robert mueller appreciation thread

Fogdog

Fogdog

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abandonconflict said:
I would rather have an old school tax and spend liberal but I still find the query worthwhile. I would vote for Mueller before I would support some of the talking heads in the DNC. I tend to agree with you though and wouldn't want the GOP to control the government.
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I have no idea what Mueller's positions on the environment, civil rights, reproductive rights, healthcare, social security and so forth are. I do know that every Republican politician's positions in these areas are anathema to me and Mueller is on record as being a Republican.

So, no, I will never vote for a Republican. Unless the Republican turns out to not support Republican policies, which pretty much means he isn't a Republican.
 
abandonconflict

abandonconflict

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Fogdog said:
I have no idea what Mueller's positions on the environment, civil rights, reproductive rights, healthcare, social security and so forth are. I do know that every Republican politician's positions in these areas are anathema to me and Mueller is on record as being a Republican.

So, no, I will never vote for a Republican. Unless the Republican turns out to not support Republican policies, which pretty much means he isn't a Republican.
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Obama would have been a perfect republican 50 years ago. But yes, I agree.
 
Fogdog

Fogdog

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abandonconflict said:
Obama would have been a perfect republican 50 years ago.
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Maybe 60 years ago. At that time, Republicans were still allowed to think. But, no, I don't think Obama's policies on healthcare would have gone over with Republicans even then. Much less his being black.

In 1968, Nixon was waving the red racist flag to attract the "silent majority" who were white and racist as all hell. I don't think even if Obama had been a full throated red baiting pro Vietnam War conservative that he would have been welcomed by the southern Republican-voting contingent who were still Democrats on paper and voted for Democrats locally but voted for Republicans in national elections..
 
abandonconflict

abandonconflict

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Fogdog said:
Maybe 60 years ago. At that time, Republicans were still allowed to think. But, no, I don't think Obama's policies on healthcare would have gone over with Republicans even then. Much less his being black.

In 1968, Nixon was waving the red racist flag to attract the "silent majority" who were white and racist as all hell. I don't think even if Obama had been a full throated red baiting pro Vietnam War conservative that he would have been welcomed by the southern Republican-voting contingent who were still Democrats on paper and voted for Democrats locally but voted for Republicans in national elections..
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But would Mueller be such a candidate?
 
Fogdog

Fogdog

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abandonconflict said:
But would Mueller be such a candidate?
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I don't know. I just know the party he affiliates himself with is altogether against socially and environmentally progressive policies as well as many civil and reproductive rights. How can anybody overlook the Republican party's voter suppression policies? So, until I get a good explanation for how he could be a progressive yet support a party with retrograde ambitions, I assume Mueller supports Republican policies that I find vile.

He's a good special prosecutor and apparently an honest man. I'll give him that.

I'll never vote for a Republican.
 
abandonconflict

abandonconflict

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Fogdog said:
I don't know. I just know the party he affiliates himself with is altogether against socially and environmentally progressive policies as well as many civil and reproductive rights. How can anybody overlook the Republican party's voter suppression policies? So, until I get a good explanation for how he could be a progressive yet support a party with retrograde ambitions, I assume Mueller supports Republican policies that I find vile.

He's a good special prosecutor and apparently an honest man. I'll give him that.

I'll never vote for a Republican.
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Well I appreciate your opinion but I was mainly referring to the hypothetical situation and how it might play out.
 
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