We're all Republicans now....

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

It’s four in the morning and this thought came to me:

What if EVERY Democrat started calling him or herself a republican?

I know, it can’t-won’t happen, but “what if?”

Pig boy and Tweety wouldn’t know what to do. Would we change from a Republic to a real Democracy?

It would DESTROY the neo-con Republican party… There would be liberals in wolves clothing. It’s hard to attack an entity that shares the same name (unless you consider the fact that we’re all Americans).


Hehe. (I’m not saying anyone should jump ship, but it would be funny if it could happen overnight. Announce that the Democratic party is being dissolved and that we’re all republicans now). Thanks for the fun idea, Garrison!

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Actually that is not a crazy concept

it has been done before in US History, early US history.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

4. It should be a crazy concept considering its source...

:evilgrin:

My ignorance is showing. I didn't know that. Could you steer me toward a information on that, I want to remember something about it but the synaptic firings are off target on the subject.

[Art_from_Ark]

9. The poster might be referring to the Democrat-Republicans

In the Presidential election of 1824, all four candidates were members of the same party-- the Democrat-Republicans. They were: John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, and William Crawford.

http://www.multied.com/elections/1824.html

[w13rd0]

2. Only problem is that unlike the Democratic party...

...the Republican party insists on lockstep from all that claim the name. Witness Voinovich <sp> in Ohio and Chafee and Jeffords...

[hannah]

3. You shared my dream

Perhaps if we all vote republican on the diebold machines, all the
Democrats will win.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

5. LOL... Really, I did.

[Must_B_Free]

6. This is not crazy

they are feeding off of "enemy" power - if their "enemy" in America disappears or becomes more discreet, they will starve with noone to blame their failures on.

[booksenkatz]

Sort of like Saddam's Republican Guard

They couldn't win in the traditional way, so they retreated and became the dark... the shadows... and they're quite powerful and effective.

Hmmmmm.

[kainah]

7. a friend has done it

One of the most active members of our peace group has changed from being a dem to a repub for a few reasons:

1) He wanted to be sure we could claim to be a bipartisan group; and,

2) He is planning to challenge our repug representative in the primary. He doesn't have a prayer of beating her, of course, but he's hoping he can get into at least one debate with her. And that is looking more and more likely since the repug party is so fed up with her that they are looking for other candidates to challenge her.

In Wyoming, we have many Dem-repubs. Since the state is so heavily repug, a lot of people register as repugs simply to be able to vote in the only primary that usually matters. We also have same day registration (since we didn't want to do motor-voter) and so I know people who walk in to the primaries & switch to repub to vote in the primaries and then, before they leave the precinct, they switch back.

[Old and In the Way]

8. The ultimate poison pill defense

but, it could come to this if external events continue to force us into a single party politic.

Sad if it would come down to this, though.....