I am an award-winning novelist.
I graduated from college with both university and departmental honors.
I live in a very liberal urban area.
I ranked in the 99th percentile in two categories on the GRE.
Most of my neighbors are black. Some of them voted for Bush.
I love ethnic food just as much as biscuits and gravy.
My wife (no biological relation) has an advanced degree from a top university.
I speak German, Russian, a little Spanish and a little Italian.
I'm comfortable around gays.
I give occassional lectures and classes at a local college.
I have a passport with a lot of stamps in it.
Jesus is just alright with me.
I love Broadway musicals.
I own guns.
I love quarterbacks eatin' dirt, pom-poms and short skirts.
I watch Trading Spaces, South Park, and BBC-America.
I admire Robert E. Lee and Frederick Douglass.
I know where to eat in London and La Crosse Wisconsin.
I voted for Bush.
I voted for Bush because I'm NOT stupid.... Stupid would have been voting for Kerry.
The south sure aint what it used to be. Sounds like your describing San Francisco.
I voted for Bush because...
I'm a teacher.
I'm a single mom.
I'm a practicing Catholic.
I'm concerned about the safety of America.
Truth, integrity and honesty still mean something.
Joined the Navy where I was a reactor operator on a nuclear sub.
Loved to pronounce it "nuk-u-ler" just to annoy snobs.
Onto college where I graduated Summa cum Laude, and my wife graduated Magna.
Now I'm a marketing manager at a major national company. My wife runs her own company writing for national magazines.
Do the NYT Sunday puzzle in... well, more than 15 minutes, but I get it done :-)
Own a gun, but haven't used it in years.
My friends and I go to baseball games and annoy other fans by loudly discussing Kierkegaard.
Hate NASCAR, country music and opera. Love indie rock, jazz and Johnny Cash.
Vastly prefer New Mexican cuisine to French, and Argentine reds to Cote de Rhones (would rather have a nice single malt than either).
My wife and I both have homosexual family members than voted for Bush.
Lived for years with a guy from the south Phoenix barrios and another guy from the slums of southside Chicago. Just went camping with one of them last month. Both voted for Bush.
When Al Gore proudly released his IQ score, I noted than it was lower than mine and far lower than almost all of my friends' scores. I also knew that none of us were qualified to be president.
I know that intelligence and education are utterly worthless without wisdom, common sense, love for others, a sense of humor and deep humility.
The least educated person in my extended family is by far the most materially successful. He dropped out of high school and owns a yacht in Marina del Ray, and mansions in three states. Proves that hard work is more important than education too.
I'm a flawed Christian who thinks that honesty, transparency and lack of condescension are important moral values.
I'm honored to have voted for Bush.
i think you meant the title to be:
the "why i voted for Bush and why i am not stupid" thread.
ps -- just having a little fun at your expense. you sound very likeable and intelligent.
1560 SAT I, Full Scholarship - University of Pittsburgh, BS Physics, BA Philosophy & Economics (April 2005)
Voted for Bush because he did well during his first term (WoT, Economy, Defense of Marriage, Kyoto ect.), while Kerry has been AWOL during his senatorial career.
I respect principled stands rather than poll-driven positions. I'm Pro Life. I'm Anti-Embryonic Stem Cell. Pro Iraq War. Pro Military. Pro Tax Reform. Pro Legal Reform. Pro Adoption. Pro Ownership.
I believe in America's unique identity NOT in the corrupt UN and NOT in Europhilia.
I had strongly considered 'punting' this year on President but I concluded John Kerry was too high a risk; the outcome was too important. Despite my disagreements, I voted for George W. Bush.
I voted for the President because that is what Right-Wing hate radio told me to do.
What a weird thread.
Im dumb too
Oh yeah, my Chilean son-in-law (diversity) just walked into his boss' office and said he needed a $10,000 annual raise, which she (gender sensitivity) gave right on the spot. Unfortunately, he couldn't vote, not being a citizen (we play by the rules, see). But he woulda if he coulda. My daughter is being offered huge raises to keep her on with her company. She's pregnant (another Christian on the way), but she wants to be a stay-at-home mom. She's a Christian and voted for President Bush, because terrorists want to take away her health care.
My IQ is tested over 140.
I graduated with honors at all levels of study.
I am in the top 2% of wage earners.
I have created from scratch 2 companies.
I have read Chomsky and understand everything he says and reject it completely as mindless drivel.
I have read Marx and understood it all and reject it as drivel.
I send my child to Catholic Private School because I understand that Public Schools are the same as Public Defenders. Everyone understands and accepts that public defenders are not nearly the calibre or ability as private sector attorneys on average.. yet the left continues to believe that with enough money somehow Public Schools will be somehow not the equivlanet of the public defender.
That's enough for now...
Agnostic. Never fired a gun, driven a truck, or got maudlin listening to George Straight. Red wine not beer. Travel regularly. Speak a bunch of languages and can order dinner in half a dozen others. Divorced. Wife's a HS dropout who built a multi-million dollar business and looks like Susan Lucci, except cuter. Oppose abortion but can't see the point in banning it because, like drugs, demand is such that the ban would only sow corruption in those charged with enforcing it. Some of my best friends are gay. My two best buddies, one's a Jew and the other is a Muslim from Turkey. We own a boat together to get away from our wives. All three of us are immigrants, and what America has given all of us is beyond anything our ambitious imaginations could have conceived when we came here.
We all voted for Bush.
I possess an English degree from a very well-respected private university. I minored in Russian; I am currently studying Latin.
I don't like to waste time. I have two children, and therefore must be well-organized to raise them in the way they should go while still having time to maintain my home, cook, study, write, and knit.
I loathe most rock music, rap and hip-hop. I seldom watch television. I own copies of "M", "Picnic at Hanging Rock", "Last Year at Marienbad", "Citizen Kane", countless other films, and possess a library of over 10,000 volumes. Next to my children, my books are my most valuable possessions (not that my children are possessions, of course...)
I was a registered Democrat from 1984 until 2002. The Party lost me during the Clinton administration, but I didn't change my registration to Republican until after the turn of the century because I kept hoping that the Clinton disaster was an anomaly.
It wasn't. The Democratic Party's acceptance of the likes of Michael Moore, George Soros and Al Franken have lost this voter forever.
The Democratic Party will continue to lose voters until it purges itself of these far-left extremists.