What do people do, just declare themselves Republicans or Democrats?
I do believe when I saw him in San Francisco in Sept that he mentioned that he is/was a Democrat when questioned on his partiality.
Of course the whole Swift Vet thing was nonpartisan, they just wanted the truth to come out about Kerry.
I am sure he has voted conservatively for quite some time.
The speaker with him, Buzz Patterson, who worked in the Clinton Administration in the 90's and carried the Nuclear Football was a Democrat.
His book, Dereliction of Duty is a great one too.
Thanks for that info. Bless these fine Democrats for all of us hopefully are AMERICANs First and PARTY second. I have no problem with Democrats that care about this country, and put our country FIRST. In theory, we probably have many similar philosophies to Patterson & O'Neill. They both are brave men for going against the leftists who call themselves Democrats.
I never forget that Jim Rob was a Democrat also. LOL.
In Texas, one way you can tell party affiliation is how one votes in the primary election. Otherwise there's no method for knowing. We just don't register in a party, unless we are active in party business, such as being a precinct chairman, etc. Then we have to declare our affiliation by having voted in the primary.
Thanks for the link to "Dereliction of Duty" I must purchase it. I suppose he had to be a Democrat to carry Clinton's football and spend so much time with him. How interesting. It's nice to know there are decent Dems around. They are Zell Millers. :-)
Hope to see you when you come this way w/JimRob.
It's a hangover from the old days when whoever won the Dem primary was certain to win the general election. So, everyone voted in the primary. Then became Dem or Rep in the general election for party positions such as chairman, national convention delegates and other things.
When you go to vote now, all names are in one book at your precinct/polling place, and you sign as having appeared. You then choose which primary you wish to vote in and that is it.
Absentee/early voting is kept track of by computer, or even manually in the less populated counties, and reflects whether you have or have not yet voted in a particular election.