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>>How on Gods green earth could half of this country support Kerry?<<<

I will tell you why Kerry has about 7 to 10 percent more support than he should: Iraq war.

I know people who still will vote for Bush but are not confident about how things are going in Iraq because of all the negative images coming at them from the MSM.

In the first debate Bush had the opportunity to tell a lot of people all at once why staying the course is the right thing, and why we went there in the first place was the right thing, and why Kerry's history of voting on defense issues is horrible and why Kerry's multiple positions on Iraq are dangerous.
He failed to do so in a effective way.

Now we are in a close race.

I was a Democrat when I supported the war in Iraq. I still support it, that has not changed, but I have.

I lived my 32 years as a democrat never challenging never questioning their(democrats) judgment.

I was a good little democrat. The kind they want, after all, this is what I elected them to do....to think for me.

When 9-11 happened, for the first time in my adult life I started asking questions. They didn't like that. They liked it when they said, 'vote Clinton' I did. They said, 'vote Clinton again, I did. They said, 'vote Gore' I did. They liked me when I did that. I was one of 'THEM'.

After 9-11, they didn't like me anymore. When I would call my elected officials---the ones I voted for---showing my support of Bush, you would have thought that I was supporting Satan himself. I got into arguments with them. My whole world was suddenly upside down. I was set adrift. I belonged to no one, I had no party, they threw me away.

It took me a year and a half of fighting with my conscious before I took the step that would change everything I thought, felt, believed in. I said good bye to my Southern Democratic hertiage.

If this has happened to me, there must be others who think as I do. I can't be the only one.

I believe that President Bush is a good and decent man with all my heart. I see the war on terror as more than the war in Iraq, it's a continuation. I don't want terrorist blowing up my country. I love my country.

The Kerry supporters must still think the way I used too. September 11, 2001 didn't affect them, but it did me. The shame I carry around with me, being so blind for so many years.

I apologize for this long winded post. But I had say this. I love my country, I just didn't know how much till now.