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the American sucker - er - I mean - voter.
Even my son, on the way home from school today, pointed out how most people just don't even care that much. They're far too busy at their jobs (assuming they HAVE jobs) and getting home and having dinner and flopping down in front of the TV for awhile to anesthetize themselves before bedtime. They don't care.
There are also PLENTY of those who say (and mean it): "I know what I know." That tends to be one of the responses when they're presented with a critical mass of evidence that puts their predispositions at risk. It flicks on their "TILT!" button. It doesn't fit any of the gaps in their unfinished puzzle of deceitful propaganda and bullshit, and in fact puts the kibosh on the entire construct of that puzzle. Or maybe you've heard the one about the neighbor or fellow "soccer mom" or "NASCAR dad" who, when confronted with lots of inconvenient truth, will walk away mumbling "... well, I don't know..."
I had a friend in the neighborhood who was just ROCK-SOLID sure that cheney had served in the military and that the war was just and all that rot. She'd evidently gotten it from her brother-in-law or some relative, because she was busy raising her kid and doing carpool and Mothers' Club and school volunteer stuff and making her spinning classes. It took a second mom who was having coffee with her to verify things I was telling her - like how cheney NEVER served squat (except maybe on some tennis court). I was on my way to an anti-war rally when I ran into them at the neighborhood coffee bar. And she finally sputtered - "well, I'm getting wrong information. I'm getting wrong information." And the other mom and I agreed and tried to enlighten her. That was awhile ago. I ran into her just the other day elsewhere in the neighborhood, and when it got to "that" subject, she was still so pro-war - our conversation that earlier day hadn't opened her eyes AT ALL. She doesn't hang out with my type of crowd anyway - STAUNCH republi-CONS they are, and so are all their friends, so I'm sure there was little in the way of verification of what the other mom that day OR I had told her.
There were thousands and thousands of people along the campaign trail in 2004 who heard bush say, repeatedly, "you may not agree with me but you know where I stand." And that, to many of them, was all they needed to hear. He was firm and sure of where he stood. NEVER MIND that it was as wrong as sin! At least he knew where he stood, and what he believed in (not like that OTHER guy who voted for the 87 billion before he voted against it). It was the same with reagan. People voted for him because they liked him. They liked his schtick. They liked his certitude. WAY more often than not, if you talked to them, or polled them, or got them in focus groups, their views on the issues were 180-degrees opposite where reagan stood. And many of them knew it. But they were favorably predisposed toward him anyway, even knowing they disagreed with his views - like all the pro-choicers who disregarded the fact that they knew he opposed Roe v Wade, and voted for him anyway. They LIKED him. They felt inclined to overlook their "differences" and give him the benefit of the doubt. Because he was just so darned nice and aw-shucks and a reg'lar guy - and if he'd been a beer drinker they would have loved to go have a beer with him, too. Even though his policies eventually screwed vast majorities of them. They STILL supported him and embraced him and sang his praises.
And I'm afraid we're looking at the same thing with huckabee. He creeps me out. Because he's "nicer" than bush or even reagan ever could pretend or hope to be, and he has the inside scoop on JEEEEEEEZUSSS anyway since he was a minister. He worries me TERRIBLY. He will probably wind up in second position ON the ticket, and will add luster and cover to whichever of these jackasses is at the top of the ticket. He'll make the bad guys' ticket all that more appealing especially to the "Buy-bull" crowd. And when they get activated, it usually means big trouble for our side.
And YES there are many more like him and the other Flat-Earthers. MANY more. The "Buy-bull" Belt is full of them. They don't want to think. They've had it reinforced that higher education, especially colleges and universities, are infested with "libruls" and "pointy-headed" academics and people who actually do believe that dinosaurs and the rest of the earth date back much farther in time than six-thousand years, and thus lead you away from God. It's either/or with these people. Their thinking and reasoning has either been trained or bred out of them. limbaugh and others for years have told them, literally (I have actually heard this statement) that they "don't even have to think. I'LL do the thinking FOR you!" I swear, I actually heard limbaugh say that one time. It's far easier to sit there and eat Twinkies and watch their NASCAR or soap operas or "Survival" or "American Idol" and read the Old Testament where the extreme, severe, punishing God lives, and hand over all the rest of their cerebrums above the level of lizard brain to these smarmy, scheming snake-oil salesmen and their traveling revival tent schtick. It's just too much work to try and read a little extra on their own. And why dig for the truth when you're being told repeatedly that it's being handed to you for free, no muss, no fuss? Besides, in with this distressing mentality is the presumption that "well, they couldn't say that on TV (on the radio) if it weren't true."
Believe it. Do what you can to head it off NOW. I'd say it's time for some MAJOR LEAGUE oppositional research on this guy. Everyone has an Achilles Heel, and he surely has one, too. It needs to be found and brought out. NOW. Before it's too late.
I think huckabee is the biggest danger the other guys can throw at us.
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