Bush-voting Christian from Texas reaches out to blue state America

[BurtWorm]

In yesterday's NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/04/opinion/l04elect.html


To the Editor:

I write to say something I feel deeply. I am a woman from Texas and a devout Christian. I am someone who prayed after 9/11 and sent money to help.

I voted for George W. Bush. I will do all in my power to respect the Democratic positions and reach out for unity as a country, as a neighbor. I want the United States to be united! Let's reach out to one another as Americans, regardless of party affiliation.

Lissa Morris
San Antonio, Nov. 3, 2004





All I can say, Ms. Morris, is, tough shit.

[Dawgs]

1. How bout EAT SHIT?

You get what you deserve!!!

[BurtWorm]

2. Better said.

:toast:

I love how she whines, "I want the United States to be united!"

Well get your religion out of my government, and then we can talk. Rube.

[Roland99]

34. Ain't that the truth

[Kukesa]

47. That works for me. n/t

[Whoa_Nelly]

98. The woman is a deluded, pious, sanctimonious rube

Would guess that for her GW = The Rapture just one step closer

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. I am glad she is trying, but I don't think she really gets it.

This isn't a little crack we can reach our hands across. We're talking Grand Canyon now.

-----------------------------------------------------------
FIGHT! Take this country back one town and state at a time!
http://www.geocities.com/greenpartyvoter/electionreform.htm

[Zuni]

5. She is better than the neanderthals at FreeRepublic

at least she means well

[BurtWorm]

7. True. And maybe it is cruel to pick on someone who means well.

But she clearly doesn't get how far apart we are. I don't feel like raching back to these fuckers at the moment. To me, collaborationism is a crime.

[LibDemAlways]

100. Hey don't pick on Neanderthals

My 6th grader is studying evolution in school - here in CA we still believe in science - and learned that Neanderthal fossils show evidence that the Neanderthals cared for the weak and infirm among them. Repukes are descended from the australopithecines - the name appropriately means "Southern Ape" - who had heads the size of baseballs and are much earlier on the evolutionary ladder.

[BurtWorm]

6. Your generosity of spirit is admirable, GPV.

I'm feeling so ungenerous.

[hatrack]

22. Sorry, GPV, I guess I'm just not that noble after all - see below nt

.

[Sub Atomic]

27. You mean the Grand Canyon

that was cause by Noah's flood?

:eyes:

[ethereal]

108. No, she doesn't

it's reality-based vs. incurious media-brainwashed.


Sadly, this isn't going to be a walk in the park, and she will likely have a very hard time adjusting to living out of her car and selling apples on the street corner.

[SoCalDem]

4. We will, we will, SMITE you, honey

STFU, and go thump your bible, and twirl your rattlers

[drhilarius]

8. This is the fissure I will not cross...

I don't care if they're from a red state or a blue state. I refuse to just play nice after being vilified, called a traitor, called a liberal faggot, called commie liberal scum, and so on...

Furthermore, I strongly suggest people stop the red dem bashing in this forum. Just because I made a stupid comment out of anger hours and hours ago, du'ers are tearing themselves apart according to arbitrary divisions. every time I see it I feel like crap. Don't blame the red dems, that was my mistake, give them our support,they need us.

[AspenRose]

9. Start first by reaching out to your fellow red-state conservatives

You know, the ones who are obnoxious and have been rubbing the election in the noses of their blue state friends and relatives. Surely you know some.

Tell THEM to knock it off and that it isn't helping unity.
Clean your own house first, then worry about reaching out to blue America. You're more likely to be taken seriously that way.

[BurtWorm]

12. Excellent advice!

:toast:

[lanparty]

115. I would like to extend the middle finger of PEACE!!!! (nm)

In their book we are misguided mutineers. They're offering us a "last chance" to get with the program.

Guess what comes after that????

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

10. If she can bring back all the dead people to their families

and give the wounded their arms and legs back, then I will unite with her. However she can't do that and she voted to validate the poorly planned, illegal Iraq war, so too late.

