Have you ever switched political sides?

Question

What I mean is have you ever gone frome being Republican to democrat or vise-versa. If you have then why

Answer 1

First I was devoutly liberal. Then I got a job... Then I went a little more conservative..

Then I opened my ears and realized that both sides do very little for me. They'll never change much of anything.

I've gone from liberal, to conservative, to neither. I think politics is a game for too many people. A game I don't believe in.

Answer 2

Yes, I went from a conservative Republican (my army years), to a liberal democrat, and now an independent. I am a pragmatist. I am Independent only because I often vote the other party to vote against someone like I did both times with Bush in the primaries! I voted Republican, but not for George!

Why is simple. I see what the Republicans stand for, a party of hate and wealth for the minority at the expense of everyone else in America!

I never had to look back as they keep on proving me correct!

They run on smaller government and "fiscal responsibility"! Perhaps someone would care to explain this?

http://www.uuforum.org/deficit.htm

And Bush even gets a break. The war debt isn't even included. Perhaps they should change "war debt" to "corporate welfare" as that is where most of it goes! 500 new Millionaires in Iraq off of blood money! No one made BILLIONS in WWII and put it in their pocket!

Answer 3

I switched right after Clinton was in office. People just didn't see or don't remember things he did, more like things he didn't do. Like he got priased for putting more police in some towns, why didn't people realize thatthey were ones he took off of the borders. He did tons of sneaking things like that people just chose to look the other way. How about the exxon moble merger? they knew it would raise gas prices they predicted it would take 5 to 8 years. Or the big government run flu shot plan, 4 years later there was a shortage of flu shots, well DUH!
the worse was learning that Clinton knew of the possibility of a terror attack using airports. Then he told Gore to take care of security. After coming up with better security plans Gore decided to let the airports slide a few years on upping the security right after they made a HUGE donation to the democratic party.
Not much was said about this after 9/11.

It makes me want to scream!!! why would anyone want another Clinton in to screw things up just to let the next president have to srtraighten out his mess. If people could remember history acuratly they could trace most of President Bushes problems back to Clinton.
9/11 and the war, high gas prices, border problems . . .

Answer 4

Yes, when I was young (I was raised by an extremely republican party) and up until we went to Iraq I was Republican. When we got to Iraq, it became clear that everything that Bush had said was BS and I liked what the Democrats were saying versus the Republicans, so I switched. It's probably the smartest decision I've ever made, it feels a lot better being Democrat.

Answer 5

I was brought up in a staunch democrat family. I even married one. My dad and my husband would vote for Mickey Mouse if that was the candidate for the democrats. Like a good little girl I registered democrat and voted on those lines for many years...straight ticket.
When Clinton was in office, I started researching and have voted republican ever since, but not straight ticket. I vote for the person now, not the party.
No matter how I try to convince my family the democrats are not the party of my dad. JFK would have to run republican if he ran today.

Answer 6

Yes. Attitudes and such change through different periods of your life. I was totally liberal when I was young......now I'm more conservative. I guess. Heck they swing the pendulum to such extremes I don't know anymore. Never a Democrat....most of the time Republican but now Independant. I never did go the total party route when voting.....I went on the individual but you have to declare something. Right now I'm sick of both parties.....one robs the bank while the other drives the get-away car.

Answer 7

Yes, and like most converters, I settled with neither.

I think most moderates, independants, and third party members have such a hard time dealing with staunch party attitudes that they abandon their faith in them for more flexibility. Most who are not in a party tend to lean slightly to one side though do not agree enough to stay there.

Not being of either party is great for me because I'm okay 90% of the time with the green party,75% with the dems, 40% with conservatives, 39.99% with libs, and less than 30% with republicans. I like free market economies and their opposites, though I prefer mine slightly mixed, though only in dire need, about what we have now.

You will find that many party hoppers can only fit into their own category, I personally disagree with the biparty system because it does not represent enough Americans. I firmly believe the executive office should have a variety of parties, choosing the best candidate out of all parties, not their own. ie. if the best candidate for the enviro secretary is in the green party, don't pick your democrat buddy from high school; highest ranking military officials are better for sec. def. than Rumsfeld.

Unfortuanetly not enough of us believe in a coalition, and we don't pressure our presidents to choose a cabinet that best suits all of America, not the 48.9% that voted for them.

For these reasons, and far too many more, many Americans are hopping from party to party. We need to end this democrats vs. republicans for total control of an office warfare before we leave out any more misrepresented voters.

Answer 8

My father was a lifelong Democrat and became an Independent. He feels that the Democratic party has gone too far left. He borrows the quote: "I didn't leave the Democratic party, the Democratic party left me."
As for myself, I am embarrassed to admit that I voted for Clinton the first time he was elected. I was young and in college at the time. I thought he was cool because he played the saxophone on MTV. When I got a little older, and I realized what he stood for, I regretted that vote, and have regretted it ever since. Chalk it up to a mistake of youth.

Answer 9

Yes.

Proudly from Republican to Democrat.

I was for the war in Iraq right up to the moments where we were embarrassed to say, it was a mistake from the start.

I was neutral at that point, but I started hearing conservatives still crying for war, and talking the talk.

So, I guess I do have one thing to thank the president for!

Answer 10

Yes, I used to be a Republican and come from a Republican family. I saw how hypocritical the Republicans were when Clinton was in office and changed my mind. I was making serious dough when Clinton was in office and that has changed since Bush has been in. Our country is in major debt now too.

I saw how nasty the Republicans were and are about Hillary Clinton and that just makes me want to vote for her. They would hate ANY woman who had the ovaries to run for President. I'm voting for her. No doubt now. It's time for some of these smug Republicans to be VERY unhappy. I have been for the past eight years.