Dixie County Florida Democratic Chair Voted for Bush

[ryban]

Bush's wins on Democratic turf fuel conspiracy cries
By Jane Musgrave

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Friday, November 12, 2004

As chairman of the Dixie County Democratic Party, Arthur Pinner didn't need an exit poll to tell him which presidential candidate was going to win the overwhelmingly Democratic county.

The majority of voters — like him — were going to vote for President Bush.

"Everyone knew Bush was going to win," said Pinner, 79, a semi-retired Texas oil distributor. "Most Democrats, you got pretty good people running. But for president, they pick someone way out there."

And to residents of the small rural county that hugs the Gulf of Mexico in the state's Big Bend area, John Kerry was further out there than most, Pinner said.

"Kerry supports same-sex marriage and abortion," said Pinner, a deacon at First Baptist Church. "He's liberal, and in these small counties, that don't go over so good."

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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/news/epaper/2004/11/12/m1a_Conspiracy_1112.html

[quaoar]

1. He should be stripped of his party job immediately

[tsuki]

4. Absolutely effing.

[aquart]

2. Not well up on the facts, is he?

Nothing like a rock hard artery in the brain.

[tridim]

3. "Kerry supports same-sex marriage and abortion"

He does? This is what pisses me off more than anything.. It proves people didn't pay the least bit of attention to his campaign.

[Mr_Spock]

6. Unfortunately, that is not their fault. We've had other candidates

with the same platform that they would vote for.

[sweetladybug]

7. This man is no Democrat. If he was he would know both Kerry and ASSHOLE

said they considered a marriage between a man and a women AND both said they thought gays should be able to have a civil union or partership. And Kerry is not for abortion. HE IS FOR A WOMEN'S RIGHT TO CHOICE! and ASSHOLE'S WIFE IS FOR A WOMEN'S RIGHT TO CHOICE AND THE VICE PrESIDENT ASSHOLE#2 IS FOR A WOMEN'S RIGHT TO CHOICE! and it wasn't Kerry who helped an old girlfriend to have an abortion, it was ASSHOLE!

[T Roosevelt]

5. Democratic party needs to clean house at the local levels

If the county chairman of the party doesn't vote for the presidential candidate, there's a HUGE problem...

[laheina]

9. This is too true.

Having personal experience in this department, I can say that there is a lot that needs to be done at the local level.

BUT you all going out and attending local Dem committee meetings would help.

PLEASE!!

[Winamericaback]

13. How?

I want to know how you combat this problem.

In these small counties they fly the Confederate Flag, praise god faithfully and take the bible as pure fact. They insist that Homosexuality and abortion are wrong and every Sunday it is a reafirmed in their small churches.

I live in FL but not in a small county, they even look at me as an "outsider"

How to you reach those people? The Republicans have a monopoly on the churches! These are the places that these people go to socialize.
They aren't going to come and hear us speak, they don't care what we have to say.

If somebody would help me figure this out then I would do it. These counties are my neighbors. If I can make a difference then I will try my hardest.

[Winamericaback]

8. says it all

"that don't go over so good."

GRAMMAR LESSON IDIOTS.

That does not go over very well.

DOES NOT, Does not, does not. OR Doesn't
Uneducated redneck!.

I swear to blah.. I sometimes HATE living in FL.

My county which went for Bush 4 years ago by like a 20 pt margin only went for him this time by a 5 pt margin SO we aren't all stupid ignorant hicks.

Bad thing to say but good news: He's 70, most of the people in those counties are OLD. They don't have much youth to replace them. The youth is where the progressive movement thrives. Give it a few years and just by that statistic Dems will be able to win.

[neohippie]

11. obviously you have never spent much time in North Florida

I lived in Tallahasse for 12 years, and in the area that surrounds a somewhat progressive little city, if you are a registered republican you don't usually even have a primary. All of the candidates are ultra conservative and democrats, the dixiecrats may be a thing in the past somewhere but, its not is the rural south where the civil war isn't even a thing of the past.

[T Roosevelt]

12. Agreed.

Which county are you in?

[Winamericaback]

15. Marion

The purple county under the ONLY central Florida blue county on the map (that would be Alachua)

Marion county isn't rural, well to me it is I grew up in Brooklyn lol
but in reality the POP. is something like 150,000 so not rural. Bush campaigned heavily in the Villages here which is in Marion county but the vote was still narrowed.
Mostly elderly, I went to 2 polling places (My fiancee votes in a different district than I do) and I didn't see anybody under 50 voting. BUT polling workers from both districts smiled and winked at me when they saw my Kerry button.

SO here we are making progress I just don't know how to transfer that same progress to the smaller rural communities.

And trust me we have our share of Confedertae flags and Pick up trucks here as well ;)

[LisaL]

10. With friends like these, who needs enemies?

I wonder what song this old fool is going to sing when his social security is gone?

[theboss]

14. Why do I picture this man as Col. Sanders?

Nice white suit. String bow tie. Fanning himself in the humidity, saying, "I say, our party just ain't what it was before that polecat Lyndon went and handed over the keys to them darkies."

[sherilocks]

16. I sent the article to the Florida Democratic Party

to see if the Dixie County Democratic Party is an actual chartered member of the state party.

[pleiku52cab]

17. Typical Dixiecrat

[Julien Sorel]

18. Ready! Aim! Fire! Shoot that messenger, straight between the eyes.

Why is it that only one Democratic non-Southerner/border stater has won the presidency in the past 60 years, and that with a disputed election? Because we continue sending people out there it's easy to label as "liberal."

This guy? I got no use for him. But he's telling a story that has been told over and over for 60 years, and a lot of you people refuse to listen. Instead, you want him fired from his post. Will that make those Dixiecrats vote Democratic next time around?

We're waiting desperately for the Great Liberal Hope to come along and, through the magic power of charm and anger, force these people to forget about their Gods, guns and gays. It isn't going to happen, people. They will continue voting for regional Democrats, who share their values, while shunning national candidates, who either clearly don't or only pay lip service to them.

Eventually, guys like this will die off (a lot of them already have), and regional Democratic candidates will struggle even more down there. Then who will you blame?

[DeepModem Mom]

19. kick

[Yupster]

20. A Texas oil-man is head of a county

Democratic Party.

Well who would think a Texas oil-man would be a Democrat?


On edit - this makes a haiku

Oil-man Democrat
At last, a thinking Texan
oh crapola - never mind.