Plus, it's nice she sent money to help the 9-11 victims, but then she voted for the guy who disgustingly exploited the victims of the tragedy for his own political benefit and went to Iraq and diverted the military from getting bin laden.

[spooky3]

11. Like *, it sounds as if she means, "If you'll do things my way...

we can be unified."

[PSU84]

16. Exactly - Unity on THEIR TERMS,

which is no different than subservience. There is no point in attempting to open a dialogue with religious zealots who are willfully ignorant and incapable of rational thought.

Fuck the red states.

[bacchant]

83. Well now that we don't have a pot to piss in, that's real big of you

Thanks for screwing the world with your ignorant vote.

[gratuitous]

13. More than willing to, Ms. Morris

But unfortunately, it's awfully difficult when the man you support for president is so clearly unchristian in his actions. Jesus didn't say "shock and awe" your enemies, he said to love them. Now, while we can probably have a very good discussion about the best ways to go about that, I think that we have reached an insuperable disagreement if you truly believe that by loving one's enemies, Jesus was actually saying that you should bomb them from miles up in the air, killing them indiscriminately when they can neither fight back nor get away. And we will have particular difficulty finding common ground if you feel this is a good program to carry out on people who have never harmed us, and never meant our country any harm in the first place.

Let's talk.

[Cats Against Frist]

14. Uh -- that's only what comes out of one side of their mouth

From Free Republic:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

To: graceland
It might be tough to swallow, but the conservatives are going to pry your mouth open and force it down like giving a pill to a cat.

And while you're digesting it, might as well realize YOU LOST. Not just the election, but the culture war.



9 posted on 11/05/2004 8:09:48 AM PST by ohioGOP (Even my cat is a right-winger)
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[PSU84]

15. Dear Ms. Morris,

Go to hell - as you most assuredly will.

[pmbryant]

17. I am willing to take her at her word

Unfortunately, she doesn't offer any indication of anything concrete that she will do other than to offer conciliatory words, while supporting a ruthless corrupt politician.

To truly back up her words, she needs to be willing to stand up and hold her guy accountable, to call him out on his lies, to voice her objection to him when he acts divisively, which is pretty much all the time.

Unlike us, she actually holds some small degree of power over Bush if she chooses to use it.

I hope she, and others like her, do. But I will not hold my breath.

--Peter

[DinahMoeHum]

18. Dear Lissa Morris - Don't stick your hand out to me. . .

because you won't have one when I'm done with you.

Take this to the bank, bitch: Bush is the Antichrist.

:nuke:

[tanyev]

19. Dear Ms. Morris

First you're going to have climb down off of that sanctimonious high horse.

Sincerely,
A woman in Texas and devout Christian who voted for Kerry.

[AuntPatsy]

20. Don't be fooled by this woman, geez, she is my neighbor and I know

her personaly speakeing metophoricaly. She is the type to sucker you in on sweet promises than when you refuse to convert or except the shock treaments she herself will pay for in an effort to get you to see the light, you will then become food for the roaches..

Take heed, she is evil...

[gardenista]

72. You're right. Typical fundie posturing to lure you in.

Don't fall for it.

[hatrack]

21. Fuck you, Lissa. Fuck your vote, fuck your party, fuck your "president"

Fuck your smeary, feary ever-teary "Christian compassion", your homophobic political leaders and your condescending outreach.

Fuck your jockstrap-sniffing worship of a phony cowboy who's not fit to shine John Kerry's shoes.

Fuck your support of an endless war in which thousands of Americans and tens of thousands of Iraqis, both guerillas and civilians, will die in the years to come, a war based on lies and waged on the premise that sufficient bombing and strafing will somehow create democracy.

Fuck your support of an administration which now has the power to make people disappear, without recourse to the law, without knowledge of why they are arrested and without even the possibility of contacting their families.

Fuck the Republican party which you support, a party as eager as it's ever been always to smear, lie, distort twist and defame, just as long as it can win.

