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In reply to the discussion: I support Elizabeth Warren because, according to the NYT puff piece, she used to be a Republican. [View all]no_hypocrisy
(46,104 posts)8. Republicans weren't always movement conservatives and assholes.
I voted for Jon Anderson in 1980 even though he essentially was a Republican. I didn't like Ronald Reagan who scared me since he tried to primary Gerald Ford in 1976. And even Nixon with Vietnam and Watergate created the EPA and Head Start.
Say what you want, but the Republican Party didn't change after Barry Goldwater. Who knew it would indelibly change with Reagan?
We didn't know when he had it so good.
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I support Elizabeth Warren because, according to the NYT puff piece, she used to be a Republican. [View all]
NNadir
Jul 2019
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In many ways, painful to reflect upon, it is not just that Trump is so bad, but that Hillary...
NNadir
Jul 2019
#4
That's some real mental gymnastics to say the guy who was right all along is the bad guy.
Hassin Bin Sober
Jul 2019
#18
Yeah, being arrested for civil rights protests and being the chairperson of....
Hassin Bin Sober
Jul 2019
#23
Head start teacher? Psychiatric aid? Filmmaker? Omigod he was a monster!
Hassin Bin Sober
Jul 2019
#26
It would be useful to take a sober look at one of the most important pieces of American History.
NNadir
Jul 2019
#28
you need to stop spreading disinfo about Warren, you are pushing flat-out falsehoods up and down
Celerity
Jul 2019
#32
So, if you were not born into a Repub family, you can't be a good president?
unitedwethrive
Jul 2019
#34