Reply #237: Here is why I'm interested in him...

[pauldg0]

..by the way I'm really sticking with him...I was just in a bad mood yesterday.

To answer your question. I feel there are a lot of Republicans, like myself, especially in Michigan where a lot of our jobs have gone over to India, china, mexico, etc.

I have been unemployed/underemployed for about four years. I have no insurance. All my neighbors are losing their homes. I am barely hanging on.

Imagine...I was raised by a tunnel vision Republican banker, but I chose to start on the assembly line at Chrysler Corporation when I was young instead of going into business with my dad. I worked hard and learned not only about the machine shop and assembly lines but also learned to understand what hard working people go through, getting laid off throughout their working lives.

So, as you can see, I developed a human objective side that my father never had. He worked in a bank all his life. It's very hard to bring up politics in his household.

As an engineer, which is basically a lower end manager, I had great wages and benefits with the auto industry...and basically driven by union scale wages. Most lower end managers/engineers are republicans because they support the company. So you see, a Republican in Michigan is different because we have no where to go. John Edwards is saying the right thing for us, sounds strange?

Hope I didn't get carried away with all this, but that is my story in a nutshell. Oh, also I must tell you this. I am sixty years old and that makes it worse.

So, that is what Edwards has in common with republicans like us....unemployed republicans who see the light. He's the only candidate on either side that has important things to say and not only that he's the only one who states how he would do it. I still like him and I can't vote for the other two...sorry.

By the way, I am not a infiltrating republican trying to change everybody to go republican, but it looked that way didn't it. I have been upset about what has happened to him in the last year. His candidacy has been basically raped by our most sacred treasure...our own press.

Hoped he comes back and I hope your candidate does well too!!