GOP women here in the rural west concerned about Bush

[featherman]

not being up to the job.
Snapshot story: my wife attended a Red Hat Society (women over 50) luncheon today with a mostly rural, ranch-wife group. Reported back there was much talk and concern about Bush and doubt that he had what it takes. Concensus was he performed badly in the debates and maybe just not "up to the job" of being the President.
Not to get too carried away...there wasn't much glowing talk about Kerry being great or anything. But very doubtful about Bush... generally negative tone toward Bush.
Kinda interesting, eh?

[patrice]

1. I've talked to a few out in my precinct who've admitted as much.

Actual supporters, in a "Republican" working class neighborhood, who are going soft.

[Booster]

2. Very interesting and very telling. Keep working on them in a

subtle way, or at least have your wife work on them. Great news.

[crispini]

3. encourage them to look into the libertarian party.....

or maybe the constitutional law party, that one will especially suit bible-thumpers.

[sandnsea]

4. Red Hats

A bit of an independent group, can't wait until I can join them! But you know folks in the rural west generally aren't the southern fundy brainwashed types anyway. I suspect Bush's God & freedom war didn't impress many rural ranch-wife types. We're supposed to fight wars to defend ourselves, not for some goofy notion of God & freedom. I can see the eyes rolling now. Bush is done.

[ladybugg33]

5. Doesn't matter. They will still vote for Bush even if he is a bad choice.

That's just how they think out there in the rural west and east for that matter. The "liberal" tag is what gets them. Liberal = pro social programs for the poor, elderly, disadvantaged; for gay rights, embraces diversity, anti-war, anti-big business, pro-choice etc. That all they care about.

[JusticeForAll]

7. They may decide not to vote

Don't give up on them. Continue the discussion, let THEM reinforce the message: George Bush is not up to the job.

George Bush is not up to the job.

George Bush is not up to the job.

George Bush is not up to the job....

[featherman]

9. Land use and water issues are big here

and, of course, the "enviros" are associated with Democrats (hooray for that). Trying to save the fish and "take our water" and all that. Yes, they will vote GOP in the end (60-40 in this county overall) but the enthusiasm is low for Bush.

[cosmicone]

6. Hopefully they just won't go and vote. n/t

[DemBones DemBones]

8. Bob Barr wrote an article about Bush* not being a conservative.

You can read my thread about it, which includes a link -- look in the state forums, in the Georgia forum.

I hope the article gets national play. Barr got a lot of national attention when he was in the House.

At the end of the article, Barr muses "Who's running on the Libertarian ticket?"

I hope a lot of Republicans will vote Libertarian to show their dissatisfaction with a "conservative" who has run up a huge deficit.