February 07, 2008
The Twisted Way The Mind Works
I had an interesting conversation with a friend of mine yesterday. She is probably the most liberal person I know. She's the one that during one of the hurricanes that fall of 2004 was out campaigning for Kerry. We do not agree on one single thing politically.
In fact, about 6 months before an election we can't even talk. We'll argue too much.
Anyway.....we were talking about the primarys. (WTF was *I* thinking) She stated she voted down in Florida even though they had their delegates taken away. Not voting was not an option to her.
I agree.
Then we talked about Super Tuesday. This is where it got surreal.
She stated of all the Republican candidates the only one that didn't scare her to death was......Romney.
That scared ME to death. Why Romney? I thought she'd lean towards McCain.
Well, for years she did. But this past year, in her mind, he's started channeling President Bush. To be honest, I don't see that. But OK. I often don't see a point the liberals are trying to make.
But she has since changed her mind about Romney. What caused that? The endorsements that came out around Super Tuesday. Limbaugh, Levin, Hannity, Ingraham. She started thinking if THEY like him then she's not seeing the whole picture.
WTF?!?!
Then when she heard that was who I voted for she really freaked.
THAT made me laugh.
But I just thought it was interesting. Even more than that, this woman is a HUGE Hillary fan. HUGE. Always has been. But......she voted for Obama. She thinks he is "amazing".
Yeah, you could put it that way I guess.
I am the type of person who really tries to see all sides of an issue, so I actually WANT to try and understand how "the other side" thinks. But I gotta tell you.....this was all just too confusing for me.
Posted by Tammi at February 7, 2008 09:03 AM | TrackBackI know I *should* want to know how they think, but I really don't. Not anymore. I tried for years; I'm too old now to care what they think or why. ;)
Posted by: pam at February 7, 2008 10:53 AMI try to see their point, but it just makes my head hurt. There's no logic to it at all.
Posted by: Navy CPO at February 7, 2008 11:06 AMI saw a clip on Hot Air of Sean Hannity asking a group of Obama supporters to name one thing, just one thing that he has accomplished.
I group of 20 Obama supporters couldn't name one thing he accomplished.
Scary, Obama people are voting for him because he is a good speaker or his charisma not because he actually accomplishes anything.
Posted by: Quality Weenie at February 7, 2008 01:55 PMAnd since Rhomney just dropped out of the race I am going with the Liberatarian party this year.
Posted by: Quality Weenie at February 7, 2008 01:56 PMThat ranks right up there with my BlogDaddy, who has the worse case of BDR I've ever seen, shilling for Ron Paul.
Posted by: Omnibus Driver at February 7, 2008 03:20 PMI'm wondering when Obama's declaration not so many moons ago that we should invade Pakistan will come back to haunt him. I hadn't bothered to pay any attention to him until that dumb as dirt statement. That surely got my attention... as in 'holy crap, he's kind of scary', but evidently nobody on the other side, who is against this war, caught it.
Posted by: Bou at February 7, 2008 05:14 PM