Fuck Tom DeLay, a Texan like yourself, who on Wednesday publicly called for the conversion of America to a theocratic state.

Fuck Tom Coburn, a Republican like yourself, who believes that doctors performing abortions should be executed, though he himself has performed them.

Fuck your support of an administration that favors increased mercury in the fish we eat, increased soot and carcinogens in the air we breathe and increased sewage and toxins in the water we drink.

Fuck your town, fuck your neighbors, and fuck your family. Fuck your workplace, your boss, your friends, your colleagues, your doctor, your dentist, your pastor and your pets.

Fuck the car in your driveway, the telephone on your wall, the garbage disposal in your sink and the sump pump in your basement. Fuck the grass in your front yard, the trees in your backyard and the shingles on your roof.

But please don't take my remarks out of context, Lissa. I apologize if they offended anyone.

[Roland99]

35. What's this about DeLay and a theocracy?

Got a link or transcript??

[hatrack]

38. It was in yesterday's SL Post-Dispatch

The editorial was entitled "What Kind Of Mandate".

I don't have the link, but here's the quote.

EDIT

"For the good of the nation, Mr. Bush should extend his hand across the electoral chasm. He made a good start Wednesday when he told supprters of Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., that he wanted to earn their trust.

But House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Tex., has other plans. 'We're going to be able to lead this country in the direction we've been dreaming of for years,' Mr. DeLay said Wednesday. ' . . . We're going to put God back into the public square.'"

EDIT

Knowing what we know of DeLay, "putting God back into the public square" does not mean religious freedom. It means state-sponsored Christian fundamentalism, enforced by federal fiat.

And knowing what we do regarding Christian Reconstruction, with which DeLay has been linked for years, it doesn't take too much specialized training to read between the lines here.

I'll find the URL when I have a moment.

[Roland99]

46. Thanks...found it

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/editorialcommentary/story/E380B78ADAFAA1A186256F42003B5394?OpenDocument&Headline=DECISION+2004%3A+What+kind+of+mandate%3F&highlight=2%2Cwhat%2Ckind%2Cmandate


Although, that doesn't mention the part about the "federal fiat".

[Elidor]

70. Thank you, hatrack!

You have captured my mood perfectly. You are the shit.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

74. Thanks for the laugh, hatrack!

The first time I've cracked a smile in 3 days!!

[hatrack]

95. Happy to be of service!

Writing this was the first time I've laughed in three days, too! Sometimes it all just falls out on the page, and you don't even need to think . . . . :toast:

[texas is the reason]

99. oh, man, that was great!

[liberalfrombirth]

106. You have some personal problems partner!

And to blame them on this slimy lady is nbot gonna work. Get help.

[hatrack]

125. With all due respect, bite me, LFB

I knew exactly what I wanted to say, I knew exactly how I wanted to say it, and if you have a problem with it, then go pound sand, Mr. 13-posts.

Piss off.

[Puglover]

113. Man, I like you.

n/t

[Love Bug]

118. Damn, hatrack, that's some mighty fine hatin'

Brings a tear to my eye, it does!

[TexasLady]

23. sorry ms morris

you voted, you decided...

we are no less proud of OUR vote and causes than you are.

yall are sure right, she sure doesnt get it does she.

[CitySky]

24. I got a voicemail from a friend like this

We go to church together.

She has more seriously ill people in her extended family than you could count. Those with insurance can barely afford the co-pays on the perscriptions that keep their kids alive. Some of the healthy ones can't afford insurance for themselves and are just hoping they don't get sick, and haven't been able to afford a dental exam in years, and so on.

Yeah and she voted for *, and called me yesterday to leave a genuine consoling message, knowing that I must feel bad my candidate lost. She just DOES NOT GET IT.

When we start talking about the corruption, greed, lying, and murder that the people they elect engage in, a big filter goes up, because they don't want to get sucked into anything "negative."

