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posted by [personal profile] askye at 01:17pm on 22/01/2004
In the things I'd never thought I'd see happen.

Mom is a life long Republican. She's only voted Democrat once and that was against JEB! for Gov of Florida. In the last election she chose not to vote because while she didn't like Bush, she really really didn't like Gore.

Times have changed and Bush has been our president and he's pissed off Mom enough that at one point she's said "I'd vote for whoever the Democratic candidate is."

Today we were talking and she was pissed at the results in Iowa. "I don't want Kerry to be president. I don't trust him. What about Howard Dean? I want him." Then she remembered some statistic that said the winner of Iowa isn't the Democratic candidate she felt more relief.

There is no way in HELL Mom would ever actively want Dean to be president under normal circumstances.

It makes me wonder how many other Republicans are being turned off by Bush and deciding to vote for a Democrat this year.
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posted by [identity profile] pinwiz.livejournal.com at 12:22am on 23/01/2004
Hopefully, it's a lot.

Please, Republicans? I'll be your best friend!
 
posted by [identity profile] imkalena.livejournal.com at 12:48am on 23/01/2004
Shitloads of them, I pray!!
 
posted by [identity profile] ardent-muses.livejournal.com at 01:14am on 23/01/2004
I'd love to see a zillion Republicans vote for Dean on election day. :) I think he's the candidate who can appeal to the broadest number of people of all parties. I hope. :)

Hug your mom for me. *G*
 
posted by [identity profile] askye.livejournal.com at 05:23am on 23/01/2004
I'll give Mom a hug. I'm sure she'll find it amusing.

"one of my internet friends...one of the due south ones...she wanted me to hug you because you want Dean for President. No, really."
 
posted by [identity profile] makaidiver.livejournal.com at 02:20am on 23/01/2004
Exactly. I'm monitoring what my mom says, too. She was for Dean, then for Clark, and then she got sick, and I haven't talked to her about it for awhile.
 
posted by [identity profile] askye.livejournal.com at 05:26am on 23/01/2004
I don't think Clark is on Mom's radar. So far it's just Dean. It's amazing because Mom is getting more and more liberal as she gets older. I don't think she'd actually become a Democrat but she's much more moderate than she has been in the past.

 
posted by [identity profile] makaidiver.livejournal.com at 06:15am on 23/01/2004
Wow, my parents got more and more conservative as they aged. I like your Mom's way more.
 
posted by [identity profile] killabeez.livejournal.com at 03:50am on 23/01/2004
I don't know how many, but I will say I've heard at least ten times this year, "I'm a lifelong Republican, but there's no way in hell I'm voting for that monkey," or some variation thereof. My history professor just said it in class tonight, and I heard three people in class say, "same here!" Nobody disagreed.

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