Why NOT to vote Republican

[LDAHL]

"I’m always amused to hear progressives find nice things to say about Republicans once they’re safely dead."

That might be because the old school dead ones were often decent humans and politicians, unlike most of today's crop.

Oh they had plenty to say about Reagan back in the day.

[LDAHL]

So who was/is the worse human being? JFK or Jimmy Carter?

JFK was the worse human being. Carter was merely a sanctimonious failure.

[JaneV2.0]

I just quoted JFK's assertion that he was a liberal. and why. That was the point of my post.

[jp1]

Oh they had plenty to say about Reagan back in the day.

For all his numerous flaws at least he never called for mob violence if the rule of law was upheld. That would have been unthinkable back then. Today it's SOP for republican politicians.

[ApatheticNoMore]

A progressive said a nice thing about a Republican once, they thought highly of Abraham Lincoln. However apparently he is dead. I thought he was getting up there in years, but didn't know he had passed on.

I think people are confusing wanting the Republican party to be less bad, which is perfectly sensible as it is in power from time to time (and sure Cheney is less bad, the bar is low), with actually having much good to say about it.

[iris lilies]

Oh they had plenty to say about Reagan back in the day.

Curious to know if the much berated George Bush has been elevated to one of the Good Republicans.

[Yppej]

Why not to vote Republican if you live in New York is the governor will tell you you're not wanted in the state and try to chase you down to Florida.

[LDAHL]

Curious to know if the much berated George Bush has been elevated to one of the Good Republicans.

Give them time.

[catherine]

Give them time.

Actually, you may be right. George Bush 43 seems to be climbing in the rankings.

Eisenhower, Truman, Obama, Reagan and Kennedy are all the top 10 in terms of modern-day presidents (defined as those whose presidency I was alive for.) If you go back further, FDR could be considered another modern-day president. So that makes 2 Republicans vs 4 Democrats. Not that anyone's counting.

https://www.c-span.org/presidentsurv.../?page=overall

[ApatheticNoMore]

Isn't it all just a confession that Republicans are running worse and worse candidates (definitely Trump but in general). So that the bar gets lower and lower.

But again one doesn't have to ever vote Republican to want the Republican party to be less bad, because if they inevitably have power at some point (and one might desire a multi party system where power wasn't just trading hands between two parties, but that's not the case), then it is just plain sensible to want one's rulers to be as least bad as possible.