How to get through??? :shrug:

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

75. A friend of mine is very conservative, yet voted for Kerry

Her parents are Nazis; her father works for the State Department in some capacity. She said her father and his cronies actually called her from their office yesterday to offer "condolences," but were really laughing and needling her. She was very upset at her father. Her parents then turned around and sent her a Panera gift card, and she bought bagels for the entire clinic. She was very bummed out today at her father's behavior.

[lanparty]

120. I can't remember needling a SINGLE Republican ...

Ya know, I remember in 1992 I was at Purdue and hung a Clinton sign in my dorm room window (If I could vote in 88 I would have voted for Bush. College changed my attitudes on things). Well BEFORE the election I was harassed by Republicans waving Bush signs!!!

After the election, I didn't hound ANY of them. After Clinton won in 96' I didn't go after colleagues and brag about Clinton's win. I was content that things were going my way!!!

I don't understand when people need to gloat. I don't understand why they aren't confident and happy with their victory.

The fact that Republicans want to make sure everyone knows "they're in charge" and "they're right" tells you something about their personalities. And as I look back to my earlier days when I felt Republicans were right, I behaved the same way as well!!

[CBHagman]

112. Ask her who Jesus would smear.

Tell her what Bush did to McCain in the South Carolina primaries.

Ask her if she admires Lee Atwater and Richard Nixon. Ask her if it's "Christian" for Bush to allow policy and campaigns to be formulated by a man who is a disciple of Tricky Dick and the libidinous Lee Atwater.

Ask her if she would rather ensure Paris Hilton pays no taxes on her inheritance or get affordable medical insurance for her family.

Ask her what Jesus said about the sheep and the goats and how they would be divided (Gospel of Matthew, chapter 28, I think), and why.

I'm becoming convinced that people just do not read their Bibles but instead respond to what's familiar and what authority figures tell them to do. They don't seem to question doing things the same old way.

God HELP this country! It's sickeningly dysfunctional.

[lanparty]

121. If Jesus were on earth today ...

If Jesus was on earth today I do believe he would rip the Enron sign out of the ground and smash it through Halliburton's headquarters. Jesus would raze every building on K-street to the ground!!!!

The ONLY aggressive action in the gospels is Jesus' handling of the money-changers who were corrupting the temple!!!

Democracy and fair commerce is our modern temple. And I think Jesus would have a mind to turn over Bush's tables!!!!

[UdoKier]

25. Really, she can stick that shit where the sun don't shine

If you have any respect for democratic positions, you would not vote for a third-world oligarch quasi-fascist.

What a naive, simplistic and ignorant message - as if this was a normal election and a normal republican president.

[cmf]

26. Bwahahahaha!

Yeah, we'll stand together with you just like you stood with us when Clinton was president.

Bwahahahahaha!

[pinniped]

28. How about you fuck off, go to hell, and send your first born...

to fight in the holy war.

[Mr_Spock]

29. Fuck Off

and die

[ComerPerro]

Ms. Morris, when Jesus gets here, he is gonna be pissed at you

You and people like you, especially your president, because you have been exploiting and abusing his name for years now without remorse.

[ConservativeDemocrat]

30. Bush voting UNCHRISTIAN

This woman isn't Christian. She is a member of the American Pharisees.
Please don't use the word "Christian" with "Bush voting" in any DU headline again.

- C.D.

[lanparty]

122. They worship supply-side Jesus ...

AKA Barrabus!!!!!

[graywarrior]

31. If you see me comin', you better run.

Oh yeah, and FUCK YOU.

[Mountainman]

32. To them being united is "my way or the highway"

[in_cog_ni_to]

33. Fuck you, Lissa!

You voted for the chimp? and now you want to be my friend? Eat shit you wench!

[Generic Other]

36. No olive branch from me

Never.

[Generic Other]

37. No olive branch from me

Never.

