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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 01:50 PM
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How Conservatives Become Instant Liberals
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raysr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 01:53 PM
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1. Right on
and then there's the "oh shit, I just got layed off!"
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Hippo_Tron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 01:55 PM
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2. I wish it were that simple...
Unfortunately I see most of the small midwestern states going to Bush.
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rasputin1952 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 02:18 PM
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4. I'm not so sure of that...
but I will admit that the "Vote-by-Rote" is out in force. Here in NE, there is absolutely no auble support of bush whatsoever. The silence is deafening.

Just about the only thing keeping farmers afloat are the supports congress sends them. Althouogh the price of soy-beans is up, but other than that, the economy really stinks. If you add to that a draft, bush is history.

O8)
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LuCifer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 03:20 PM
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8. I wouldn't be so sure
Mind you, I'm NOT optimistic at all, but if they keep pissing off people the way they are, it's going to be an all-50 state LAND SLIDE for Kerry. Do they WANT to loose? WE CAN ONLY HOPE.

Lu
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maggrwaggr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 02:03 PM
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3. egg-ZACKT-ly!
says it all, really.
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rasputin1952 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 02:20 PM
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5. If there is a draft...
it should be universal; men and women. I'd love to see bush's daughters in uniform and driving trucks to the front. Maybe then, this coward would understand what other families are going through.

O8)
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Tinoire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 02:54 PM
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6. Definitely one of the aspects!
All the others run along similar veins. People who feel personally betrayed by Bush because they were, in their stupidity, had, now declaring themselves "liberals" because they're having a personalility difference with the Republicans, not an idealogical difference.
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LuCifer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 03:08 PM
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7. Shmit-can their favorite FM morning show!
I've gone from 55 members in my yahoogroup http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SternAndMore/join (shameless jerk! I plug it! Yepper!) BEFORE this Crap Channel crap...to guess how many members it has now? 230! YES! You read that right. 230! I did ZERO promotion for my group. I did not have TIME TO. I was taking in so many emails from EX-republicans saying "I voted for Bush in 2000, and I'm SO sorry I did." and stuff to that affect. It was sureal.

Also, last night, I went to my local deathrock/goth/punk/fetish club wearing my home-mark F. W! shirt, I also added my url, JohnKerry.com, etc., and guess what? SAME THINK. Not ONE bad response. I had 3 people tell me "I used to be republican...but this is IT, I can't listen to Stern anymore, it's bullcrap." Or words close enough.

Lu
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 03:32 PM
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9. I just joined
see ya round the block :hi:
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PCIntern Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 03:41 PM
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10. Christie Whitman and George Will
Whitman had two deliveries, one regular (vaginal) one C-section. She of course, since she recognizes the difference between the two, pressed as governor for regulations forbidding the private-enterprise hospitals from kicking out the C-sections after about 45 minutes. Pretty progressive, right?

Will has a retarded son who he feels needs special government care, thus he is a special-interest, and what's more, he once witnessed a person thrown thru a windshield, so at least for a while, he was for mandatory seat-belt usage. There goes that pesky government, getting into your life again...once more, pretty progressive, right?

These conservatives for the most part lack empathy - if it didn't happen to them, then it doesn't matter. Of course, that's not to say that all the other horrible things that can happen to people matter to these folk, since, for the time being, it didn't happen to them.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 05:02 PM
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11. Empathy?? Most true Pubs don't know the meaning. They lack ALOHA
in their hearts.

In my mind, they are Chaff, Opala, rubbish, piece of shits.
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