Reply #24: The last hard-core republican I know still is so...but he's batshit stupid [View All]

[Atman]

I wrote about him a couple of weeks ago. The last of the bunch...He used to make it a point to tell me whenever BushCo caught another Al Qaeda "#3" man.

"Hey, there you go, buddy! Whaddya think of Bush now, huh? He's gettin' them Al Qaedas!" Imagine it with a heavy Easter Massachusetts/Rhode Island working-man's accent. But he gave up on that after a while. Then one night he was bitching like crazy because he's a vet, and Bush was screwing with his benefits. THAT pissed him off, and he swore that he was done with Bush then, but he's since veered back to the dark side. Last I wrote of him, he was telling me he hated the liberals because the ACLU was suing to have all religious emblems sandblasted of the tombstones in government cemetaries. (I looked it up...not true). He swore up and down that it was true, because (turn on that accent) "it's the goddamn liberals trying to get rid of GOD! They ain't gonna be happy till there's no churches!"

"Uh...are you serious?" I asked him. Not only was he serious, but he then went on to rail about how the ACLU had to be abolished because they get all their funding by filing bogus law suits because the government is required to pay their legal bills no matter what (I looked it up...not true)

Then this weekend I was passing by his place and several people were gathered on the front porch -- get this for my Mr. Republican friend -- smoking a joint. I stopped to say hello, but of course didn't partake! ;) The conversation again turned to politics. I had not a word to say, as I've made it a point to NOT discuss politics with my weekend friends. He never addresses the comments to me, so I don't get the impression he is deliberately trying to goad the liberal. But he suddenly went on a tirade about 'dem goddam gays. He knows wot dem gays is lookin' fer, and it ain't about no love or nothin'. They want to get married because then one of them gets to legally be the other sex! Yup, my brilliant republican friend has it all figured out. Got it, you homos? The jig is up! According to my pal, you aren't in love after all, you're merely trying to be legally declared members of the opposite sex...so's that when one of you dies, the other can collect the other homo's Social Security! Then what?

I swear to God, I though someone had pulled Archie Bunker from sitcom heaven. But he wasn't trying to be funny, he was totally serious.

And totally a Bush supporter. As one of my newest bumper stickers says...