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Democrats, Expecting Bush's Re-election, Prepare to Flee America
News Max ^ | Steven Morgan

Posted on 09/23/2004 1:50:34 PM PDT by PaulaB

SALT LAKE CITY - Happiness and joy: What made a recent vacation perfect was the first sign of dour Democrats preparing to flee America at the prospect of President Bush’s re-election.

Having escaped Florida's dog days and Hurricane Frances, we were passing through lovely Utah when, to check a restaurant listing, we picked up something called City Weekly, one of those free left-wing yuppie tabloids that infest most sizable cities. Our heart soared when we took a gander at this item, even though we realize most limousine leftists will remain as firmly ensconced in America as Alec Baldwin:

Canada. Costa Rica. New Zealand. They’ve all come up in conversation as a variety of people ask the pressing question, "Where can we go?” They’re not talking about an idyllic vacation. They’re talking about an escape hatch, a Plan B in case the elections don’t go as they hope. It’s a question I hear asked frequently these days from people of various political persuasions. They aren’t the young and disillusioned with nothing to lose. They are mainstream, thoughtful, well-established people who own their homes, have good paying jobs, dutifully pay their taxes and vote in every election. But they’re nervous about what might happen come November and beyond.

"You know how Fortune comes out with the ‘10 Best Places to Live in America?’ Well, we need a list of the ‘10 Best Places for Disgusted Americans,’” a well-heeled gentleman who owns his own business told me over lunch. "Vancouver is too cold, but I don’t like the tropics. They make me too lazy. There must be a place like Oregon that’s outside the grasp of George Bush.”

Like most who toy with the idea, it’s doubtful he’ll move out of the country. He has too much invested in his life and career here, as do so many of his generation. Of those who have threatened to flee, I know of only one couple that has followed through. Charles and Marilyn, who asked that I not use their last names, have sold their East Bench home, given away expensive appliances, tools, and furniture, and found a place in western Canada outside the rain zone.

The two retired professionals say they have lost faith in the direction America is taking. "It’s not just Bush,” says Charles. "The wealthy and powerful have essentially bought the government, the Congress, the presidency for George Bush, the Supreme Court, and, in states where courts are elected, they’ve bought courts. They’ve bought legislatures in every state capital. And there’s no way that these people are going to go against business. It doesn’t matter if Kerry or Bush or Nader is elected. The courts will do what pleases business. The problem I have is that half the people in this country think that’s right. People are totally irrational.”

"I don’t understand why people aren’t rising up,” says Marilyn. "But the materialistic culture keeps people so busy acquiring stuff and taking care of stuff that they’re too busy to fight.”

"They’re inert,” adds Charles.

Worse than a materialistic culture too sated to respond to big business hijacking its government, Marilyn sees a culture in decline. She cites parallels to the way the Roman Empire fell: "Things are too far gone to be corrected. There’s going to be real unpleasantness.”

Their decision to leave has elicited a wide range of responses, from indignation and charges of paranoia to envy. "We’ve been approached by people who want to pick our brains on how to do it,” says Marilyn. "It’s not simple to pick up and leave. All the things you have to deal with in a measured way take some planning.”

The couple is still working out the details, but they plan to go into Canada as "seasonal visitors” and hold onto their U.S. citizenship for Medicare and Social Security purposes.

"You only get one shot at life,” says Marilyn, who has worked on many social causes. "People say we should stay and fight, but when you see the tide coming in, you move. You have to know when to hold and know when to fold.”

Marilyn and Charles have decided it’s time to fold.

'Made Me Puke'

After a great hiking trip in Idaho, Oregon and northern Utah, we passed through Salt Lake two weeks later and picked up another issue of City Weekly. Among the letters to the editor was this rib tickler:

Blowing Chunks in Their Trunks The story of Americans "Charles and Marilyn” fleeing to Canada because of problems here in the United States made me puke ["Flight From Bushland,” Voices, Sept. 2, City Weekly]. They have an "East Bench” home containing "expensive appliances, tools, and furniture,” yet they somehow condemn American culture for becoming too "materialistic.”

But the thing really causing me to blow chunks is Charles and Marilyn are gonna be hiding deep in a bunker in western Canada while still collecting Social Security and Medicare checks from good ole Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam will still be feeding and protecting Charles and Marilyn—just as he always has—and no matter how wrong-headed they have become.


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To: PaulaB
"Vancouver is too cold, but I don’t like the tropics. They make me too lazy. There must be a place like Oregon that’s outside the grasp of George Bush.”

Kamchatka...

...komrade.

101 posted on 09/23/2004 3:01:04 PM PDT by ez (TERRORISTS FOR KERRY!!!)
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To: PaulaB
People who shut their eyes and scrunch up their noses when they fire are not likely to hit what they intend to hit. Some poor blackbird flying over at 200' altitude probably got clobbered by Kerry's shot while he was aiming for a clay target bouncing along on the ground.

Who does that clown think he's fooling with that shotgun anyway? The NRA gives him an F- ranking, and he has voted 100% of the time against the right to keep and bear arms whenever a gun related bill was before the Senate.

