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[Moonbeam_Starlight]

let me just get a little starry-eyed here and say I cannot believe I am posting to THE Plaid Adder! (Nervous crazy giggling!)

Ok got that outta the way. I know bush is in trouble because of what I see around me, too.

I have these friends. These non-thinking (God love 'em), homophobic, xenophobic, jingoistic, Republican friends. They are the kind of people who say things like: "I don't care if Iraq had nothing to do with September 11, bombing them made me feel better. It was REVENGE."

Yeah. Enough to make you go slack-jawed at the sheer cruelty of it.

This time last year, I was getting pounded in debates with them because I seemed to be the only person in the universe who thought the whole war with Iraq thing smelled like a fish sandwich left in the sun a few days.

Then last summer, they got all quiet. Eerily quiet.

By December, they were grumbling when they saw chucklenuts on TV. Making jokes about him dropping his dog. Which made me cock my head and wonder what the heck was happening.

In late December they told me they weren't voting in November.

The other day they told me they are voting for the Democratic nominee.

I am not kidding you, I nearly fell over. I thought they were putting me on....as in "hey let's pull a fast one on our little liberal friend there, watch how excited she gets!" But no, they were and are serious.

I still cannot get over it.

And I drive around with anti-bush bumper stickers on my soccer mom van and get honks and thumbs-up gestures. I hear grocery store checkers griping about him when they see his face on a magazine. It's all getting quite loud and shocking, considering what it was like just a year ago.

The worm turns.....