How many Gen X/baby boomer people here were Blue Dog Democrats back in the day?

They would have been yellow dog Democrats. Blue dog didn't come along until 94

Probably a lot of this board is considering 98%+ of Democrats today are SJWs, trannies, police haters, feminists, and racists. I’m assuming they jumped ship from degeneracy.

Baby Boomer here

I was a blue dog dumocrap until O became a mature adult.

Maturity + education = conservative

I grew up in Arkansas being repulsed by the clintons

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I grew up in Arkansas being repulsed by the clintons

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This has always been an interesting dynamic to me. When did people in that state begin to sour on him? Like 91-92? I remember hearing about when he was running for President he was never in Arkansas and that peeved a lot of people like when Jindal was running he was never in Louisiana..

was it Earlier? He is for now the only president elected from arkansas and being so conservative now and how screwed up they are, it’s easy to see but were folks ever proud of bill? I remember highway signs along the freeways saying “home of the clintons” etc.

I was a John Kerry voter bc I was 18 and got sucked up into pop culture and the idea of W being so ineffective and incompetent.. idk. I didn’t like being in Iraq. I was a registered Democrat but began voting R more and more and registered as a Republican before voting for Trump/Pence

All of my family in Louisiana until they woke up. I went indy pub early on probably because of military and families.

Born in 67, voted for the first time in 84. Ronald Reagan was the best president we’ve had in the modern era.

The closest I’ve come to voting democrat was voting for Ross Perot and I’ll regret that decision for the Rest of my days. That little fricker put the rapist Bill Clinton in the White House.

Was always Republican. Blue Dog Democrats were/are wolves in sheep's clothing. Example: The bluest of the "Blue Dogs" was Billy Tauzin. He regularly led the 'conservatives' of the Democratic party. But he was really just another carpetbagger.

Tauzin resigned from Congress in February 2004. In January 2005, the day after his term in Congress ended he began work as the head of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, or PhRMA, a powerful trade group for pharmaceutical companies. Tauzin was hired at a salary outsiders estimated at $2 million a year.

Five years later, he announced his retirement from the association (as of the end of June 2010).

Two months before resigning as chair of the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, which oversees the drug industry, Tauzin played a key role in shepherding through Congress the Medicare Prescription Drug Bill. Democrats said that the bill was "a give-away to the drugmakers" because it prohibited the government from negotiating lower drug prices and bans the importation of identical, cheaper, drugs from Canada and elsewhere. The Veterans Affairs agency, which can negotiate drug prices, pays much less than Medicare. The bill was passed in an unusual congressional session at 3 a.m. under heavy pressure from the drug companies.

As head of PhRMA, Tauzin was a key player in 2009 health care reform negotiations that produced pharmaceutical industry support for the White House and Senate efforts now known as Obamacare.

Tauzin received $11.6 million from PhRMA in 2010, making him the highest-paid health-law lobbyist. Tauzin now is on the Board of Directors at Louisiana Healthcare Group.

And people in Louisiana wonder why their insurance cost is so fricking high.

frick Tauzin and the "Blue Dog Dems".

1984 was the first time I voted, and I went with Reagan. I've voted R in every national election except for 92 when I was fooled by Ross Perot.

Locally, conservatives don't even try to run; so I vote for the least afflicted liberal.