I Would Probably Vote For A Republican If ...

[ThomWV]

I would probably vote for a Republican if that Republican were to actively support IMPEACHMENT of Bush/Cheney. I will not vote for any Democrat who does not support IMPEACHMENT of Bush/Cheney.

I would probably donate money to the campaign of a Republican if that Republican were to actively support IMPEACHMENT of Bush/Cheney. I will not contribute to any Democrat who does not support IMPEACHMENT of Bush/Cheney.

I just wanted to make my position clear here. I believe that IMPEACHMENT is much more important than party loyalty and I will support anyone who supports IMPEACHMENT.

Agree or disagree?

[JeffR]

1. Well, I couldn't vote for a Republican if he or she

handed me money and then offered to pleasure me orally. The enemy of my enemy ain't no friend of mine. I'm 100% for impeachment, too, BTW, but this is a line I could not cross.

[loyalkydem]

2. agreed TYVM

Republicans can kiss my grits :)

[pocoloco]

5. So Sad! Fuck the US of A!

Party over principles got us in this fucking mess!

[JeffR]

8. I don't vote party over principle

The GOP reflects not one of my principles. The Democrats at least reflect some of them. So spare me the histrionics, please.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

14. The problem is that I don't trust Republicans

they can SAY all they want to about impeachment, just like now some are saying they want to get out of Iraq. But we've seen via votes that they DON'T walk their talk.

[BlooInBloo]

3. If the parties switched monikers again, sorta like in the 60s.

[iamjoy]

16. You Got It BlooInBloo

In my case, I would vote for a Republican like Olympia Snowe or Lincoln Chaffee if the alternative was some one like Pat Robertson or Pat Buchanan.

[MonkeyFunk]

4. Not me

I've never voted for a Republican, and one issue isn't enough to make me start doing it now.

And when do you expect to cast this vote? Nov. 2008, when Bush has 3 months left in office?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. What He Said

eom

[hfojvt]

23. Thanks for bringing up the date

Also I believe the newly elected congresscritters would not take office until the new President did.

Can we impeach an ex-president and take away his pension and secret service protection? Should that be a priority?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

27. No

"The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."


-Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution

[AllieB]

7. I could probably vote Republican if Hell froze over

:-)

[OzarkDem]

10. You beat me to it!

And I still might not vote for a GOP'er even then.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

11. Maybe If They Resurrected Lincoln

...

[kdmorris]

18. Well, you're screwed then!!

Cause November is winter in Michigan and Hell freezes over every winter!!!! http://www.answers.com/topic/hell-michigan

:evilgrin: :toast: :bounce:

[liberal N proud]

9. Two people have guaranteed that I will never vote republican

Well make that 3
Ronald Reagan
George w. bu$h
Dickless Cheney

Their actions confirm what has long been said about republicans and I vow never to vote for one republican for any office in the land.

[Glorfindel]

12. If I previously had had a forced frontal lobotomy....

I might vote for a Repuke. In my right mind, I'd vote for a Green, a Socialist, a Social Democrat, etc., if he or she supported impeachment and the Democratic opponent didn't, but NEVER for a Republican.
:evilgrin:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

13. The only time I vote for a Republican

is when, in a local election, they are running uncontested and are part of a list of uncontested local offices which includes Democrats and Independents as well. Sadly, in Arkansas, we don't have write ins, or they wouldn't get my vote at all. I'd do what I did when I lived in Illinois-write in someone's name.

[angstlessk]

15. the vote is not till 2008...at which time...IMPEACHMENT IS MOOT! N/T

[thereismore]

19. It took quite a few people to realize that! Congrats. nt

[SayWhatYo]

28. I interpreted the op differently.

I thought of him saying that if a republican stood up right now and started the impeachment process, while the democrats refuse to, then he would vote for that republican in '08.

[kdmorris]

29. That's how I interpreted it, as well..

especially since he posted:

"I would probably donate money to the campaign of a Republican if that Republican were to actively support IMPEACHMENT of Bush/Cheney. I will not contribute to any Democrat who does not support IMPEACHMENT of Bush/Cheney."

[kdmorris]

17. I could never be that single issue...

You state that party loyalty is the problem, but if Dick Cheney supported Impeachment of Bush, would that make him OK with you, even though he is evil?

If any Republican supported impeachment, I would be VERY suspicious that they were just trying to get single issue voters to vote for them.

