Posted on 05/03/2004 6:32:16 AM PDT by jcb8199
The crowd raises their goblets, yelling "Kill Bush."
--snip--
I've held my tongue long enough, and suffered through lousy hors d'oeuvres and cheap white wine till I'm beyond myself. I ask:
"Didn't Saddam use weapons of mass destruction against the Kurds in northern Iraq, against the 'marsh people' in southern Iraq, against the Iranians? Didn't he threaten to send poison-tipped missiles into Israel? Didn't Israel destroy his nuclear facilities in the 1980s? Didn't he kill, over 35 years, 1.5 million people or so, or more than 3,000 per month, every month? As offspring of the Holocaust, did you prefer we wait until he has more capabilities for killing? Is it your hope, like our dead brethren in Germany, that if we try to acquiesce, we will be overlooked? Have you learned nothing?"
And, I continued, "If we wanted the oil, why didn't we take over the oil fields, either during Bush I, or Bush II? And by the way, is there anyone here who has a vision of ending terrorism, or bringing a more egalitarian way of life to the Middle East."
Yells of "Nazi" and "right winger" hit my ears. Not one substantive reply, only personal attacks on my character or intelligence...
Incredible.
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Check out my post #7. This is Westport, CT!
Thanks so much for pointing this article out to me.
all of the NYC metro suburbs - long island, westchester, southwest CT, central and northern NJ - are Dem strongholds now.
I live in Massachusetts, and it's hell. I have a Bush/Cheney bumper sticker that I'm afraid to put on my car. Who needs to have my tires flattened. My husband's entire family hates Bush, so it's hell at family get-togethers. I don't argue politics, especially with family. It's rough.
Well, at least New Canaan and Greenwich are still Republican.
Woo Hoo! He's pegged Westport, all right! I grew up a couple of towns west of Westport (you know, the Steve Young and Matt Lauer town), and you'd never know that the Bush family had a foothold in the state from the way it is now.
"...while they ignore John Kerry's windiness and vapid vacillations..."
As they ignored his lies, phoniness, and his regular support for the enemies of freedom. They must be on drugs.
You are correct. Morris and Ocean County both barely lean Republican, but they are the exception to the rule. Can't say I blame the voters of my home county of Nassau for being skeptical of the GOP, as the Gulotta machine acted like the biggest bunch of corrupt socialists this side of Chicago.
This bears emphasizing.
BTW: This is similar to what my parents hear in the affluent liberal enclave of Boca Raton, Florida.
:-) Greenwich was where I cast my first Republican vote, for Ruth Sims as First Selectman.
I live in Maryland, your state's evil twin. Fortunately the county/community we live in is mostly Republican. I commuted around more liberal "zones" of suburban Maryland with an Erlich for Governor bumper sticker on my car (he was elected) but I confess to having had some apprehension about parking in hostile territory. I'm now commuting THROUGH that same area so am looking forward to displaying my Bush sticker.
My husband's entire family hates Bush, so it's hell at family get-togethers. I don't argue politics, especially with family. It's rough.
I can relate to that. There are some hard core Dems in my wife's family.
Thanks for that emphasis! This article just floored me...
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