Liz Cheney is the only woman in the GOP who said “no” to the kool-aid and is thereby worthy of consideration, IMO.
Speaking of women in the GOP, this one pretty much sums up the idol-worship:
Debra Ell, a Republican organizer in Michigan and fervent supporter of former president Donald Trump, said she has good reason to believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
“I think I speak for many people in that Trump has never actually been wrong, and so we’ve learned to trust when he says something, that he’s not just going to spew something out there that’s wrong and not verified,” she said, referring to Trump’s baseless claims that widespread electoral fraud caused his loss to President Biden in November.
As for the Dems, we need more moderates as well as outing of a few. Namely Joe Manchin and Kysten Sienna.
Manchin I can understand, Sinema I can't. :/
There are
more moderate Dems than maybe people realize, they just don't pull headlines like AOC. Even so, medicare for all or a green new deal wouldn't seem radical to most western european countries.
When I was still a conservative, I remember arguing here against being a moderate. I didn't understand the reasoning from those who held a position that could be described that way. But that's where I find myself (which means nothing to the right-wingers here who think anyone left of center is a commie but this isn't for them, it's for you).
At the progressive places where I read today many wouldn't accept me as a progressive, based primarily on my pro-life beliefs and secondarily for being pro-2A (with common sense regulation). I've read them multiple times saying they're not impressed with independents (I think you know I've been unaffiliated with any party since 2012). That's because many progressives believe (perhaps correctly so) that independents are made up mostly of people who are embarrassed to say they're Republicans and will lean right at the ballot box. I don't completely agree, but I understand and they're probably accurate to a certain degree. I'm okay without a label and without a political home, but every four years I have to make a choice. And I don't see the GOP coming up with any reasonable candidate - until the boomers/older gen-xers are gone - who would be accepted by the GQP currently eating the GOP from the inside out. In the meantime I'll be voting for Democrats who've shown themselves truer to Constitutional ideals than the apocalyptic (Christian) deconstructionist (Bannon) white nationalist/xenophobic/racist/fascist/right-wing authoritarian (Trump/MAGA GQP).