Reply #17: Well, there's Republicans...and there's Republicans. [View All]

I hear you on that.

McCall and Hatfield (and Packwood, for that matter, before he lost his g-dd---d mind, and Atiyeh, too) were a different kind of Republican...the kind who cared about Oregon before party, and who remembered that it was the voter who put them there.

It was McCall..a Republican...who set the tone for Oregon, cleaned up the Willamette (the first time), who opened the beaches for all Oregonians (by cleverly declaring it, in essence, a public highway).

These days, McCall would be a Democrat, I think. And no Republican since Atiyeh is worth even listening to, never mind voting for.

Mannix? Saxton? Don't even get started with me on those two. Both oxygen thieves. If the sort of Republican that was running was like either of them, I'd vote for them, maybe. But their own party killed their type. There is no public honor left there.

I'm not so impressed with Novick (it may just be a character flaw on my part) but if he's what the Democratic party puts up against Smith, then he's who's got my vote, no question about it.

In a previous reply I mentioned that I was unaffiliated during the McAuliffe years. I reregistered as a Democrat mostly because I thought that maybe it would put out some Republican somewhere. I like making bullies irritated. I still think, in a few key areas, the current Democrats Just. Dont. Get. It., but I'm willing to support them because I have two choices right now; appalling and tolerable.

And, like I said, I'd vote for Satan if he were running against Smith...but, regardless of what defects the Democratic Party has (the perfect being the enemy of the good), given the choice and the odds, I'm pretty sure Satan would be a Republican.