Reply #54: I can relate to this

[GOPFighter]

Thanks, Plaid. This was a thought provoking post. I grew up in Indiana in a fundamentalist c'tian conservative Republican home. My parents and the people like them in my home town were good people, but very gullible. They will embrace anything wrapped in christianity and patriotism. Most will never change because they have absolutely no faith in their own common sense. They rely on authority figures to tell them what to believe and are too insecure to break with the majority opinion in their communities.

I can't tell you how many times my dad was cheated by slick-talking salesmen who pretended to be good Bible believing Baptists while they picked his pocket. Even as a child I could see through many of these schemes, but Dad never learned. He went to his grave just as he came into the world: poor.

I'm sure some small percentage of people like that are capable of changing, of coming to the realization that the Bush Administration is just another bunch of hucksters wrapped in god and patriotism, trying to pick their pockets. Emotional pleas by Republicans like Voinovich have a much better chance of planting the seeds of doubt in the minds of the Republican faithful than Kerry, or Dean or Reid. It appears the Republican juggernaut is starting to crack.

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