Quote "I'm a republican, but I ain't beyond steppin' across the line."

[Lex]

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This was from a rural, southern white guy in North Carolina when interviewed in a piece on ABC News about Edwards' effect on the Presidential race.

Hmmmmm . . .

Rove just croaked if he saw that.

[Shopaholic]

1. I live in South Carolina---

and Karl Rove has good reason to worry--my conservative, right-wing Republican Aunt and Uncle are going to vote for Kerry/Edwards! As they told me two days ago, "We aren't happy about it but we've got to get Bush out of that White House before he steals every single right we have." They're furious about the Patriot Act. They're mad as hell about the plant closings in their city. And they weren't fooled by the alleged reasons for the war in Iraq. And these people have been Republicans since the 60's!

[Lex]

2. Yep. My 83 yr old Fox News watching Repulican grandma has

declared that she is NOT voting for Bush and that now that "that nice Edwards boy" is on the ticket, she's voting for him.

(She says she doesn't like Kerry, but will vote for him because she wants Edwards to win.)

Go figure.

[ThomWV]

3. North Carolina

Once a month I go to the Outer Banks of North Carolina and fish. I don't have a lot of money and I stay at a camp ground when I do this. Been doing it for years. There are quite a few regulars at the camp ground, mostly retired folks. You all get to know each other after a while. My neighbors, every weekend I'm down there, are a Gentleman and his wife in one camper and the Gentelman's sister in the next camp site. These folks are in their mid seventies. The gentleman still works, running a small company doing construction in western North Carolina. These folks have been republicans since the Gentleman got out of the Air Force, after serving in Korea I believe. We've had a lot of cool evening chats, sometimes hours on end.

I enjoy these people's company so much that I have never so much as mentioned politics to them. They are Conservatives with a capital C, and I do not mean that in any sort of deragatory way at all. These are frugal people who are doing just fine now, but they have worked their entire lives to get that way. They believe in Government as small as it can be but they certainly do not believe it should be eliminated. They understand the personal need for compassion but at the same time they know that only the state has the ability to properly administer truly effecte social programs on a national scale. You mention private investment accounts as part of Social Security to these people and you get to learn what the word rath means. They understand the proper place for Government.

So, last time I was down there you should be as suprised as I was to hear my friend start going off on Bush for the waste of life in Iraq. He called Bush (I am sorry if this offends but they were his own words) everything but a white man. His wife, one of the lovliest ladies I've ever met, could not agree more. All of this was actually quite mild compared to what the Gengleman's older sister (Married to and then widdowed by a tobacco farmer with propery worth more than an acre of heaven now days) had to say about Bush. She blamed him for the destruction of the economy, the taking of freedoms, lieing incessently to the American Public, and blasphmy in invoking the name of Christ in his political cause.

If people like these friends of mine are saying that in western North Carolina then you absolutly know Bush is Toast.