When the MSM digs up “life-long Republicans” who support Democrats…
…you know you’re being had.
And busted again.
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AS a very small kid, my Mother allowed me to pull the lever on the voting machine for Hoover! I have never knowingly voted for a democrat and it will be a cold day in h##l before I ever do.
Take that MSM.
¡We don’t need no steeeeenking fact checkers!
…and the point of doing this is what?
Proof the some Republicans are stupid. They have to be if they think a Democrat can fix the ills that face us today or stupid to have left this party for the Democratic party, the list goes on and on… You can’t handle the truth.
why doesnt fox news just go service Huckfinn… geez. gag and puke.
Being a life-long Republican who suddenly supports Democrats is a sign of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Sadly, the woman in the story might not be covered for treatment by her insurer…and she looks a little too old to qualify for SCHIP.
MSM promised Kerry a 15 point advantage they never delivered on.
Now they are letting loose the dogs of whore to go where they said they would before.
TexasTiger,
ROTFLMAO! Oh man I needed that.
One of the “lifelong Republicans” letters to the editor of the NYT:
Boobelfish translation:
The kitties and I haven’t left the nuthouse since January 2001. The nurses bring me happy pills. I don’t take them.
Monica Green said;
My, My, isn’t she wonderful? All the rest of us are stuck being concerned about things that affect us locally while she cares about the whole world. I feel so inferior.
Why do your kids even know your political party affiliation? I can see if they are grown up but honestly my child, when she was child, wouldn’t have known a Democrat from a Communist, okay bad analogy, from an amoeba, darn another bad analogy, how about a pulsar. Do Dems really begin indoctrination in the womb?
Indistinguishable from a Democrat.
The same “we’ve lost the moral high ground” talking point the Dems have done to death, Bush lied, etc.
As a life-long Democrat whose eyes were opened by four years of Bill Clinton,I believe it’s going to take a lot longer than that for the country to heal from that disaster.If it ever does.
No, they can’t! It’s still a blob of goo until birth…
/sarc
Lowenstein sounds like a lifelong dem that perhaps accidently voted for
Pres Bush and didn’t know he could ask for a new ballot. Guess he’s one of
those enlightened voters that think if you vote for a Rep that you are now
officially a Rep until you can go to the polls and Pull That Dem Lever!!! Oh,
the joy of being released back into lala land!!!!
You know, I am just as upset with what has happened to real conservatism among Republicans as the next conservative, but that doesn’t make me want to jump ideology and become a nutcase liberal, it just makes me want to weed out the RINO’s.
Nothing like a liberal trying to represent themselves in conservative clothing. MSM fool me once same on you fool me twice shame on me. The MSM could tell me the sun is shinning outside and I would go to the window to verify their statement.
We don’t really need the MSM to pull out the life long Republicans who support democrats for us. Look who the frontrunners for the presidential candidates are. Nothing more need be said.
You’re never too old to qualify for Schip, and never to illegal to cross the border!
When I was a kid I didn’t know one from the other, but then I was offered a job passing out literature for a Dem candidate for Congress in the 1968 election (I was about 13). When I told my parents who I was working for, my Dad said “you know he wants to take away your guns”. I worked for him anyway, but since then I’ve been a Republican.
I can just imagine how many times this has happened in the past. Thank goodness for people like MM and Rush!!!! The MSM can’t get away with it anymore, but they keep trying.
Dopes.
“You know, I am just as upset with what has happened to real conservatism among Republicans as the next conservative, but that doesn’t make me want to jump ideology and become a nutcase liberal, it just makes me want to weed out the RINO’s.”
PBoilermaker, I couldn’t agree more…the problem is that GOP candidates have learned the Clinton’s technique for “looking like something you aren’t”, witness Huckabust’s candidacy!
Usually those “life long Republicans” who the media trot out as being sickened by Bush-Cheny are liberals who voted for liberal Republicans like Lincoln Chafee and his dad or other blue blood Republicans who were establishment lawyers and members of the local country club and yacht club. Usually, they were named Chauncy or Parker and they liked to play squash. But of course these “life long Republicans” all hated Reagan, Bush the younger, Dick Cheney and Newt Gingrich.
