Great "angry Republican" post I found on Yahoo!

[ElementaryPenguin]

I suspect there are many more out there - perhaps a "silent majority" of Republicans!

http://news.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?action=m&board=37138459&tid=apiraq&sid=37138459&mid=1121175

[Cha]

1. That's a Good one! I'm trying to

remember all these points when I talk to my landlady about bushwa. Cause she's a Catholic and voted for him because of the Choice on Abortion issue. Even the Pope was against the Iraqi Invasion, though!

[ElementaryPenguin]

2. I'd keep harping on the fact that the Pope is...

very anti-Bush - and seem geniunely outraged by his unprovoked war! The fact that nothing whatsoever has been found must undoubtedly make him even more anti-Chimp!

[JasonDeter]

4. The pope being anti war does not make him anti bush*

I haven't seen the pope come out and denounce bush*. Did I miss something?

[dflprincess]

7. He told Bush and Blair that if they went ahead with the war

they were going without God. Coming from the Pope, I'd call that denouncing Bush.

[JasonDeter]

3. Its reads like a democratic poster

I'd have to know the person personally to believe it was a republican.

[GOPFighter]

5. Maybe, but...

...a lot of conservatives on a mailing list I'm a member of are very critical of Bush. Only one conservative still defends him.

[JasonDeter]

6. I'm sorry but until stupid* is out of the People's House

I'm skeptical of republicans being anti bush.

[solinvictus]

8. My dad

My dad is a Republican and a Southern Baptist. He's a mechanic with over 30 years of experience and at this point, he's earning less than in the late 1970's. He has absolutely stated that he will not vote for the Busheviks because they've betrayed America by involving us in an unjust war and they've taken every step offered against the American workers.

[JasonDeter]

10. Thats fine. My father-in-law just registered for the first time

and he's going on 65, the most uninformed man I know, and he'll vote straight republican. How sick is that? I don't think theres going to be many defections, its going to be close, its how many voters get to the polls that will determine the outcome. I'm kind of worried about the absentee ballots, that there will be a big push by the republicans getting older people and those who don't like taking the time going out to vote that way. This could be an interesting election in many ways.

[havocmom]

9. My county of residence voted over 80% for bush*

and I am hearing talk like that post made out in the open once in awhile. If the there are occasional remarks like that made in such a small population as we have, you can bet there is a whole lot of thinking along those lines.

The disillusionment started the day after the SOTU address last January and has gained with every letter from friends and kin in Iraq, begging for food and beverages to be sent. Even with the piss-poor showing from media, there is enough real news getting through to this, the most remote berg in the lower 48, that more and more questions are forming and even being asked about the course this nation has been stampeded onto.

And as folks around here start to do their tax arithmetic and find out those payments for kids they got last summer were just a loan on any refunds they might get on last year's taxes, there will be a good rolling boil. Some folks will really resent being used like that.

Read letters to editors in papers on-line from around the nation. The points made by that yahoo poster are being made in some pretty conservative parts of America. They are being voiced more often and with more anger.

We just need to harness that rising discontent and offer a palatable alternative to the corporate takeover of America. And we need to keep getting the word out and offer real information sources to help our neighbors sort it all out.

[IronLionZion]

11. There are other Republicans like that

Bush is not a conservative at all. His policies are not conservative or compassionate, just plain self-serving bullshit. The number one reason people back in my rural, Catholic/Christian hometown support Bush? Abortion. Number two? tax cuts.

What the hell is wrong with these people? Many of them are unwilling to see what he is really doing. When I bring up stuff like his taking away civil liberties or giving away our tax dollars they just look dumbfounded and don't believe it. These people despised Clinton for giving so much aid to poor countries and for standing up for women's rights. I wish more conservative will see the truth and throw him out.