Posted on 12/29/2004 10:29:34 PM PST by Pikamax
GOP's Soft Sell Swayed the Amish Unlikely Voters Cast Lot With Bush By Evelyn Nieves Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, December 30, 2004; Page A03
BIRD-IN-HAND, Pa.
Early on a pale blue morning, a horse-drawn buggy clop-clopped along a farmland stretch of Route 340. A lone little Chevy compact came toward it at a Sunday pace.
From an intersection, a black SUV the size of an Indian elephant barreled up to the buggy's back, passing with a quick jerk that nearly clipped the oncoming car -- and the horse's nose.
That's Pennsylvania's Amish country, where the 19th and 21st centuries coexist, commingle and collide on a regular basis. The Amish may hold fast to their plain ways, rejecting cars, indoor electricity, home phones and televisions. But contact with the outside world is unavoidable. Malls stand on land where corn used to grow, tourists run around the village streets, and even the old unspoken rule -- leave the Amish alone -- is gone, left in the dust of the presidential campaign, when the Republicans came calling for votes.
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Call it a soft sell, but I call it anti-Marxist, VERY PRO-AMERICA, and honest, with a clear PLAN AND A VISION. Kerry had none of these at all. An empty shell of a Marxist.
He lost.
I read the whole story. It was really great.
They are wanting tickets to the inaguration. Hoping and praying they get them!!!
Somebody needs to get them tickets to the inauguration festivities.
I agree!! Thinking about it... would they ride there in their horse drawn buggies??? What a hoot! All the same, they need to have tickets!! Hope somebody gets with it.
While it would be fun to see a group of Amish in a caravan to DC to see the inaugeration, actually they hire drivers with vans to take them wherever they want to go.
Good, that would be a long trip and cause a lot of problems otherwise, IMO. I just really HOPE they get an invite!!!!!!!!!!
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