Posted on 10/08/2008 1:12:20 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
He's Philadelphia born and raised, a resident of the Northeast. He's 51-years-old and he's never voted for a Republican. Not once. He's also a union plumber and that's why he doesn't want his named used. Leadership is lobbying the rank-and-file hard to vote for Sen. Barack Hussein Obama. If my friend the plumber publicly states that he intends to vote for Sen. John McCain instead, he'll hear about it.
"I can't bring myself to vote for somebody whose wife has never been proud of America," he says, alluding to a putdown of our country uttered by Michelle Obama. "McCain's a war hero. This other guy's a show pony."
The plumber mostly keeps his feelings to himself, perhaps close family members might know. Maybe not. They'd be shocked. The Messiah has blown dust into the eyes of many young people and maybe the plumber's nephews and nieces overlook Barack "the Baby-Killer's" record and hard-left political leanings.
You really can't blame young adults for not knowing. The media has made it a point not to inform them of Sen. Obama's slurs against our fighting men and women, and opposition to a bill that would have protected infants who survive an abortion. Maybe they've heard (or maybe not) about Sen. Obama's close ties with a man, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who sits right up there with David Duke on the list of America's most infamous racists. Rev. Wright performed the ceremonies when Sen. Obama got married and the senator's daughters were baptized.
The plumber knows all about it. He makes it a point to keep informed, which means digging beneath what the mainstream media shovels your way. The plumber also knows the risk of stating publicly in a city that's overwhelmingly Democrat, among friends and family who've never voted Republican, that you don't want Sen. Obama to win.
"Oh, then you're a racist," the plumber says with a shrug, noting that Sen. Obama himself has none too subtly attempted to slur critics with that label. "My vote has nothing to do with race. What has this guy ever done?"
The plumber would never tell any pollster his intentions. It's nobody's business but his. There's no way of knowing how many people in the Northeast are keeping their opinions about this election to themselves.
As of this writing, Sen. Obama leads in the polls. How accurate is that? During the primaries Sen. Obama's margin of victory had often been overestimated. Pundits write that off to people in exit interviews simply lying for fear of appearing racist. There may be something to that. But not wanting to appear racist is not the same thing as actually being racist. My friend the plumber isn't a racist. He isn't a fool either. He knows the difference between celebrity and authenticity.
I'm betting that there are a lot of people like my friend the plumber, representing a stealth-voting block that will shock prognosticators on Nov. 4. That block will make itself known in the Northeast. Nearly 25 years ago I got my first job in newspapers at the Northeast Times. Back then many in the Northeast wanted to secede from the rest of Philadelphia and call themselves Liberty County.
I think that movement resurfaces over the years, but in many ways the Northeast is in constant revolt against the rest of the city. The section is full of people like my friend the plumber. It is full of nurses, firefighters, cops, carpenters, teachers, small-business owners, car salesmen, factory workers and bus drivers. They are people from blue-collar backgrounds who are predisposed to vote for the Democrat. They are people like the plumber who can hardly believe that this year, for the very first time in their lives, they are going to vote for a Republican presidential candidate. Shhh! Don't tell anyone.
The media charges that they are doing this because of race, in an effort to shame these people into voting for Sen. Obama. They don't know these people. That sort of cheap ploy just makes them stand their ground. They won't back down, just as Sen. McCain didn't back down all those years ago in a prison hell-hole. These people put country above political correctness. Three cheers for Liberty County!
Post a McCain sign....and you pick up a racist label.
BTW ~
Love the “Type O” quote.
Y’know, ya gotta want that cow bell!
My aunt has managed to get almost all my cousins and their family (all whom have never voted before) to register and vote early (in Georgia which McCain will take anyway). But I guarantee you there are a lot of folks like them. Lower middle income to poor whites who have seen their neighborhoods go downhill and their cities riddled with crime. Racist or not, that’s just the way they think.
I went to Bawlmer two weeks ago to pick up a rescue dog at BWI.
That takes care of my trips to Bawlmer for the next decade.
We rode through “Fedrick” in the end of Sept. and very few Zero signs were up...even in the usual neighborhoods.
I saw several Mac signs on W. Patrick St, all of places.
RT 11 to Chambersburg is the same story.
When you get to the Wilson College area, they’re everywhere like fungus on a rotting stump.
The Republican are accused of suppression tactics in minority areas, the MSM/Dem Machine does it out loud and daily with phony polls all the time.
There’s lots of quiet anger out there with the PUMAS and with union people that feel Barry is being shoved down their thoats.
***Post a McCain sign....and you pick up a racist label***
The only PERMANENT bumper stickers I have seen have been Barry’s.
McCain’s have been MAGNETIC because, well hell, we know what would happen to the sticker AND your car if you leave it on in an unguarded lot.
(And I’m in TEXAS!!)
My neighbor and friend is a life long Democrat, who has never voted Republican in his 58 years.
He said that there is no way he will be responsible for the mess this “idiot” WILL create if he gets voted in.
He is also voting for a local Conservative for Congress, because he is very angry about the Democrat who stole the office from a good Republican in 2006. Thanks to his effort, the Minnesota legislature voted in the largest tax increase in it’s history. (A 46% increase....imagine that!)
I actually think my friend is starting to wake up after all!
This brings me to another issue which is driving me crazy this election cycle. That is the manipulation of poll numbers to create the false impression that the man child is doing better than he really is. As an example, they'll conduct a poll with roughly the same numbers of rats, repubs, and independents. A week later the same poll is taken with percentage wise more rats which shows a man child false surge. The media is trying to influence public opinion in every underhanded way imaginable.
I think HRC voters did Barry to the tune of 3 to 7 in those districts. I like those odds for McCain/Palin, but you know the fix will be in on the other ends of the state with Philly and Pittsburgh contributing much voter fraud.
Cool! Then you rescued a dog from Balmer.
Beleave!
The way the media spun the VP debates is almost criminal fraud. Palin clearly won easily, but the media brainwashing was non stop. They followed the Goebbels doctrine to the “T”; Tell the same lie often enough, the public will eventually forget the facts an begin to believe it.
Fingers crossed.
Maybe they could have a few ACORN raids up in PA?
But then again, I must run with a bitter, clingy crowd here in PA.
I have step by step shown him the facts about obama and Ayers, Wright, Alinsky, Kenya, al-mansour, ACORN, senate bill 2433...
His response: "I don't want to talk about it".
If he and his fellow obamobots get their way they will spend the next fifty years regretting it...we all will.
Nope...I rescued a dog from a shelter in California...and her sister who went to a home in Nebraska.
This is her:
http://www.ibizan-hound.com/gypsy.htm
[though I did get her out of Bawlmer alive ~after dark~, so yeah, I guess I rescued her from there, too]....LOL
My friend claims to be utterly committed to finding out the facts and the truth about everything but she will not face the obvious, glaring crimes of her candidate.
It is utterly off limits for me to talk about Zero but she’s free to take pot shots at Republicans.
Liberals are fascists.
Yeah, but I bet he votes for the same stinking congress mob member that brought us to where we are.
My sister is a liberal who has always voted Dem. She is not a racist, but cannot stand Obama. Her solution? She will vote for the local Dems and not vote for either candidate for president.
There are many like her. Effectively, a half of vote for McCain is better than a full vote for Barry. All those half votes add up, nationwide.
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