People - Listen Up - The right wing conservatives are not the........

[Bonhomme Richard]

MAJORITY.
I just returned from visiting some customers who are republican. They admitted they are in shock and are as concerned for the future of this nation as you and I are. They really didn't think there was any way bush would win. They voted republican because they have always voted republican. They are all tax and spend people and what they are hearing after one day disturbs them.
These are the people we need to go after and I think bush is going to help push them further to our side. I am sure that the majority of republicans we know personally are basically decent people. They don't hate gays, they are concerned about the environment, they are not afraid of education and they know we are less safe for having invaded Iraq.

We need to convince them to put aside, for a while, the historic arguments that the two parties have had and join with us in this fight against the rising Fascism.

[Bonhomme Richard]

1. Kick

[seabeyond]

2. good they should be afraid, i told my repugs

time and again what would happen and in their ignorance and arrogance they voted him anyway. yes they are all afraid. they should be afraid. very afraid. and i say to them, you created this for you grand child, nephews, nieces, ...........shame on you

[ithacan]

3. Right. Now's the time for coalition:

dems with moderate, sane republicans.

That is, the "reality based" against the bubble boys of the "christian" and neocon right.

I usually hate Thomas Friedman, but he was dead on this morning in his NYTimes column.

This election was not about policy, it was about two very different visions of American. And the insane vision won.

The moderate repubs and libertarians, though we disagree on many policy issues, are on the reality side of the divide.

Now's the time for coalition politics. Not for surrendering our principles, or giving up our goals, but for working in a marriage of convenience so we can get back to a time when an electoral loss does not bring a deep fear, a bad feeling in the pits of our stomachs even two days after the election.

[skooooo]

4. "...voted republican because they've always voted republican.."

Well, fuck them. They're not on our side, and never will be. If they were they wouldn't have voted for the fascist bastard.

[intheflow]

5. Amazing! My recovering republican boyfriend had same reaction!

He voted for Kerry, but when Bush won he said it didn't mean that the country was going to hell in a handbag, it was going to be all right. (Of course he might have just said that to calm down his hysterically crying girlfriend.)

Today, on the phone, when I complained that the Republicans are going to try to push through a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, he tried to say it wouldn't pass. But then I pointed out that Bush's rhetoric had changed in just one day from conciliatory to talking about his mandate from the American people. The phone line got very quiet all of a sudden. I think it hit him then what another 4 years of Bush might really mean.

Peronally, I think we just elected someone who'll be declaring himself dictator for life within a year--especially if there's another terrorist attack.

[seaj11]

6. That's interesting.

It's refreshing to hear from moderate Republicans. Those radicals are splitting up the Republican party. This country must have about six parties now with large membership: the radical Republicans, the moderate Republicans, the liberal Democrats, the conservative Democrats, the Libertarians, the Green Party. I'm seeing all kinds of the last four on DU.

[Touchdown]

7. This reminds me of that Eddie Murphy bit about Jesse Jackson.

Jackson ran for President in 1980. Murphy posited that some rednecks down in hicktown voted for him as a joke. Then they wake up the next day..."You mean he fucking won?"