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In reply to the discussion: Have you *ever* voted for a GOP candidate? If so, why? [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)I would have voted for Tom McCall in the Oregon governor's race(McCall was trying for a comeback after being term-limited out of the governorship in 1974). McCall was a progressive legend in the state(if he'd challenged incumbent governor Robert Straub in the Democratic primary, McCall probably WOULD have beaten the more right-wing-but still moderate by today's standards-GOP candidate in the fall). But he chose to run again in his own party's primary and the Reaganites were strong enough to defeat him by a fairly solid margin.
McCall(socially liberal, strongly environmentalist, even fairly fiscally liberal) was the sort of Republican who simply doesn't exist today...if anyone tried to run on his program in a GOP primary anywhere today, that person would not only lose...she or he would probably be SHOT by a teabagger.