Originally Posted by RichieLion

LOL; I don't dislike Democrats per se. But the Democrats of today, with rare exception, are not the Democrats I've supported in the past. Democrats like John. F. Kennedy. I'm not putting Gov. Cuomo in that category at this point because it way too early in his career. But I will keep my eye on him.

I was originally a registered Democrat like my father before me, but like my father before me, I changed my affiliation. In the words of another former Democrat, and one of the greatest public figures in my lifetime, "I did not leave the Democrat Party, they left me". These words were spoken by the one and only Ronald Reagan, and they speak for me.

We'll see if Gov. Andrew Cuomo is a return to the Democrats of old, who at least understood that what made this country great was the amalgamation of the hard work of the millions of free people who made their own way and carved their own destinies without looking to the government to provide for them. Safety nets are one thing, but we've gone way beyond that, and it's got to stop.