Per the Johnston County Poll request what is your political affiliation as it relates to your origins? P.S. CAC, sorry to kick off another political thread
Raised in NC...mom was registered Republican and dad, Democrat, so they could each vote in primaries. Dad switched during the Clinton administration due to the blatant disrespect and disregard they had for the office of the President (not the least of which was displayed by random acts of DNA dispersal). He went in to the election board and said that his party had abandoned their base by doing nothing and he switched parties. The Monica debacle is what switched me over to Republican, as well...not that either has a corner on morality and ethics, but I couldn't believe no one in the Democratic party was brave enough to stand up and say that it dishonored America and the Office of the President to be getting serviced in the Oval Office (if he did it in the private residence or in a hotel, then it's his business...he made it ours when he used that office for it)...
agreed. one is just as crooked as the next. hught, i was referring to the democrat/republican presence on this board. ie...25% republican on this board. origin has nothing to do with it.
I moved here 16 years ago from the People's Republic of Taxachusetts, been a Republican since I could vote. Recently I have become Unaffiliated. I consider myself conservative to Libertarian first, Republican second.
I think Politics are over rated! Some things I am Democrat, some Republican, some independent and some liberal. It all depends on the subject. Lets first look at the subject at hand and then make our decision what side we will take!!!!!
Stonecold, I never would have figured you as being from Massachusetts! I grew up in a Democratic family in the anthracite coal region of Northeastern Pennsylvania. One grandfather was a boiler maker on the Lackawanna Railroad who idolized Hubert Humphrey. The other was a coal miner who died before I was born due to complications from injuries in the mines. My father was a lifelong UAW member who thought that Franklin Delano Roosevelt had saved humanity from the Depression. The Democratic Party's mind-numbed, lock-step promotion of infanticide drove me away. And the fact that I came of age at the height of the Carter fiasco, when the left insisted upon the continual exacerbation of the coutries economic problems in the name of socking it to the "rich".
Funny thing.... I never got my father to change his registration, but you could go down the list of issues, one by one, and he was mainstream Republican all the way!!!
Or a Reagan Democrat. Since PA has closed primaries, his theory was to try to change the Democratic Party from within. As we know, that will never happen, since those Democrats have either left, like Reagan ("they left me"), or are dying off. What's left are the Michael Moores and Teddy Kennedies. If you tried to get him to change you'd get the story about when he was a kid during the Depression and the whistle at the coal mines would blow once if there was any work that day, or twice if there was none, or how they had to go up on the mountain to pick blueberries to sell on the corner, and how Roosevelt saved everyone during the Depression. I think someone brainwashed him early, since he was born in 1927, and would have been 5 at the height of the Depression. Start talking issues, however, and you'd swear he was a Republican!
Read a book called "FDR's Folly" by Jim Powell. You will find FDR and his advisers were ,for lack of a better word, Socialists! The New Deal was a raw deal for most Americans at a time they could ill afford it. I really lean Libertarian for the most part. The Libertarian movemnt is the soul of true conservatism
It's getting hard to argue with that given the spending spree that Uncle Sham's been on... Another angle at which to look at the New Deal might be in the context of Huey Long and the S.O.W. (Share Our Wealth) movement. I've read that some historians believe FDR was afraid of the country descending into chaos given the Depression and the level of support that Long and his socialists were getting. Indeed, before he became Franklin "Deficit" Roosevelt, one of his themes that got him elected was harping on the balooning federal deficit under Hoover.
