How I skewered a McCain Droid this weekend while grassrooting

[zulchzulu]

I'll have an update on the Obama table in Madison shortly that also included two days of tabling at the wonderful Willy Street Fair soon, but wanted to just get out the story about a confrontation with a McCain supporter and the witnessing of someone who was probably the quintessential supporter with the Republican ticket.

Someone came by the Obama table with a big chart sign that he wanted to display but had to leave to do other things. We said "sure". The chart illustrated how Republican and Democratic administrations run up deficits or not (kind of like this chart:http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2678226).

Anyway, a lot of people walked up and looked at the chart and walked away sad or nodding their head in disgust.

Except for this one guy, in his mid-forties and obviously "wrapped a little too tight"...

He came up to me and said he can't stand Obama and wondered why I was out in the street with a table and long lines of people getting registered to vote, getting their picture taken with an Obama cutout, getting stickers and signing up for the campaign.

I asked him why he hates Obama. He pointed to the photo of Michelle and Barack next to the info about how Michelle would be in town Monday (today) and laughed... "Look at them!", he chortled. OK. They're black? He waved me off.

It appeared that he was so used to talking to his racist fuckhead friends that he didn't realize a white guy like me may not be ready to join the Klan next Thursday.

So he then went over to the chart and asked me what I think was wrong with the graph. I said it clearly illustrated that the Republican, while saying they are for small government and "fiscal conservatism", were always the ones who spent money like drunken sailors. He disagreed.

He said it "doesn't matter" how much we spend because it always gets "fixed".

I kid you not. He actually said this: "I mean, look at this week! It looked real bad this week on Monday and by the time Friday came along, everything was fixed!" "Fixed?, I asked. Like fixed means throwing the trillion dollar bailout at the middle class to pay for to the tune of about $7,000 a person?

He then said "Well, look at Bill Clinton!"

I promptly cut him off at the pass about bringing up Clinton. This is 2008. Disappointed, he released his Clinton card and then asked me the ultimate stupid Repig nonsense:

"What does it matter to you anyway? Have you really ever been affected by this stuff anyway?" I was stunned. I haven't been affected? Like that's all that matters anyway? I pointed out that we pay more taxes, get services cut and the dollar is not exactly the standard internationally. "China owns us, dude", I said. I asked him if he has had to deal with cut services and other cutbacks. He said no. Of course he was lying.

Just as he thought the economic crisis was "fixed" by the end of the week, he also felt it doesn't really affect him anyway.

He then asked me if I had been in the military, since he had been (I didn't ask for details). I told no. He then said that's one reason why he likes McCain. I then asked (already knowing the answer) if he supported Kerry in 2004. He laughed like a lizard on crack. I told him I have met hundreds of vets for Obama in the last couple years. He seemed befuddled.

So I asked him if he knew about how John McCain started his career getting busted for being one of the Keating Five, which cost taxpayer by some estimates over $90 billion to "fix". He had no idea what I was talking about.

He then sort of backpedaled on his support for McCain but told me that Obama has links with Moammar Quadaffi. "He admitted he was a muslim last week", he smiled... I knew about how Obama had semi-gaffed but recovered on the IDIOTIC question on whether he's a Muslim or not and asked this fellow if we should assume McCain thinks Putin is the President of Germany (on YouTube), for which he had no idea what I was talking about...

I decided I wasted enough time and had to register people to vote since another line was forming. I shook his hand and thanked him "for his military service" and asked him to cheak out Obama's web site and maybe look up the Keating Five.

He disappeared into the busy crowd.

[SoonerPride]

1. I was hoping to see a real guy on a stake.

damn

good work though.

:)

[yourout]

2. You handled him better than I ever could.........BTW were you at the Farmers Market on Sat?

My wife and I went there around noon and saw a pretty decent crowd around the cutout that was near the Capital.

[zulchzulu]

3. I was indeed there

At several points, we had a dozen people registering to vote. Stop by next weekend. We'll be there, rain for shine!

[yourout]

4. The Peace parade was interesting.....then again Madison is an interesting...

collection of people.

[tblue]

5. You are my hero of the day!

Thank you for taking all that time and energy to just let that bozo hear some truth, probably for the first time in his life. I think it was well worth the effort --even if he doesn't change his mind and vote for Obama (highly unlikely), maybe he'll be reasonably turned off enough from McLame to just decide it's not worth going out of his way to vote on election day. One dink in the armor.

Kudos to you! I really appreciate reading how people handle Repug voters. It takes all I've got not to tell them what I REALLY think of them.