I had a unique opportunity recently. I was talking with an aquaintance of mine. He got into politics. Because of our respective places in this particular social setting, it is in my best interest to pretend to be a Democrat when he starts talking politics. Because of this, he's much more open about his beliefs than he normally would be. Call my deception my Very-small Right Wing Conspiracy.
Anyway, he got on a roll when we talked the other day. Our conversation, in total, was about an hour and a half. During that time, I was checking off the anger points of the loony left. Thinks the Republicans are facisits. Check. Thinks Michael Moore is a genius. Check. Thinks Republicans are poisoning politics with there divisiveness while calling all Republicans names. Check. Thinks the tax cuts were just for the rich. Check. Finally, I needed to wrap up our conversation, so I asked him if that meant he was voting for Kerry, hoping to punctuate the lengthy discussion. I was met with silence. I repeated the question. A little more silence, then,
"I don't know. His campaign has problems. Not he himself mind you, his campaign."
What do you mean?
"Well, uh, I dunno. They just aren't going in the right direction. Ya know, the worst thing the party ever did was turn its back on Dean. I saw him speak, and that man can fire you up. People only stand at Kerry events because it's the appropriate thing to do at certain points. I don't know if I'll be voting for him."
And so ended our conversation. I was stunned. This man who is nearing retirement spent over an hour telling me why Bush is Satan's spawn, but it didn't sound like he was going to go out and vote. He felt he'd been betrayed by the party when they went with Kerry over Dean. And so Dean will end up torpedoing the Kerry campaign. The voter turn out in November will be average. Bush supporters will be out in droves, but large portions of Kerry's base will stay home, polishing up their little statues of Howard Dean, sulking. Bush will win by a larger margin than the polls will be predicting. And this, my friends, is why John Kerry will lose (in a nutshell).
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Thanks for stopping by, Conservative, but thank you much more for your service in Iraq. I agree with you as well, the media is selling the general public a lot of bunk on Iraq. My cousin is a Marine who participated in the march to Baghdad, and he came back with a very different opinion of things than what was being portrayed on the media. That was all I needed to hear to turn me from supportive of the war to stubbornly supportive of it.
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