As I watched Southern Miss play the worst second half of college football I’ve ever seen Tuesday night, my evening was interrupted by the most surprisingly entertaining of guests: A volunteer for the Democratic National Committee decked out in DNC gear with DNC papers and a DNC clipboard in hand.
Now I like Democrats… don’t get me wrong. I’m not a crazy red state fellow who ignores the facts simply to vote along party lines. But I’m not about to help elect a Democrat in the second most liberal city in the country.
I talked with the volunteer for a few moments as I watched the TV out of the corner of my eye, watching Tulsa drive on Southern Miss to put the game out of reach… dagum $@%! awful defensive schemes we were running! The volunteer gave me the usual spill… “Bush lied. People died.” – “Our tax dollars are going to people half way around the world, not us.” – “Halliburton is trying to rule the world.” Etc, etc, etc.
However, when I attempted to politely tell him that this household was already taken for the Republican ticket (which is a lie… I’m the only red state amoungst the 6 in the household) he suddenly became very angered… very angered.
Loooong story short here is the “inside scoop” this man felt compelled to share with me about my party. No… I’m not making this up. Also, due to the outlandish statements he was making, I can only remember a few, which is a shame… it was entertaining.
It was after that final statement that I asked him to leave… after I told him he was crazy and that statements such as “Bush knocked down the towers” were exactly why his party was not in office.
Silly Dems.
Your encounter is a perfect example of why the Democratic Party is so weak: All he did was tell you how terrible Bush and the GOP are. What new ideas did he offer from the Dems? None, of course. Being the anti-Bush candidate may work a little in the short-term, but eventually, you have to have a plan of your own and have something to offer the people other than not being the one currently in office.
12:23 pm on Oct 4 2006First it was the pumpkins, now the politics.
So again I say, I agree with Drew! I like following Drew’s comments, that way I can just agree and go on about my day!
12:32 pm on Oct 4 2006I had a similar encounter with a New Yorker a year after 9/11. Something about ‘Bush and his approval rating and power were enhanced by the attack’ and ‘No I havent read the 9/11 report, but its all a bunch of lies’. that makes sense. I say something to the effect of, ‘the 9/11 commission was bipartisan’ he says, ‘so’.
12:45 pm on Oct 4 2006Dems have no new ideas. Repubs like teenage boys.
We all have issues to work out I guess.
PS – I am neither a dem nor a repub
1:08 pm on Oct 4 2006Aaron: Democrats also seem to like teenage boys:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009033
“Mr. Foley’s explicit emails–which were sent to a former page who had returned home–clearly crossed the line into “vile and repulsive,” as Mr. Hastert put it yesterday. And the Floridian has now resigned in disgrace and is being criminally investigated. This is harsher treatment than was meted out in the past to some Members of Congress who crossed another line and actually had sexual relations with underage pages. Democrat Gerry Studds of Massachusetts was censured in 1983 for seducing a male teenage page, but remained in the House for another 13 years and retired, according to the Boston Globe, with a rich pension.”
P.S. I, too, am neither a Republican nor a Democrat.
1:15 pm on Oct 4 2006Dems like teenage boys. Repubs have bad ideas.
1:29 pm on Oct 4 2006Who DOESN’T love teenage boys?!?
1:53 pm on Oct 4 2006Scandals-a-plenty in both parties. But Drew’s right. Dem’s won’t get anywhere until they start giving real ideas that have real results… good or bad. Just give us (Americans) an idea to debate at least!
2:25 pm on Oct 4 2006