Father's Day gift: Convincing my dad to change from Bush to Kerry

[zulchzulu]

Well, it was almost accomplished. We are at some Java convention in Boulder and he started bringing up politics with some geeks we were talking to.

He said "ah, Kerry, he's just nuts..." to some fellow Bush fan. I overheard him and asked what he meant.

OK, my father is a great guy; funny, moderate, gives back to the community...but he's a Republican. Ever since 1968. He has talked about feeling left out at Republican state conventions due to the usual suspects (Falwellians and country-club racist loafer wearers). But he still hangs on.

So after I bought him a nice dinner, we hung out and I asked him to describe what he hates most about Kerry. Basically it was the litany of bullshit that Hannity/Rush/O'Reilly/Fox News had bestowed. I gently nuked each argument based on the Franken skewering of Hannity (http://www.awolcowboy.com/mp3/franken-hannity.mp3).

I then asked him about Bush. He said he was very disappointed in the deficit and how negative the commercials were...but, he still wants to vote for Bush.

By the end of the dinner, he understood quite a bit more about Kerry and I even had him laughing at some of the Bushisms (is our children learning...food on your family).

It's tough turning a loyal Republican to open their eyes. You just have to chisel away with the truth a little bit at a time.

[paulk]

1. well, good luck zz

I turned my mom and my sister, but it took years. My dad I gave up on...

Like, what's a java convention? Coffee?

[zulchzulu]

3. Java programming

Makin' portals...I mean channnels...

[AmyStrange]

2. If he's a Reagan repub...

he'll understand this concept:

Repubs of today are what the liberals were 50 years ago. In 50 years repubs will need another Reagan to move the party forward again.

Or, he can get in on it now. Remember that the repugs represented by Bush are against "Stem Cell" research.

Goddess forbid any disease he gets (and dies from) after he dies... they discover a cure for what he died from - like what Reagan died from,

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[UrbScotty]

4. Keep working at it.

Maybe you can get him to convince others to join us in the next four and a half months.

:-)

[Jane Austin]

5. Makes you wonder

how many republicans there would be without the RW media machine.

Congratulations on getting your father to look more closely.