Confession - I am responsible for 150 straight ticket republican votes

[daveskilt]

I run a nursing home. Our folks want absentee ballots - and I always make those ballots available and help our resident's vote. Even the ones who ask where nixon's name is on the ballot. They don't know what year it is but they all want to vote repub down the line. Oddly it makes me happy and gives me hope that the inexplicable 30% bottom for bush does not mean that 1 of every 3 people you meet is a delusional freeper - they may be suffering from dementia instead.

on edit: DU clerics/priests/prophets/vicars/pastors/televangelists/holy types please let me know - does this mean I will go to hell and do I have a penance to perform?

[YDogg]

1. ya gotta do what ya gotta do.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. since we won, I guess I can't be mad

and the thought that 10% of his base is drooling on themselves, and another 10% are just old makes me feel a little better.

[BuyingThyme]

3. No biggie. You and I will be them one day.

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

12. Speak For Yourself...

I may get old, but I'm not going to get STUPID and start voting a straight repub ticket.

[BuyingThyme]

21. By then, a straight Dem ticket may be today's

straight Puke ticket.

[Blue State Blues]

38. In their day

the Repub party was a very different animal.

[Coexist]

4. no, that is a great service you do.

really.

[Sweet Freedom]

5. Nothing wrong with letting people vote their conscience. /nt

[Warren DeMontague]

6. No, because unlike the GOP, we WANT EVERYONE to vote, and we want

EVERYONE'S vote to be counted.

You did the right thing.

[dave502d]

7. That why i like DU, just good people. n/t

[morgan2]

8. no problem helping them fill things out

Just dont mail em anywhere..

[daveskilt]

20. don't think I wasn't tempted!

What made me send them in was the fact that the first people to come forward and ask for their ballots and ask if I mailed them in are our African American resident's - every single one of them. It then occurs to me that our residents were in their 20's 30's 40's and 50's in the sixties - hell some of them had grandparents who were born as slaves! the right to vote means a lot more to some of our resident's than it does to most people and I won't take it away from them.

[MnFats]

9. truth & reconcilliation....you deserve credit for speaking up.

[RoccoR5955]

10. You owe no penance

For you did the correct thing. Letting them vote in our democracy is what it's all about. Who they voted for is none of your business. THEY are the ones who shall do penance for voting for Evil incarnate.

[mcg]

44. I gave a ride to an 88 year old lady,

she had a stroke 15 years ago, can't walk well,
only has use of one arm, but she always votes.
She's registered as an independent, I don't know
who she voted for, I didn't ask.

[Jackpine Radical]

11. I just had the vision of a bunch of US sitting there, drooling on

our lap robes and looking for Clinton's name. Bill Clinton. Or, maybe in about 2050, Hillary.

[daveskilt]

25. Thats a fun vision - some of these folks are pretty amazing

I had one resident who had photos of herself hanging out with Langston Hughes and other folks from the Harlem Renaissance. Says they all called her 'Dirty Ruthie', another resident talked about marching with Martin Luther King, of course I also had a resident who was a pirate in the 1920's off the North African coast. These folks had and still have lives - some of them did amazing things and changed the world. If we can all say that about ourselves in 2050 as we sit drooling and looking for Clinton's name on the ballot, it will be a good day.

[Jackpine Radical]

28. I used to consult to nursing homes.

Been in them a lot, and know the scene.

[kath]

32. So are the African-American elderly residents voting Repug as well??

Hope not - pretty gross to imagine someone who marched with MLK voting Repug. :puke:

[daveskilt]

33. About 90% of our residents went repub - nursing home in Nixon's hometown

In fact Nixon's mother died in my nursing home - he used to visit all the time apparently (before my time but a few nurses here remember him - say he was a prick)

[kath]

37. But did African-Americans, even those who marched with MLK, vote Repug?

ACK!
MLK, and others who fought so hard for freedom, would surely spin like tops in their graves for such a stupid act.

Watched "Eyes on the Prize" a few weeks back. The racist Repugs are of the same ilk as the racist Southern governors and police chiefs who turned fire hoses and dogs on those who marched for freedom, and beat them to a pulp. :puke:

[daveskilt]

42. nope only one African American resident (our fundie res.) voted repub

[tpsbmam]

13. Good for you......

you set a good example for the Rethugs. Our votes are precious and you're doing the right thing.

[cboy4]

14. I would have told them it's a new law that the ballots had

to be filled out in pencil.

Then I would have gone through them, erased away the (R's) and "penned in" DEMS all the way down the line.

I guess I would never qualify to work in a nursing home, would I? ;)

In case it's needed, I was just kidding.

