Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult

[TroutBum]

So what letter can we expect by your name when you step your game up to the House of Rep level?

You wouldn't believe how often I get asked this question even though the T-Ville city council is a non-partisan position.

In Taylorsville you'd better have an R next to it if you expect to win.

I'm not quite sure where you're getting your information on this one. Even though the council doesn't need to "declare", you can pretty much see that there are two left leaning members out of five, and after this election, there will likely be four out of five.

Trout will be a libertarian or something at heart, but in the end, the whore that he is, he will hang his hat on the republican party to get elected.

Negative. If I ever tell anyone anything, it's that I am Independent. I know, I know, but there really just isn't a better way of describing it short of giving Log's answer above. (which I approve of, btw) The main reason I have decided to get involved in politics is because of the mentality that Log is talking about. I am going to come out and say exactly what my thoughts are, exactly how I see things, and exactly how I would go about fixing/changing/agree with them. If the people don't like it, then don't vote for me. Pretty simple, really. I would never sell out my integrity just to get elected.

As long as Trout doesn't describe himself as being in the center, I'm okay with it. Moderate relativism usually means you don't take a firm stand on anything.

I would truthfully say that I AM very much in the center, because once I start leaning one way, I find that my opinions change over time and I start to sway back toward the middle. Is it just me, or does anyone else think that politicians that DON'T flip-flop are a blight to our current system? What I mean is, topics/facts/thoughts change from time to time, so why shouldn't my opinions? I know that some of the things I believed in ten years ago are pure rubbish by today's standards.

 

[bigb]

I would truthfully say that I AM very much in the center, because once I start leaning one way, I find that my opinions change over time and I start to sway back toward the middle. Is it just me, or does anyone else think that politicians that DON'T flip-flop are a blight to our current system? What I mean is, topics/facts/thoughts change from time to time, so why shouldn't my opinions? I know that some of the things I believed in ten years ago are pure rubbish by today's standards.

I've never understood the negative connotations of those whose opinions change. I'm much like you, in that my thoughts of things have changed severely in the last few years. As recently as four years ago, I would have been strictly against gay marriage. Now, if given the opportunity, I would vote in favor of it. As recently as last year, I was in favor of the death penalty. Now? Hell no. What's the big deal? My thoughts/opinions change. Are politicians not allowed the same privilege as any other human?

 

[PearlWatson]

I've never understood the negative connotations of those whose opinions change. I'm much like you, in that my thoughts of things have changed severely in the last few years. As recently as four years ago, I would have been strictly against gay marriage. Now, if given the opportunity, I would vote in favor of it. As recently as last year, I was in favor of the death penalty. Now? Hell no. What's the big deal? My thoughts/opinions change. Are politicians not allowed the same privilege as any other human?

No, because they are supposed to be representing the people who voted them in and they were elected based on stated postions/opinions. If they go flip-flopping from "Thank God for the Democrat Party" to "both parties are pretty much worthless" within weeks, how can you trust them to tell you the truth when it really matters?

 

[PearlWatson]

I am seriously handicapped by having sat through a lot of liberal arts types of classes, languages, history, anthropology, sociology and such, and having fed myself at up-Chuckarama a few hundred too many times. A starving budget-minded self-supporting perpetual student. . . .

One day it occurred to me that our political fare is served up pretty much the same as the standard Chuck at the all-you-can-eat Emporium. As voters we are supposed be all for "Chicken" or all for "Roast", and if we mix it up people are looking at us like we're trouts.

Truth is, it's all prepared for us and requires no thinking, just loyalty and being willing to believe there's something virtuous in us for gorging ourselves on it.

Partisan ideologues are the political equivalents of the SNL "Churchlady".

Teehee!

 

[sirkickyass]

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