Posted on 07/05/2004 12:30:01 PM PDT by The Bandit
Despite the lack of enthusiasm John Kerry has shown for his very own campaign, he will become the 44th President of the United States.
Although it can be easily argued that it is much too early to call this election, I feel confident that a majority of Americans are so disgusted with the actions of George W. Bush and his administration that they would vote for any candidate that does not come from Bush family lineage.
As it stands in the current polls, Bush and Kerry are neck-and-neck by percentage; however Kerry has a lead in the Electoral College with the added comfort that several swing states will most likely close in his favor. According to Republican pollster, Scott Rasmussen, Florida, Michigan, New Mexico, Oregon and Pennsylvania are in the "tossup" category. That's an additional 77 points that are going to swing Kerry's way. The remaining tossups will go to Bush giving him 48 extra points. The bottom line: Kerry 287, Bush 251. This would be a conservative estimate.
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It does happen more and more. They are almost cult-like in their hatred. I can be in groups of 6-7 people talking (this is at work; not among friends) and I find I am the only Bush supporter.
Not many Utitarians; but lots of UM's. She 'thinks' she is truly Catholic However, she obviously picks the parts she wants to believe and tosses the rest.
How dare this Clymer presume to estimate for me. This bears nothing similar to my estimate.
Not according to the numbers I've seen. Bush is in fact currently leading in the Electoral College by a rather nice margin.
Anybody who would write the above can hardly be considered an objective commentator on the election.
Any American with an ounce of decency who isn't brain-washed by Dem propaganda know that Bush has been an excellent and effective President, and the most trustworthy leader we have in the war on terrorism.
At my job, they are mostly right leaning, my friends vary.
But having people who are so emotionaly attached, it does strike me as bizarre. I've had a friends mother question her daughter if I was an "operative", another acquience suddenly thought I might be a "insider spy".
Its scary seeing people I thought were sane, now going to weird extremes, one girl who had had a crush on me, found out I was a conservative, she flipped, and then claimed (by the way, no date ever happened) that I must have been fooling her to make her like me. She was just point blank nuts, and no, I am not in the skull and bones or any other society.
She thought all conservatives were either in secret societies, or worked for the party.
Thought all conservatives were in secret societies?....
You've got to be kidding.
Not joking, some of these lefty nuts are out of touch with reality. When this girl found out I was a conservative, she assumed that I had to be in some kind of organization or secret society. She rambled on a bunch of weird conspiracy theories, and got ticked when I started laughing hysterically.
I really should have stopped laughing after awhile instead of having people come over to listen to her, thinking she was doing a stand up act of a lunatic.
OMG!
You should have 'walked' long ago. She was a true nut case. I can imagine her however telling all of her friends the next day about all of these guys out there who belong to the Bush-cult, and that they must be stopped at all cost. She probably 'multiplied you' by a thousand and told the ladies that all of these men out there belong to the 'society.'
Some of the girls who I brought over to "watch her act" felt sorry for me for tolerating her.
These people weren't conservative or liberal, but they now view liberals as nut cases (think of DU, the best recruiting ground for conservatives you can find)
Me and her never went out, since she was nuts, but if you give some extreme liberals enough time to talk, they hang there own party.
Its kind of like how the dems used to use some weirdo republicans to push there cause, the number of weirdo repubs is alot less then weirdo dems, so it makes anyone not already in one of the 2 parties, think one (usually dems) think the they are crazy.
I should also note, that since I do live in NYC, I do get the most extreme lefty's, and they do a hell of a lot better of converting fence sitters to become right wing. I just wish the GOP would use them in more ads.
OK, NYC. Now I GET it. That's why you get such a reaction. No one who is conservative could possibly live there and survive could they? I had two acquaintances in High School from nearby: One from Levittown on L.I. and one from Baldwin. They were liberals. I was from the WV hills. Talk about cultural shock....
I just don't know how people live in the north. I saw my first and only Kerry bumpersticker on a car close to Birmingham. Just about every car was slowing down beside her to see what she looked like, such an oddity.:) The people around here who are Kerry supporters just keep that fact to themselves.
That's not the electoral college breakdown *I've* been seeing.
You can be sure that at five o'clock P.M. the media will declare that Kerry has won all these swing states, like they did to the Florida voters at 7:00 P.M. EST in 2000, yet the panhandle was open to 8:00 P.M. because of one hour time zone difference!
One thing I have learned is the difference between being a democrat and being a liberal. Most New Yorkers are democrats, but they (ironically) lean right on alot of issues. Alot of my friends are democrats, and I do have friends who are liberal (though they are starting to freak me out now that they are becoming obsessive, they are starting to act like every opinion, belieft, about anything, must be based on conservative beliefs...Like food or ice cream or what clothes to wear), the real liberals though are the scary cult like ones, and they are getting more and more weird by the day. I see some really bad crazy stuff happening from them soon.
When I was younger, politics was kind of like having different religious beliefs minus the whole rivalry thats akin to red sox and yankee fans.
Now, its like a civil cold war, for gods sake, its some kind of sick weird obsession, its like the liberals have declared holy war, you talk economics, and they start using religious terms, they have just gone off the deep end, and violently so.
Just to put this in perspective (and not scare you), if I walked around with any kind of pro-bush shirt, within maybe 20 minuits, somone will, guaranteed, try and start a fight with me.
I'm in NYC, and there are alot of people who now support Bush, but no where near the lefty's who hate him by default and no where near being as vocal.
I can guarantee you, any, and I mean any New Yorker in the city, that wears a openly pro-bush item of clothing, will get a confrontation, faster then any liberal could in the quickest part of the most conservative area. I get confrontations from talking to my friends in bars because somone right next to us overhears.
It truly does feel like warfare. I have never experienced such hatred directed toward any President. Even when 'slick' was doing his thing, I kept down the noise out of respect for the country, and for the Office.
Two people were arrested in WV on the 4th during W's appearance here. They were in a restricted area, wearing anti-Bush T-shirts, and inciting the crowd. Both were from out-of-state, and one was here from FEMA working on behalf of the recent floods. FEMA has since 'recalled' that person from service here, but there is no word yet that employment has been terminated.
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