An office co-worker just voted today at lunch in her reddish precinct and reported HUGE lines. Similarly, a co-worker who voted at 9 am in her blue district reported NO lines.

GOTV, anyone?

Regards,
Peter H.

I asked you to disprove the FACT that the national Republicans are more interested in taking the fight TO the terrorists, and the national Democrats are content to wait for another attack and be on defense.

PROVE ME WRONG WITH SPECIFIC DEMOCRATIC PROPOSALS.

Don’t get all defensive on us. Just fight me with A FACT OR TWO.

I ask you to please disprove my statement that you highlighted with supporting facts to the contrary. We know that the Republicans want to take the fight to the enemy… tell me what the Democrats want to do. Because I really do not know other than wait for a nuke explosion in Hollywood before they wake their asses up.

So prove me wrong, or sit down and shut up.

Oh go drown some kittens Bruce.

You have responded hysterically to my suggestion that you are being hysterical. Do note very carefully that I did not mention any specific political Party in my post. I simply said choose based on competence. Is there something you find wrong with that? Are you so terrified that the GOP can’t stand up to that little test? Is that why you alway portray everything in apocalyptic terms?

The problem Bruce is that I’ve heard exactly that same claim for over 40 years. The shrill partisan pundits of either Party have always used apocalyptic imagery to make their case as you have done. I’ve heard basically the same story every election, great or small. While I used to be more susceptible to such emotionally manipulative garbage, in time my outlook has matured and I look at such claims with a grain of salt.

When I leave for the local poll in a few minutes Bruce, I’m actually going to be voting for quite a few Republicans. Surprise! But not because of your cheesy stupid over-the-top rhetoric. In fact if not for the tawdry silliness I’ve witnessed from you and other Party Loyalists over the last few years I’d probably be more inclined to vote a GOP ticket than I am now. So if your goal is to get more GOP votes, you may be working at cross-purposes.

So perhaps YOU should consider sitting down and shutting up before telling other people to do so.

It can’t be a bright idea to allow that many Democrats out of their office or off the line at once. I bet beer consumption is up.

My point being that people behave differently. I know that polling firms try to take that into account but polls are voluntary and the willingness of people to participate *may* correlate with their political opinions.

Oh, I *did* see a truck this morning that was the exception to my “two bumper sticker rule”. There were at least five stickers, some covered up or half removed, but hunting, a US flag and Viva Bush! stickers were visible. Usually if there are more than two stickers the message will be liberal.

And I voted! One of the workers at the poll said that there were 25 people waiting when they got there that morning. At just after 9 there were no lines at all. Our state is using paper ballots this year and we filled in ovals with an ink pen. The printing was pretty darn small on some of it but it wasn’t confusing. After I was done filling in little ovals I took it over to a reading machine that looked like an industrial paper shredder and fed it in the slot. I was the 115 person to vote in my precinct this morning. We have early voting so a lot of people already voted. I don’t like that. It seems a bit like moving Christmas to a more convenient day. Seems less like something undertaken together in concert.

The Democrats, led by the great LurchKerry, think it’s all a policing action that should sort itself out if we just trust the UN leadership… the Democrats, led by the great SlickWilly, think it’s all about blaming Bush and finding some cover from the glare of history’s harsh light on his own incompetencies… the Democrats, led by NancyP or ChuckieS or LyinBiden or ScreaminDean hope that they can tweak whatever the Bush Administration was doing without having to actually think on their feet and constructively address the threat –it’s far easier to make fun of threat levels, the Iraqi govt and poppies in Afghanistan (that the kids of the radical Left use to great purpose in Marin County) than address key issues of the day.

Nawh, Gryph can’t and won’t answer your querry.

And he likely won’t sit down and shut up either.

Unless you send that message via the GayLeftBorg’s tin foil hat messaging system… Gryph says there’s a ready cheat sheet on the codes for you in one of Robt Heinlein’s sci fic kiddie lit books.

I ask you to please disprove my statement that you highlighted with supporting facts to the contrary. We know that the Republicans want to take the fight to the enemy… tell me what the Democrats want to do. Because I really do not know other than wait for a nuke explosion in Hollywood before they wake their asses up.

So prove me wrong, or sit down and shut up.

This is perhaps the most important election in our post-9/11 world because of the contrast between one party wanting to take the fight to the enemy versus a party who wants to wait to respond to another terrorist attack on our soil before fighting.

A bonafide classic GP example of a hysterical partisan motivated quote.

Here is one not quite so sexy. Vote based on the displayed competence of the individual running. Regardless of Party affiliation or none. Think about whether single-party dominance of the Government has been more or less effective in the things that matter to you and to the country.

And of course, if you don’t vote the right way God will Smite America and the world will come to an end. Or Michael Jackson will have another hit record, whichever comes first.