The MSM really and truly doesn’t get it yet (see the story about the ex-NBC’er). They cannot simply make up stories anymore without being called to account. They are enraged but can do nothing to stop the power of the ‘Net as it erodes their information monopoly.
There is nothing the MSM prints or broadcasts that is not designed to further their agenda. Nothing. Keep that in mind when Huckabee is the first guest Leno has after a strike.
Why do we never hear about former liberals that have had change of heart (i.e. grown up) and have become conservatives? You don’t have to look too far. There are literally millions of us, thanks largely to the Clintons. (I do owe them a debt of gratitude for opening my eyes to see the the Democrats for what they are.) Those ‘lifelong Republicans’ that vote Democrat wouldn’t fill a high school auditorium, much less swing a national election.
The true greatness of America is that we will survive eight years of George W. Bush.
Henry A. Lowenstein (Advertised as a Republican from New York)
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This will come off as horribly politically incorrect, but Lowenstein appears to be an historically Jewish name. Further, he is from New York. In elections, Jews vote 70%+ for Democrats. In New York, the percentages are even higher. The likelihood is that Mr. Lowenstein is a Democrat masquerading as a Republican. (I would point out to Mr. Lowenstein that George Bush has consistently sided with Israel while the beloved Clinton was all too often anti-Israeli - particularly when it suited him.)
walterc About the same time I took a job at about $2/hr passing out flyers for a Democrat. He lost the election and then tried to stiff the kids he hired. My Dad shamed him into coming up with the money. Dad has always been a Democrat but I learned a lesson.
I guarantee you Mr. Lowenstein was never a Republican in any way, shape, size, or form. That letter is chapter and verse Democrap filled talking points with not one shred of truth in it. Simply substitute Clinton for Bush and it is dead on.
Case closed.
#26 - also risking coming off as a racist, and I promise I don’t mean it that way at all. But I always find it funny that the stereotype of Jews is to be money pinchers and cheap, but they overwhelmingly vote for the party that is for taxing people to death. Never could wrap my mind around that.
It is MM who is wrong here. Monica Green voted for Bush, which makes her a Republican. She didn’t “identify with” Bush, whatever that means. She said that Reagan’s anti communism would be out of place today not because communism is bad, but because it isn’t our biggest threat (Conservative’s biggest worries today seem to be terrorism, illegal immigration, high taxes, immorality …).
jsr said (#25):
David Horowitz, Norman Podhoretz, Zell Miller, Joe Lieberman . . .
Via the FEC donation records.
If this is the same guy claiming to be a life long republican, he has a funny way of showing it
LOWENSTEIN, HENRY A
NEW YORK, NY 10021
HOWARD LOANS ASSOCIATION/MANAGER
GILLIBRAND, KIRSTEN ELIZABETH MRS.
VIA GILLIBRAND FOR CONGRESS
04/19/2006 250.00 26950270094
LOWENSTEIN, HENRY A
NEW YORK, NY 10021
HOWARD LOANS/MANAGER
WHITEHOUSE, SHELDON II
VIA WHITEHOUSE FOR SENATE
03/31/2006 1000.00 26020233145
LOWENSTEIN, HENRY A
NEW YORK, NY 10021
HOWARD SLOAN ASSOC/DIRECTOR
OBAMA, BARACK
VIA OBAMA FOR AMERICA
03/15/2007 1000.00 27930597128
04/18/2007 1300.00 27990260225
LOWENSTEIN, HENRY ALAN
NEW YORK, NY 10021
HOWARD LOANS/MANAGER
WHITEHOUSE, SHELDON II
VIA WHITEHOUSE FOR SENATE
12/15/2005 500.00 26020030751
LOWENSTEIN, HENRY
NEW YORK, NY 10021
HOWARD LOANS ASSOC./MANAGER
KERRY VICTORY 2004
07/20/2004 1000.00 24962131337
Mr. Lowenstein, you actually think the democrats are going to “uphold and defend the Constitution?” Talking about the worst choice. I haven’t seen them yet come out and “defend” the Constitution., much less “uphold” it, unless they can use it to con us again. If you read their agendas, it looks like, once in the WH, they plan on junking it and go completely socialist. “Animal Farm” rights and little liberty in the name of “the children”, or “our protection”. Stalin would smile.
