Republican voters interested in Kerry [View All]

[Stuckinthebush]

Full disclosure - I'm a Dean supporter.

I had a conversation today with my very Republican father in law from South Carolina. He started to give me hell about Dean, and I told him that I still liked him, etc.

I said, "I like Kerry too. Any one of our guys is better than Bush."

He surprised me by saying, "I really like Kerry also."

I was floored.

We talked further, and he said that what he really liked about Kerry was his strong military background and his history of standing up for veterans. He liked his ideas about insurance and said if Kerry won, he could support him. I asked if he thought that other Southerners would support him, and he said, "No. Not unless he has a balanced ticket with Edwards."

He said there was no way he could support any of the others - especially that Dean guy. I let him have it about that and told him that he was being played by the GOP and the media. But, the important thing is that he was interested in Kerry.

Good news for us seeing how Kerry is coming on strong.