Mike, I'm pretty sure that most of the soldiers and their families will vote Republican. Unfortunately. They think to be military supporters there is only one choice. Fer 'em or agin 'em. Besides, voting Democrat would make their sacrifice a meaningless waste.

If the list was limited to CONSERVATIVE Republicans, it would have included Condi Rice in the list and excluded RINO McCain and Liberal Guiliani.

Your entire point was nonsense (dead voting?) which, I guess, is no surprise coming from you.

Of course 12% of the respondents to the Sanford poll looked up during an Oprah commercial break and replied;

"Mark Sanford? Who's Mark Sanford?

As of 05/10/05 Sanford popularity 53 approve, 35 disapprove
http://www.surveyusa.com/50governorsrated051005.htm

'Will of the people'? You gotta be kidding!

Yeah, Robin Hood was also very popular...But he still was a thief.

Once elected, these politicians of both parties, figure out that robbing one "small" group so that what is stolen can be distributed to a larger group, you obviously call that "the will of the people".

Yes, I oppose Robin Hood and all that he stands for.

Another reason is that often the Republican candidate will run on what appears to be a Libertarian-esq platform, only to vote like a Democrat once gaining office.

But then, that strategy obviously works as virtually all of the incumbents in this state are always reelected. So I guess they are doing what their constituents want... i.e. make sure the highest numbers of voters receive benefits from their elected agents of plunder.

She must not frequent very many congressional web sites then. They hardly ever mention their party on the site. They mention the issues they support.

"Currently though, I am a registered GOPer and at this point will continue to support the party."

How is that possible since you live in South Carolina?

"To be perfectly honest, my hope does not reside in the Republican Party. I will always vote for the candidate, regardless of race or party, that I feel best fits the need."

Yet you just criticized others who do that. It sounds like you're against the people who don't adhere to strict party affiliation then you contradict that when it comes to yourself. It's unfortunate that people look down on anyone who would do what they think is best on each issue, instead of just voting for the party. This is what evangelicals do. They vote republican no matter what because so many of them have the Jimmy Moore philosophy that Christians can't be democrats. Then along comes a group like the neo-cons who put forth a puppet president with evangelical leanings and get the evangelicals to vote them into office even though they don't actually stand for anything that evangelicals stand for. If it weren't so serious it'd be comical seeing how easily Bush and Co. has manipulated those people. It's a simple tactic. Need support for the war? Pretend you're going to pass an amendment against gay marriage. Need to increase spending? Nominate a pro-life justice with no qualifications.

The reason so many people around here go back and forth from one party to the other is because many people who would be considered conservative in any other part of the country are considered liberal here only because they aren't fundamentalist Christians. In Greenville, you have two factions in office. The fundamentalists and the conservative Republicans, who the fundamentalists call liberals.