#29,
Jews may be frugal when it comes to matters of business, but the key to answering your question is to look at Jewish charitable generosity. You would think that a form of schizophrenia is at work here. Again, I try to avoid stereotypes as much as you, but it appears to be a cultural thing.
GREEN, MONICA
ANKENY, IA 50021
EN Q STRATEGIES/PUBLIC RELATIONS
OBAMA, BARACK
VIA OBAMA FOR AMERICA
02/10/2007 250.00 27930595732
03/06/2007 250.00 27930595732
Durn near a year ago, not a sudden change of heart from this gal.
Why is this so importanat to the MSM? Do they think it is a big deal if someone changes political party? Was it not reported just today that most people see themselves as Republican? This lady would vote for Obama over Regan? Anyone done a bed check at the state asylum lately?
I guess there NO Democrats who have voted Republican either, right?
More about Ms Monica here
More on Republicans going for Obama, this time from a “reliable” (i.e. conservative) newspaper:
lgm that’s pretty lame…
Well, that would be a quote that I would prop up and repeat over and over and over….. if I was a Republican running. “Democrats believe that America, you know the democratic republic, is too anti-communist. They also believe we are too anti-terrorist…”
I didn’t read that Mr. Lowenstein was going for the Dems. I think he was just discouraged by Bush’s policies. I haveto agree with him on some of that. I am a Democrat but will not vote for any of them this year. I don’t care if other countries don’t “like” us. I just want us to survive as a country. Bush has made me doubt it.Yes I voted for him because Kerry was such an ass.
Mr. Lowenstein sounds like a Republican to me.
riiight.
So she says the last Republican she “identified” with was Reagan. Simple math: “Identified with” does not equal “voted for.” Perhaps she “voted for” Bush [as a Republican might do], but does not “identify with” him.
As for the other guy - big shocker, he doesn’t like Bush! More simple math: with an approval rating hovering around 20%, the odds are heavily in favor of that.
Well let’s give the benefit of the doubt here and say these two [2!] examples are frauds. Is it really so difficult to comprehend that people who consider themselves life-long Republicans and/or Conservatives might have been completely alienated by this administration? Or must ideology trump ones own convictions at all times?
I know about as many ex Gop and I do ex Dems. A lot have switched (major)
parties and a lot more now call themselves Independents. My children knew when
they were very small, what party Mom and Dad belonged to. What they would get
mixed up about was who was running for what party and there were times when I
got some very strange looks while we stood in line to vote and one of them would
ask it we were going to vote for the Dem candidate in the GOP primary. As my
youngest son told one of his high school teachers that said they would get extra
credit for voting, “There’s no way I can miss voting..Mom’s running the election in
our precinct and I Have to show up.”
In Mark Levin radio land, Libs have their own number to call in on. They are treated well for the first second, then told to go to hell, which is too nice for them.
Andrea Greenspun-Mitchell is a twit, her opinions and coverage don’t amount to …much.
This smells just like the plants at the debates. That is what the problem is. I don’t agree with everything Pres. Bush has done, but my convictions are more important than what one person does in this party and one President will not cause me to change my party affiliation. These people were chosen for a reason-they say that they were Republicans, but now they’re not. I wonder if the MSM will make the same effort to find Dems who have now switched to Repubs? Doubt it.
I remember how big of a deal was made when Jim Jeffords switched parties. The MSM practically threw a party. Joe Lieberman gets cut up, gets treated like crap by his own party and goes on to win his race anyway. Now he’s endorsed McCain. Haven’t heard much about that either. Yet another reason I don’t watch network news.
Great post Michelle. I guess their momma’s forgot to teach them that lying is a sin.
How true. The Republican party isn’t really a conservative party anymore. It’s a party of borrow-and-spend liberals, rich people who are too cheap to pay taxes even if it means the country goes down the drain from debt, Reagan Democrats who found a new way of feeding at the public trough–not paying taxes as a substitute for collecting welfare, anti-abortion and Zionist religious fanatics running around in sheep’s clothes calling themselves “social conservatives,” and “neoconservatives,” and corrupt open borders filth like Bush and McCain who have more loyalty to business than to their country.
Not that the Democrats are any better, mind you.
Well, as a Sr. in high school I first registered (D) & voted mixed. I also bought my first bong.