[archineas]

39. too late

as a gay man in an economically disadvantaged northern city (cleveland), who's watched as the republican party both statewide and nationally have worked to dismantle any sense of hope for my state, someone reaching out to me to work for something better is a lost cause.

i will never cross the aisle to work with her, or her compatriots.

j

[terrya]

40. I just can't deal with people named "Lissa"

Sorry, uh-uh, no way, no how.

[lanparty]

123. Had a GREAT band director named Lissa ...

She was a GREAT lady who did good work!!!! Trust me, there is at LEAST ONE woman named Lissa that is worth embracing!!!!

Now all we have to do is take care of those women name 'Andi'. ;-)

[MallRat]

41. Ms. Morris, are you willing to compromise? Meet us half-way?

If your answer is YES, then let's talk.

If your answer is that of your President-- a big fat NO-- then guess what I think about your olive branch?

I DON'T GIVE A FUCK.

-MR

[Avalux]

42. I live in San Antonio

and have her address. I am going to send her a letter. In fact, I am going to send letters to every single christian church in this town. I will be nice and I will speak to them in their language. They must be informed that the direction they are headed is wrong.

[Blue Gardener]

63. Send her a copy of this thread

Maybe she'll get the hint that we don't like her.

[mtnsnake]

43. I love how these sanctimonious dicks like Lissa come out of the woodwork

after the election. Where the hell was she and her "unity" sermon the last 4 years when Bush was dividing this country into 2 separate factions?

[calico1]

44. Hmmmm. I wonder if she would have

written that had Kerry won?

[Mz Pip]

45. Nice sentiment

BUt she's not the one in charge.

MzPip
:dem:

[Malva Zebrina]

48. Hey lady--why don't you talk to the Texas board of education

who changes text books to fit your Christian neo con agenda. Is that respect, you jerk? Is that even intelligent, you jerk?

[hatrack]

49. Enjoying this thread so much I just HAD to kick it for the afternoon crowd

:kick:

[ibegurpard]

50. I'm willing to find common ground with this woman

but there are some things that will never be up for negotiation.

[pdx_prog]

51. Sorry lissa

You are obviously mentally deficient. You are going down and unfortunately you are taking us with you. By backing this blasphemus asshole you are comitting blasphemy yourself.

You are going to have to live with your decision just as we are. Just don't ask us to join you to make you feel better about yourself.

[yardwork]

52. I'm getting this crap from fundies today and I'm not buying

They elected him, he's their president, this is their mess, and I'm not lifting a finger to help unless they start offering me some deals.

When the fundies come crawling to me for help because they realise that they've been had, I'll probably help them because I'm generally a kind and decent person. I'll make sure I get some socialist-democratic commitments in return.

But help them cram their hate-filled agenda down the throats of this country and expect me to smile? Forget it.

[lanparty]

124. Thats my take ...

All the deaths in Iraq, the deaths in 9/11, the failing economy, the looming recession, the massive deficit spending ... IT'S YOUR FAULT ... I VOTED DEMOCRAT!!!!

That's my attitude with them. Remind them that it's THEIR fault. They elected that creep!!!

Plus, anytime they talk about how "just" the Iraq war is, ask them when they enlisted. Than taunt them for lacking the courage of their conviction!!!!

[sweetheart]

53. Dear lissa

You stink of pride, in your pious tone. You voted for a war criminal,
and it makes you no better than a common felon.

That you had to blast out your egotism to us all, is certianly
no christian act. You are involved with a false prophet and will
reap all the biblical results of such affiliation. Enjoy the
fires of hell baby.

United in justice against war criminals,

- an american citizen

[Kipepeo]

54. Dear Lissa

Kiss my ass.

[5thGenDemocrat]

55. Well, I won't slam Ms Morris, who obviously means well

But I, for one, have no interest in uniting "as Americans, regardless of party affiliation." This is war, it has been war since 2000 and, really, since 1980. Let the Bush-voting Bible-bangers stay in Texas and I'll do my level best to toss sand into the gears of their hero's machine from up here in Michigan.
John
Like I've said, the red states can go their way, and we'll go ours.