If I'm not mistaken, he has the most anti-gun voting record of anyone in the Senate. He's voted for anything and everything that is in any way detrimental to gun owners' rights, and against anything that might in any way support those rights. Any gun owner who is taken in by that ridiculous photo and votes for Kerry deserves to lose his 2nd Amendment rights.

Well, not really. But he deserves to have to work harder to keep them.

102 posted on 09/23/2004 3:01:12 PM PDT by epow (article)
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To: Nea Wood
really wish there were some way to print out this thread and send it to "Charles" and "Marilyn,"

Their last names wouldn't happen to be Manson, would they?

103 posted on 09/23/2004 3:01:20 PM PDT by dfwgator (It's sad that the news media treats Michael Jackson better than our military.)
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To: Tulsa Brian
"THEY ALWAYS PROMISE THIS BUT NEVER DELIVER!!!"

What do you expect ?... they're Democrats
104 posted on 09/23/2004 3:01:20 PM PDT by RS (Just because the Pajama Posse is out to get him doesn't mean he's not guilty)
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To: konaice
"The couple is still working out the details, but they plan to go into Canada as "seasonal visitors” and hold onto their U.S. citizenship for Medicare and Social Security purposes. "

They will be happy to continue to suck off of those of us left behind but they will keep their U.S. citizenship just in case they may need real medical treatment that would take a year to get in Canada's "free" system.

Renounce your citizenship if you are that adamant about leaving.
105 posted on 09/23/2004 3:02:41 PM PDT by RinkRat23
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To: PaulaB

adios Dems...don't let the door hit you in the a@@


106 posted on 09/23/2004 3:05:03 PM PDT by xtinct (I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.)
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To: MizSterious
Boy, that's really scary, they'll be fighting with "SPITBALLS".
107 posted on 09/23/2004 3:06:46 PM PDT by Niks
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To: PaulaB

Electoral Vote Predictor 2004: Kerry 255 Bush 273
PACK NOW!


108 posted on 09/23/2004 3:08:29 PM PDT by Henchman (Vote Communist - elect Kerry!)
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To: PaulaB

This could influence a lot of undecided voters to go for Bush.


109 posted on 09/23/2004 3:10:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: PaulaB

Happiness and Joy!


110 posted on 09/23/2004 3:11:05 PM PDT by MeekMom ((HUGE Coulter fan!!!) (Life-long Python Addict))
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To: PaulaB

They can forget about coming to NZ. We have enough
homegrown liberal idiots as it as. Anyway, foreigners (esp
rich patronising liberal specimens) who come over here and pay high prices for land that locals could never match are certainly not popular.


111 posted on 09/23/2004 3:11:42 PM PDT by free_kiwi
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To: TexasCowboy

LOL


112 posted on 09/23/2004 3:11:59 PM PDT by tiki (Win one against the Flipper)
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To: MeekMom

"Happiness and Joy!"

I sense a BIG American good-bye party!
If only..


113 posted on 09/23/2004 3:14:36 PM PDT by GottaLuvAkitas1 (Ronald Reagan is the TRUE "Father Of Our Country".)
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To: PaulaB
"I don’t understand why people aren’t rising up,” says Marilyn...

We are, you moron. Hasta la Vista, a--hole.

114 posted on 09/23/2004 3:33:16 PM PDT by randog (What the....?!)
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To: PaulaB
A letter writer in the Seattle Times a couple of days ago said if bush won, King County (the county were leftist Seattle is located) should succeed from the Union and become a satellite Provence of Canada.

They hate Bush more than they love their country. What insanity.
115 posted on 09/23/2004 3:34:11 PM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: PaulaB
OK, the sugar coated cat turds on a stick were a big hit, now I'm gonna get filthy rich on little white flags and fake prayer rugs with a little compass and a likeness of john kerry sewn in.

Capitalism Rocks!
116 posted on 09/23/2004 3:35:26 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (I made my Fortune selling Sugar Coated Cat Turds on a Stick at the DNC Convention)
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To: PaulaB

What we should do is take New England and eastern Canada, create the Peoples Republic of North America, move all the liberals there and build a wall around it.


117 posted on 09/23/2004 3:43:29 PM PDT by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: PaulaB

reference note on title of this post: "from your keyboard to God's email".


118 posted on 09/23/2004 3:46:56 PM PDT by CGVet58 (God has granted us Liberty, and we owe Him Courage in return)
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To: PaulaB
"Where can we go?”

Sheesh. That's too easy.
Where ever it is, don't let the border hit you in the ass on the way out!

119 posted on 09/23/2004 3:51:56 PM PDT by michigander (The Constitution only guarantees the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.)
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To: lormand

How about an all inclusive cruise to Vietnam? They wouldn't have to worry about running into any pro-Bush citizenry there.

Johm Kerry could establish his own kingdom/haven/and Heinz packing plant, and all of his friends could visit/revere/and become his slaves for life.


120 posted on 09/23/2004 4:07:01 PM PDT by wizr
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