Since that time I have both grown up and filled out the forms to change my affiliation 3 times, twice to R, & once to I… but the records still have me as D. I guess they got lost in the mail, huh?
So if anyone from MSM wants to interview lifelong Dems please send them my way.
The MSM doesn’t even care anyomre if they are busted. The media arm of the left preaches to the choir no matter how much money they lose.
Brooklyn Red
I think they would be more interested in your first bong purchase rather than how you vote now.
I for one used to be a democrat when democrats were for America first. Examples are Woodrow Wilson, FDR, HST, JFK, LBJ, Scoop Jackson and many others a generation ago. When the party advocated supporting abortion and other McGovern type legislation I like Reagon felt like the party left me and now I am an arch conservative. Funny thing I never hear of Demo alternatives except that they are for abortion and soon want to embrace Islamic law. They would go communist if they had a chance too, since I don’t hear of any fresh ideas from them. I think LBJ had the last great ones.
garyt # 53,
“They would go communist if they had a chance too” ?
Have you heard the shared platforms of the top 3 contenders… they HAVE a chance to.
the msm loves digging for the proverbial needle in a haystack….this is just like their desperate attempts to find any and all military members who are anti-war and anti-bush. and if they can’t actually find one, they manufacture one instead.
Thanks for the comment brooklyn red but I did feel generous giving the top three candidates the benefit of the doubt about their communist leanings. I will know for sure they are true communists when all three share their mansions to us common folk. Like they did Dr.Zavago. Excuse the spelling. Lastly I bet that all three Demos would love to live in their mansions while we stayed in line for hours buying commodities and returning home to a two room flat.
With due respect, in our measured, nothing-surprises-us-anymore view of the world, we on the right are missing a fundemental weapon the liberals and democrats have known for decades, and we keep getting our faces punched in because we cannot learn to harness this simple but indispensible piece of political artillary: OUTRAGE.
Bill Bennet has lamented it, and Morris wrote a book with that title. But we still don’t know how to effectively express it or use it to our advantage.
Democrat candidates not debating on Fox News - essentially turning their noses up in a snobbish attempt to hide their trembling cowardice at hardball questions - certainly deserves outrage.
And so does this story.
OUTRAGE - When it’s justified, as in the two examples cited here - is tough to ignore.
Make loud and angry noise. Losing by setting polite examples is doing nothing to turn the tide of a country going to hell in a handbasket.
Loud OUTRAGE, please - NOW.
“His views on Communism were probably not the view I would appreciate today. I’ve got a much more global perspective today, and Obama touches that.”
She is a complete and total idiot.
More on Republicans going for Obama. This is a picture of a dangerous man. You’ve seen Reagan Democrats, now see this.
I can see it can you see it look at her face she’s full of democrap.
I live in a state that has been dominated by single party rule - Democrat - since time immemorial; similarly, I come from a family that has supported the Democrats, without fail, since the mid 1800’s.
Yet when I came of voting age, in 1982 - during President Reagan’s rejuvenation of the American spirit and ideals, in his first term - I was proud to register as a Republican, and I have voted the straight Republican ticket ever since!
The pride I feel for my country is reflected in my party affiliation.
And while I may not be defined by my party, I could and would never vote outside of it! The amount of dedication and acquiescence I feel towards the GOP and its greater platform of ideas -ideas that thoroughly encapsulate the American spirit - keep me enthralled and excited about the future of our mighty nation under Republican leadership! I could never turn my back on the GOP and vote against it, simply because of the momentary, fad appeal of the opposite party’s newest flavor-of-the-month candidate.
Thus I do not understand when some people say “Oh, I’m a registered Republican - but this time I’m voting for the Democrats.”
To me, they were NEVER true Republicans to begin with, and are just grandstanding before the media for a few fleeting moments of attention, and possible recognition by the candidate they now purport to support! People that flip party affiliation this way not only betray their own credibility and depth of commit, but they come-off as less than genuine!
How they expect anyone in the opposite party, to which they now pledge life-long allegiance, to take them seriously is beyond me - especially when just one election cycle ago they were vowing their unyielding support to the opposite party’s candidate, the party they just flaked on!
BTW:lgm said,
I don’t get it?
Maybe I’m a dullard and it’s over my head, but I looked at the link and read the tee-shirt, and I don’t get it?