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He was one of the very few R's in the last generation who occasionally rented a pair of balls long enough to vote for the Constitution over his party. Not surprised that none of you are capable of understanding that.
Which is why my answer to the OP's question is "zero". There is not a single living Republican that I admire or respect in any way. There are a few who every now and then, aren't quite as despicable as the rest of the bastards, like McCain for example - but still, I hate 'em all. You might as well ask me who was my favorite member of the Manson family, or my favorite Nazi.
Name a single Democrat of recent memory who has had "a pair of balls long enough to vote for the Constitution over his party." There aren't any with the possible exception of Joe Manchin and his vote for Kavanaugh.
Since I cannot stand either party I can list both
Sherrod Brown for not forgetting Joe Sixpack.
Jimmy Carter terrible president. EPIC human.
Senator Coburn for possible budget cut list hitting everyone
T310 for being the only one on the right I have seen to have the guts to say what many on the right think. Poor people who cannot afford health care do not warrant it if paid for by others. I disagree, but others make stupid crap up about payment plans and charity will kick in for the majority... (Uh yea... NO)
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John Kasich. I can appreciate a moderate democrat.
Thank you for the example of how far right the GOP has gone.
Trump didn't build that. In fact with trade war talks he could ruin any gains that have gone up during his presidency. Just look at the market with his renewed talks of Chinese tariffs. Not that China isn't a problem, but we live in too much of a globalised and interdependent economy that putting tariffs and economic isolationist policy like Trump is peddling (though in his own business he isn't) is cutting off the nose to spite the face.
So you are saying Trump should not raise taxes? Since when has that been a Democratic position? I thought that there was a concern about the deficit?
Great Warrior Warren because of her heroics at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
LOL!
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The only Dem I can think of at the moment is West VA's Joe Manchin. He will vote in the best interests of his constituents who are Trump supporters. At least he did the few times I noticed. He needs to switch parties and become a Repub because I dislike these RINOs and DINOs because they are playing both sides. Pick one!
I do like Manchin...I have heard he is considering running for Governor of WV.
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Tammy Duckworth
Steve Beasher
Jim Webb
Jimmy Carter (if I ignore his presidency)
Bob Kerrey
Webb I do like as well...the rest I was either too young to remember or just don't remember them because they weren't from my area
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So you are an anti-Semite. Thanks for letting us all know that!
Anti Israel is not Anti Semite but thanks for the narrow minded view of your bigotry.
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Name a single Democrat of recent memory who has had "a pair of balls long enough to vote for the Constitution over his party." There aren't any with the possible exception of Joe Manchin and his vote for Kavanaugh.
A vote for Kavanaugh has nothing to do with Constitution over party, if it did, you would label every Republican as horrible on that issue.
If you would have just paused before rushing in headlong to attack Trump you would have noticed I didn't write that Trump built that.
I wrote that he helped engineer it.
It is ludicrous to suggest that the economy and stock markets are doing so well in spite and not because of Trump.
In any event this is a thread about finding qualities to admire in political opponents - there are lots of other opportunities on here to display your partisanship.
And I don't say that Trump really did engineer the economy or stock market. The main economic policies he pushed is a lower corporate tax rate which many companies still are able to pay less in taxes under the legacy tax rate. Now they just pay even less. The other is the economic isolationism that the anti-globalist realize.
As for my comments about Trump, I'm sorry but there is little I find admirable about him. I did 14 years ago when I was dumb. The only good thing he did was create the initial WrestleMania weekend events with the WrestleMania 5k runs and biceps and bagels brunch. And that is entirely apolitical.
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So you are saying Trump should not raise taxes? Since when has that been a Democratic position? I thought that there was a concern about the deficit?
No we should not increase tariffs as that is cutting our nose off to spite our face.
Admire? That's a tough word to put to a Pol...I know too much!
I would say Bloomberg, but he dropped out of the GOP.
Our own GOV in MA. (Baker) seems a good guy, but the vast majority of Righties would call him center-left and a RINO...or worse!
I wouldn't use the word "admire", but those like Kascish would make the "adequate" levels.
Most of the good Republicans have converted to Independent. IMHO, the older line of New England and Middle-Atlantic Republicans were decent. Those would be - in the old days - called "radicals" by the "conservatives" of the South.
Many Republicans could be decent human beings OUTSIDE of the realm of current politics. But it is much more difficult to do so while brown-nosing or enabling Authoritarianism and lies/swamp/deception/etc
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In fact with trade war talks he could ruin any gains that have gone up during his presidency. Just look at the market with his renewed talks of Chinese tariffs. Not that China isn't a problem, but we live in too much of a globalised and interdependent economy that putting tariffs and economic isolationist policy like Trump is peddling (though in his own business he isn't) is cutting off the nose to spite the face.
