I believe this is NEW England not England - I am originally from Connecticut - the only reason that people are liberal there is because they are elitists and have their heads up their butts - it may take a distasterous presidency to make a lot of them see the light. They fear that religion or people with social conservative beliefs will force those beliefs on them. They also did not like Palin because she would never be allowed into the yacht clubs or the country clubs. I had several friends of mine say that she beliefs in her grandfather’s America and she wants women to be subservient and backwoods - gun toting etc. etc. Basically think she is a dumb redneck. As much as I try to argue my points - esp. the subservient one (she wouldn’t be a mayor, governor or VP candidate if that was the case) - they don’t listen. CT is prob. <1% black - they are idealists and think that the world would be great if it were equal and have no idea what the avg. American feels or goes through because they are rolling in money. My one friend told me to not be so critical of welfare etc. and that I don’t know what it’s like to be a black man/woman. I said true but I don’t segregate based on race - I think we should be individuals and people have their own adversities that the go through. I also told him that he should move to inner city Baltimore like I did and find out how much he likes that and see if his opinions change. Sorry - I’m just so upset about my home state and what has happened up in New England!
Yep, well lets hope they see but BO is going to do for their taxes. Although they probably have so many loop holes it won’t effedct them much
I’m originally from Willimantic ( left in 1971 ) , but have been back many times since I left . Now in JAPAN . From what I saw in Hartford , Willi , and elsewhere when back , the majority was looking for government ( or other ) handouts . I was back last year ( for a day ) , and there were Cadillacs and other high priced cars parked in back of St. Paul’s soup kitchen !
We had 8.5 years of ridicule directed towards President Bush and Republicans, right out of the Rules for Radicals book. We laughed initially, and granted Republicans, President Bush and the White House failed to take all the charges seriously. Voters, on the other hand, did.
It seems to me we can either learn how to fight back and defeat Democrats or we can take the high road and be in the minority for a long time to come.