How McCain drove a lifetime Republican into voting for Obama by choosing Palin

[renie408]

I live in SC, which some of you know. So I get to talk to hard core Republicans every day. All day. At the grocery store and at the gas station. We have been having a hard time finding gas lately, so this morning when my husband called me at 7:00 am to tell me that he had seen gas at the Gate station on his way to work, I hopped into my car and headed up there. They were already packed by time I got there, so I turned the car off and got out and was standing around waiting for my turn and drinking my coffee, only semi-conscious when the older lady who was across from me waiting to get gas at the pump on the other side of the island said, "I am going to vote for Obama, too." She had seen the Obama sticker on my car, I guess. I am pretty chatty, so I struck up a conversation with her. The upshot was that she is disgusted with BushCo after having been a life long Republican who voted Bush twice. She was interested in McCain and had planned to vote for him...until he chose Sarah Palin as a running mate. I said something about her inexperience, but no that wasn't what did it for her. She thinks Sarah Palin is a bad mother. She said that if Palin had been putting as much time into raising her kids as she put into running for mayor and governor and now VP, she wouldn't have one girl pregnant and a son who sounded like a "piece of work". Anyway, our lines starting moving before I could ask her about Palin's son, but I found the whole conversation interesting. I keep hearing people saying that the family stuff isn't/shouldn't be an issue, but for this one older southern woman, it obviously is. I also thought it was telling that she resented what she saw as Palin's 'ambition' being stronger than her maternal instinct.

Anyway, just had that conversation about a half an hour ago and thought I would share. That is one more voter 'in the tank' for Obama!!

PS...What is up with Palin's son? I hadn't heard anything about any of them. I know the oldest is in the Army, right? I didn't get a chance to ask her what she was talking about.

[Diamonique]

1. This is great! Thanks for posting. n/t

[bigscott]

2. her son

is in the army because he is a hard partying drug addict sex hound

if the national Enquirer is to be believed

peace

[Stuart G]

3. Over and over again, I have heard the same thing..

In the end, the fact that she so quickly decided to sort of "abandon" a child with special needs in order to play power politics is the defining moment for many. When they go into that booth in November, many hundreds of thousands of moms across the country will feel the same and vote for Obama, no matter how they feel about race, politics, Democrats etc. Palin is a shallow, selfish woman who deserves as much support as does a gathering of the KKK.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. There are alot of people who feel exactly like that.

I say, don't believe the hype of people publicly embracing "teen mothers" and "absentee mothers" because among the right, the one who does has had it happen to them. And even then, they often deny it and hide it and will trash others (particularly those on the left) who have had to deal with it.

[dkf]

5. Sounds like she got her info from the National Enquirer...

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/65407

[abburdlen]

6. I know a couple repubs doing the same

McCain may have gotten the far-right evangelicals excited with his VP pick but he's driven moderate republicans away.
Just another example of McCain's terrible judgment.

[Sugarcoated]

7. Two people on my street

when my husband and I went door-to-door canvassing, one was leaning McMonster, Palin nudged her to Obama, and a independent thinking Repub guy across the street who said he was definitely voting McMonster until the Palin pick.

[caraher]

8. Another "Palin drove me to Obama" tale

An Obama volunteer here in rural Indiana was approached on the weekend by a woman who announced her intention to vote Obama. The rationale was mind-boggling. Basically, she was concerned that McCain might not finish his term, which would put Palin in charge. OK. But what came next was a doozy...

She said the Bible says women should keep silence in the tents, and you need a man to rule! This led to an uncomfortable silence, since nobody wanted to talk her out of her choice yet nobody wanted to endorse this reasoning...

To top it all off, she then asked for a lawn sign for a local candidate - female! I guess this logic only applies to the very highest office in the land...