Some reader feedback:

Yep. Standard issue for talk radio callers too … “I’ve been a Republican for 40 years but I support Obama for president”. Monkey, butt. Butt, monkey.
However, as for me: I’ve been a conservative and NRODT reader for >25 years and I’m with the South Park guys: I hate Republicans, but I really frickin’ hate Democrats. (Oh yeah, and I’m a Republican. Go figure.)

And:

As a person who frequently suffers the habit of talking about politics on non-political internet forums, the number of times that I read a post or topic that begins with “I am a lifelong Republican, but even …… blah blah,” is astounding.
Not only is there a uniform quality to them, but there is also an audacious infallibility to them as well. It seems like as long as any argument against Republicans is prefaced or concluded with, “Keep in mind, I am a life-long Republican…” the author suspends all liability to reason, logic, truth, and reality.
“I am a lifelong Republican, and even I am convinced that George Bush is a secret member of the Knights Templar-Illuminati-Scientologist-Papist cult, puppeteering the universe through the military industrial complex.”