I Think I Lost Two to Bush Tonight [View All]

[DoveTurnedHawk]

I am really depressed. I was having drinks tonight with two die-hard Clark supporters who had previously been Republicans.

Our entire leadership group (including the two of them) had been discussing moving over to Kerry. So it was with some shock that I heard they were not sure about that, and that moreover they were thinking about voting for Bush. (!)

I was utterly shocked. We discussed the issues, specifically affirmative action. She said, "I think Bush is really comfortable with race, look at his cabinet, there are so many people of color. I don't think that's true for Kerry."

Utterly. Flabbergasted. I was so blindsided. I told them Kerry had a pristine voting record with the NAACP, and despite Bush's elite tokens, he was vehemently against affirmative action for ordinary Americans.

She didn't believe me. She asked me what specific bills Kerry had supported that were pro-affirmative action. I couldn't tell her, I could only point to his voting record with the NAACP and the obvious truism that Democrats are pro-affirmative action and Republicans are anti-.

That wasn't good enough for her. She kept pressing me for specific bills, which I told her I couldn't give her. When I told her she should try to educate herself on the issues if she didn't believe me, she said I was alienating her.

This is a good friend, who I fought with side-by-side in innumerable Clark events.

I just didn't know what to say. Her friend was nodding along with her, so I have little doubt what her viewpoint was.

I mean, what the fuck. How the fuck can anyone think that George W. Bush is better on race issues than John F. Kerry?

I am so pissed at myself for not being able to convince them.

DTH