Any negative consequences to registering as a Dem?

Half-cocked · Nov 13, 2012

Since the filthy bastards in Annapolis have successfully gerrymandered my representation away, and I now live in a majority-Democrat district, I am giving serious consideration to registering as a "D".

I'm not contemplating this because I agree with anything that the D party represents. But, if someone steals your well, you've got every right to piss in it. I would piss in their well by supporting any pro-liberty, pro-2nd-Amendment Democrat candidate who opposes their party-machine hacks, in the primaries. In general elections, I will always vote (as I always have) for pro-liberty, pro-American-values candidates.

Before I do this, though, I want to know if there are any real, actual negative consequences to registering as a "D". Besides, obviously, the dirty, filthy, sleazy feeling I would have, whenever I looked at my voter registration card.

Thoughts?

wlc · Nov 13, 2012

not in MD
I'm an independent and thought about changing to D just to vote in primaries, but in the end the candidates I like in this state rarely win anyway so .....

dist1646 · Nov 13, 2012

Infiltrate, divide and conquer!

1time · Nov 13, 2012

I dropped 15 IQ points when my new card came in the male.

joppaj · Nov 13, 2012

1time said:
I dropped 15 IQ points when my new card came in the male.

Ew.

TyFromMD · Nov 13, 2012

1time said:
I dropped 15 IQ points when my new card came in the male.

Haha... disgusting.

Cheesehead · Nov 13, 2012

Just don't tell anyone that you want to respect you. Then prepare to be solicited for money for all kinds of people you disagree with. BEWARE OF THE STOCKHOLM SYNDROME.

K31 · Nov 13, 2012

I came to the same conclusion a while ago.

The problem is that if you plan to do anything other than vote, say, work on a committee, there's a good chance that it will find it's way to the Internet. Someday when you find your dream job with the employer who considers it "team building" to take his employee's to his farm and do mag dumps with his class III collection, you may regret it when you apply and he Googles your name.

Likewise, if you've ever given any money to a conservative candidate that they reported, that's public record that your new friends monitor.

BTW, trying to change things from the "inside" and being outed as a Democrat later by well-meaning like-thinkers (fellow conservatives) is a real possibility. That's not a hypothetical either.

eyesinpines · Nov 13, 2012

Half-cocked said:
Since the filthy bastards in Annapolis have successfully gerrymandered my representation away, and I now live in a majority-Democrat district, I am giving serious consideration to registering as a "D".

I'm not contemplating this because I agree with anything that the D party represents. But, if someone steals your well, you've got every right to piss in it. I would piss in their well by supporting any pro-liberty, pro-2nd-Amendment Democrat candidate who opposes their party-machine hacks, in the primaries. In general elections, I will always vote (as I always have) for pro-liberty, pro-American-values candidates.

Before I do this, though, I want to know if there are any real, actual negative consequences to registering as a "D". Besides, obviously, the dirty, filthy, sleazy feeling I would have, whenever I looked at my voter registration card.

Thoughts?

No matter what, if you're a Conservative and live in Maryland you might just as well be living in Venezuela or Nth. Korea. You'll never win.

Best for us to move somewhere else...I for one am really tired of pissing into the wind!

HollowPoint · Nov 13, 2012

Half-cocked said:
I'm not contemplating this because I agree with anything that the D party represents. But, if someone steals your well, you've got every right to piss in it. I would piss in their well by supporting any pro-liberty, pro-2nd-Amendment Democrat candidate who opposes their party-machine hacks, in the primaries. In general elections, I will always vote (as I always have) for pro-liberty, pro-American-values candidates.

Party infiltration! I like the way you think! :thumbsup:

Mooseman · Nov 13, 2012

1time said:
I dropped 15 IQ points when my new card came in the male.

joppaj said:
Ew.

It is okay. Question 6 passed.

LCPIWB · Nov 13, 2012

I say...If you are trying to support a party like Constitution Party (Pick your own party that is not recognized in MD), then you are not doing it any favors. Register as an unaffiliated, until we can get enough signatures to get Constitution Party recognized in Md.
I just recently decided to drop the Republican party for Constitution Party recently as I found the Republican party no longer represents my values.
I am registered as "unaffiliated" until I can work to get Constitution Party Recognized in Maryland.

1time · Nov 13, 2012

TyFromMD said:
Haha... disgusting.

Maybe it was more than 15 points. I swear before the switch I knew the difference between male and mail.

Mr H · Nov 13, 2012

Half-cocked said:
Since the filthy bastards in Annapolis have successfully gerrymandered my representation away, and I now live in a majority-Democrat district, I am giving serious consideration to registering as a "D".

I'm not contemplating this because I agree with anything that the D party represents. But, if someone steals your well, you've got every right to piss in it. I would piss in their well by supporting any pro-liberty, pro-2nd-Amendment Democrat candidate who opposes their party-machine hacks, in the primaries. In general elections, I will always vote (as I always have) for pro-liberty, pro-American-values candidates.

Before I do this, though, I want to know if there are any real, actual negative consequences to registering as a "D". Besides, obviously, the dirty, filthy, sleazy feeling I would have, whenever I looked at my voter registration card.

Thoughts?

My wife and I are "unaffiliated", and will likely remain that way until just before the next primary cycle, then switch D to pitch support AGAINST the incumbents and Curran & Co.... then go back to I for the general.

Bohlieve410 · Nov 13, 2012

You get to vote who you don't like twice!

I've always been a Democrat, and glady voted against Gargiola and then for Bartlett. Rage against the (Maryland Communist Yuppie Annapolis Owe'Malley) Machine!

platoonDaddy · Nov 13, 2012

wlc said:
not in MD
I'm an independent and thought about changing to D just to vote in primaries, but in the end the candidates I like in this state rarely win anyway so .....

Visiting the following link to register only list four parties.

http://www.elections.state.md.us/voter_registration/index.html

Democratic Party

Republican Party

Libertarian Party

Green Party

On June 3, 2010, the Board closed the Party's campaign finance entity due to inactivity. The Party is no longer recognized in Maryland.

http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/mdmanual/40party/html/independent.html

Boom Boom · Nov 13, 2012

platoonDaddy said:
Visiting the following link to register only list four parties.

http://www.elections.state.md.us/voter_registration/index.html

Democratic Party

Republican Party

Libertarian Party

Green Party

On June 3, 2010, the Board closed the Party's campaign finance entity due to inactivity. The Party is no longer recognized in Maryland.

http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/mdmanual/40party/html/independent.html

Probably meant unaffiliated. Folks tend to erroneously say independent, me being guilty of it at times.

xd40c · Nov 13, 2012

I don't have much room to talk as I left the state, But I wouldn't give them the satisfaction.

nicktide · Nov 13, 2012

Any negative consequences to registering as a Dem?

Just the loss of your soul. LOL. Yeah that gerrymandering irritates the heck out of me. Even more because it isnt something they even needed to do to get or keep a majority. Republicans get voted down on everything on the state level anyway, now they don't even want to hear what we want.

QuebecoisWolf · Nov 13, 2012

One issue: You're a headcount assumed to be in favor of everything that the Democratic Party is. The Dems may use their raw numbers to justify new legislation or bully Republicans into submission. It's minor, but it is a disadvantage.

Any negative consequences to registering as a Dem?

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