Reply #15: Oh how I've tried but usually to no avail.

[bush_is_wacko]

A repub member of the family ( THE ONLY ONE, THANK GOD) told me he would not pay to keep the Kerry mansion up until he (Kerry) died. I explained to him that the Kerry mansion was really Kerry's wife since she was married to one of the Heinz ketchup boys, who died and she inherited her money from him. I told him Kerry "came from money" compared to him but compared to the Bush's Kerry was equivalent to a pauper before he married Teresa.

I asked him just how many Bush mansions he was willing to pay for with his tax dollars for the rest of their lives, not to mention the two presidential libraries. I explained to him that GWB was NEVER a "normal guy" and his family had money coming out of their ears and none of them were ever average guys. I told him we were likely paying for upkeep and security on several Bush mansions already since Daddy bush has more than one and now we were just going to add a few more to the pot because GWB certainly has more than one house.

I can tell you, it amounted to nothing. It did not change his mind in the least, but it did shut him up that particular night. It is exhausting trying to keep up with these diehards/blowhards. They just won't listen to truth or reason.