Posted on 08/24/2008 6:46:17 PM PDT by Schnucki
John Morse shields his eyes from the sun as he points to the red rocks rising above. “You see that strange formation there,” he says, “that’s known as ‘the Kissing Camels’.” So, are camels allowed to kiss around here? “Just so long as they are opposite sexes — there would be trouble if they were both boys,” he replies. “The scenery is beautiful and the politics is ugly.”
This is Colorado Springs, just an hour’s drive south from where the Democratic convention begins today, and a city with a reputation as one of America’s most conservative.
Sprawling out from under the high peaks of the Rocky Mountains, it is home to the headquarters of Focus on the Family and myriad other groups in the vanguard of the Religious Right. There are five US military bases including the US Air Force Academy and Norad, a Dr Strangelove-like facility built to withstand a nuclear blast. And then there are thousands upon thousands of so-called “McMansions” — developments that are rapidly transforming this wild landscape into suburbia-with-a-view.
Even here, at the apex of Christian moralism, khaki-clad patriotism and economic liberalism, change is stirring. Mr Morse is a Democratic state senator who two years ago beat an incumbent black Republican who had proposed the abolition of affirmative action. “Everyone was surprised — shocked — that I won and the conservatives absolutely hated it,” he says, with some satisfaction.
Democrats are on a roll across the Rocky Mountain region — a vast expanse of gun-toting, God-fearing, free-riding cowboy country. They have swept five Republican governors from office in five western states, while in Colorado they have seized control of both houses in the state legislature and congressional seats that were once regarded as irredeemably Republican.
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Marxist Secularist Totalitarians for god and Guns. < /sarcasm >
LIE to the kufir. Goebbels, Stalin, and Mohammed would be proud. F’in Commie.
For sure Obama/Biden have the arugula crowd locked up.
Real Americans, well that’s the segment locked up by McCain.
The carnival side show is coming to your town!
Obama the empty suit and his side kick Joe Biden the living fossil re-enact the failed policies of FDR and Johnson’s
Great Society.
Nothing new. Same old act liberal slap stick.
This tells you all you need to know about that area. It seems to me that the people who live in these places always vote Dem, for some reason.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Read below the article, under the caption “the bloggers’ verdict”. A veritable Joe Biden hurl-o-rama! These people are so gullible!
Again,
There are too many guns out there in America for the gun grabbers to take away from us.
The grabbers intend to limit access to ammunition. Thus rendering guns unusable.
Stock up now cause if good ole hunting buddy Obamma becomes pres and the Dems control both houses of congress then it will happen.
Better yet; buy casting and reloading supplies.
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