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Edited on Thu Aug-26-04 12:03 AM by calimary
My kid's best friend's mom - longtime liberal married to a Republican told me yesterday evening that "well, Dave finally caved. I wouldn't have believed it." Apparently he's one of growing numbers of folks who voted for bush in 2000 and was sure it was gonna be great, and have seen him betray their trust utterly.
A decorator friend of ours said something similar when we ran into her earlier today - that her conservative parents told her they're not voting Republican this year. She said she's heard a lot of this, herself. Said she was "getting a good feeling about this year."
And an elderly neighbor to whom I gave a ride home this week brought it up, saying she was SO upset about the presidential election. Didn't like Kerry but was just so disgusted with bush she actually thought she wouldn't be able to vote for him. Cited the war - such a mess in Iraq, and so many of our young people being killed over there and so many wounded. She said she planned to vote the straight republi-CON ticket - EXCEPT likely not the presidential race. I talked up Kerry, she noted agreement with everything I said, but she just didn't like him and didn't know that he'd do anything better. Finally I suggested - "well, you could always leave that one blank..."
The really telling thing here, I think, is that I have YET to hear ANYONE who voted for the Democrats (or Gore by name) last time express the regret for having done so, and the determination not to make that mistake again. No one. But I hear a lot of it regarding georgie-poo. MANY regrets. Even my best friend, who astoundingly voted for bush last time, is disgusted now. She's one of those who feared he might be dumb as a post, but fell back on that shabby old argument - "well, at least he's surrounding himself with good/smart people." She doesn't think that anymore. And she thinks he's made a horrendous mess of Iraq.
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