[SHOOT THE MOON bat]

People don't seem to understand what is going on in Pennsylvania. Pa. is loaded with old people. Bitter, miserable old people that sit for hours on end and watch CNN. They are resentful of the money being spent in Iraq because they feel that they are the ones entitled to it. Screw making the world a better place for the young. It is all about them. Santorum is a senator looking to the future in a state where people are waiting to die, while watching CNN. They resented his stand with the President on social security and the war. It really had nothing to do with being conservative or not. They think that Casey is also conservative. Pa. has the second highest population of old people in the country.

[dfwgator]

People don't seem to understand what is going on in Pennsylvania. Pa. is loaded with old people.

"I'm old. Gimme, Gimme, Gimme!!!" - Abe Simpson

[THX 1138]

People don't seem to understand what is going on in Pennsylvania.

Nailed it...

[Strategerist]

People don't seem to understand what is going on in Pennsylvania. Pa. is loaded with old people. Bitter, miserable old people that sit for hours on end and watch CNN. They are resentful of the money being spent in Iraq because they feel that they are the ones entitled to it.

Spot on to a large part (my Dad is one of those people, was a Reagan Republican, now has an obsessive and all consuming hatred of of Bush.)

It's not purely a financial thing though. There's something about Bush that really rubs old people in PA the wrong way, in a major, major way, and they really have an intense dislike of the Iraq War, more out of latent isolationism than the money involved not going to themselves.

[sam_paine]

Bitter, miserable old people that sit for hours on end and watch CNN. They are resentful of the money being spent in Iraq because they feel that they are the ones entitled to it.

YOU are absolutely RIGHT!

I think you've really crystallized something here.

I've seen the exact sentiments myself.

People are quick to blame the "dumb" kids today, but I've heard people in old-folks homes saying, "I'm glad I'm almost out of here because the world is so screwed up now."

Well, granny, guess who was on watch when this started sliding (Social Ponzi Scheme, New Society, Vietnam, ....)

Maybe the kids are just righteously indignant...