It's not party loyalty. It's people who vote for a person due to ONE issue that's the problem. I've never found a single Republican that I agree with on the issues. I've never found a single Democrat that I agree with on all the issues either. But, here's the thing: I can find Democrats that I agree with 90% of the time, but I've yet to find a Republican that I agree with even 10% of the time.

So.. I guess you will have to put me down in the disagree column.

[proud2BlibKansan]

20. Agree

[BootinUp]

21. Impeachment is about party loyalty n/t

[goodgd_yall]

22. I would never vote Republican

Impeachment is one issue. I'm a Democrat because the Democratic Party has the influence to put into action policies and laws that reflect my values. The Republicans, the very same party of those candidates who turned down the invitation to debate at the NAACP conference, mind you, do not reflect ANY of my values. So what if a Republican supported impeachment? That particular Republican would want the current administration replaced by a Republican. Where does that get us?

[book_worm]

24. Even, if say, Hagel supported impeachment I would vote for him

or give him money. There are too many other issues where we part company. I'm not a single issue voter.

[stevedeshazer]

25. I Would Probably Vote For A Republican If ...

...I woke up to find that rivers run backward, the sun rises in the west, and the Rocky Mountains were missing.

In other words, ain't gonna happen.

Back in the seventies, I occasionally did vote for Republicans before they became completely bat-shit crazy.

Any modestly sane person today who supports anyone or anything Republican should immediately schedule an appointment with a psychotherapist, assuming that person has health insurance, could afford the co-payment, and find a suitable preferred provider!

[Donald Ian Rankin]

26. I couldn't disagree more - impeachment is impossible, and a snare and a delusion.

We should be ignoring impeachment altogether, and concentrating on achievable goals instead.

I see, broadly, three categories of argument for initiating impeachment procedings (not "for impeaching - that's not the decision the Dems have to make):

1: Claims that the might succeed;
2: Claims that they would be a good thing even if ithey failed
3: Arguments that what their effects would be are irrelevant, they're a "moral obligation" either way.

1 can be dismissed with the simple mathematical equation 67>51.

2 is, I think, the least worst of the three, but I don't think it's true - I think wasting government time on inevitably-doomed impeachment procedings would quite possibly hand the Republicans a victory in 2008.

3 drives me wild with rage. The fact that so many DUers want to sacrifice the supreme court, abortion, gay rights, the war in Iraq, the environment etc for something that they can't even demonstrate isn't a piece of empty grandstanding is something I find very hard to forgive.

[Blue_In_AK]

33. Did you watch Bill Moyers Journal Friday?

You might be inclined to change your mind.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

30. I wouldn't **** on a Republican if he was on fire

seriously no, never

[emulatorloo]

31. I would NEVER vote for a Republican . . . however I will pressure repub senators to have Bush resign

Republican policies are fundamentally bad.

OTOH I would greatly admire a senior republican senator who convinced Bush to resign.

[Raine]

32. NEVER

unless I was certifiably insane. :crazy: Don't you care about other issues like global warming etc when the very existance of our planet is at stake??? Jesus Christ!!! :mad:

[Nikki Stone1]

34. ...he had tortured me at Gitmo and threatened my children

That's the only situation I can think of.

[LWolf]

35. Agree and disagree. Both.

I agree with putting principles before party. I agree with offering support, money, and votes based on platform, record, and issues rather than party. I agree with using my vote to express support, or lack of support, for a party's and/or candidates record and platform.

I just don't know if I could actually vote for a republican. Kind of like being a contestant on "Fear Factor."

[losthills]

36. Not me.

If you vote for a Republican for president you'll get a Republican secrrtary of State, a Republican Secretary of Defense, a Republican Secretary of the Interior, and on down the line-- Republicans running EPA, Department of Agriculture, Homeland Security-- eight more years of the same criminal mismanagement of our government by Republican crooks a cronies.

It wouldn't be worth it just for empty vengence.

Let's get a Democrat in there-- any Democrat-- and start putting our country back together.

[Jack Rabbit]

37. . . . the Democrats nominate Boss Tweed

and even then, I'll probably do nothing worse than quietly vote Green.

[Sadie4629]

38. Well,

by the time we vote in the general election, impeachment will be a moot point. They will both be GONE and our new president (whoever he/she will be) will have much more important things to do than to take care of old business.