[hatrack]

56. That's OK - I already did it for you

And it's the best I've felt in three days. And no, I'm not sorry, and I never will be.

[5thGenDemocrat]

77. It's good to vent

No need to be sorry.
John
I just don't find any common cause with these weineroids. That's all.

[Warren DeMontague]

57. Right. We're All Welcome Aboard The "Good News Express"

Just accept JCAYOPS, smile serenely as the Justice Dept. puts people in jail for gay sex, vibrator possession, and using the birth control pill, and certainly don't complain while corporations pump mercury and filth and radioactive waste into the air, ground, and water that we ALL share.

Heck no! I don't want to be "left behind" in a future like that!

[Bluebear]

58. Oh I'm so touched by her letter. Crying here.

Puh-leeze.

[hatrack]

59. "Crying here." - Howling in laughter here!

Somehow, you just tickled my funnybone - thanks, Plastic Turkeys!! :toast:

[Bluebear]

60. You don't laugh, ya cry!

:toast:

[Mend]

61. They're Scared We're Mad and Will Get Even.....Okey-Dokey n/t

[MazeRat7]

62. Oh blow me... if you know how. (n/t)

[Blue Gardener]

64. I'm glad you're not my neighbor Ms. Morris

You sanctimonious bible-thumping nag.

[Padraig18]

65. Kiss my Irish ass, you fundamentalist oxygen thief!

Stick it in your ear!

:grr::nuke:

[immoderate]

66. Sorry, I can't join the Coalition of the Stupid

--IMM

[NorthernSpy]

67. Dear Lissa Morris, re "reaching out to one another"

I perceive that you are sincere about the things you said.

Thing is, it just doesn't work that way.

Maybe you can come visit us in our great Blue fortress once we've finished making it nice.


:hi:

[mtnester]

68. Eat Dogma...n/t

[Keirsey]

69. I'm turning my back to you, Lissa

and hanging my flag upside down

[gardenista]

71. HI, Lissa.

Lick me.

[symphony]

73. oh, it's that self-righteous 'tude again

ooooh, look at me, I pray, I am devout, I sent donations ...

I am just so perfect!

And now I will fakely "reach out" to the poor misguided souls and bring them into the fold ...


Go fly a kite, Lissa!:grr:

[LVdem]

76. What would she write if asshole had lost?

"Fucking liberals."

[Lady Effingbroke]

78. Hey Lissa!

You are, at best, no better than a useful idiot in the Christian Reconstructionists' plan to drag AmeriKa back to the 14th Century. If you had two neurons to rub together you would realize that *Bushco*'s grand plan also includes the enslavement and eventual elimination of you and your family just the same as all of us heathen Libruls, as we all fail the te$t to become member$ of the Dominionist "elite". Your life is worthless to the beloved Savior cum Prezident whom you worship, and your children are nothing more than cannon fodder. Your willful blindndess, ignorance and idiocy has cost the world more than you will ever be able to comprehend. I fart in your general direction.

Bunny hugs 'n stuff,

A pissed-off Houston liberal

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

79. "I want the United States to be United! As long as you all do whatever

we want you do to do!" F! U!

[gordianot]

80. Devout Bigot

[Chelsea Patriot]

81. Hey, Whorella! Your 9/11 coin went to me! A Gay Guy in Chelsea!

Thanks, Sugar! My Partner and I, We're in one of those "Gay Marriages!" You hate so much!

See, Lissa! After 9/11 our apartment was covered in that infamous WTC dust composed of pulverized concrete, glass, asbestos, and the atomized bodies of the unfound 1,500 victim. We had to replace our furniture!

Honey, we used your money to buy the bed we have gay sex in all the time!

We are now having the best gay anal and oral sex thanks to you, Lissa!

Bitch, thanks for help keeping our gay Marriage intact!

[union_maid]

82. Not happening

No more Mr. Nice Pary. Fuck them all. This is war.

[RetroLounge]

84. Fuck off you fundy bitch.

You reach that hand anywhere near me and you'll come back with a bloody stump.

