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Why I’m becoming a Democrat (Conservative NYer switches parties -not what you think)
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS ^ | Monday, October 8, 2012 | James Panero

Posted on 10/08/2012 12:16:01 PM PDT by presidio9

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1 posted on 10/08/2012 12:16:07 PM PDT by presidio9
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To: presidio9

This guy has lived in NY too long.


2 posted on 10/08/2012 12:18:41 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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I agree.

Take a vacation in Texas. It’s a real breath of fresh air.


3 posted on 10/08/2012 12:27:33 PM PDT by kidd
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Us Texan’s love our Cadillac’s,
Big Continental’s and Pontiac’s
We’re gonna keep all the gas we can make
And let them Yankee’s shiver and shake

Well, them Yankee’s say they need our oil
And they gotta have gasoline
But don’t you put no refineries way up north
They wanna keep their air real clean

They only got enough Ignite
To last until midnight
Not enough fuel
to keep their beer real cool
But we’ll send you lots of oil, now don’t you fear
If you promise not to move down here

- The Folkel Minority


4 posted on 10/08/2012 12:32:18 PM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: sam_paine

gak. lignite scanned wrong!


5 posted on 10/08/2012 12:33:08 PM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: presidio9

Seems like this guy has a firm grasp of the obvious. I generally vote in the dem primary because that IS the election for local/county offices where I live. Of course, in Ohio, it’s very easy to switch back and forth between the democrats and republicans due to the open primary format.


6 posted on 10/08/2012 12:41:24 PM PDT by j. earl carter
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Fact is, most of the city’s next round of elected officials will be determined in the 2013 Democratic primaries...years ago I reregistered as a Democrat so I could vote for a guy named Jim Florio in the 'rat primary, figuring he would be the weakest they could put up for governer that fall - he won that year for a first term, but lost a bid for his second term to Christie Todd Whitman, who among other things borrowed a billion dollars from the state pension fund, helping to put NJ on the precarious financial path it's on today.....
7 posted on 10/08/2012 12:43:24 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: presidio9

Pretty smart tactic actually.. or remain a republican with bitching rights to nobody.. (that counts)..

Not so in every city but in some citys and even States it IS SO..
The democrat party could use a few DINOs.. loud mouthed DINOs..
Spreading LOGIC all over the democrat spectrum..

A few Democrats in name only spreading the truth could be toxic to democrat party talking points..
Always half-truths and lies..


8 posted on 10/08/2012 12:45:03 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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My dad told me years ago that a lot of NYC people were dems so they could vote in the primary. Not him and my mom of course. I’m not sure about Dad, but my mother would have cut her throat before she became a Dim.


9 posted on 10/08/2012 12:50:02 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: presidio9

Many well-entrenched institutions can only be destroyed from the INSIDE.


10 posted on 10/08/2012 12:58:15 PM PDT by The Duke
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I saw at their convention how democrats count votes so even if we all joined up and voted in the primaries, I would have no confidence of an honest count.


11 posted on 10/08/2012 12:59:40 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Hopey changey low emission unicorns and a crap sandwich)
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how is 68% a 6-to-1 ratio? I must have missed school that day.


12 posted on 10/08/2012 1:49:56 PM PDT by RitchieAprile (The 'great orator' Joe Biden? *That* Joe Biden??)
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This is what we all need to do if Romney loses.

Can you imagine the fun of spreading the conservative message as a Democrat politician to groups of people who have been taught all their lives to listen to whatever the local Democrat told them to do? And the horrified reaction of the Leftist elites, who would then have to figure out how to teach complete idiots to listen to some Democrats, but not others?

I've always thought conservatives would have a much easier time taking over the Democratic Party than the Republican Party. The authoritarian structures are already there and the serfs are waiting to obey. :)

13 posted on 10/08/2012 2:11:49 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
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Fact is, most of the city’s next round of elected officials will be determined in the 2013 Democratic primaries — in which only registered Democrats can have a say.

But.. but... - there will be CHAOS in the ranks!

14 posted on 10/08/2012 2:22:44 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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I was a registered Democrat during the 27 years NYC was my primary residence. NYC is a one-party system. As a Republican, I couldn’t vote in the primaries - the Dems always ran unopposed. So I would vote for the most “conservative” Democrat out there (generally, Ed Koch). Then I would vote Republican (really, conservative) in the general.


15 posted on 10/08/2012 2:40:51 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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Wow.

Times change.

There was a time when everyone in the South was a Democrat, liberals and conservatives alike.

“This time around, let’s prove them wrong. We live in a city where 68% of voters are registered Democrats, outnumbering Republicans 6 to 1. That ratio is even higher in districts like mine. That means that once on the ballot, the Democratic candidate could be the embalmed remains of Boss Tweed and still win. At the same time, the non-Dem voice, with its moderate and conservative points of view, is always silenced in the general election.”

Kind of a smart move.

Sadly, it wont really work. I’ve seen it in action: You have a crazy leftwing marxist, and a sort of normal not-crazy liberal, and its a 50/50 shot who wins the primary.

And then here in Texas, the Democrat liberals finally wised up and realized to win in SBOE races, they have to run RINO fake conservatives. So they did. Messing with the other guy’s party is less expensive than losing a general election.

Anyone standing up to the leftists is doing the Lord’s work, whatever party they are in.


16 posted on 10/08/2012 3:31:05 PM PDT by WOSG (REPEAL AND REPLACE OBAMA. He stole AmericaÂ’s promise!)
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To: RitchieAprile

Not all of the 32% are pubbies.


17 posted on 10/08/2012 3:39:01 PM PDT by Jacquerie (Exterminate rats.)
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To: sam_paine

The plural of Cadillac is Cadillacs, not Cadillac’s.


18 posted on 10/08/2012 3:47:54 PM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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I lived in Upstate NY for two years, the one major election I got to participate was the year Pataki defeated Pontius Mario Cuomo... I fled after that, but goodness it sure felt good taking down a left wing windbag!


19 posted on 10/08/2012 4:01:32 PM PDT by pithyinme (Smiling Joe Biden... too dumb to sell used cars ... to lazy to steal them.)
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To: presidio9

I have to admit. I thought about changing my registration earlier this year just so I could start a “Democrats for Romney” group.


20 posted on 10/08/2012 6:34:01 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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