Had coffee with my Mother today.

[Shardik]

She's 76 years old and a Democrat for most of her life even though she won't admit it. Heh, she offered to send me to Canada in the early 70's if I couldn't beat the draft. I know for a fact that she voted for Kennedy, Carter and Clinton.

Anyway, we started talking about McCain/Palin and she went on to say how here (in a SE red state) the majority of her friends (little old ladies) were scared as hell of Obama and how much they loved Sarah Palin. She asked why and they told her that it was because of the terrorists. She discussed it for a while and finally gave up because she felt "they were going to start throwing rocks at her."

I guess what I'm getting at is that the repugs down here are so nasty that many have had cars keyed and fear of retribution for posting signs in their yards and stickers on their cars. BUT, we shall persevere.

On the bright side though, I am seeing a few more Obama bumper stickers down here than I am McCain's.

[SammyWinstonJack]

1. So the real terrorists too be afraid of are the repugs who are intimidating the locals, right?

Sure sounds like it. Maybe they are who the little old ladies are really afraid of. :shrug:

[SmokingJacket]

2. When I lived in the South, I knew a bunch of old ladies who

lived in terror of black men.

Of course, I also knew a bunch of the most hard-core liberals I ever met.

[asjr]

4. They were taught by their parents and

grandparents to be afraid of them. It was handed down from generation to generation. No one back then, especially women, could think for themselves. You always had to please your parents. Most men went into the same business as their fathers and the women married, had babies, went to church, taught SS and had the preacher over for Sunday dinner. Amd when company left Mom and Dad went to bed and gossiped about the naughty lady down the street who was going to hell because she was "loose."

[Mimosa]

3. Many old ladies just can't help being racists

I was so damned depressed talking to my MIL in NJ yesterday. Near 90, Catholic, Republican...she asked me what I thought of Palin. It went down from there. Oldsters appear to think calling Obama 'purple lips' is code for his blackness. And the oldsters (at least some) are still saying he's Muslim. They listen to Rush on radio and O'Reilly on TV.

Most of them have their minds completely made up.