...so the RWer in the next office now says he's gonna vote for Hillary [View All]

[Jackpine Radical]

in the primary & in the General Election (he takes it as a given that she'll be nominated). He's still
RW, and here's his logic:

Bush has made such a total disaster of everything that the next President will be totally unable to straighten anything out as all the Bush chickens come home to roost. Whoever is in office after Bush will appear to be the worst president in history. If a Dem has that position in 2008, it will destroy the Dem party for the next 40 years.

He acknowledges the Bush debacle, is enraged by the port deal, sees the war as a total fuckup (although he supported it when we went in), and understands the implications of what Bush has done to the national debt.

But he's still a Republican because he hates having the government suport all those blacks on welfare. He's also bought into the wedge issues--homosexuality (even though his daughter, with whom he maintains a good relationship, is a lesbian), guns, abortion.

I think the real reason he stays RW is that the Puggies, and Limbaugh in particular, feed his anger & give him his rage rush. He's addicted to his own cotrisol & epinephrine.