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Vanity: When was your first time and how was it?
11/6/12 | Self

Posted on 11/06/2012 3:14:18 PM PST by DManA

I'll go first. Mine was Richard Nixon 1972. I felt cheap and used. I wish I'd waited for a better man.


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To: eCSMaster
Nixon - '68.

He said he had a plan to end the Vietnam War.

I was a senior in college in 1968. I signed up for delayed entry for Marine Corps OCS. I was hoping the war wouldn't end before I got there.

101 posted on 11/06/2012 3:53:46 PM PST by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: DManA

Mine was when Carter won. It was an experience, because for the first time I invested emotionally in a candidate (Ford) and yet he didn’t win.

It’s a strange feeling, and you wonder if the world is crazy. I remember there was a young Carterite outside the school but he got me on my way out. He was so excited about the man. I often wonder did he wake up and smell the coffee for 80, or did he have heartbreak when Carter got blasted.

I can proudly say I have NEVER voted for a single Democrat.


102 posted on 11/06/2012 3:53:51 PM PST by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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To: DManA

GHW Bush in 1988, by absentee ballot. Double yawn. In CT, the last time CT voted for a Republican.


103 posted on 11/06/2012 3:53:54 PM PST by JacksonCalhoun (CT Yankee in NC Exile)
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To: DManA

RR in ‘80. Today made me feel the same way.


104 posted on 11/06/2012 3:54:38 PM PST by Vermont Lt (The dude abides.)
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To: DManA

1976. Ford. I have voted for one Democrat and that was also in 1976 and that for a state office.

I have never, nor will ever vote for a Dem again.


105 posted on 11/06/2012 4:01:21 PM PST by OldMissileer
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To: DManA

Reagan ‘80. Supported Kemp in the primaries. Thank God Reagan won. First thing that made an impression was “I paid for this microphone!”

I was into Milton Friedman in high school, and was a staunch anti-communist. Why? My dad was from Poland. Most of his family was wiped out in the war. The rest suffered under communism. Still have communists on both sides of the family.

It’s always been life and death. The commie college poseurs are bleepin’ idiots who are playing footsie with the devil.


106 posted on 11/06/2012 4:04:57 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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To: DManA

Schmidt/Anderson in 76


107 posted on 11/06/2012 4:06:03 PM PST by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: DManA

I voted for Jimmy Carter in 1976. I haven’t voted for a democrat since.


108 posted on 11/06/2012 4:06:56 PM PST by aomagrat (Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
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To: DManA

‘72 like you. I proudly voted for Nixon. He disappointed me, but he was miles better than McGovern would have been IMHO. Voted in a pizzeria and had to wait maybe 10 minutes. Had a slice of pepperoni pizza and a coke and went on with my day.


109 posted on 11/06/2012 4:07:27 PM PST by Wingy (Don't blame me. I voted for the chick. I hope to do so again.)
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To: DManA

Anderson/Lucey - 1980.


110 posted on 11/06/2012 4:09:19 PM PST by brewcrew (Mr. President, we DID build that. You broke it. We'll fix it. You're fired.)
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To: Psalm 73

Not Schmidt - Schmitz. Worked for George Wallace before that but was too young to vote anyway - stayed 3rd Party until RR came on the scene.


111 posted on 11/06/2012 4:12:40 PM PST by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: DManA

My first was in 1984. As a US Marine I proudly voted for Reagan! I’ve voted in eight presidential elections and if Romney wins I will be 4 out of 8.


112 posted on 11/06/2012 4:16:27 PM PST by rfreedom4u (I have a copy of the Constitution! And I'm not afraid to use it!)
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To: brewcrew

I was too young to vote for JFK in 1960. After four years on active duty, I fell in with a gaggle of liberal college girls (one of whom I married), and ended up voting for LBJ, to my everlasting shame.


113 posted on 11/06/2012 4:16:54 PM PST by Ax ("Bring the Pipes together for the Risin' o' the Moon.")
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To: DManA

Reagan


114 posted on 11/06/2012 4:17:05 PM PST by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers

Same here! George H.W. I wanted to kill Ross Perot. I could tell from my TV Clinton was a lying, womanizing scum. I was 18 and cried for my country.


115 posted on 11/06/2012 4:19:06 PM PST by MacMattico
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To: DManA

I voted the first time in 1960, for Richard Milhouse Nixon, and in the following elections for the following candidates...

1964 Barry Goldwater (told me doing so, the war in Vietnam would get worse and taxes would go up...they were right)
1968 Richard Milhouse Nixon
1972 Richard Milhouse Nixon (his ‘high crimes & misdemenors’ were miniscule compared the OBummer’s.
1976 Gerald Ford
1980 Ronald Reagan (absentee ballot, was living in Northern Ireland)
1984 Ronald Reagan
1988 GHW Bush
1992 GHW Bush
1996 Bob Dole(had a customer in Arkansas who had a sign in his office - ‘Hope is not in Arkansas’)
2000 GW Bush
2004 GW Bush
2008 Juan McLame (holding my nose)
2012 Mitt Romney (did so proudly)


116 posted on 11/06/2012 4:21:50 PM PST by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders.)
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To: rfreedom4u

84 was fun. But in 80 it was pretty touch and go. “They” told us he didn’t have a chance, too conservative. Go ahead and vote for him but you’re throwing your vote away.

It was like a miracle when he won. Maybe it was.


117 posted on 11/06/2012 4:25:31 PM PST by DManA
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To: DManA

Reagan, 1980 I had a smile on my face for 8 years.


118 posted on 11/06/2012 4:29:53 PM PST by humble and shy (Taking our country back, one corrupt politician at a time)
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To: DManA

Ronnie in ‘80. It was so good I did him again in ‘84.


119 posted on 11/06/2012 4:50:14 PM PST by The Toad
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To: Isabel C.

Thank you for caring enough to reply....


120 posted on 11/06/2012 4:58:43 PM PST by illiac (If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
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