[bluerum]

15. Somehow knowing that they really don't know what they are doing

makes me feel better about the 00 and 04 presidential elections.

Thanks for the perspective on the hardcore of republican voters.

[benddem]

16. serious consideration for future

have Vote straight democratic ticket tatooed on your hand before you become too addled to know what you are doing. I'm not any of the religious persuasion but you are doing your job...and you are right about that 30%.

[kestrel91316]

17. Old folks in nursing homes need to have their voices heard, too.

You did the right thing.

I am always harping on people to VOTE. And I tell them I don't care HOW they vote, just vote, dammit!

[AnneD]

18. Just grit your teeth.....

for every senile person that votes a straight GOP ticket, there is a 95 yo DEM that is smart enough to call 911 to get a ride to a polling place. It balances out in the end. This is what it is about. Letting everyone vote. Heck if you live in Texas, I'll come out there and sign them up for you.

[proud patriot]

19. Very honorable

:patriot:

[deadparrot]

22. Hey, everyone over 18 has a vote.

Even though we may disagree like hell, I wouldn't have it any other way. Good for you. :thumbsup:

[Beaverhausen]

23. Happy to give you the 5th vote for greatest page

You are a true patriot!

[daveskilt]

26. Wow thanks - never been on greatest page before

Also I've never been called a patriot before. This is my first time voting in the US since I became a citizen last year. It's really an honor to have someone think I am a patriot.

[Beaverhausen]

27. you're welcome

I see you live in LA too! :hi:

[seabeyond]

24. wrong party about going to hell for doing right and decent and kind

that is the other side, even with religion. the left religion is be kind and loving and decent.... and you are doing a ok, help all, even those wanting to vote repug with dementia, may even make you a saint

[tavalon]

29. Another way to put this

You confess to upholding the values of the Democratic party. Good on ya.

[DisgustedTX]

30. They have every right to vote. You are a good person.

The elderly are widely neglected in this country and you're doing a great service to
provide additional dignity to their existence.

[hippywife]

31. I can relate!

I work in a retirement center/nursing home, too. A very fundie inundated one. It's frustrating but it must be done. You have nothing to be absolved for. :hi:

[dddem]

34. you should be proud of yourself.

I hate to sound so cynical, but I really wonder if a republican would respect other people's wishes the way you have. Good for you!
Peace

[The Backlash Cometh]

35. Well, if you're wiping their asses for them, it sounds like it goes

with the job.

[Blue State Blues]

36. Thank you, truly

This is the funniest thing I've heard all day:

"Oddly it makes me happy and gives me hope that the inexplicable 30% bottom for bush does not mean that 1 of every 3 people you meet is a delusional freeper - they may be suffering from dementia instead."

[txindy]

39. You're doing your job and helping your clients. I can't fault you.

You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din! :patriot:

[struggle4progress]

40. "Either you believe in Democracy -- or you don't"

Many years ago, I had some very serious leftist friends, long-time socialists, who decided that they would contribute to changing the local government by registering new voters. They set up a table for a week and collected voter registration forms from anyone who walked by who wanted to register. And they put them in an envelope without looking at them for the whole week. And at the end of the week they set off to take to the local registrar. On the way, being overcome with curiosity, they gave in and looked at the hundred or so voter registration forms they had collected -- and they had been registering three Republicans for every Democrat. They sighed, delivered all the forms to the registrar, and later told me: "Either you believe in Democracy -- or you don't." Of course, they also spent a lot of time in the community doing political organizing and political education work, so the fact that they had willingly registered Republicans may actually have given them additional credibility in that not-very-large-town.

I doubt if I would go out of my way to help anyone with clinical dementia obtain a ballot, but whenever I've made an offer to drive people to the polls or help them vote in any other way, I have not inquired further into their political affiliations.

[ArbustoBuster]

41. You're part of what makes America great.

Everyone gets a vote, and even if someone disagrees with us, we fight for their right to cast that ballot. Thank you for what you did for those old folks, and I hope that there are principled people like you taking care of us when we're old and trying to figure out how to use our new brain implants to vote for the Democrats. :)

[tyedyeto]

43. I applaud you!

I live in an area (southern Arizona) where there are numerous assisted living/ nursing homes. Many of those people who live there need help with day-to-day living. If that means helping them fill out their ballot, I'd help them and would never think of filling in something they don't want. I may not like their choices but they have every right to vote their own conscience even when someone else is wielding the pen.

Honesty and integrity is what it's all about when helping these Seniors live.

[TahitiNut]

45. It's a good thing they didn't vote Green.

A mob of angry finger-pointing DUers would storm the place and burn it to the ground. :evilgrin:

'Republican' is OK, though. :dunce: