I saw a bumper sticker yesterday here in East Texas:

[StellaBlue]

on a big, new, white Ford extended cab truck with lots of chrome and one of those enclosed beds...

REPENT - REGISTER REPUBLICAN




Where to even start with what's wrong with this?

:eyes:

[Catherine Vincent]

1. I don't think you register for any party here in Texas.

You just register to vote right?

[tanyev]

3. True. Although I think a record is kept if you vote

in a Dem or Rep primary.

[StellaBlue]

7. yes and no

You have to vote in one primary or the other to be eligible to vote in the general election. So, basically, you do have to register. I am a Democrat, though I often vote Green or independent. When the Dem has no chance! :/

[hobbit709]

8. You don't have to vote in the primary

But if you vote in the primary you can't sign a petition to get a third-party candidate on the ballot.

[ashling]

9. You don't have to vote in a primary

However, if you vote, say, in the Republican primary, and there is a runoff in the Democratic primary, you can't, then, go and vote in the Dem runoff.

his was the issue in 1976 when many of the moss eaten conservatives in the Dem party went over to vote for Raygun in the Republican primary. They then wanted the option to come back and vote in any Democratic runoff primary.

Thus you can't vote for your strongest guy in a primary and then go over and vote for the guy you want to run against.

[Straight Shooter]

2. Two mistakes in that bumper sticker. Replace hyphen with comma, add "ed"

REPENT, REGISTERED REPUBLICAN

[Stockholm]

4. LOL

n/t

[seabeyond]

5. REPENT - REGISTER REPUBLICAN... this is my life

in a mere handful of years i have learned more about the bible, god, jesus, rapture, religion than the many that have been in it a lifetime. i can argue the bible with the best of them

these ...... are my people.....oh lordy. what a life. yup

[awoke_in_2003]

10. all I know is

i used to be a registered republican, but I have since repented, and now realize I am a democrat

[seabeyond]

11. yaaa, i am not a dem or repug. my husband a lifetime repug

didnt act like repug in many ways. being a texas, hunter, ..... business person he went repug. but all social issue, so mellow, so dem. voted for bush 2000 regardless of all my you will be sorry.

by 2002 i was yelling so, and being so mean in my words about repugs and the religious. he started doing research on his own. and the iraq war really bothered him. actively spoke out for kerry, opposed bush, in this area. he is now independent. and probably will never vote repug for president again. if i slip and call him a repug, he gets offended. now i can say whatever i want about a repug, and he doesnt take it personally

life is sooooooo much better with my girlie man. i am very very proud

[FreedomAngel82]

15. Yay!

I'm a proud girlieman girl!

[Ian David]

6. Register Republican but vote Democrat-- especially in Diebold states...

with open primaries.

That'll fuck with 'em.

[RB TexLa]

12. Was it near the Dairy Palace?

I hate giving them money but man the burgers are great! I've never had a problem until a couple of weeks ago. I ordered a burger with French fries and the girl working the counter said "we don't serve French fries." They of course call them and have them listed as "freedom" fries. I then asked "are the freedom fries prepared in the Belgium manner?" To which she stated "There ain't no foreign food in here." So I said "ok, just give me a order of tamales."

[StellaBlue]

13. Well, it was two blocks from the Dairy QUEEN

And that reminds me of this story:

This is not autobiographical, but it did actually happen to someone I know.

A woman walks up the check-out at Wal-Mart. She is wearing a little pin on her lapel that says "If women don't vote, it will be a man's world".

The checker, a mid-thirties white woman, asks, pointedly, "What's your pin say?" - in that way that people do when they already know quite well but think you will somehow be embarrassed if asked to say it out loud.

The lady holds up the pin and responds, "It SAYS, 'If women don't vote, it will be a man's world.'"

The cashier then asks, 'So - are you some kind of feminist or something? Are you against the president?"

The lady says, "Well, I don't know that those two things could both be determined from my pin, but, yes I am a feminist, and no, I don't agree with the president."

Then the cashier says, "Well, I support the president. He's a good man."

So then the lady says, "What? Do you READ the paper? Do you ever try to learn about what's happening outside this little town?"

And the cashier says, proudly, "No, but I pray about it."

[FreedomAngel82]

14. Oh brother

:eyes: So are they saying I as as Christian can't make up my own mind of who to vote for? I'd love to see that Bible verse.