantic government looking over our shoulders.

Vote for who you want, but take a good look at what the Republicans have actually done to make our homeland more secure. I did, and I wasn't satisfied.

Answer 3

Why would I try to make you vote either way? Democrats and Republicrats are both on the same track headed for a cliff. It just so happens that Democrats are a little bit ahead of democrats, but Republicans seems to be working hard to catch up.
I can only say that I will no longer vote for the "lesser evil". I think it is time to vote according to our conscience and not according to the polls.
Things might change by election day, but if it was today I'd vote for Ron Paul without hesitation. He's a true conservative, not a liberal in republican clothing.

Answer 4

go searching you, d00d - each and every of the republicans working are liberals! Huckabee has a music checklist for being gentle on crime and unlawful immigration and professional-taxes. Giuliani is a specialist-gay, professional-selection, anti-gun liberal. Romney became right into a Massachusetts govenor - no longer something extra desire be stated. Ron Paul, Tom Trancredo, Duncan Hunter, and Fred Thompson could have been extreme conservatives, yet they are cooked in this race. i think of the question you have to be asking isn't no count if or no longer a real conservative ought to vote for McCain, yet why they shouldn't returned him up over Obama and Clinton.

Answer 5

No, the only thing that should make you change your political alliance is a change in your perspective as a result of life experiences or a failure of your party to back the views and issues that you do. I was raised by an extremely conservative family and voted for Reagan years ago, but have since started working with handicapped adults and children, and cannot support the cuts that Republicans want to make to Medicaid and the other programs that support the people I serve. My life does not change much regardless of who is in power. I vote based on who supports the ideas I beleive in and so should everyone else

Answer 6

The US is attempting to implement "democracy-at gun-point" in a nation embroiled with ethnic and religious tensions. The Iraqi people know why the US government is killing their people and destroying their cities, which makes their resistance quite logical. They realize that a cruel and greedy imperialist government needed to assert its military might on what they anticipated would be a weak target so it could begin implementing the Bush Doctrine and the Project for the New American Century. Halliburton, Bechtel, Lockheed Martin, and many other cogs in the military industrial complex were itching to see their profits skyrocket, and Iraq appeared to be a ripe plum for the picking. Most importantly, oil was too valuable of a commodity for a self-respecting Twenty-First Century world power bent on global domination to leave in the hands of "mere Arabs". Why wouldn't the Iraqis feel enraged and resist invaders, plunderers, and thieves?



US troops in Iraq number over 140,000. The occupation started in March, 2003. The Bush tyranny continues to refuse to commit to an eventual withdrawal of US forces. Bush and his minions lied to Congress to launch the invasion, defied the UN and international law, and, according to John Pike of GlobalSecurities.org, are establishing 12 of what the Pentagon propagandists call "enduring bases" in Iraq . To translate from "Pentagonese" to English, an "enduring base" is a permanent base. Despite the hollow propaganda of spreading freedom and liberty, the US government's actions smack of those of a tyrant intent on colonizing the sovereign nation of Iraq .

The disguise is slipping as the US government has slaughtered tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians. Hurricane Katrina revealed the hypocrisy behind their "noble cause" of spreading freedom and liberty. Those abstract concepts exist in the US on a very limited basis. The US government has been, and is increasingly dominated by a select few plutocrats and aristocrats who are groomed for public office from birth. The elites of America place their carefully prepared candidates before an American voting public rendered apathetic by the mainstream media and years of government corruption. The Democratic/Republican Duopoly ensures that only two candidates have a real chance of winning public office in virtually every election, and each candidate is beholden to corporations and the US aristocracy. Sometimes decent people sneak into Congress and the Judiciary, but there are few real choices for middle and working class Americans, particularly when one factors in the stolen Presidential election of 2000. Jimmy Carter, one of the few former Presidents known for his honesty, recently publicly stated his certainty that Gore won the 2000 election.

Answer 7

I too am conservative. The only way I'd vote for a Democrat is if they ran on the platform of JFK (low taxes, strong national defense, etc.). Even then it would be difficult because of their support for abortion and social programs.

As a conservative I am unhappy with both parties. I would prefer to vote for the Constitution party or Libertarian party, but neither has a real chance of winning.

Answer 8

Single issue voting doesn't work. I know plenty of Democratic voters who are voting Democrat, primarily because of abortion, but in every other way they are conservative. In my opinion, this is stupid. Vote for the person who has the best character. For example, I don't think because Hillary Clinton promised to be the National Security president of the Ages, I would vote for her. She's a liar. It would simply be pandering.

Answer 9

How about a democratic candidate who secures the borders? Or another terrorist attack on our soil, while we are in Iraq? Other than that, if you are telling me that you think that the democratic party as a whole is worse than terrorists, there is no convincing...and no need., You aren;t the majority

Answer 10

I don't need to. My goal when voting is not to get as many people on my side as I possibly can so I'm always, always, always backing a winning horse, but rather to vote for the person who I honestly feel, regardless of the letter in parentheses after his or her name, can do the best job in whatever office he or she is running for. My expectation as your fellow American is that you do the same. So my suggestion is that you educate yourself on the candidates and vote for the one who you think is most capable of leading this country.