"Eu sou rico vou a foda você mesmo!!!"
Posted on 10/23/2004 7:39:52 PM PDT by knak
Reporter: Lisa Millar
HAMISH ROBERTSON: Now to the United States, where, with the opinion polls putting the presidential candidates John Kerry and George W. Bush at a dead heat, Democrats are discovering they can't count on some states that were once considered their party's heartland. In America's south, even some registered Democrats look set to throw their support behind Mr Bush.
Our North America correspondent Lisa Millar compiled this report in Louisiana.
LISA MILLAR: When the temperature drops, and the leaves start falling, it means just one thing to Louisiana locals – squirrel hunting season.
RICHARD TAYLOR: I try and hunt two or three days a week during season, especially when the leaves get off the trees. I try to get all the time I can.
LISA MILLAR: It's quite a Louisiana tradition, isn't it?
RICHARD TAYLOR: Oh yeah, I've been squirrel hunting ever since I was old enough to trod through the woods. My grandpa took me when I was just a little boy.
LISA MILLAR: The sweet meat ends up in stews or sauces, squirrel brains are considered a bit of a delicacy for those game to try. Schools close and football games are cancelled when the season opens, such is the passion these locals have for this pastime.
But with the election just over a week away politics is also a hot topic. I went squirrel hunting with a few locals, all registered Democrats, who say they'll be voting for George W. Bush.
JIM WISE: His morals and everything… you know, there may be some problems with the economy and things like that, but George Bush is who I'm for.
LISA MILLAR: Jim Wise voted for a Democrat in local elections just a few months ago, but when it comes to the Presidential race, he can't stomach John Kerry.
JIM WISE: Not at this time, I've just seen a lot of things, he's flip-flopped back and forth, you know, and right now with the war going on and the economy and different things… it's going to be trouble for George Bush right now because it's easy to run against a fellow when you ain't got a record and George Bush has a record and this other guy don't have a record, as far as being a President.
And it's good to sit on the sidelines, and vote from the sidelines, it's easy, but I think he's made some tough decisions and I like what he stands for.
LISA MILLAR: Lesley Taylor knows how he'll be voting.
LESLEY TAYLOR: I think Mr Bush… he looks at the people, he don't look at himself, unlike John Kerry. I get the idea that John Kerry is independent, he thinks of himself and not to others.
LISA MILLAR: Likewise his father Richard.
RICHARD TAYLOR: The Democrat's not a Democrat, the old style Democrat. You know, the old style Democrats wasn't a liberalist, like John Kerry, you know, and Ted Kennedy and all them. They didn't believe in all those giveaway programs. That's all they do – giveaway, giveaway and you can only giveaway so long and somebody gotta pay for it.
LISA MILLAR: Louisiana used to be one of the Democrat Party's strongest southern states but the political map in America is changing. States that the party could once depend on are swinging the other way.
But the Republicans are also finding they can no longer rely on states they once called their own. With the polls putting the candidates dead even, it's another indication of just how volatile this race has been and why no one is confident of predicting a winner.
This is Lisa Millar in Leesville Louisiana for Saturday AM.
"Eu sou rico vou a foda você mesmo!!!"
Jim Wise voted for a Democrat in local elections just a few months ago, but when it comes to the Presidential race, he can't stomach John Kerry.
Jim Wise is wise.
travel to this state a lot. plenty of W stickers all over.
I smell kerry stew.
Two points. Taylor and Wise aren't south Louisiana (core Democrat territory) names. Leesville is an army town.
funny, but im calling bullsheet on you.
I don't think so..... Football games & school cancelled for squirrels??? LOL!
LOL, Call it anything you want, I could care less... I was surprised when I saw the name and kept reading and then saw Leesville. There is only one Jim Wise in Vernon Parish. A bull and one really great guy.
He once saved my butt.
First day for absentee voting was last Thursday and they had a record turn out.
Sounds like a tag line to me!
it.
Honest to God, it's a fact... It's a tradition that goes way back. Back to when squirrels and piney woods rooters where about the only fresh meat the folks around here had.
I believe you now. I still am registered in LA. Sent mine in alreay. Was in Lafayette last week and just saw so many W stickers. It was great to see it. Not so many in N.O. but that should be expected.
I believe it. Some schools shut down for a week when deer season opens too.
When I was in school (Many many moons ago) School would close for a couple of weeks during cotton harvest time.
Maybe Kerry should grab his shotgun, call his manservant and travel to LA to shoot squirrel.
Thanks, Good hear of strong support Lafayette!
Yep. All he would have to do is sit in the woods and make noises like a nut...He'd be good at it.
I like to think Kerry is losing his grip on lots of things.
Hey, I picked a little cotton myself. 3 cents a pound for my grandfather who raised about 35 acres. My best day was 100 pounds.
Back then, everyone went to the fair on Friday and camped out that night in the woods to go squirrel hunting on opening day which was always on a Saturday.
Did you notice how the reporter had to get one jab in "But the Republicans are also finding they can no longer rely on states they once called their own."
Looks like some acoonasses were having fun with the yankee. BTW, just when is squirrel season and what's the bag limit?
I'd like to see him crawling around on his belly while dodging the copper heads and cotton mouths.
Hehehe... I'm sure if he went hunting with some of these old boys around here, they would for sure suggest crawling on your belly was the best way to sneak up on an unsuspecting squirrel.
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