Republicans I could support

Finally doing this. It’s not as eloquent as I would like, but I definitely wanted to follow up.

“identify and write a bit about three living politicians that we appreciate and respect from an opposing political party from our own”

Arlen Specter
Lincoln Chafee
Olympia Snowe

All are willing to buck their party on many issues. The thing I love about Democrats is that you don’t have to lockstep to be a member of the party. The DLC HATES Dean, and he still is head of the DNC. Harry Reid is pro-life, and he’s Minority Leader. We bicker, we fight, but we include for the most part. Not so with the Republican Party. Nudge a toe out of line and you will get slapped down. Rove is trying to do it to Tacredo over immigration. Gingrich famously did it to Hatfield back during the Contract on America. So while I don’t like that Specter went back into his shell about the judicial nominees, I have to admire him for bucking his party.

All three of these Senators support a lot of my core issues: women’s rights/privacy, sound environmental policies, separation of Church and State, fiscal sanity, individual rights.

I don’t require perfection out of my Democrats, so I don’t require perfection out of all Repubicans. But these three hit the majority of my issues correctly and they have minds of their own.