Office Election Talk: The Right-Wing certainly is downtrodden today! (TN-SEN) [View All]

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I was approached by a fellow employee today about the Senate race here in Tennessee. She is a strong Republican but waivering on her support because of the path our country is taking. So she comes to me, knowing that I am a proud Democrat, to convince her to vote for Ford. I go through all of the talking points, ask the right questions, judge her response and things look promising.

She then goes to another office worker who is a rabid right-wing fundamentalist - "abortion and gays are rotting our country". She gets the talking points from this person and then the Iraq issue comes up. She is very unclear as to what the Fundy person is saying, so she brings her to me - the fundy is basically saying that Iraq and 9/11 were connected because "they are all the same over there".

Getting past this obvious lack of brain power on the part of the fundy, there was something else about her rhetoric that stunned me. Instead of the obvious gay bashing, white-power attitude that they usually take, she was more reserved and was saying "it doesn't matter, both parties are the same anyway." Wow, what is this stunning reversal? Is this bizarro world?

Even with Ford running behind (I tend to think this race is even) in most polls, I think the right wing is sitting this election out. Beyond that, some more moderate Republicans are reaching out and asking those of us who are outspoken why we feel the way we do about certain issues and candidates. I have never encountered this sort of behavior to this large of a degree in any election I have been exposed to.

I'm wondering what the pulse is out there across this nation today and if anyone is running into the same type of circustances and how they were handled.