i just got off the phone with my lifelong repub father...and he's PISSED.

[UpsideDownFlag]

he is thoroughly disgusted with bush. same story with all my pubby friends...feeling very dissilusioned right now.

[deadparrot]

1. Was he pro-Bush before the debates?

Did they sway him at all?

[UpsideDownFlag]

3. he was a true believer.

swayed doesn't begin to describe his, and the rest of my friends, feelings.

[grasswire]

4. reinforce it

Send them that letter from John Eisenhower that's floating here on DU. It's the nail in George's coffin.

[deadparrot]

5. Yowza. That's damaging.

[floridaguy]

2. I wish I could feel sorry for them

But I can't! :bounce:

[Kukesa]

6. Please be nice to them; we need their votes! Hooray! n/t

[Erika]

7. Bush Couldn't Defend Himself or His Policies....

How could he defend us?

[cheshire]

8. Sorry for your Dad hope he decides not to follow a fool.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

9. Woo hoo!

And my life-long Republican father in law just called us to say that Pat Buchanan's book, this war and Kerry's performance tonight convinced him and my mother in law to vote for Kerry.

They are almost 60 years old and have NEVER voted Democrat in their LIVES.