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Republican Reptile Friend(s) becoming disheartened
Today on the telephone an old Republican friend told me he was rising the white flag. Was it the further dive by the DOW or the continued separation in the polls. Was it another SNL skit that just hit him in the belly or McCain going into the mythical "HELM's DEEP" of smear and sleaze politics. Maybe it is that 82% of the country thinks the Republicans have taken the nation to the wrong direction.
He sought consoling and I gave him none. I was cold---the nation is broke I said and the Republican decisions, their philosophy, their worldview has brought us there, they lied to us to take us to war---his response "their heart was in the right place." Heart...Bullsh$t...you don't lead the nation with heart or prejudice or just for partisan gain....you lead correctly.
"But the free market, what of it", he inquired? Well it is not free, nor is it a market either---it was a gaming house where there was no bank, no rules except don't get caught holding the empty bag.
"I just can't Democrats," he said..."they think they are so smart.". but they are....
You know I voted already today with twenty other motivated Obama supporters at 8 AM. "Yeah, he said, "I got my ballot and could care less. It used t o be that Colorado would always go Republican and now I bet it goes Democrat. Guess I might as well move to Utah or Idaho."
Why? "Because I can't stand Democrats, he said....we are supposed to be right and superior and if you guys are...you will make me think that the common good is good."
Comments (1)
Their heart was in the right place?!?
Even my Republican mother knows their heart wasn't in the right place when Bush led us into Iraq.
The last time she and I spoke about Iraq, my mother admitted that Bush was wrong but, hey, we're there now, and we can't leave until we "win".
"Win". Like it's a freakin' high school football game. "Win in Iraq". "Wave a white flag" if we leave. How about we leave the politics and the war to Iraq? The surge was supposed to do just that, no? We step up our troop involvement in order to help the Iraqi government make political decisions...we step up our troop involvement in order to help the Iraqi military fight for itself. That's what the surge was supposed to do, no?
So why are we still there? Why are we still spending millions every month supporting this never-ending quagmire of an occupation?
So's we can give McCain and Bush their "win"?
October 7, 2008 1:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
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