Posted on 10/16/2004 8:55:40 PM PDT by right way right
People, there are many like me out there that do have people in their lives who have not made up their minds.
I have a Wife who is very private about her voting habits. (She leans Democrat so it is a major source of anxiety in our relationship.)
She has concerns about Bush such as job outsourcing because she was a Boeing employee and was laid off as a result of this. (as she see's it). Also she has concerns about unemployment in this country. (Yeah, I know?) She likes Bush's stance on the War on terror.
She needs education on George Soros and his activities and she needs to understand MSM media bias and how it munipulates people who are not fully engaged from day to day in politics.
She's leaning Bush help me to push her on into the light.
boeing outsourcing was boeings doing not Bush...... boeing managment is dysfunctional at best and a fraud at the least......
My suggestion would be to let her talk to a pro-Bush woman.
It's hard to talk to a spouse about politics or teach them how to drive. Both require an independent, outside source.
Bush filed complaint against airbus subsidies which might get her job back.
"She likes Bush's stance on the War on terror"
If this is true, then her decision should be President Bush. None of the other issues means anything if we don't win the war against the terrorists.
Just have her read FreeRepublic on a daily basis, she will learn on her own. Or blogs,
http://rncbloggers.com/ this site has a few bloggers compiled on it and you can read the articles on their and they link to their blog sites.
As a Washington state woman who was also laid off from Boeing, once upon a time...
Here are some high points from me:
Bush lets me keep more of my money. Yeah, social programs are fine and good, but I have my own financial problems to deal with. Having extra $$ in my pocket helps me to feed my family and take care of my children and I have more available to give to charity.
Is she pro-life or pro-abortion? As a Christian, I believe the right to life is our most fundamental. Without life, no other social assistance matters.
John Kerry is a gigolo and a golddigger. Dubya clearly adores and respects his wife- and she was a school teacher/librarian- not a rich heiress.
Any more info needed?
1) I don't like Kerry not funding our troops.
2) I don't like Kerry thinking everybody above 200,000 bucks should have their tax cut revoked. This hurts small businesses which is a major source of employment.
3) Kerry voted in 1997 to increase medicare premiums. The jerk. And, how many times has he voted to increase taxes? Ninety-something?!?
The guy really scares me.
Here's another:
Can you imagine THK as first lady? I get sick thinking about it.
I would tout what we went through in 2001, and the fact we were attacked, in a major war in Iraq, yet the country is rebounding int erms of jobs and the economy. yes, there is still instability, but that is to be expected in the current climate. Installing kerry would install great INSTABILITY. No one would be sure...with kerry. People are sure, with Bush.
Who does she feel safe with?
Who would she trust in a crisis?
Who is talking about optimism, rather than a doom and gloomer?
Just keep talking to her about how it's more important to look at deeds, not just words. Like Kerry saying that he's a catholic, and believes that life begins at conception. He says that although he believes abortion is wrong, he won't do anything to change Roe v. Wade, because it would impede a woman's right to choose, blah, blah, blah. However how does that square with his vote against the Laci & Connor law, that said if a pregnant woman is murdered, her killer is able to be charged with two murders, hers, and her baby's. That has nothing to do with a woman's 'right to choose' - that mother did not CHOOSE to be murdered. How is the death of the baby inside her less heinous and horrible than her death?
Kerry says he believes in life, but he won't vote to protect it EVER! At least with George Bush, if he says he believes something, he will act on it, and be consistent!
Also, tape this show and ask her to watch.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1247436/posts
Afterward, she will be convinced that the other issues don't matter as much as she thought.
This is helpful stuff keep it coming thankyou.
How about the fact that Kerry SUPPORTS partial abortions? If your wife is a devout Christian, I don't think she would want to vote for someone who supports people aborting babies more than half-way through their pregnancy.
Hi -
This is an excellent thread for some bolstering:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1247408/posts
Also, the unemployment figure is 5.4%. It is lower than the 5.6% that Clinton had during his re-election bid in fall of 1996. Also, the economic figures during the dot-com boom weere inflated - many of the companies that provided those jobs were boosted by wildly inflated valuation and bootstrapped by wildly inflated stock prices, even if they didn't actually have a product to sell. The bubble was bound to burst, and it did.
Also, the recession started six months before the 2000 election, and some of the economic figures were falsely inflated and reported during the last year of the Clinton administration. The Clinton recession was pulled out of the mud by W, and was one of the shortest recessions in history.
9-11 alone should have crippled the economy, and would have led to much worse than we had if W had not implemented the tax cuts.
I am a divorced mother who is self-employed. The months following 9-11 were extremely difficult, mainly because I dealt with a lot of high tech and aviation clients. The tax cuts have enabled potential clients to contact me once again because they have more disposable $$. I am as busy as I want to be now. Once in a while I have to turn work down.
The week following 9-11, I would tuck my son (then 9) into bed and pray that he would be able to grow up. I had no idea what the future would be. I was a security mom years before the term was coined. The way the President has resolutely responded to the attack on our country has enabled me to wake up in the morning and not be surprised that we're still here. I do trust him. I do not trust John Kerry. Not with our future. I do not believe he has any meaningful core values, and he will say and do whatever he can to gain power. Look at his eyes. They're dead, like a shark's.
It's not just an (R) or (D) thing. I have said many times that if a Democrat who "gets it" were running for national office, I would not worry about their election the same way I truly worry about Kerry's election. As Tammy Bruce says: "It's not WHO's right - it's WHAT's right." I think she meant that about party labels. I would not hesitate to not only vote for the President's re-election, but also to encourage other moms (and dads) to do the same.
Someone else said that without security within our country, the economy won't mean much. I agree with that.
If she has any doubts and would like to email or Freepmail me, I'd love to talk with her. I do feel very strongly about this. By the way, 2000 was the very first year I ever cast a vote for a Republican president. I had been a Dem or an independent for years until I realized that the Dems no longer represented what I believed in.
Thank you for asking.
Did she see Kerry's last answer the other night ???
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