If you had to vote for a candidate in the opposite party?

Question

Who would you choose?

Like if youre a Dem, if you had to vote for a Repub, who would you vote for?

And Visa Versa?

See if I had to vote deomcrat, id vote for Hillary.

Cuz shes more of a man than all those others combined.

Answer 1

Being a Demorcrat, if I had to vote Republican I'd go with Rudy Giuliani.

Answer 2

The main flaw here is that the Democrats and Republicans are nearly polar opposites of each other. Republicans traditionally want less govt and less govt intervention in things so that people can decide things on their own and create a strong society. Democrats generally want to regulate things because they don't trust the American people to make the right decisions (if a person truly cared about AIDS in Africa, cancer research, or universal health care, they would simply give to charities involving these things rather than have the govt do it for them).Socialist principles cause individuals to rely on the state, rather than the state relying on the individual. So if I had to vote for the opposite party I guess that would mean the Democrats had already won several times in a row and I would be forced to vote for whoever they told me to(like some of the old Soviet countries).

***I would also like to point out that war is not a Republican 'principle'. FDR, Truman, JFK, LBJ and Clinton are all Democrats and they all got us involved in wars(with the exception of LBJ, he just escalated Vietnam[58,000 troops dead], Nixon was in office when it ended).

Answer 3

Lieberman was my first response, but he isn't running.

If I had to choose one of the Dems who is actually running, I'd probably go with Bill Richardson for two reasons.

1. Unlike Dem frontrunners Hillary, Obama, and Richards, he actually has a political resume. He's done quite a bit (Ambassador, Congressman, governor)

2. He'd have little chance of beating the Republican I'd actually want!!

Answer 4

Hrm. Being a Libertarian, they're both opposites.

I think if I absolutely positively had to pick any candidate from the Republicans, it'd be Mike Huckabee. I've met him and talked to him a few times, he's a real person and is precisely what he presents himself to be. I can't say I believe that's true of the rest of them, except I think McCain really is as loopy as McCain-Feingold makes him appear.

If I had to pick from the Democrats with a gun to my head, I'd say just go on and shoot. I'll get by with whatever world the one of them that go elected would make, but I'm not taking responsibility for it by voting for one of them.

Answer 5

If I had to vote for a Republican, I'd jump off the World Trade Center.

Oh, wait, I can't do that, because George W. Bush allowed it to be destroyed.

I guess I'd have to settle for the Empire State Building.

I will NEVER vote for a Republican until they decide that civil liberties and the dignity of every human being are more important than money and a twisting of religion.

And for the guy who said, "Joe Lieberman," that doesn't count. He IS a Republican. He always was. He got elected to the Senate in 1988 by running to the right of liberal Republican Lowell Weicker, who then ran as a third-party candidate and got elected Governor. Lieberman was never a Democrat. If he was, he'd be in his second term as Vice President right now. If he hadn't rolled over and played dead to his friend Dick Cheney in the 2000 VP debate, Al Gore would've won by so much it couldn't have been stolen.

As for the person who said "Ron Paul," the man is a loon. If it were up to him, there'd be no taxes at all -- which means we couldn't pay for any military expenditures. Libertarianism sounds great on paper, but, in practice, it would be a disaster. Forget him.

Answer 6

Im not a republican but im conservative and while I vote for people in both parties depending on the candidate I vote for republicans more often.

For a D yea if Lieberman were running ( minus Al Gore of course ) I could see myself voting for him.

Answer 7

Lieberman

Answer 8

I am an independent and I will vote for whoever is the least corrupted hypocrite on the ballot. I have to practice my right as a citizen of this country.

Answer 9

As a Reublican, I would cross over and vote Democrat if they ran Zell Miller

Answer 10

I will be voting for the cons anyway I don`t want to see the dems in office when the dollar tanks from insane conservative economics.