What is your Merkin political persuasion?

What are you?

Democrat
6
21%
Republican
1
3%
Libertarian
2
7%
Socialist
1
3%
Communist
3
10%
Green Party
0
No votes
Natural Law Party
0
No votes
Constitution Party
0
No votes
Tea Party
1
3%
America First Party
1
3%
Modern Whig Party
2
7%
Other
3
10%
Independent
5
17%
Cheese/Bacon
4
14%
 
Total votes: 29

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What is your Merkin political persuasion?

Post by Coito ergo sum » Wed Jan 04, 2012 3:05 pm

Where do you fit on the Merkin political spectrum?

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Re: What is your Merkin political persuasion?

Post by FBM » Wed Jan 04, 2012 3:14 pm

No party. When I vote, I vote for the one who's the least reptilian. Maybe a couple of issues come into play, but I try to vote for the one with the least asshattedness.
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Re: What is your Merkin political persuasion?

Post by maiforpeace » Wed Jan 04, 2012 3:16 pm

FBM wrote:No party. When I vote, I vote for the one who's the least reptilian. Maybe a couple of issues come into play, but I try to vote for the one with the least asshattedness.
Elimination...seems like a sad way to have to choose, but that seems to be the case more and more these days.
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Re: What is your Merkin political persuasion?

Post by Twoflower » Wed Jan 04, 2012 3:19 pm

I pretty much do the same as FBM, but usually end up voting more liberal than conservative.
I'm wild just like a rock, a stone, a tree
And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way
And there it lays until the rain and sun
Then I breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding
And it's beautiful, that's life

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Re: What is your Merkin political persuasion?

Post by maiforpeace » Wed Jan 04, 2012 3:24 pm

I'm a loyal Democrat...I might be persuaded to go Green with the right candidate though.
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Re: What is your Merkin political persuasion?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed Jan 04, 2012 3:25 pm

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Re: What is your Merkin political persuasion?

Post by Drewish » Wed Jan 04, 2012 3:27 pm

Mine should be obvious.
Nobody expects me...

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Re: What is your Merkin political persuasion?

Post by FBM » Wed Jan 04, 2012 3:28 pm

On most issues, I'm a tad left of center, but on a few I end up a smidgen to the right. I don't want to be specific because I don't want to start yet another futile political debate.
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Re: What is your Merkin political persuasion?

Post by Clinton Huxley » Wed Jan 04, 2012 3:32 pm

Staunch Royalist.

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Re: What is your Merkin political persuasion?

Post by Svartalf » Wed Jan 04, 2012 3:34 pm

Fug if I know... I can be fairly conservative and drawn to Republicans, but since the party has given us such a gallery of complete crooks, kooks and utter morons since tricky dick, I feel they are doing all they can to (successfully) push me into the arms of the Dems.

I'm definitely not a teabagger or "libertarian" (at least not in the American meaning, and the French meaning would be nice if human nature made it practicable), but there are any number of the others that I don't even know what they stand for.
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Re: What is your Merkin political persuasion?

Post by drl2 » Wed Jan 04, 2012 3:35 pm

Independent and sick of picking the "lesser evil".
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Re: What is your Merkin political persuasion?

Post by FBM » Wed Jan 04, 2012 3:36 pm

Svartalf wrote:...I don't even know what they stand for.
Ultimately, they all stand for the same thing. $$$$$

OK, maybe a few exceptions.
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Re: What is your Merkin political persuasion?

Post by Svartalf » Wed Jan 04, 2012 3:39 pm

So I'd do as well registering as GOP, ok.
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Re: What is your Merkin political persuasion?

Post by FBM » Wed Jan 04, 2012 3:44 pm

Svartalf wrote:So I'd do as well registering as GOP, ok.
Depends on what you mean by "do as well." Your personal finances, in terms of social welfare, the arts and sciences, peaceful foreign policy...???
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Re: What is your Merkin political persuasion?

Post by Ian » Wed Jan 04, 2012 3:47 pm

The poll missed Americans Elect. It might get some increasing attention in the coming months.

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