Reply #9: I have long been perplexed by the over-worked, underpaid

[lazyriver]

blue collar republicans. I lost a long time friend after 9/11 as our political affiliations diverged. He, a beer truck driver and Reagan worshiping republican turned even harder to the right and became fiercely pro-Bush. I went the other way. He busted his ass 50 hours a week delivering beer, was in the Naval Reserves, and still had to work weekends to get by. Yet he adamantly supported the republican agenda, was a loyal Faux Newz viewer and Rush listener, and believed "all liberals need to get the f*** out" of "his" country.

Our friendship officially ended when I asked him what, specifically, the republicans were doing for him and other working people. He did the usual right wing side step and asked me what Clinton did for me. I pressed my question again and the debate quickly devolved into a near fist fight. We walked away agreeing not to speak again. I simply don't understand how the people the republicans shit on the most can so fervently support them.