Something to remember here is that those are retired government workers, which means their whole political outlook has been based on an expectation of nanny-state government for decades. But for every one of those jack@sses, I would venture to guess that there are 2-3 Obama voters from 2008 who are: (1) under the age of 25; (2) recent (post-2008) college graduates; and (3) unemployed, and facing no prospects of gainful employment anytime soon. It's this latter group who is going to play a much bigger role in this election -- either by voting for Romney or by simply staying home on Election Day.
If the attitude that you described for those two golfing partners of yours were as indicative of a general political trend as you seem to think, we would never have Republican governors like Chris Christie and Scott Walker ... who built their campaigns on rescuing middle-class workers from government workers ... in deep "blue" states, mind you.
Thank you for interesting replies.
I play golf with them because they are actually nice guys, just naive on economic issues since they have never worked in a real business which survives by eeking out profits. Besides I take their money regularly hehehe.
This 2012 election is the most critical election since I arrived in this great country in 1960. The debt is reaching Greek proportions. Economy is on Oxygen. If Zero makes the government any bigger, and continues the Trillion dollar deficits for 4 more years, I am convinced we will be another Greece or Spain.
Which is why I get so frustrated when some can’t see the writing on the wall and pontificate about religious issues as priority one.