C*nt

RL

[bagnana]

85. God is mad at you, Lissa.

You voted for a murderer whose insane war has killed 100,000 civilians and is poised to kill 100,000 more. He will not forget. You are going to hell.

[candy331]

86. Why waste the space in the paper for such trips as this, better yet

to use it for help wanted ads.

[texastoast]

87. Get a grip, bitch

And these people are BREEDING!

[CelticWinter]

88. All I can say Lazy, Lousy, Lissa is

C U Next Tuesday!!!!!

[Neshanic]

89. Dear Lissa, your brother is gay, start at home.

[Neecy]

90. Dear Lissa,

Bitch, why don't you stick an exhaust pipe in your mouth so you can 'feel the rapture' first-hand?

I'm not interested in uniting with a faux Christian fascist pig.

[Reciprocity]

91. Dear Lissa

I live in this godforsaken land of the Texas bible belt. And theirs not a cunt's hair of difference between your fundamentalist dogma and the muslim's.

[Touchdown]

92. She knows.

She knows it was rigged. She knoows it was stolen. She saw the same out of whack returns we did. She saw all those people who were waiting in line for 5 hours, and knew they they weren't there to vote for 4 more years of THIS.

She's trying to get us to accept it, because she doesn't want us to discover what really happened. It's her plea to give up looking for what really happened, and accept all this on "FAITH". She probably still thinks Jimmy Swaggert was set up.

[Starlight]

93. Go ahead & reach out to her like she asked.

Her address & phone number are on google. Maybe she'd like to chat? :shrug:

[Neecy]

96. really?

Maybe we all should send her the following Betty Bowers postcard. Show her what we think of 'unity' as she's flooded with these from all parts of the country:

[whirlygigspin]

94. the devil made me do it

To Lissa,

please read Matthiew6:5

and stop wearing your religion on your sleeve, calling yourself a devout christian in public does not make you any better than the rest of us.

Unfortunately, I truly believe your are being deceived by the forces of evil who use your faith against you for their own worldly gain.

I would urge you to look deep into your soul, and stop mixing up faith with politics.

[ydya]

97. Hey Ms. Morris, nobody accepts a Nazi soldier's excuse that he was only

following orders. If you follow a flawed ideology, you face the consequences. If your job gets outsourced, your civic infrastructurre gets destroyed, your savings get stolen by corporate thieves, or if you get hit in retaliation by a survivor of one of the hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians killed in the middle east, please remember to live/die happily in the knowledge that Bush and his cronies are richer.
Dont forget to song Heil To The Thief every time you see your messiah on the TV.
buh bye.

[LibDemAlways]

101. Hey Miss Morris

My response to your letter is a big old raised middle finger and echoing the words of that holy man Dick Cheney, "Fuck you."

[Carolinian]

102. This kind of crap has been circulating through the email blind sheep.

[Reciprocity]

103. WTF you say.

[Carolinian]

104. You don't understand what I wrote? I don't get your response.

[Carolinian]

105. Maybe this will explain my post.

Supposedly healing "I love you" chain emails being sent to Democrats by the crazy fundamentalists. The LTTE is an example of the "reaching out" that is starting to circulate via chain email to get us on board with Bushco. Here's a prior post:


They are being led by seemingly harmless email chains.

They slowly become part of "the chain" - they thrive on misinformation and idealizing GWB. They began with 'God's love' and "I love you" - all warm & fuzzy, seemingly innocent. Gradually the emails progressed into idealizing Bush and demonizing Democrats. You wouldn't believe the lies I read about Kerry through these chains.

The same chains circulate around my office. At first I laughed over them & I asked to be dropped from the chains. Now I see that they slowly and surely poisoned the minds of some good people. THEY ARE NOW BRAINWASHED BLIND SHEEP. In a matter of months 2 of my sisters have become completely warped. How do we break this cycle??????

[Reciprocity]

107. Thanks for taking the time to explain.

I thought you meant that Lissa Morris was a chain letter.

[kwolf68]

109. A few basic questions for her?

Will she continue to promote an unjust war based on lies?

Will she continue to support an administration that places corporate profits ahead of the people?

Will she attempt to eradicate much of the government used for social justice?

Will she oppose a modest increase in CAFE standards?

Will she promote the exploitation of American nature reserves?

Will she promote the idea that tax cuts for millionaires is a just economic policy?

Will she oppose any encroachment of religion into our government?


If she wants to reach out, where will she compromise? Is this a bullshit ploy simply to make us Democrats acquiesce to every cryptic right-wing policy they can toss at us?

Bullshit. We will not support policies based on hatred, fear, greed, vengeance, intolerance, and religious dogma.

[pdx_prog]

110. I already answered this one yesterday

but I really felt the need to do it again.

Lissa,

Just one more thing......fuck you fuck you and fuck you!


PS....fuck you.

[CBHagman]

111. I don't question her sincerity.

But I'd like to sit her down and tell her what I see and hear virtually every day in Washington, D.C., and how the GOP, led by Bush, has bent over backwards to be as cold and vindictive and divisive as possible.

I heard Bush's stump speech MANY times. The crowds always reacted with derision at the mention of Kerry and Edwards, and Bush did nothing to discourage it. The same man (?) who kept strict rules about congressmen wearing a coat and tie in the White House (and bullied Dick Gephardt one time when he broke the rule) did JACK SHIT about civility and comity and bipartisanship.

She's voted for someone who worships Mammon and lies and gets innocent children killed for his little vanity war. I'd like to sit her down and tell her what I know and see if she can take it.

[lanparty]

114. Dear Miss Morris ...

Dear Miss Morris,

You should have prayed that god send you a more competent individual to occupy the oval office.

GW Bush presided over a systematic effort to dismantle anti-terrorism efforts in favor of prosecuting crimes like prostitution and pornography. While increased prosecution of these crimes may fit with your christian values, you really need to wonder if you needed to be protected more from smut or mass murderers.

The president is incompetent and unfit to lead this nation. There is no sense to a unity that takes us over a precipice. Bush is leading us over a waterfall. I for one will paddle as hard as I can in the other direction.

America has deep divisions on their attitudes concerning what path the nation should go. This is NOT a problem. The problem is the METHOD that a group pursues it's objective. If you wanted a more civil discourse, you voted for the wrong man.

Lanparty, Nov-3 AD 1984+20

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

116. Ms. Morris:

I am a red stater, like you. But I am a Democrat and I voted for John Kerry.

You just voted for a war that has killed an estimated 100,000 Iraqis. You voted for a war in which over 1000 of our US servicemembers have died and thousands more have been wounded.

The war was waged against a country that did nothing to us and posed no threat to us.

Look down at your hands. They have blood on them.

Reaching out to hold your hand will bloody my own.

While I appreciate your effort, it is what my grandfather would have called "a day late and a dollar short."

And blood doesn't wash off easily.

[lanparty]

117. Uniting means COMPROMISE!!!!

You know, give me a little of this, I'll give you some of that.

The Republicans don't seem to be in a compromising mood!!! In fact they're brow-beating Arlen Specter as we speak for suggesting that Bush appoint serious judicial scholars to the bench instead of young right wing syncphants like Clarence Thomas!!!!

Are ONLY shot in the next two years is for the traditional conservatives to bolt their own party and side with Democrats on more moderate legislation. The right-winger and neo-cons are fruit loops and they won't back down for ANYTHING!!!!

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

119. Uniting means "shut the hell up"

calls for unity from the right are only "shut the fuck up" in nicer language.

And this Democrat is having nothing of it.

[lakeguy]

126. instead of eat shit, how about eat bush!

[Cozmosis]

127. Dear Ms. Morris

It seems you are as devout to your naivete as your religion.

Anyone noted the redundancy in the letter? Bush voter. Texas. Christian. One in the same it seems :)